13. Why Do Teens Turn to Drugs?

Dear Little Me

Dawn Chitty

Childhood Trauma, Emotional Abuse, Narcissistic Mother, Healing, Ptsd, Trauma, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Women Podcast, Relationships, Self Esteem, Self Help, Self Improvement

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Factors contributing to drug abuse amongst youth.

Amanda's parents were divorced when she was five years old and Amanda's mom raised her two kids alone. Painfully shy, Amanda had to attend a new school every year as the family moved often. She was regularly left at home alone with her little brother and increasingly felt responsible for her mother's changing moods. There was anger and abuse at home and this only accelerated when her new step-father came on the scene. By the time Amanda was ten years old the abuse was so bad, she was suicidal. By sixteen she was drug and alcohol addicted. This is the story of when a child's home life sends them spiralling out of control. And it's so important for all of us to understand that a kid like Amanda? she had absolutely no-one to help her out of a living hell.

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0:00.0	But yeah, I think it just all culminated and I just got into this headspace of like I just can't,
0:05.2	I can't like do this anymore. I think in fifth grade and just that exhausted, like I don't want to
0:10.3	live anymore. I was too scared to actually do it. I remember being sad. I didn't want my brother
0:15.6	to have that in his life. I was just scared where I would go or what would happen. So then I was
0:21.3	just kind of leaning more towards self-medilation and like obsessing with death.
0:32.0	Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure
0:38.6	and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what
0:45.8	our parents bring to our lives. And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected
0:52.3	to what their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families. I have always
0:59.5	craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the
1:08.0	absolutely unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul. They can connect us
1:16.6	and they can change the world. And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful
1:22.2	souls sharing their story. What happened to them? How they got through and how they have healed
1:29.2	and thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment. Content warning,
1:37.6	if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city.
1:48.0	Hey beautiful souls. Can I just tell you that every week when I come to record this section of
1:54.3	the podcast, I'm thinking to myself, wow, this is such an amazing episode because every single
2:01.0	week I'm speaking with the most amazing humans like seriously are amazing. I actually feel like
2:09.1	I want to cry when I think about the goodness in each and every one of them and what they've been
2:15.8	through and thought and felt and managed in their lifetime so far. And this week is just so special
2:23.6	because it is absolutely a masterclass in when a kid's home life sends them off the rails.
2:32.2	And I don't know about you, but when I turned 13, every time there was any kind of an issue at
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