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%RECOVER MENTAL DISEASE MEDICAL DRUG CONTROL ADDICT 900507

     Understanding our own mental diseases is essential to
our  recovery from many of our own mental  diseases.    No
medical  professional can intervene and gain control  over
our mental diseases  in  the way medical professionals can
intervene  and gain control  over many diseases caused  by
bacteria and viruses.

     Many mental  diseases are occasioned  by   infectious
attitudes  and thought patterns which professionals cannot
control. The standard medical paradigm is inappropriate to
dealing  with some mental diseases,  because  some  mental
diseases  are  more fully reflexive in character than  are
the diseases around which the medical paradigm developed.

     Many mental diseases are due to personal and communal
thought  patterns  and  attitudes  which  are  essentially
dishonest;   they  are  diseases of  dishonesty.    It  is
impossible to be at-ease when you are engaged in dishonest
games of mutual self deception.

     People who are engaged in essentially dishonest  life
styles  cannot be at ease with integrity.   They are  very
susceptible  to  dis-eases  which  easily  undermine   the
residual   integrity  of  essentially  dishonest   people.
Dishonest   attempts  to  control  such   diseases   often
involve   in  the   very  attitudes   which  occasion  the
diseases.

     Recovery from  diseases  which  are   occasioned   by
dishonest  life  styles is impossible  without  a  radical
effort to regain personal and communal integrity through a
radical   re-dedication   to  honesty  in   dealing   with
the  distresses  which the diseases  occasion.    Recovery
involves  an    open   and  honest  recognition   of   the
role    which  dishonesty has played  in  occasioning  the
distresses of the diseases.

     In  the  face  of such diseases of dishonesty  it  is
futile to go to a professional who pretends to be able  to
gain  control  over  the disease without  confronting  the
essentially  dishonest  life style  which  occasioned  the
development  of  the communal contexts  within  which  the
disease  readily  grows worse and worse.  The pretense  of
such  a professional is  part  of the communal life  style
which occasions such diseases!

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