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to today's presentation on the causes and impacts of addiction and trauma on all pieces of life. I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly Snipe's.

We're going to define addiction and trauma, for those of you who haven't watched any of my other

videos on it. We'll discuss why addiction and trauma frequently co-occur and we'll examine the causes

and impact of addiction and trauma on all pieces of life.

And remember, that stands for physical, interpersonal, emotional, cognitive, environmental, and spiritual.

Addiction is the continued use of a substance, behavior, or person to escape from pain, and it could be

emotional or physical pain, in one or more areas of your life, one or more pieces of life,

despite experiencing problems in one or more areas of your life. So you're having pain in an area and you're using to

negate that pain or to numb that pain for a minute and you're continuing to use even though

use is causing you problems in other areas or maybe even that area of life. And we'll take a look at that. Spending more time,

money or energy, thinking about getting, using, or recovering from use, people who spend a lot

of time dwelling and just obsessing about when they're going to see somebody next, when they're going to get their next

hit, when they're going to be able to get, you know, how they're going to be able to get

alcohol, whatever it is, all that planning and obsessing, then using, and then recovering

from the hangover, recovering from the financial devastation of gambling recovering from you know fill in the

blank or and or giving up important activities or failing to meet responsibilities in one

or more areas of life remember with addiction just like any other diagnosis in a DSM-5 TR, you don't have to have

every single symptom.

There's a certain number of symptoms, but this kind of puts it all into a perspective.

So you can recognize why a person may be using and the impacts it may be having on them.

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