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Why Doing It Alone Hurts More

26 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth explains why quitting addiction alone often backfires. While some people achieve sobriety without help, going it solo can stretch recovery years longer and multiply suffering for you and everyone around you, especially if you've already failed before.

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In the beginning of this video, I told you that statistics say most people can get sober without help, like they do it on their own. That is true, but there's some drawbacks to doing it that way. The drawbacks to doing it that way, the most important one is if you're trying to do something that you've either never done before or you've tried several times, but you haven't had any success in it. Yes, you might can do it, but it's going to take you so much longer. And it's not just the time, because when you're in active addiction and you're struggling, the amount of pain and heartache and suffering that you and the people around you are going to experience during that really long time is enormous.