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	<title>Comments on: The Importance of Treating Alcoholism for What It Is &#8211; a Chronic Relapsing Disease</title>
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		<title>By: Breakingthecycles.com &#8211; Changing the Conversations &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Keeping It Simple &#8211; Key Concepts for Alcoholism Recovery</title>
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		<title>By: Peter Stone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Stone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When we are talking about addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control, we are talking about the experience of sitting in total dysfunction. There is nothing functional about the experience, and as such I call it as I see it. Sitting in the experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control is SITTING IN THE SHIT, or for those who are offended, SITS. What constitutes this experience is the process of mental masturbation people validate as real.

Whatever people are experiencing, they are allowing happen, and in the experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or superiority of power AND control, people allow themselves the experience. In so doing they validate their despair through the mental masturbation of self-reflection as they validate their distress through the mental masturbation of self-projection. Both are anchoring perspectives of self-defeating fanciful fiction.

Reality exists in the now, now is the moment, and in the moment there is absolute control; there is power OF control. Blink, and that moment is gone. By anchoring oneself to mental masturbation, the now is experienced as intimidating because NOW represents the power OF control to implement change. This is the same power OF control lost to the experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control.

By not implementing, realizing the power OF control people have over their lives, they create emotional bank accounts. Forget what you have read or heard, there are only two EMOTIONS, comfort and discomfort. The emotional bank account of discomfort is experienced as helplessness and hopelessness, and the emotional bank account of comfort is experienced as unabridged excitement.

As human we are driven to maximize comfort through the validation of our needs for competence and independence, which equates to the human condition, a condition never satisfied. Any conflict to validation of comfort constitutes a threat and is experienced as discomfort. Discomfort then triggers the mental masturbation of THINKING about what is being experienced emotionally; in a word: FEELINGS.

Feelings are the thoughts about what is being experienced emotionally in comfort or discomfort. As there are many different thoughts, there are many different feelings. Reframe the thoughts of what is being experienced emotionally, and the feelings gone. And yet for those who lost, surrendered, or ignored their power OF control to step out of their experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control, the feelings are real; hence: SITS. From this MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE expectations of Inadequacy, Inferiority, or Insignificance (the Ingroup), anchor the involved to intimidating insecurity while allowing the cycles continue. 

Please, share your perspective.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we are talking about addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control, we are talking about the experience of sitting in total dysfunction. There is nothing functional about the experience, and as such I call it as I see it. Sitting in the experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control is SITTING IN THE SHIT, or for those who are offended, SITS. What constitutes this experience is the process of mental masturbation people validate as real.</p>
<p>Whatever people are experiencing, they are allowing happen, and in the experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or superiority of power AND control, people allow themselves the experience. In so doing they validate their despair through the mental masturbation of self-reflection as they validate their distress through the mental masturbation of self-projection. Both are anchoring perspectives of self-defeating fanciful fiction.</p>
<p>Reality exists in the now, now is the moment, and in the moment there is absolute control; there is power OF control. Blink, and that moment is gone. By anchoring oneself to mental masturbation, the now is experienced as intimidating because NOW represents the power OF control to implement change. This is the same power OF control lost to the experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control.</p>
<p>By not implementing, realizing the power OF control people have over their lives, they create emotional bank accounts. Forget what you have read or heard, there are only two EMOTIONS, comfort and discomfort. The emotional bank account of discomfort is experienced as helplessness and hopelessness, and the emotional bank account of comfort is experienced as unabridged excitement.</p>
<p>As human we are driven to maximize comfort through the validation of our needs for competence and independence, which equates to the human condition, a condition never satisfied. Any conflict to validation of comfort constitutes a threat and is experienced as discomfort. Discomfort then triggers the mental masturbation of THINKING about what is being experienced emotionally; in a word: FEELINGS.</p>
<p>Feelings are the thoughts about what is being experienced emotionally in comfort or discomfort. As there are many different thoughts, there are many different feelings. Reframe the thoughts of what is being experienced emotionally, and the feelings gone. And yet for those who lost, surrendered, or ignored their power OF control to step out of their experience of addiction, irrational anger-based aggression, or the superiority of power AND control, the feelings are real; hence: SITS. From this MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE expectations of Inadequacy, Inferiority, or Insignificance (the Ingroup), anchor the involved to intimidating insecurity while allowing the cycles continue. </p>
<p>Please, share your perspective.</p>
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		<title>By: LisaF</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2009/11/24/the-importance-of-treating-alcoholism-for-what-it-is-a-chronic-relapsing-disease/#comment-4876</link>
		<dc:creator>LisaF</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for your comment and I encourage readers to read your article as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your comment and I encourage readers to read your article as well.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a great article that really touches on the point of a need for a reform in addiction treatment.  We also wrote an article similar on a successful way to treat alcoholism with quarterly check-ups similar to how someone with diabetes would check in with their doctor on a regular basis. http://www.allaboutaddiction.com/better-rehab-services-addiction-research-at-work/ We really need to start looking at addiction treattment just as we would as any other chronic disease!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a great article that really touches on the point of a need for a reform in addiction treatment.  We also wrote an article similar on a successful way to treat alcoholism with quarterly check-ups similar to how someone with diabetes would check in with their doctor on a regular basis. <a href="http://www.allaboutaddiction.com/better-rehab-services-addiction-research-at-work/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allaboutaddiction.com/better-rehab-services-addiction-research-at-work/</a> We really need to start looking at addiction treattment just as we would as any other chronic disease!</p>
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