Dr. Gabor Mate: Healing From Addiction & Trauma
A Life of Greatness
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Addiction Is Not Genetic, It's Not Even a Disease
addiction is always rooted in childhood trauma, but what's it like to go up in a home where the father's an alcoholic is traumatic? And so that, it's not the addiction we pass on, it's the trauma we pass on. So these things are not genetic, and it's for choice. Well I had never known a single person, including myself or any client I've ever worked with, who woke up on a Saturday morning and said, hey my ambition is to become an addict."
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