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It's as if the addiction was to complete themselves
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The Wisdom of Trauma

It's as if the addictionwas to complete themselves, and to somehow temporarilycover up the...

It's as if the addiction
was to complete themselves, and to somehow temporarily
cover up the emptiness

Full Transcript

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It's as if the addiction was to complete themselves,
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and to somehow temporarily cover up the emptiness.
Duration
10 seconds
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23
Timestamp in Movie
00:31:05
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Genres
documentary
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1 in 5 Americans are diagnosed with mental illness every year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24, and kills over 48,300 in the US and 800,000 people globally per year. Drug overdose ki...
Why the finger-pointing, why the judgments - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:09
Why the finger-pointing, why the judgments
My first job that I ever had as a physician in Vancouver - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:07
My first job that I ever had as a physician in Vancouver
It's North America's most concentrated - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:15
It's North America's most concentrated
And I go this old, broken down hotel - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:12
And I go this old, broken down hotel
And after two years, I shifted my full-time work - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
And after two years, I shifted my full-time work
They all had suffered tremendous torment as children, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:08
They all had suffered tremendous torment as children,
They were quite willing to sacrifice love, life, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:09
They were quite willing to sacrifice love, life,
They were that desperate to escape from reality - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:06
They were that desperate to escape from reality
That would give them abscesses, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:12
That would give them abscesses,
So they have to be hospitalized, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:07
So they have to be hospitalized,
But they were users, so there'd be - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:08
But they were users, so there'd be
So inevitably they would be kicked out of hospital, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:07
So inevitably they would be kicked out of hospital,
I think I pushed him across an intersection once - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
I think I pushed him across an intersection once
And I said, well, I've been using morphine and m-eslon. - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:04
And I said, well, I've been using morphine and m-eslon.
- By meeting people where they're at - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:13
- By meeting people where they're at
- 'Cause they had come in like every four hours - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
- 'Cause they had come in like every four hours
And I woke up and there is like morphine all over the bed - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:06
And I woke up and there is like morphine all over the bed
(laughing) - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:09
(laughing)
Is there one that, you know, that you can recite now? - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
Is there one that, you know, that you can recite now?
It goes (clears throat) - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:06
It goes (clears throat)