
S3 Ep 11: The Myth of Normal with Dr. Gabor Maté
Raising Good Humans
The Addiction Wasn't Your Problem
addiction was your attempt to solve a problem of alienation from yourself so again there is something that goes back to what we were talking about at the very beginning about normal. In my 12 years or worked on there I had not a single female patient who had not been sexually abused as a child and all the men had been to terrible trauma that's why they were living in the streets inside of Vancouver. The addiction just served to sue their pain and that's my mantra don't ask why the addiction ask why the pain now if you want to look at that person's life and what wounds people.
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