As a nurse, I have found that addiction and it’s relation to trauma is poorly understood by my fellow healthcare workers. I am grateful for this information. I am going to watch again and try to take notes on ways I can gently nudge my coworkers towards compassion and understanding. We need more trauma informed healthcare!

I have PTSD and this is 100% true. The more days clean I get the clearer the trauma & the worse the nightmares get!

Man, I wish I hadn't been so embarrassed by people claiming addiction is character flaws and weakness and actually addressed my alcoholism before it got this bad

I think this video was very helpful. I like your videos they’re quite informative and I say Thank You Dr. I’m in recovery now and in July I’ll have 10 yrs from Heroin and Crack and living on the street. Also 13 yrs away from my daughters father my first physical mental and verbally abusive relationship. Then in addiction I was in one dis functional relationship after another. I found a good friend of mine Dead of an Overdose. Not to mention all the bull crap I endured from my childhood but, I know today that my mom was also a victim and did the best that she could. I understand why she was the way she was. I’m 43 yrs old now and I’m the mother of 3 beautiful daughters. I’m in a relationship with a very gentle man who’s so understanding of my past. He supports me and I trust him we live together and have for 9 years and have 2 kids together. I’ve been on an IOP for 10 years that helped me get my life back. I’m still in therapy once a month and I go to group once a week. I feel security in my IOP and I worry that I will be there for the rest of my life. I justify it by telling myself that I’m doing better than I ever had before and The medicine I take definitely beats the alternative to the life I was living on the street and being addicted to Heroin and many other drugs. I just wanted to numb my past pain that I didn’t realize that I was still suffering from also, drug addiction runs deep in my family. I’m doing good I have a pretty much normal life now. I live with my amazing fiancé and our 2 daughters my oldest daughter’s father was one of my abusers so my oldest went to live with my mom for 7 years until I was able to understand that only I could help myself out. She was 11 when I got clean and stable enough for her to come back to live with me but, too much time had gone by and she didn’t want to leave her comfortable stable life at Grammys to go back to me and the unknown even though I was stable enough she was very happy with her school and she didn’t want to transfer. My mom and I had stayed on good terms for my daughter’s sake. I’m okay with it now, I think. Though some days I still wish I didn’t go down that path to lose her for so long I stayed in contact with her but, like I said she was happy and comfortable with my mom and she knew that I was going to be seeing her more often and she and I have remained the best of friends, and we have a great mom and daughter relationship. She’s now 21 her little sisters are still young 8&9 and I’ve come so far because of them. I mean all 3 of them because I first started getting myself to detox and trying to get clean for my oldest daughter after leaving her abusive father. I have my down days as I’m diagnosed with PTSD Bipolar disorder manic depressive disorder and anxiety. I’m enjoying your channel Dr. Please keep your videos coming. The information is important for everyone and I need it. So, thank you

As a trauma informed therapist hopeful that is stuck in active addiction due to undiagnosed autism and paragenic parenting that has repeated over across my family so dysfunctional but I don’t have the energy or money to prove anything I just needed to know because I don’t like uncertainty naturally I’ve been obsessively researching for so many years to figure out what’s happening with my family . I can’t change them I can’t make them look at the science I’m presenting to them so I sent it all to them and said goodbye now I find myself alone and afraid to ask for help because I have so much medical trauma from my case being mishandled I lost my children which was punishment I feel because I wasn’t homeless on the street I had a home I’m educated I was giving my kids their basic needs but lacking intimacy probably Due to the fact that I’ve experienced all of those adverse things like literally every single one in my life so I don’t know how to do this and I admit it fully I think this is the key to getting better. I just lost all the social support I once had and I don’t know how to get it back because I lack social skills. 😢

I'm just going to say wow! You have been so enlightening and informative it's amazing. Thank you very much.

I wonder how many of the people in treatment for substance use disorder who’ve been diagnosed with depression/ bipolar/ anxiety are just misdiagnosed C-PTSD. Or at least co-occurring. The treatment facilitators love saying “the opposite of addiction is connection,” and early family trauma suggests a disturbing lack of meaningful connection.

Absolutely 100 percent factual information!! Thank you for this picture of pure honest fact based words of encouragement for millions of people..Dr Gabor matte was my first real clear reason to step up!! He is an angel on earth..and I must also recognize Dr Jonice Webb she was instrumental in my ability to reach out!! And recognize childhood emotional neglect that's were my mental challenges began at age 4 and have lasted for over 30 years...

Is addiction limited to drugs and alcohol only? What abouy other things? Could sex be an addiction caused by trauma?

Plss help me i have trauma using drug

Your loud swallowing sounds throughout the video are super distracting and annoying lol