ONLY SOMEONE …
I’ve been asked many times how can a person help a loved one struggling with addiction and my answer has always been the same- I tell that person who is asking that a person who has never struggled with addiction and overcome it cannot help someone who is struggling with addiction no matter how well intentioned that person is or qualified. And a person who is still struggling with addiction too cannot help another struggling with addiction. It is only someone who has overcome addiction who can help someone still struggling with it.
This explains why so many doctors have failed to ‘treat’ addiction. The doctors can treat the medical aspect of addiction excellently and address its biochemistry but the root cause of addiction is spiritual. And this too also explains why family members that have never struggled with addiction cannot help a loved one struggling no matter how much love they have for him or her.
Only someone who has struggled with addiction and overcome can help another because they identify wholly with that person and understand what that person is experiencing. Addiction has baffled many because few understand it. The understanding of addiction is got by actual and costly experience and the rest is a complement. Addiction is like driving a car- someone who has never driven a car cannot teach another how to drive regardless of the manuals he or she has read about the modus operandi of a car.
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