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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9005111.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.} ========================================================== %EXPONENTIAL GROWTH DISHONESTY ADDICT DISEASE SICK 900511 Under favorable circumstances bacteria and viruses grow in a way where their numbers double in some characteristic time, a doubling time. So long as environmental circumstances remain essentially unchanged the number of them doubles over and over and over in an exponential pattern which continues; until they disintegrate their host environment. In a sense the diseases of addiction, codependence and collusion operate in much the same way; but it is not an microscopic organism which infects a large organism. Here it is the attitude that dishonesty and misleading behavior are useful manipulative tools which infect the sick organism. The exponential growth of dishonest acts occurs because the more acts of dishonesty there have been, the greater is the need for additional acts of dishonesty to cover for the previous actions. Exponential growth occurs whenever the increase in something is proportional to how much there already is; e.g., the births of members of a species, or occasions of concealing of dishonesty through dishonest behavior. Addiction, codependence and collusive games of mutual self deception grow like other infectious diseases so long as the environment tolerates the infectious process; here in this instance dishonest and misleading behavior. The spread of the disease occurs as those individuals associated with the sick persons acquire the attitude that dishonesty is a useful manipulative tool by which to acquire what is desired; good reputations, favorable impressions, possessions, good feelings, acceptability, love, the appearance of control, etc. Codependents seeking to take care of addicts seek to protect the addicts from the consequences of their behavior. Such protection usually involves covering for mistakes made and lessons not learned; through dishonesty. Good intentions lead to dishonesty through which the disease spreads in proportion to the already existing level of the dishonesty, and so exponential growth of the disease occurs. Addicts do not have the courage and self esteem to face the reality of their own mistakes and they seek to cover their mistakes due to lessons not learned. Dishonesty breeds dishonesty in an exponential process of growth of the attitudes and behaviors which are the essence of addiction, codependence and collusions. The only reliable protection against the disease of dishonesty with its characteristic exponential disintegration is a profound commitment to open and honest relationships which are essential to personal and communal integrity. As personal and communal integrity grow, the climate for dishonest behavior diminishes and the process of exponential disintegration can shift to a process of exponential integration; for integrity can grow in proportion to the level of integrity already enjoyed. The dilemma is to encourage disintegrating people to learn to enjoy integrative relationships and peoples. Usually they do not have the courage to enter into such honest relationships, and need authentic acceptance and support to develop courage. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================