Drinking my depression

Written By Benjamin Lloyd

Here is a link to my most recent contribution to Health-Union.

“For many of us, depression has a deadly consort: substance abuse. There's no use in engaging in a chicken and egg exercise – it doesn't matter "which came first." What matters is that for many of us, the substance was the solution to our depression.

As Gabor Mate writes in In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, "It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

Benjamin Lloyd

Benjamin Lloyd runs bxlloyd consulting, a learning and development practice that uses the power of play and applied improvisation to support extraordinary companies, nonprofits, and communities. One of his specialties is creative work with people with disabilities, and he has presented on that work at both global and national conferences. He is the author of several articles on creativity and spirituality through Cambridge University Press, and two books: The Deception of Surfaces, and The Actor’s Way: A Journey of Self-Discovery in Letters, published by Allworth Press in 2006. He has acted and directed at most major theatres in Philadelphia, as well as in New York, regionally in the U.S., and in Europe. www.bxlloyd.com

https://www.bxloyd.com
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