Re: Addiction : a definition
At 09:54 20/01/1997 -0000, Oliver wrote:
>There are a few wholes in the overall structure to the way we look at
>addiction. Here are a few questions that came up for me while reading your
>postings:
Geee! You're giving us a full year discussion program ;-)
>1. Have any of you looked at the root words that make up meaning for words like
>"addiction", "dependancy", etc?
Partly done for addiction: look at the archives at nlp-addict.home.ml.org.
In a few words, addiction is the name of an old french legal procedure: in the
middle age when someone couldn't pay back his debts to his debtor he was
addicted to the debtor (a kind of slavery).
>3. What are the models for addiction and if as a NLP practitioner wanting to
>model addcition, what are stratergies?
Need guts to do that and need to believe, yes *to believe* you will be able
to get back to your 'normal state'. When I was 19, I have been travelling
in Afghanistan years before the Russian invasion and with friends we used
to buy medical morphine at the local drugstore (was cheap $5 the one shoot
phial) and it was Greaaaat!!! I've done it for a couple of weeks but I failed
to become addicted ;-). That's the reason why now I *do* actually think that
we need something else than the substance to be addicted. A big trauma and
a big dissociation, absolutely but what else ?
A more efficient strategy is to model those of us who had been able to be
deeply addicted and to fully recover. What did they do ?
>6. Why are we accademiclly discussing "definitions" when we sould be discussing
>effective methods, models and tools?
I think whe need to set up some common background to be sure we are speaking
about the same thing.
>7. Do addicted people switch from their preffered modalities (eg. VK becomes
>AK) to other modalities, and if so, how does this assist in MPD cases?
In fact,(eg. for alcoholics) the modalities involved are AV and AK. I do
think that the existence of two different modalities sets, is the
*consequence* of the subpersonalities separation. And this separation
is set up at the trauma's time.
Considering that no trauma had ocurred it could also be set up by
the use and abuse of substances as alcohol and heroin. Experiences in the
drunk or high state can be so far out from the sober or clean state that
the sober individual can't believe anymore he had actually lived such
experiences. So here is the beginning of a big dissociation.
>I would like to see the new year focus on practicle ways to better the lives of
>those around us! I believe discussion is positive only if our outcome is kept
>in mind!
I agree.
>I'm not tring to negate the postings of the others to this forum but feel that
>it may assist all of us to focus on other areas that have not yet been opened
>for comment.
I agree too.