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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8810061.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SLIP SLIDE ENTER ESCAPE RECOVER ADDICT CODEPENDENT 881006 It is not enough to be able to recognize the pattern of behaviors which are central to addictive, codependent and collusive behavior. For a community to deal effectively with the diseases of addiction, codependence and collusive behavior the community needs to understand the dynamics of slipping, sliding and otherwise entering into the diseased patterns of behavior, and also to understand the dynamics of recovery, escape, redemption, salvation, reconciliation, conversion, integration, encouragement, etc. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is essential that healthy people recognize the first steps which lead into addictive, codependent and collusive behavior patterns. It is not enough to have a program of intervention once the disease process is far advanced. The diseases can best be dealt with through preventive measures. Preventive measures are not possible without recognizing the beginning stages of the diseases. The beginning stages of the diseases are to be found in the systemic patterns of behavior which characterize the community as a whole; in its familiar, educational, religious, business, political, etc. institutions and traditions. The prevention of personal addictive, codependent and collusive behaviors must be founded upon communal health and integrity; and vice versa. The healing process is not evident to the diseased, especially when dealing with addictions, codependencies and collusions. The healing process is not evident to the diseased even after they have recognized the nature of their disease and admit to being diseased. The steps on the road to recover need to be made clear in order that they may be taken with deliberate speed. The diseases are progressive, processes. The diseases are not static realities. The diseased persons are either getting sicker or getting better. It is rare that a diseased person is static at one stage of the disease. Even so, it is useful to focus upon the difference between various stages in the life of the disease: (1) Healthy person affected initially by diseased behaviors, without awareness of the dangers inherent in the diseased behaviors. (2) Healthy person beginning to react to diseased patterns of behavior in ways which compromise the personal and communal integrity of those affected, without any recognition on any person's part of the beginning of the process. (3) Healthy person beginning to have some sense that "something is wrong" but without any sense of what is the nature of what is wrong. (4) Progressive symptoms of things "not being right" and an awareness on the part of others that there is a lack of vitality, health, integrity, energy, clarity, etc. (5) Involvement of an expanding number of people in the problems generated because of lack of bodily, spiritual, intellectual, economic, business, etc. kinds of health in the person. (6) Some form of diagnosis that the problem is of such and such a character, even though perhaps a mis- diagnosis. (7) Misguided treatment based upon a faulty diagnosis, perhaps the faulty diagnosis is due to systemic addiction, codependence and collusion. (8) Integrative diagnosis of the situation and the beginning of the healing process. (9) Resistance to the beginning of the healing process and desires to return to the "comfort" of the familiar processes, horrible as they have been. (10) Communal resistance to individual efforts to recover because it has been convenient to the community to have the diseased individual behave in the predictable manipulable patterns characteristic of the disease. (11) Analysis and mis-diagnosis of the role of the community, and mistreatment of individuals; and so a better understanding of the progression of the disease. (12) Integrative analysis of the systemic disease and the beginning of recovery, in regards to both the individual and the community. (13) Additional systemic resistance due to the increased threat to traditional communal patterns and institutions. (14) Recognition of the ultimate need to deal with the systemic aspects of the diseases, as well as the individual aspects of the diseases. (15) Progressive recovery to a state of communal and personal integrity, and the institution of preventive measures to deal with tendencies to slip, slide, enter, etc. into addictive, codependent and collusive relationships. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================