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Originally posted by jennypie Addiction is so poorly understood that everyone, whether they have an addiction or not, should read the book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' by Dr. Gabor Mate. He works in Vancouver's lower East Side. I had the opportunity to hear him speak and share his insights about addiction. The man is brilliant. Very illuminating. http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/d...n=9780676977400 The bit about willpower is so on point. He really has a strong grasp of the social determinants of health.

lol, gabor means really, really ugly girl in my language!!

good luck with your battle.

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Best of luck to you Peter. That's really great of you to extend your hand for support if people need it. It really shows that you're well on the road to recovery.

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Originally posted by Xavier Moriarty lol, gabor means really, really ugly girl in my language!! good luck with your battle.

Heh, yeah he's actually Hungarian.

Good for you Peter

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Originally posted by jennypie Heh, yeah he's actually Hungarian.

oh, that explains a lot then lol.

love you miss pie!!

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This is serious and really none of anyones business so please no snappy rude remarks....

I just feel like sharing, thats it.

Addictions break up 5 year relationships and stupid TOTA threads when your drunk and high is a great "excuse" to let you go......


Good Job Peter Im also in AA and NA now as well, since my stupid thread, and heartbreaking loss, I'm collecting coins, gathering sponsers becoming healthy mind, body, soul, one day at a time. keep it up. If it can be broke than it can be fixed.

Good luck see you on the dancefloor xo

I am so proud of you Peter <3
You've changed so much, even since we've met
and I know how much better off and happier you are now.

<3

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congrats, peter! this thread was a great idea

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Originally posted by jennypie

Excellent watch, that's how real wisdom (i.e. - not something you read in a book once) expresses itself - and needs to be expressed louder and more often.

After I watched this piece, I did some digging and found Daniel Mackler's site. Painfully truthful insights, will definitely rankle those who are in denial about themselves, but belongs in this thread nonetheless:

The Root Cause Of Addiction

The root of addiction is unresolved emotional trauma. When traumas, be they extreme or mild, are not resolved they leave behind a slew of painful, unprocessed feelings in the unconscious. These feelings are never content to remain silent and instead clamor for release. When they express themselves openly and without disguise this activates the healing process. The healing process, however, is so painful and potentially discombobulating that very few people, unless they have a great deal of mature external support and internal self-understanding, can dare undertake it.

But a person’s inability to heal does not stop his unresolved feelings from needing to express themselves. Lacking healing as an option, these feelings instead express themselves as symptoms, of which addiction is just one subset. The purpose of addiction is to divert and assuage painful, upwelling feelings into a seemingly comfortable alternative without allowing them to become conscious. In the short-run this feels much more placid than healing, but in the long-run it only prolongs underground psychic misery and adds new consequences to an already troubled life.

The scope of addictions vary in their intensity, side effects, and degree of societal acceptance. Some are clearly weighted toward the conventionally negative end of the spectrum, like heroin addiction or gasoline-sniffing. Others, like workaholism or membership in a cult or cult-like group, are not so definitively negative in society’s eyes, and can receive societal approval and even perks. And some addictions, like having children and being in unenlightened relationships, are so pervasive, accepted, and even lauded that they are rarely even considered addictions at all – and thus form the backbone of society as we know it.

At present our society, and most of our society’s healers, treat conventionally-accepted addiction by simply helping “sufferers” find milder substitute addictions or other milder symptoms. Alcoholics Anonymous is a great example of this: its members are encouraged and even pressured to learn dissociative techniques whereby they can replace their alcohol addiction for the addiction of membership in the cult of AA. Although this might make life more consciously peaceful for the addict – who has to admit that he remains an addict in order to maintain his membership in AA, which suggests that at least AA is honest in that realm – it falls far short of helping the human race optimally evolve, or helping the individual find any deeper or more honest peace. There is no substitute for the resolution of trauma, and symptom or addiction replacement is nothing but a substitute. Emotional wounds that are not grieved poison the psyche, poison the species, and ultimately poison our world.

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Props to anyone taking the steps toward self-healing, however small or big. Nosce te ipsum.

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