This is http://www.essayz.com/a8811201.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %COVET GREED POWER CORRUPTION ADDICT DEPEND PARENT 881120 People who lack self esteem covet fixes to compensate for their lack of self esteem. They are unable to accept the gift of acceptance of themselves as imperfect people. They wish to be accepted on the basis of what they have done, own, control, have authority over, etc. Their fixes are compensation for their inability to accept unconditional acceptance. They become addicted to compensatory fixes. rather than accept Love on Love's terms. When compensatory fixes do not fix, the assumption is made that more of the same will appropriately compensate for the lack of meaning and satisfaction. The fixation upon the fixes becomes a compulsive addiction which gets more and more powerful. Unchecked power corrupts. Addicts are victims of unchecked power. Their behavior is corrupt and corrupting, especially so if they are granted economic, managerial, parental, instructional, religious, institutional, professional or sexual powers without appropriate checks and balances. People who are dependent upon the powers granted to addicts find it exceedingly difficult not to become co- victims of the disease of codependence with their co- addicts. By virtue of the powers vested in addicts those who are dependent upon them become co-dependent with them upon their disease processes which include dishonesty, confusion, crisis management, manipulation, coercion, attempting to exercise control, seeking perfection, fanatical beliefs and convictions, etc. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================