The human mind is peculiarly vulnerable to fear and uncertainty, especially when young – a fear is induced which turns the ability to think rationally off. Rational thought ceases. The mind is ‘ill’. It pays the addict not to know what is happening, or who is doing what, to him or her. This is variously described as ‘denial’, dissociation, projection, repression the upshot is that the addict daren’t look at problems, so cannot see and resorts to a blame culture. Repeating a learned coping mechanism, I DAREN’T LOOK, SO CANNOT SEE. The addict works on the perception that “fully thinking or visualisation of this event is threatening and can appear to be TERMINAL. And once the addict stops seeing, and this can happen quite suddenly then they are thereafter incapable of telling whether or not the fear has stopped. “This isn’t happening to me” leads inexorably to the inability to say or think or believe that “this has stopped happening to me” – or even very clearly what “this” is. Addiction and chemical coping can easily fill this void, but in no way is this a solution and only exasperates the fearful conditioning. When the chemical,drug or alcohol wears off the problem remains compounding the need to self medicate again and again. Only the healing hand of kindness and identification with another sufferer, can with the insight of the 12 Step program works to heal the unresolved fears of addiction.
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