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Gabor Mate's mental models

4 claims Gabor Mate made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Early templates, The pain beneath the symptom. Everything they said here.

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Early templates

What a child learned about being seen, comforted or let down becomes the template adults run on: in relationships, in expectations, even in addiction.

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Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.

  1. Gabor Mate Physician and author on addiction Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile. BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com · 5 Apr 2017
    Their wordsChildhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.

    ↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com

    5 Apr 2017

Trauma is not confined to terrible events: a child whose parents were too stressed or distracted to see them has been traumatized too.

  1. Gabor Mate Physician and author on addiction But trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge. BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com · 5 Apr 2017
    Their wordsBut trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.

    ↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com

    5 Apr 2017

The pain beneath the symptom

The behaviour on the surface is often the visible part of something else: anger over grief, resentment over hurt, addiction over pain. Treating only the surface treats an effect.

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Addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a response to pain: the question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.

  1. Gabor Mate Physician and author on addiction It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences. BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com · 5 Apr 2017
    Their wordsIt is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.

    ↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com

    5 Apr 2017

Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.

  1. Gabor Mate Physician and author on addiction to treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com · 5 Apr 2017
    Their wordsto treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering

    ↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com

    5 Apr 2017