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    %IDENTIFY CONFRONT COMMUNAL APPROVED ADDICTIONS 890314

     Some forms of addiction are communally approved.

     It  is difficult to deal with communally  disapproved
forms of addiction when the community approves other forms
of addiction.

     Addicts  are  given mixed messages as to how to  gain
approval: in some situations they are instructed to behave
in addictive ways;  in other situations they are told that
addictive   behavior  is  bad.   Confused  signals   yield
confusion and continued addiction.

     Addictions   lead  to  confusion.     The   addictive
community gives and receives confused signals.  To recover
from  its  multitude of forms of addiction  the  addictive
community  need  to  identify and  honestly  confront  its
socially  approved patterns of addictive  behavior.   This
will involve identifying the central features of addictive
behavior:   dishonesty,   mutual self  deception,   mutual
manipulation,   mutual  control,   disintegrative  ideals,
destruction of self esteem, etc.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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