Elizabeth's terrible childhood has led her to medicine dependency in this clip from Season 22, Episode 10.
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Whenever someone makes mean or cruel comments about people In these situations. I hope they think back to when they were children, around her age. And try to remember. What u were doing around that time period of YOUR childhood…..
Anyone struggling with addiction I hope you find a way out. It is possible
Yep, there are a lot of judgment hypocrites in this comment section who are happy to disregard this girl’s trauma. They are utterly without compassion.
Exactly. Elizabeth judging everyone now and the person they have become because of her addiction is crazy. She should think back to those happier times because that’s who everyone really is. She’s just seeing everyone turning their shoulder because of her addiction and how she’s treating them.
I hope she can recover from her addiction. It’s not to late for her to change her life around for the better.
Happy to see she has people who care for her, in her life.
This woman is the most real, no-nonsense, Interventionists I’ve ever seen on this program. She’s great.
I so identify with her concerns for her dog over herself. I have significant trauma in my past and animals are my world. I’ll jump into traffic to save a turtle, spend every last penny on my cats and volunteer every chance I get at the humane society. Not that I speak for everyone but animals never betray us. They represent an innocence that many of us wish someone had protected in us. Many of us wish someone had advocated, intervened, and cared for us, so we do it for animals. The truth is, trauma effects so many facets of our lives. Many of us were not old enough to have coping skills when trauma hit so we spiral. Addiction, eating disorders, and self harm are all forms of unhealthy coping mechanisms. Learning that, learning new coping skills, and working through trauma is the only way to get out but we have to stop running first. Lizzie is running hard from her past. She has to hit a rock bottom or place to stop before she will have to face it. I hope that happens soon for her. Rehab, change, and hope is possible. I’m proof of that.
this woman is a gem of a human and I just really want the best for her. sending her so much healing energy for everything she’s been through. I wish nothing but the best for her and her amazing support system
Foster parents that abuse the children in their care, must face life in prison – no exceptions.
@Rhoad’s girl 🤘 i dont think that they were talking about elizabeth . i think they were talking about the peoples in the commenr section..?!?
“Don’t ask why the addiction. Ask why the pain.” – Dr. Gabor Mate
@Chronically Aubrey U R not alone……All my pets have been rescue pets from shelters and they have all had happy and long lives with me and my kids and husband. I hope you can get employment working with animals coz U hva e apassion for it……..If not working in a doggy day care you could set up your own or cat minding in your home when a family goes on holiday or a dog walking business. U would be good at it and don’t need a lot of infastructure ( E.g. U don’t need a building if you walk dogs. Just a business card and just have your business advertised on the internet……..Good luck and never get disheartened by one bad day in your business. Just get up the next day and keep going.
She has some DEEP abandonment issues and I can see why. I understand honestly why she’s mad at her dad, he should’ve never left her but her sister has to live her own life.
@Karen Baxter man! This comment hit at just the right time. I deal with severe chronic illness, mental illness and ptsd from trauma. I’m newly disabled and it’s been really hard to process. (I’m proud and never wanted to have to ask for help.) I’m hoping that when Covid settles (due to my illness I’ve been quarantined for 22 months.) I hope to begin advocating for animals in my state. Specifically, working to change legislation to ban declawing in my area. A complete stranger seeing my potential means the absolute world to me. Thank you! ❤️ light, love and kitty snuggles headed your way!
Beautiful ❤️
Nobody wants to become a drug addict. I think it’s important to remember that before we judge anyone struggling with addiction. I hope she can recover and find happiness again
Yes there is I’m just one of the proofs of that thanks to those who care and love unconditionally
Exactly I became one quit young because of many operations and drs that were careless
That interventionist is such a real one. “Who the f*ck was gonna take of the dog when you’re dead lizzy?” 👏
Some animals can turn on you anytime, be it specific kinds of dogs or tigers/lions that are home kept. There is such a thing as instinct. Many examples of this phenomenon. Don’t downplay yourself as less then a animal, you aren’t.
@Lil Lexus wild animals should never be kept in a home. They are not pets and I do not blame them for following their instincts. Wild animals deserve respect. Rarely do dogs turn on people with no reason behind it. For example, dogs who are abused and not rehabilitated are more likely to bite. Dogs who bite children (while heartbreaking) tend to bite when a child startles them, pulls a tail, ears etc. at the end of the day, it’s an owner’s responsibility to care for their animals, if a dog is under socialized, you can’t have it around kids. If you abuse an animal, you’re not a responsible pet owner. I’m explaining that for those of us with trauma, we tend to be drawn to pets because we identify their innocence and want to protect it in ways that we weren’t. By no means do I think they are more important than me, if I don’t care for myself, I can’t care for them. That self respect has to be learned and establish. Once she learns that, she can be an even better pet owner.
I used to watch intervention when I was younger and would use it as the lesson not to do drugs. Now I watch it as a parent and it really makes me want to be as good as I can be. Pretty much every person that’s ever been on this show had something happen in their childhood that changed everything for them. I will make sure my daughter has the best life I can possibly give her, I never want her to suffer like all the children I see on this show
Exactly. None of us start abusing drugs expecting it to ruin our lives. For me, I just liked the false feeling of happiness since I was depressed. Never did I think it was going to make my life and depression worse. Had I known how obsessed I would become with getting high even when those good feelings I used to feel went away I would never started it. I didn’t think I’d have seizures, withdrawals and legal problems because of it. I fought a horrible battle for 9 years and went through detox in 2 different facilities before I was able to stop using. None of us foresee this when we start or we’d stay far away from it. Happy, well adjusted people don’t usually start abusing drugs. There’s usually a reason and we choose one of the worst “solutions” to cope. I’m just glad that I made it out alive. Prayers to all of us who fight with addiction while people criticize us as if we set out to ruin or lose our lives or hurt loved ones.
@Skellie X 🖤 hey I hope you get better and happy New Years 🖤
@Patricia W wishing you nothing but strength on the road to recovery ❤ 2022 is your year!
MAN when she says “I think the self-centeredness has been on both ends.” SHES SO GENUINE. I hope you’re well Lizzy, stay strong
These interventions are getting good. The interventionist in this video was perfect for her, and this really shows the person that people care but they don’t know how to apply it.
That teacher who took her in and tried to help her is a such a sweet guy. She may have had a lot of demons but there’s some angels there too.
Good post. Nice to see a human being with some actual empathy/sympathy. This is what truly makes you a good person.
It sure isn’t! I quit a long-standing addiction, and am studying counseling now, so I can help others, like somebody helped me. If I can help someone else, everything I went through at home, on the streets, and in foster homes…it will all be worth it!
I actually love this interventionist. I like them all but she’s one of the better ones I’ve seen. Her and Sylvia are my favorites.
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Tbh I feel like her dad did the best he could for her. He did what he thought was right. It’s easy for us to judge him for not being around more, but he’s clearly older and probably from the generation that good Dads go out and provide for the family, and the more money he makes, the better Dad he is. Lizzie deserved so much more, and those foster parents deserve serious jailtime, but I don’t think Herb is at fault 🙁
You are a beautiful blue-eyed woman who is considered holy by my god. God said, “We want to make humans in Our image as Our reflection. They will rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds in the air,
over the cattle, over all the earth, and over all the creeping things that creep on the earth.”
So, God created man in His image. In His image, God created man, male and female.
Allah blessed them, and Allah said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and conquer it.
Dominate over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over all the beasts of the earth
As a recovering addict over 8 yrs clean, I still to this day think interventions are dangerous and barely ever work, same with rehab. Unless the addict wants to get clean, they will not get clean. Forcing someone to do something is never a good option. There are better ways. We need to work on this. These people put her in this situation and they sit on their high horses probably go home and drink a beer or glass of wine. They could have done a million things and their decision is an intervention. I just don’t agree with it. Just my opinion. With that said, this interventionist is the best I’ve ever seen. If they’re gonna do it, she’s the one I’d go with.
She has to be a recovering addict..
Yes 💯
I fully agree, unless they are ready to get clean, they won’t. It took me losing custody of 3 of my children and and going to lose custody of my 4th who I was pregnant with before I got clean. They also need support in place every step of the way, I’m now nearly 5 years clean. Well done on making 8 years clean 🥰
@Skellie X same here.. but I’m trying & I hope things get better for u also 🙏🏼 💗
That teacher is the definition of someone who goes above and beyond for their students. What a saint!
For such a young woman she’s endured so much, and even though she was obviously emotional she reacted so fairly (I think) in the intervention, like acknowledging the pain she’s caused but simultaneously calling out her own family
@Chronically Aubrey Any animaI can turn or cannot understand fully, yes just like peopIe, but need own space, none are safe too close to humans for both, what quaIifies as wild is not the same elsewhere and changes, or could be a expert, a little hypocriticaI and hope also vegetarian at least.
Same here ❤️
I disagree. He had a demanding high paying job that he held for years. It required he travel and work many hours a day. He was no doubt in a superiority position. He probably had 401k retirement etc. He is also required to give reasonable notice to when quitting and perhaps training someone in his position. You don’t just walk from a job. Then he had to find another job that pays as well, find a home and set it up. You can’t just take in a child when you’re on the road and thats you’re livelihood. Even pregnancy gives you 9 months to get your sh3t straight. She was only there for a few months and he did all he could to provide for her. He did his best snd better than most married dads.
@Dalyan D I love that so much.
@Natalie Rozean you are 100% correct
i love the interventionist! she definitely knows how to properly communicate with an addict. we need to see more of her!
@Emily Turco that’s incredibly unfair and unrealistic. It’s not my place to put my life and happiness on hold, to make sure someone else feels loved.
I feel like her father means well, my dad did the same (worked day and night) and it broke me that one day he helplessly said, I have to be your dad but I also have to be a mom and which is hard for him. My mom was around and I still saw her during the weekends, but what they knew then was to ensure I was financially taken care off, and didn’t know back then that their presence in my life was more important (but so is providing me a comfortable life right?)
Parenting is not easy, and regardless of abandonment issues, and I very well can relate to Elizabeth and what she’s going through (I am truly blessed to have gotten off everything now), I did blame my parents, but now that I’m older, I realized I don’t think I could’ve done better being in their shoes.
However, I decided I am not going to a parent myself as at this moment cause I am afraid of raising a child that would turn out like me and I will be stressed out, frustrated, or even get super mad I don’t know what I’d do😭
No matter how depressed I get. My dog keeps me going. She’s my companion and she loves me unconditionally plus she needs nursing like help to be carried up and down the stairs to go toilet because she was injured in an accident and has trouble walking. I’m estranged from my family and they don’t care if I’m loving or dead. So it’s my dog that gives me purpose.
A job is just a job; a means to an end, not an end in itself. You don’t dissolve your family and give away your kids for a job.
@Floating Bacon At 1st I was like what kind of health profession…… then I saw her tattoos and there’s the way she spoke to her with no filter cuz most likely she’s been in her shoes or has experience loved ones suffering from addiction.
Wish he was taught more in U.S. and how trauma settles in our bodies.
Agreed I loved him
What? He let her go to foster care. If that’s the best he could his old azz should never had been having children.
@Who Me And when exactly do you think he would have known she would have to go to foster care? Easy for us to judge seeing how everything turned out. Not so easy when you’re trying to do your best for your kids the only way you know how.
Unfortunately drug addiction doesn’t discriminate and just because you preach not using drugs to your children doesn’t mean they won’t.
They pick the ” best” stories .
Agreed
@George Davis Same here. Almost every other day, my husband and I acknowledge how grateful we are to have chosen not to have children.
That’s Janice Dickinson l….a Retired world model also a recovering alcoholic…
Excuse me but I ask why the addiction? Tired of hearing of difficult childhood and then….drugs. Come on!
@Katerina Giannioudi there are different approaches. Your works for some.
@Queen🥀Of🥀Ravens
You are impressed? It’s literally the whole scheme they all work by.
A lot of different types of sudden love bombing. Tears coming out fast enough. Then the question 🤯 so she can start with panicking and quickly questioning everything she can remember. And then, there is a small window of time when the Interventionist can take her out of that forced situation, and get her a little bit of calm time and then we can see how good she is, or not really. I personally don’t like that scenario, because it really is outdated but we can’t really see the whole episode, these are really short stories, without much difficulty details. We can’t see in here, they are still going through with “tough love”, which is proven to be crazy dangerous for the addicts, that can kill a lot more people than not. Different types of things are working for different people who are sometimes too deep in. There’s no even heroin on streets, it’s just Fentanyl that is mixed with all kinds of trash, animal tranquilizers, zombie land, open wounds, a lot of sepsis and amputated limbs. It is insanely different from that era. This wasn’t really working before, but now it would be even more dangerous.
@Skellie X exactly. I had my son taken to foster care when he was very young and the woman who had him was horrible to him. I came for a visit one day at her home and she answered the door fresh out of the shower and I asked for my son and looked everywhere until I saw him outside fall into her pool. He was only 3.
She’s got that vibe, like she’s seen the abyss and truly pulls people away from the edge. She is close enough to her own struggle where she isn’t condescending. The older ones seem jaded
@George Davis I don’t think anybody cares about you being the wife to “George”