Podcasts Health Busting Addiction and Its Myths You're Not Thinking Straight

You're Not Thinking Straight

Published: March 12, 2021, 8 a.m.

In this article entitled "You're Not Thinking Straight", we discuss the undeniable fact that addiction takes over the addict's thought process and that there is merit in seeing the addict and the addiction as separate entities.

We cover the following topics:

  1. Family members need to make the distinction between the person as an addict and the addiction as an entity that warps his thinking and takes over his thought process.
  2. The sole purpose of the addiction is to feed and protect itself. It lives in constant fear of death, of being denied the means to stay alive and thrive.
  3. It, therefore, employs a full suite of clever strategies designed to have it flourish, and to protect itself whenever threatened. It plays both offence and defence.
  4. The main strategies addiction and alcoholism use as fuel to keep their motors running are: denial, justification, deception, and manipulation of the people who love them the most.
  5. Recognizing that it is the addiction which has stolen a love one's thinking makes it easier to say no to the person one loves and will prove to be a liberating and empowering idea.