By Ty Bechel, August 31, 2020, riverbend.com.
There are many elements to drug and alcohol addiction. One of the most heartbreaking and gut-wrenching elements is trauma. I have worked with individuals struggling with drug and alcohol addiction for nearly five years. If you heard some of the trauma people had to experience, you would want to escape reality, too. Sexual abuse, physical abuse, or neglect are just a few forms of trauma some human beings have had to forcefully experience. Yes, sometimes some of us put ourselves in high-risk situations, but that does not somehow invalidate the trauma that lives in the mind and body that haunts those of us carrying it. Here is one that will make your blood boil. There have been quite a few individuals I have worked with that have been offered as a sexual “sacrifice” by their parent(s).
There is such a grotesque societal misunderstanding about drug and alcohol addiction and even mental health. Trauma is one element of drug and alcohol addiction that is often evaded or disregarded. Some of us escape the adversities of trauma, addiction, and poverty to go on to live resilient and productive lives.
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