SafeHouse Podcast

Season 6 Episode 03

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

The purpose of Safehouse 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.

Interview with Adam – Part 1

Season 6 – Episode 03

Welcome to a our latest season of Busting Addiction and Its Myths. This is Episode #3 of Season Six.

This interview with Adam N. is a telling example of how a young life could have been lost had it not been for a fateful event that turned the young man’s life around at the last minute.

Part One of this interview starts with the question: “What do you think started you on your drinking and using career?”

Adam: ” I think the consistent theme throughout my life up until the point where I surrendered and begged for help was the burning resentment, I carried toward my father for not being a father to me.

I always felt abandoned. Just when I thought he would start to care for me in the way that a young child wanted, he would walk away. I idolized my dad and then he would dash my hopes.

That sort of non-relationship ultimately meant that it made it hard for me to trust anyone. I could not trust my dad to really care for me and take care of me. I kept my feelings of anger toward my dad inside of me and I ended paying the price for bottling them tightly the way I did.

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