Dr. Gabor Maté and Former Patient Guy Felicella Talk Trauma, Addiction, & Recovery

After 25 years battling addiction, I finally suffered through buprenorphine detox and am moving forward.

I love Gabor Mate, an exceptional human being with great empathic intelligence! An example of the ability to live from the head and the heart simultaneously is a rarity. 🙌🏽

I seriously can't believe this isn't common knowledge. So many people have died because our society thinks otherwise. Let's look toward a brighter future of understanding, compassion, and tolerance with simultaneously healthy boundaries.

This world is full of trauma. Having an addiction is a strange gift, it makes it VERY apparent that you have issues to deal with. That is if you're lucky enough to survive. I now have 33 years of sobriety and didn't truly start to deal with my issues till about 10 years ago. Sobriety is just the beginning... and life can be joyous!

This is the most real video on the internet right now

I found myself several times in the interview like I was Guy. So much shit happened in my life, for me it's cannabis and I don't know what Guy consumed but believe cannabis fuck you up if you loose control. And I realised through this interview that it's not the weed. It's because I've been in War as a child and my father died defending our family. We flew. And now I know that I definitely need to work on myself, and probably on my past. I feel some kind of anxiety or fear to write about this. But it felt good. Thank you Guy and Dr. Gabor

Wooouuu..That guy is fascinated! He really should write a book or a Netflix documentary? He can create more magic and healing that way..I think Dr Gabor Maté should win a Nobel Peace for his services for humanity! I am mind blowing with some things, and I am deeply familiar with pain and addiction to sugar in particular! My focus now is also to provide "energy healing" with other holistic approaches, for participants to make their own " spiritual choices".. I hope one day I can have a conversation with Dr Gabor Maté,he doesn't see himself as a "Spiritual Healer", but in reality he is a healing light for humanity..🙏💕😘💠🌺💚🌸

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

Thank you for sharing your inspiring journey of recovery. What a gift to have had Gabor play a part in your healing.

Wow, what a privilege it is to hear this story. I work with folks experiencing homelessness and this gives so much hope. So much love is needed in this world, thank you Guy.

An amazing and heartwarming journey. Dr Gabor Mate is such a lovely human being. ❤

Love Dr. Gabor Mate! His past and his story so interesting. He understands pain, suffering and trauma he has indured as an infant at the beginning of life. He knows cause he's lived it. He sees what every psych doctor cannot or will not address, acknowledge, encourage, and explore what the root cause truly is. Thank you for your compassion 🙏 and all the research and work you've put into this. This is starting to make waves of change. Im so very greatful for everything I've learned from following Dr. Gabor Mate. Peace.

Excellent material. This is my life to a T. My family yelled at me to get treatment which I did and it never worked. When I was alone in a hotel and suicidal my '"dad" yelled, "When will you hit bottom?! Call me when you don't have two nickels to rub together". My family is abusive and I finally went "no contact". I thought of sending them this powerful video with a perfect understanding of the "problem" but they are in deep denial. Denial is such a powerful defensive mechanism.

Dr Gabor Mate is a true gift to the world ! Such a loving and amazing converstion, thank you Guy and Gabor !❤

Gabor Mate is the man the world needs. Listening to this conversation brought tears to my eyes. Guy seems like a beautiful human being as well. Love ❤

❤ Eceryone needs to watch this. We are all one race-the human race. Everyone of us was born with the capacity to show loving kindness.

I love Gabor Mate, it's great to see Guy Felicella My heart breaks for the addicts who have no access to trauma therapy, as they are stuck in a vicious circle, only another addict would understand how difficult it is for a traumatised-child-turned-addict. Quitting is not enough, you can quit over and over again, you need to get rid of the cause of the addiction.

The best part about the start of this conversation/video is that harm reduction works and is a path forward to life long recovery. Love Gabor’s message and that it’s being used in so many facets of recovery and self development.

Thank you so much for this conversation and your vulnerability ❤

Gabor Mate is my hero, so many things that I share in common with Guy , the self destruction of addiction is not the least, it is comforting to know I am not alone , and although I chose to white knuckle my growth and waited until well after my 15th year of sobriety to actually muster the courage to get a diagnosis and form a ' TREATMENT ' plan , it is inspiring to hear the validations of postive behaviour that I willingly chose to move forward with my life, break the chain of childhood trauma , find positive coping skills and focus on the things that are right, learn from the mistakes and grow from accepting the responsibility of the wrong ... i have travelled a long and lonely road for so long , it really is uplifting to hear others with similar stories and experiences , congrats Guy on your sobriety milestones are definitely markers at the side of the road and should always be acknowledged , it ain't easy being here , but having a reason to believe and carry on is key to success, in my humble opinion