Addiction 101: Is It A Choice? with Tara Booker, LCSW
You Need Therapy
iHeartPodcasts
2.4 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week, Tara Booker comes back to help Kat break down the basics of addiction. Which, you might be laughing at because there is nothing basic about explaining and understanding addiction. If you’ve ever struggled with addiction or loved someone who has, you’ll resonate with the fact that it’s a very confusing experience to have and watch. The behavior often makes zero sense when looking at it with just our naked eyes. This is largely due to the fact that a lot of the dysfunction is tied to what’s happening in our brains. So, join Tara and Kat today as they begin to help us all gain a little more understanding so we can all bring more compassion and hopefully healing to those that struggle with this disease affects.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Michael Lewis here. |
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| 0:40.6 | I think about the idea of like psychological addiction. You know, like this psychological piece |
| 0:47.8 | of why we do most of what we do is because what we're thinking about it, because what we believe |
| 0:52.4 | about it, because of our emotional reaction |
| 0:54.6 | to it. And that's true, I think, with addictions too. And so is it a choice? I mean, ask any |
| 1:02.8 | single one of them if they would choose to have it if they decided one day. Like, I definitely |
| 1:08.2 | want it to be something that I can't control and I can't get rid of. |
| 1:11.8 | And any addict will tell you that's not true. |
| 1:14.4 | I started to realize that not being an expert isn't a liability. It's a real gift. |
| 1:20.7 | If we don't know something about ourselves at this point in our life, it's probably because it's |
| 1:25.0 | uncomfortable to know. If you can die before you die, |
| 1:29.2 | then you can really live. There's a wisdom at death's door. I thought I was insane. Yeah. And I didn't |
| 1:36.6 | know what to do because there was no internet. I don't know. Man, I'm like, I feel like everything is hard. |
| 1:44.8 | Hey, y'all, my name is Kat. |
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