Craig

That's interesting. Well, this is the confusing part about addiction, right? And this is the confusing part about people who are addicts and people who love addicts. Yeah. Meeting, finding common ground about who you are and who you want to be. Because he, again, we talked about this in the last episode, he's also not wrong. Yeah, currently, you are not behaving. You're not acting like yourself.

That's interesting. Well, this is the confusing part about addiction, right? And this is the confusing part about people who are addicts and people who love addicts. Yeah. Meeting, finding common ground about who you are and who you want to be. Because he, again, we talked about this in the last episode, he's also not wrong. Yeah, currently, you are not behaving. You're not acting like yourself.

That's interesting. Well, this is the confusing part about addiction, right? And this is the confusing part about people who are addicts and people who love addicts. Yeah. Meeting, finding common ground about who you are and who you want to be. Because he, again, we talked about this in the last episode, he's also not wrong. Yeah, currently, you are not behaving. You're not acting like yourself.

You are not living up to the highest level of who you are as a human being. But all of this is necessary to arrive at a place where you turn around and go back the other direction, right? Rock bottom is only where you stop and turn around and go back the other way. It's different for all these other people. But there's all of these, this episode is just full of them, right?

You are not living up to the highest level of who you are as a human being. But all of this is necessary to arrive at a place where you turn around and go back the other direction, right? Rock bottom is only where you stop and turn around and go back the other way. It's different for all these other people. But there's all of these, this episode is just full of them, right?

You are not living up to the highest level of who you are as a human being. But all of this is necessary to arrive at a place where you turn around and go back the other direction, right? Rock bottom is only where you stop and turn around and go back the other way. It's different for all these other people. But there's all of these, this episode is just full of them, right?

His need to be with someone, his need to be touched by someone, his need to be seen, his need to be saved from drowning. That's all these, as Kevin reaches out and hooks up with this person or gets in bed with this person, he's like, I'm drowning. Are you a life jacket? Are you a life preserver?

His need to be with someone, his need to be touched by someone, his need to be seen, his need to be saved from drowning. That's all these, as Kevin reaches out and hooks up with this person or gets in bed with this person, he's like, I'm drowning. Are you a life jacket? Are you a life preserver?

His need to be with someone, his need to be touched by someone, his need to be seen, his need to be saved from drowning. That's all these, as Kevin reaches out and hooks up with this person or gets in bed with this person, he's like, I'm drowning. Are you a life jacket? Are you a life preserver?

And addiction, as a broad idea, isn't just like pills or alcohol or sex or whatever the thing is that you're attaching to to try and save yourself. The real problem becomes these character defects. which is this attachment to shame, this attachment to, I'm a piece of shit, I don't deserve any of this.

And addiction, as a broad idea, isn't just like pills or alcohol or sex or whatever the thing is that you're attaching to to try and save yourself. The real problem becomes these character defects. which is this attachment to shame, this attachment to, I'm a piece of shit, I don't deserve any of this.

And addiction, as a broad idea, isn't just like pills or alcohol or sex or whatever the thing is that you're attaching to to try and save yourself. The real problem becomes these character defects. which is this attachment to shame, this attachment to, I'm a piece of shit, I don't deserve any of this.

That is what you become addicted to, this way of thinking that then leads you to like, well, if I think this way and it must be true, then maybe I'll just behave that way so that everything lines up. And what we see in the beginning of this episode is the very beginnings of like a self-centered, someone who's trying to save himself.

That is what you become addicted to, this way of thinking that then leads you to like, well, if I think this way and it must be true, then maybe I'll just behave that way so that everything lines up. And what we see in the beginning of this episode is the very beginnings of like a self-centered, someone who's trying to save himself.

That is what you become addicted to, this way of thinking that then leads you to like, well, if I think this way and it must be true, then maybe I'll just behave that way so that everything lines up. And what we see in the beginning of this episode is the very beginnings of like a self-centered, someone who's trying to save himself.

He is developing a coping mechanism, which is confidence, which quickly turns into arrogance. You know, with the coach, they show him in the hallway. It's this coping mechanism that becomes a defense mechanism And then as he gets older, it becomes such a part of his personality that it turns into this defective process where it doesn't work. It works for a while until it doesn't.

He is developing a coping mechanism, which is confidence, which quickly turns into arrogance. You know, with the coach, they show him in the hallway. It's this coping mechanism that becomes a defense mechanism And then as he gets older, it becomes such a part of his personality that it turns into this defective process where it doesn't work. It works for a while until it doesn't.

He is developing a coping mechanism, which is confidence, which quickly turns into arrogance. You know, with the coach, they show him in the hallway. It's this coping mechanism that becomes a defense mechanism And then as he gets older, it becomes such a part of his personality that it turns into this defective process where it doesn't work. It works for a while until it doesn't.

And then he has to add all this other stuff, drugs, alcohol, whatever the thing is.

And then he has to add all this other stuff, drugs, alcohol, whatever the thing is.