SafeHouse Podcast

Season 4 Episode 07

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

The purpose of our podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.

You’re Not the Victim Here

Season 4 – Episode 07

Do you know someone who seems to become a victim in nearly every situation? It is possible that they have a victim mentality, sometimes called victim syndrome or victim complex.

There is a difference between a victim mentality and being victimized in the objective sense, for when have we not been an actual victim of something that was indeed no fault of our own? A car accident which someone else caused, or a storm which damaged our home, or some other event which hurt us would qualify us as victims in the rational, objective sense.

Then you ask the big question which is the topic of our episode today. Am I, as a loving parent or a significant other, really a victim of my loved one’s addiction? I am not the cause of his addiction, after all, so why should I have to bear the consequences?

As a significant other of an addict or alcoholic, you are set up to see yourself as a victim; you start to internalize this false narrative and you then begin to act in accordance with the script which you have written for yourself.

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