Chaos is the Drug

In Recovery

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What happens after your question is answered on the show? One of our listeners decided to follow up to push back on part of Nzinga’s response. He and Nzinga discuss what resonated, what hurt, and end up digging into much more than either of them expected.

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0:00.0	The first 100 days of a new presidential administration have the potential to be the most impactful.
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0:10.6	Together, we host Pansu Politics, a podcast where we take a different approach to the news.
0:14.4	Join us for this different approach where we ask questions, resist hot takes, and have fun no matter what the world serves up.
0:20.2	We'll get you through the first 100 days and beyond the new Trump administration. Stay informed without all the anxiety.
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0:32.2	Lemonada.
0:54.8	Hey everyone. This is in recovery and I'm Dr. Inzinga Harrison. So we answer a lot of questions on this show. Each person who writes in gets a couple of minutes to say their piece or maybe a couple of sentences and then I respond usually within a couple of minutes. But in reality, when working in therapy, recovery, or any other kind of personal work,
1:00.9	that's not how it actually goes. This week, we're talking to a listener under the pseudonym Preston.
1:06.7	He submitted a question for our first AMA that I answered on air, and then he called in again with a response to my answer.
1:14.2	We invited him back because it's so important to share what this experience could actually look like as an ongoing conversation with your mental health team.
1:23.2	So let's get started.
1:27.8	All right, Preston, thank you so much for coming on in recovery.
1:31.9	Thank you for having me.
1:33.5	Yeah, we first met because you sent in a question for one of our Ask Me Anything episodes,
1:39.7	and you were wondering how to address multiple addictions that didn't have to do with drugs and alcohol,
1:45.2	but felt like they had to do with everything else in your life.
1:49.5	I have, you know, a pretty important job.
1:52.8	I've worked for two different presidential campaigns.
1:57.2	You know, I'm a fairly successful person.
1:59.3	But my question to you is this, I don't have an
2:03.1	addiction to alcohol, I don't have an addiction to other, another hard substance like that,
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