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We Are All Addicted: Here’s How To Heal
We are all addicts, in some way.
There are theories of addiction that explain its cause as chronic social isolation, an insecure attachment orientation, an addictive personality, a lack of coping skills, a bad habit that gets worse with added stressors, early childhood trauma, organic brain chemistry wired for addiction, and/or genetic predisposition. Researchers have been puzzled about what the true causes of addiction are, and why so many of us seem so gripped by it, in our own lives. They have attempted to justify that chronic and destructive addiction as simply a phenomenon that will naturally occur in a certain percentage of the population, while others can and will find ways to curb addiction in their own lives, and minimize the effects of it.
Through my work with addicts (and alcoholics) of all level of severity, and with many manifestations of varieties, I believe we are all addicts.
We are all addicted to something or someone, whether we are willing to admit it. Most of my work with clients centers around this fact, even if the client didn’t initially enter treatment thinking they were addicted. To heal, we always end up addressing these addictions in their life.
Neuroscience also confirms each human’s tendency towards addiction, as we are certainly hard-wired for it in the pleasure center…
