Addictions structures
In these last days of the year as the list is so quiet
some thoughts have been here with me turning around.
It's about the different structures of addictions as
I'm aware of them.
The first one is closely related to what psychiatrists
name MPD Multiple Personality Disorder. In the litterature
about this syndrom they usually mention addictions as
usual symptoms or consequences of MPD. Our observations
from an NLP point of view drove us to consider the usage
of the substance as the mean the person found to switch
back and forth from a personality to another. In fact
still observing how the person is behaving we concluded the
substance use and abuse had probably merged the multiple
personalities into two different and opposite personalities
the Sober Personality and the Addicted Personality.
We can't conclude that all addicts are suffering from
Multiple Personality Disorder but we can conclude that
substance usage as alcohol and heroin has the power
and the effect of structuring the personality into
these opposite polarities.
We had been astonished for years by the fact that when
you consider 10 young persons (about 20) having fun
together, living their lifes together, going to the
same parties, having the same friends, dancing in
the same night clubs, drinking the same alcohol, trying
the same drugs, a few years later most of them are begining
their adult life in a 'normal' way but one or two
of them are already addicted to alcohol or so on. What
went wrong for them ?
My hypothesis is these young adults could have been suffered
from MPD and still ignoring it. The usage of drug and alcohol
could have made them suddenly aware of their hidden
personalities. What a revelation ! A new personality
with new skills, new behaviors, isn't that cool ?
That hypothesis would explain how addiction can be
so quick some times. Upon this point I can refer
to my own experiences when I was 18 and I saw so
many of my friends becoming heroin addicts in a few
weeks. That could be as these persons were already
addicted and they were waiting until they found
their substance.
That's all for today. I hope you'll have comments
about that. I need them. I'm addicted to comments ...;-)
Merry Christmas,
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Bernard Frit
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