This is http://www.essayz.com/a9112131.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.} ========================================================== %COLLUSIVE ADDICTIVE INTERNAL TENSION DISEASE SICK 911213 Participant/victims in/of collusive games of mutual self deception embody internalized conflicts between the truth and their pretensions, and so have tensions which undermine their integrity, health, and being themselves. It is wearing to be constantly alert to protect the appearance of integrity when it is not real integrity. Pretension involves tension before the pre-tension is discovered. Pre-tension comes from pretension which may be discovered. Constant tension undermines health, wholeness, integrity. Participants in collusive games of mutual self deception like addicts and codependents experience constant threats to health, wholeness and integrity. They are constantly sick in one way or another; psychologically and relationally, even if not obviously sick in physical ways. Constant dishonest makes people who are participants and/or victims of it sick because they are constantly pre-tensed because of their pretensions. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================