ADDICTION: Is It A Disease Or A Choice?

Saving You Is Killing Me- The Tap Back Into Your Power Resource, Support and Network!  Has someone else’s problem become your problem? Is loving someone with an addiction leaving you feeling broken, exhausted, and repeatedly disappointed?  It hurts when you love someone who drinks too much or suffers from an addiction. Life is not normal. You may feel alone, but you are not unique in your pain or dilemma. Nor are you isolated in this situation. Saving You Is Killing Me is a helpful guide to light a darkened path. Regardless of the struggle you are in, loving someone with an addiction is emotionally, psychologically, and physically draining. You must understand that nobody deserves to suffer - you have the right to live a peaceful and fulfilled life that is full of love! You can, and you will find happiness again! Your journey starts by taking back your power and shifting the focus back onto you! With compassion and grace, a positive psychology practitioner and the author of Saving You Is Killing Me: Loving Someone With An Addiction, Andrea Seydel offers support by sharing her personal experiences and the knowledge she used to help navigate the wreckage of her struggle. She exposes the tremendous power of how our relationships can both hurt us and allow us to heal. Trauma is a fact of life, and navigating the turmoil from loving someone with an addiction can be extremely challenging. Saving You Is Killing Me offers new hope for reclaiming your life. Seydel offers insight and learning opportunities for self-healing, recovery, and resilience that foster an empowering way of life. For more support, information, or to share your story of strength, head over the website: https://www.andreaseydel.com/savingyouiskillingme Join us in the private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/savingyouiskillingme Grab Your Copy of the Saving You Is Killing Me: Loving Someone With an Addiction Book:  Grab Your FREE Self-Care Starter Kit and Discount Code for my book HERE   IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS: _________________________________________   GRATITUDE: The upward spiral of positive emotions Saving You Is Killing Me- The Tap Back Into Your Power Resource, Support and Network!  Has someone else’s problem become your problem? Is loving someone with an addiction leaving you feeling broken, exhausted, and repeatedly disappointed?  It hurts when you love someone who drinks too much or suffers from an addiction. Life is not normal. You may feel alone, but you are not unique in your pain or dilemma. Nor are you isolated in this situation. Saving You Is Killing Me is a helpful guide to light a darkened path. Regardless of the struggle you are in, loving someone with an addiction is emotionally, psychologically, and physically draining. You must understand that nobody deserves to suffer - you have the right to live a peaceful and fulfilled life that is full of love! You can, and you will find happiness again! Your journey starts by taking back your power and shifting the focus back onto you! With compassion and grace, a positive psychology practitioner and the author of Saving You Is Killing Me: Loving Someone With An Addiction, Andrea Seydel offers support by sharing her personal experiences and the knowledge she used to help navigate the wreckage of her struggle. She exposes the tremendous power of how our relationships can both hurt us and allow us to heal. Trauma is a fact of life, and navigating the turmoil from loving someone with an addiction can be extremely challenging. Saving You Is Killing Me offers new hope for reclaiming your life. Seydel offers insight and learning opportunities for self-healing, recovery, and resilience that foster an empowering way of life. For more support, information, or to share your story of strength, head over the website: savingyouiskillingme.com Join us in the private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/savingyouiskillingme Grab Your Copy of the Saving You Is Killing Me: Loving Someone With an Addiction Book:  Grab Your FREE Self-Care Starter Kit and Discount Code for my book HERE   IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS: _________________________________________   ADDICTION: Is It A Disease Or A Choice? Is Addiction a Disease or a Choice? Have you ever heard someone say that addiction is a choice? What they probably mean is they think that the person could stop using drugs if they really wanted to. But addiction doesn’t work that way. Not everyone who uses drugs indeed becomes addicted. People react to drugs differently. There’s no rule about how soon someone becomes addicted. And it is a choice to use a drug for the first time. However, the fact is that addiction is not a choice. Science has confirmed that addiction is a chronic brain disease that can happen to anyone. Despite this, there is still a prevalent belief that addiction is the result of weakness or poor choices along with character or moral failing.  The first time a person takes a drug, they might like how it makes them feel. They believe they can control how much and how often they take the drug. But drugs can take away their control. If the person continues to use the drug, they might need to take the drug just to feel normal after a while. They might start taking more, just to get the same high. The person might keep using the drug, even though it starts hurting their life. Science says that addiction should be looked at in the same way we view other chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cancer. If this is true, why are those diseases are not regarded with stigma and shame in the way addiction is? Well, addiction is a bit more complicated. Listen in as we discuss!