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I recently had a client that got some bad medical news and it disturbed them greatly. And the medical situation that has occurred Is a direct result of their fentanyl use. And that individual was like, man, I really feel like getting high. And I challenged it. I was like, so you want to, you’re in this situation because you got high and your solution is let me go do more of that.
Like this sucks and it hurts and it’s scary. There’s all this unknown factor and it’s because of getting high. Now to solve this fear, I want to do more of the thing that caused the situation I’m in. And that person smiled and was like, man, that’s crazy. Cause they didn’t think of it. You know, they didn’t see it from that.
They just felt those feelings. And then their whole life when they felt those feelings, Their thought was get high about it and the action proceeded this time. They felt those feelings this time. They thought the same thought. I want to get high, but this time they said, hey, Let me reach out to someone and tell them what I’m thinking and feeling before I do anything about it.
So there’s great progress there, right? And so when I sat down and challenged that person on, well, you don’t really want to get high. That’s just what you’ve always done. Really what you want is to Not have to face this fear really what you want is to run because it’s scary You know because this person potentially faces having to sit down in a chair for five hours a day for the rest of his life Every day, you know, that’s that could be terrifying.
