Americans today are more debt-ridden, obese, medicated, and addicted than we ever have been.
- For the first time in history, the centers of control and prevention (CDC) has announced that automobile accidents are not the second leading cause of accidental death in the US.
- The leading cause is now drug overdoses.
- More people die from prescription drug overdose than from heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine drug use combine.
- Even more alarming is the estimate that less than 5 percent of those who died from prescription drug overdose obtain there drug from “street corner drug dealers?”
- Dealers today are most likely to be parents, relatives, friends, and physicians.
We are desperate to feel less or more of something.
- To make something go away or to have more of something else.
A primary drive of our numbing would be our struggles with worthiness and shame.
- We numb the pain that comes with feeling inadequate, and less than
Anxiety, disconnection and shame also emerge as drivers of numbing
- The most powerful need for numbing seems to be coming from a combinations of all three
- Anxiety seems to be fueled by uncertainty, overwhelming and competing demands on our time, and social discomfort
- Disconnection – loneliness, depression, isolation, emptiness, and disengagement.
- The strong pattern of shame spreading through the anxiety and/or disconnection.
- Our anxiety is compounded and made unbearable by our belief that if we were just smarter, stronger, or better, we would be able to handle everything.
Numbing becomes a way to take the edge off of both instability and inadequacy
Re-source: Reconditioning
craving from “Daring Greatly” by Brene Brown
resource from “Balance In Me” – balanceinme.com