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My story matters: one woman's path from addiction to advocacy
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How unprocessed trauma becomes a gateway to addiction.
A peer support specialist and substance use counselor with lived experience explains how unprocessed trauma becomes a gateway to addiction.
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My story matters: one woman's path from addiction to advocacy
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[tranquil music] I am a certified peer specialist and I also have my MAADC too, which allows me to do alcohol and drug substance use counseling.
One of the qualifications for being a peer support is having lived experience.
So I struggled with substance use.
Not only that, but I did struggle with substance use through pregnancy.
One thing about substance use it is a coping skill, and it's an effective one.
It's not a healthy one, but it's an effective one.
Whenever there's trauma, especially early on before the brain can really process it, it's just, how do I feel better?
And for a lot of people, the answer is to use drugs.
And so trauma really is a gateway to substance use and to addiction.
And so if we're going to treat the substance use and the addiction, then we really have to look at that trauma piece because we have to help families and individuals learn how to have that trauma exist but to deal with it and cope with it in healthier ways.
When moms are struggling with postpartum depression, it may make their trauma responses more heightened.
It may make their past trauma feel more present.
So they are going to snowball off of each other.
Besides modeling better behavior, the best thing that we can do with our kids is to talk about these things.
I don't love having the conversation with my kids that I used to use substances, but it's necessary if I want them to do differently.
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