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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: You Don't Know Your Mind
Description: In this podcast, we dive into the unconscious mind, into that dark place that drives how we think and how we react to addiction.We learn that:We have little understanding of the role of our unconscious instincts in determining how we respond to addiction in the family.Addiction has essentially hijacked our rational responses. In the addict, the disease operates below the conscious level to fuel an insatiable demand for the substance; meanwhile, it has the family acting in a fight or flight manner.We cannot buy into the trope that an addict/alcoholic must...