Top Ways to Ruin Relationships Part 2 (Alcohol, Habits & More)

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Dr Daniel Amen

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of their series on how to ruin your relationships, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana reveal five additional relationship killers and how they’re often linked to bad habits or unhealthy brain activity. Discover these common relationship issues, as well as simple brain health strategies to overcome them and strengthen your connection with loved ones.

00:00 Intro

00:43 How to Ruin Your Relationships Pt. 2

01:14 Alcohol & Substance Abuse

05:53 Not Dealing With Childhood Trauma

07:55 Untreated Brain Health Problems

12:30 Sponsor

13:56 Hormones

20:59 Say Everything You Think

23:48 Focus/One Page Miracle

29:49 Devices

31:57 Wrap Up

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0:00.0	There are 30 million children of alcoholics in the United States.
0:05.0	That means 10% of the population is living with the trauma of having grown up in chronic stress directly related to alcohol.
0:19.0	If you don't deal with your own childhood issues, particularly around
0:25.6	substance abuse, that totally can ruin a relationship.
0:30.6	Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. Stay with us to learn how you can change
0:40.3	your brain for the better every day. Welcome back, everyone. We are talking about part two of how to
0:47.7	ruin your relationships today. We just, you know, we dug into part one. And as we were going, we're like, we need to do more on this.
0:56.3	There are just so many ways that you can ruin a relationship.
0:59.5	Well, and one thing that was huge that we missed. And probably the most important thing that I've seen as a psychiatrist over the last 40 years is alcohol and substance
1:13.5	abuse. This ruins relationships. And I often say the brain is a sneaky organ. We all have weird,
1:24.3	crazy, stupid, sexual, violent thoughts that nobody should ever hear. And the problem is,
1:31.8	when you drink, those thoughts get out. And you've often, you know, shown me scans of people
1:40.3	who drink a lot and it drops the frontal lobes. So when that when that happens,
1:44.5	I mean, lots of things happen, right? Your behavior becomes erratic and you do things you
1:51.3	wouldn't do otherwise. You say things you wouldn't say otherwise. And the brain has memory.
1:58.2	In fact, the female brain has a larger emotional brain, but also a larger hippocampus,
2:07.2	where she's going to remember things like from 15 years ago. And so you just want to have a good
2:16.5	supervisor in your head.
2:20.5	And when you drank, sometimes even a little, if you start with lower frontal lobes,
2:29.2	because maybe you played football in high school, or you have ADD,
2:33.5	or you've had some environmental toxin
2:35.7	like mold, you have lower frontal lobes. And then so even a drink or two and certainly four
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