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  %GOOD RESPECT IDEAL REASON REPRESS SEXUAL HONESTY 881002

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    GOOD RESPECT IDEAL REASON REPRESS SEXUAL INTIMACY
     POPULATION EXPLOSION NUCLEAR WAR ADDICT DEPEND
     MUTUAL HELP BY RECOVERING ADDICTS CODEPENDENTS

     When addicts and codependents honestly come to  terms
with their disease and actively seek to recover from their
disease  it is natural for them to turn to others who  are
familiar with the diseases through experience for help  in
understanding  their  experience.  A   purely  theoretical
understanding  of the diseases does not offer the kind  of
encouragement  which  can be offered by someone who  is  a
living demonstration of the possibilities of recovery.

     Particularly for the codependent the possibilities of
becoming  involved  in such helpful dialogue  offers  real
dangers  of relapse back into unhealthy patterns of  over-
responsibility  to the detriment of the integrity  of  the
codependent. The process of recovery is not a sudden event
after which there is no danger of relapse.  The process of
recovery  is  a slow process and the danger of relapse  is
real.

     It  may help codependents to help each other  in  the
company  of  others who can recognize slippage into  over-
responsibility  patterns;  e.g.,  in  Al-anon  Twelve-Step
Programs.   The recovering codependent has often  been  an
isolated  person who has not had the clarity of vision  to
see   the   process  of  slippage  into   over-responsible
behavior.  A  guard against relapse is to avoid  isolation
through  regular  participation  in groups  as  structured
groups of people involved in Twelve-Step Programs.

     At  the  same  time  there  is  danger  of   becoming
dishonestly  addicted to Twelve Step Program meetings of a
fix  of  choice.  That danger needs to be honestly  talked
about with non-addicts
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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