lesions of the mind, the addict in front of you is still being traumatised today, mentally. This elementary fact took me decades to grasp, and even today surprises me. The abuse, as far as the sufferer is concerned, continues, indeed it is about to happen ‘next’. The paralysing symptoms are not so much ‘flash-backs’, as ‘flash-surfacings’ – the original trauma has become ‘frozen’ as in a ‘freeze-frame’ – it never went away. Rational thinking has ceased. Mentally, the addiction sufferer is therefore blindly (and impotently) waiting to be raped, tortured, kidnapped, abandoned, starved, emotionally deprived, or otherwise dumped at death’s door, all over again. And that’s all. The fear has never stopped in their minds – this is the lesion in the mind. Rational thought just doesn’t apply – it’s not functioning, it’s been put on hold, as if their life depended on it. And until it starts again, all manner of weird and wonderful symptoms of addiction are concocted, limited only by the creative imagination of the human mind – their immediate effect is to befuddle the recipient with endlessly variegated symptoms, their ultimate purpose to defer the inevitable ‘end’ which the sufferer is convinced lies just around the corner, perpetuated irrationally by the persistent a thinking fog. That manifests as the insanity of addiction. The actions in the steps redress the balance in the mind retraining the brain to use rational thought.
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