MORE ABOUT ADDICTION
Addiction can be seen as a progressive spiritual illness, an unusually
comprehensive syndrome of inner and outer diction dysfunction. It
is an antisocial condition involving the exaggeration or minimisation
of everyday desires and instinctive appetites from which, unaided,
recovery is almost impossible. Mankind's behaviour is complicated;
people can become desperately driven by the misuse of work and
recreations including sex, the misuse of medically prescribed as well
as illegal drugs, the misuse of alcohol and even the misuse of food.

The effects of addiction are so insidious and devastating that they
are often confused for the disease itself. So, whether the symptoms
involve over-spending, eating disorders, crime, gambling,
compulsive sex, Internet use, booze, illegal drugs, over-work etc.,
the core meaning malady is the same. Counterfeit power dynamics
subject a person to erroneous beliefs that entrap, finally to collapse
the sufferer into a spiritual bankruptcy, an often toxic, even criminal
calamity of unhappiness with which individuals can inhumanly collude.

Counselling can help expose behavioural predictions that initially
seem to be desirable but that can become troublesome patterns of
habituation. As underlying motivations are uncovered to be disputed
with healthy contradictions, the malediction within particular forms
of addiction can be differentiated and transformed into wisdom.
Ignorance is the tap root of denial, resentment, anger and fear.
Self-knowledge is not the cure for addiction, it is the rediscovered
open door through which a healing benediction can then enter.





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