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Originally Posted by kecanoe
I just read an article about ACE (adverse childhood experiences) that strongly links them to addictions. If he is like me, he doesn't understand why he does that stuff either. The article suggests that there are neurological changes that drive the addiction-that the use of substances/behavior is an attempt to stop the fight/flight response that gets activated by triggers that would not set off another person.
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Are ACE's things like my father (my brother's step dad) telling my brother that he was "not his son" and that if "he wanted to fight like a man" he'd take him out in the yard and show him what that was like? My dad raise my brother since he was 2 (so it's not like he married my mom when my brother was older), but he always said "not my son" or when talking to my mother "your son" while I was "our daughter".