Why Her Son Suffers From Addiction (And Why That Matters)

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Her son (and her husband) both suffer from addiction. She has twin sons, one suffers and one doesn’t. And she thinks she knows why… Usually we don’t get into the details of why someone may suffer, but when you’re a mother with a child suffering it can be helpful. We talk about why and much more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Today we have a conversation with Michelle and a woman from our community. Her husband suffers from
0:25.1	addiction and so does her son. Today we're talking about her son and what it's been
0:31.1	like and how she's healed all the while he's still drinking.
0:35.0	We talk about why he might suffer from addiction and why exactly that's important.
0:41.0	She also shares some valuable tips for mothers out there and how
0:46.2	you can help your children today. As always, let's make space and welcome her and her story without judgment.
0:55.0	Thank you so much Polly for agreeing to speak with me today about your son, Alex's addiction.
1:05.0	Can you tell me a little bit about him.
1:07.6	How old is he?
1:09.2	What kind of substances does he struggle with? Okay, he'll be 25 in a few weeks and he, his big thing right now is drinking I say right now because it kind of started with just smoking pot and I don't mean just smoking pot taking it lightly but at the time I did.
1:38.0	Yeah and then after he went out on his own, he started doing Adderall to help him with his job or just give him the energy to continue what was high expectations of him at his job.
2:10.0	And I don't know when the drinking started. I can only assume that there was a traumatic event
2:18.5	that happened to him.
2:20.4	And that's when the drinking started and it is out of control.
2:26.0	So you said you can assume there was a traumatic event that happened to him. Are you still in touch with him?
2:35.0	Oh yes, yes. I know that there was a traumatic event, but I can only assume that that's why he started drinking.
2:42.0	Mm, okay, got Okay, got it, okay.
2:44.0	The timeline.
2:45.0	When did he start smoking pot?
2:48.0	Well, how old is he?
2:50.0	Twelve.
2:52.0	Twelve. Okay, what was going on? 12.
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