A Nurse + Grief + Alcohol + Adderall— Finding Hope for Healers
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
02/06/26
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Kate started her addiction journey at a young age, using substances as a salve for her terrible grief. Later, drugs and alcohol helped her to cope with the transition to nursing and the unending demands of a hospital setting. But as with all addicts, this strategy worked until it didn’t....Kate eventually had to find a new way to cope if she was going to survive past her 30s.
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Kate Gibson (The Coleman Institute)
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