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This sounds rather much like speculation to me. Do you have any sources to back up your "Most" statement. Since the disease is generational, quite often childr
by zafka 13y ago
This sounds rather much like speculation to me. Do you have any sources to back up your "Most" statement. Since the disease is generational, quite often children of addicts will have a stressful upbringing, but your theory of brain damage from stress causing the addiction is quite a stretch.
- Alex3917 13y agoGabor Mate discusses this in his Angry Ghosts book. If you search through my comments for his name, there is a link to an interview where he discusses this also.
- zafka 13y agoI did not find your comments, but I did a quick google search. Here is one refutation that I found: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/201112/the-seductive-dangerous-allure-gabor-mat http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/201... It says just about what I would have guessed too. :)
- Alex3917 13y agoWhat's the point of reading a refutation if you haven't read the original? You don't even know what you're reading.
- peller 13y agoIt's not necessarily always "abuse" so much as mis-parenting and/or unhealthy environments. I forget who said it but there's a quote that goes something like this: 'All healthy families share similar traits and patterns, but unhealthy families all have their own hosts of unique issues.' For one source that hit home for me, see Addiction as an Attachment Disorder by Philip Flores
- chas 13y agoThat is the first line of Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."