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Why Consequences Won't Motivate An Addict

3 May 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth argues that the more a person has to lose (money, relationships, career, dignity, skills), the more likely they are to pursue sobriety; when people have little left to lose, it becomes very difficult to engage them or find motivating reasons to do the hard work of recovery. This chunk is a concise, causal claim about loss as a motivator (or lack thereof) in addiction recovery.

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The more a person has to lose, the more likely they are to get sober. So as addiction goes on, you start to lose everything, right? You lose your money, you lose your relationships, you can lose your career, you lose your self esteem, you lose your dignity, you lose your talent, skills, abilities, all of that. The more of those things that a person still has intact, the more chances that they have at sobriety. Because once you get to the point where you don't have much to lose, it's really hard to engage someone. Find those motivators to do the work, work that's necessary to pull out of it.