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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9404092.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.} ========================================================== %RESPECTED ADDICTIONS CONTROL DISCIPLINE RULES+940409 %REGULATIONS LAWS PROHIBITIONS COMMANDS TABOOS 940409 It is hard to deal wisely with the many diverse forms of addictions because some of the many forms are highly respected and are not recognized as forms of addiction. Many respected people do not recognize that highly respected forms of addiction are in significant ways much like the forms of addiction which are not respected. To deal wisely with all forms of addiction we need to recognize the ways in which they are alike, and why it is that some forms of addiction are highly respected---in spite of how similar they are to the forms of addiction which are not respected. Alcoholics on skid row are victims of addiction who are not respected by the wider community. So also drug addicts and gang members who get money through illegal business ventures are victims of addiction who are not respected by the wider community---yet they have much in common with many very influential religious, business and political leaders. They are preoccupied with issues of control and are not dedicated to promoting true personal and communal integrity, both of which are essential to true security known as the freedom to be safely vulnerable. They are inclined to try to be in control through fixations upon manipulative procedures and technologies; and through the playing of collusive games of mutual self deception with their codependent supporters. The knowledge of self and other which is often found within open and honest intimate relationships of integrity can provide a foundation for transcending defensive collusive games of mutual self deception. Thus it is no surprise that many efforts to be in control are focused critically upon open and honest intimate relationships with their sexual possibilities---for such liberating relationships engender much fear in colluders who defend their entrapping webs of dishonesty through manipulative efforts which rarely bear sweet integrative fruit. We need to learn how to recognize, name, describe and talk about the often respected forms of addiction as being similar (in specifically described ways) to the forms of addiction which are not respected. We need to better understand how control, dishonesty, manipulations, confusion, secrecy, exclusivity, alienations, dichotomies and rejections are pervasive threads in the various kinds of addiction which trap respected and non-respected addicts and their codependent supporters. Only then can we deal wisely with their dis-ease. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================