The Opioid Crisis
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Bertel, let me tell you a story about a client that I had many, many years ago. |
| 0:04.1 | It was a very informative client to me about what heroin is and what percussette is, |
| 0:12.3 | what Vicodin is, all these kinds of pills. I'd heard about it, but I didn't really know much about it |
| 0:17.3 | in terms of people abusing the substances. You know, I'd seen movies about heroin addiction |
| 0:23.5 | and I was like, you know, I don't even really know what it does to people. I had a client |
| 0:29.7 | who came to me and he had a long history of problems with pills and with heroin and his story was |
| 0:41.5 | thus. He had a violent father and was traumatized a lot growing up and lived a pretty typical life |
| 0:52.3 | in Seattle and had a typical job and typical friends and typical kind of lifestyle, |
| 0:59.2 | but chronically not feeling so good. But, you know, getting by, like in their 20s, 30s? |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, 20s, 20s. And early 20s, and he goes in to have a procedure done, medically, |
| 1:13.8 | and they give him pain pills to deal with the pain, post surgery. He takes the pills and |
| 1:21.2 | immediately upon returning home because they tell him like, you're going to be in a lot of pain, |
| 1:25.3 | right? So make sure you take a really good dose when you get home because it's going to be a lot |
| 1:28.8 | of pain. Let's skip it. So he goes home and he's kind of miserable at the pain, but he takes, |
| 1:33.7 | you know, picks the big dose and for the very first time in his life, he feels okay. Wow, |
| 1:41.2 | he feels normal. He doesn't have those racing thoughts. He doesn't know those intrusive thoughts |
| 1:45.9 | of shame. What's wrong with you or everyone hates you, you know, suddenly he's just |
| 1:52.0 | cool as a cucumber. And he suddenly realizes like when your water in your ear suddenly pops out, |
| 1:59.6 | right? Yeah, like in here. Yeah. Oh, this is what hearing is like. I've been dealing with this |
| 2:05.4 | clogged ear this whole time. This is what it's like to actually feel normal. And he said that, |
| 2:11.7 | he said, for the first time I felt like I, I felt the way everyone else looked, everyone else looked |
| 2:20.0 | like they were fine, right? Everyone else acted like their life was going okay, like they weren't |
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