46 minMental health and suicide
What always happens before you find out you are a sex addict
Craig Perra/The Mindful Habit System
11 conversations
Childhood trauma
What happened before the first drink, the first bet, the first bag.
Nobody starts using for no reason. Ask anyone far enough into recovery what came first and you get a story from long before the substance did.
These are conversations about what happened in childhood and what it set up. Not as an excuse, and every guest here is careful about that distinction. As the thing that has to be dealt with if the rest is going to hold.
The conversations
Every episode about childhood trauma
46 min
40 minOther drugs
I overdosed on water and woke up from a coma
John Rokee/Near-fatal overdose, in recovery
45 minMental health and suicide
Everything looked perfect on Instagram
John Scafiddi Jr/The Journey podcast, founder of At War
46 minHeroin and opioids
From a Level 4 prison yard to 13 years sober
Garet/Thirteen years sober
31 minHeroin and opioids
She nearly lost her arm twice and still didn't stop
Lauren G./Philadelphia and Kensington
1 hr 8 minOther drugs
Lamar Odom on the coma and the night that almost killed him
Lamar Odom/Two-time NBA champion
50 minAlcohol
Her kids found her passed out at a 0.47 BAC
Anne/Michigan, seven years sober
1 hr 10 minAlcohol
She hid bottles everywhere
Sydney McAllister/Sober Syd
54 minHeroin and opioids
Inside Olivia's descent into IV heroin addiction
Olivia/Nurse, seven years sober
51 minOther drugs
Surviving the mafia, addiction and domestic abuse
Renee Graziano/Mob Wives
1 hrGambling addiction
He won seven figures, then lost it all in 24 hours
Mike Steinmetz/Entrepreneur, former actor
Elsewhere in the library
Other things people come here for
- Family and relationshipsThe marriages that survived it, and the ones that did not.30
- Rehab and treatmentTwenty-five treatment centres, one that finally worked, and why.28
- Mental health and suicideThe nights people planned to end it, and what stopped them.22
- Gambling addictionThe addiction that leaves no track marks and no smell on your breath.21
- Sober living and habitsThe unglamorous daily mechanics of staying clean.21
- AlcoholHigh-functioning drinking, hidden bottles and the double life it takes to keep it going.16
Childhood trauma is one of 16 topics every episode of Nothing's Off The Table is tagged against. Search the whole library.
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