Thank you so much for your article “ Breaking the hold of addiction”. It is a wonderful treatise on the subject. Your experience in the homeless shelter was so instructive.
I think one of the things I realised in regard to addiction which always breaks the mesmerism behind it , is getting the patient to realise that they are not cursed. It seems that the only reason people take to drugs is that they feel cursed. They take the drugs to get over that sense…although they don’t realise the rationale for it.
A young man in Nigeria called me with an addiction to marijuana. When I pointed out to him that he had no need to feel cursed as the child of God and that he was trying to escape that feeling by smoking pot, the addiction fell away in 24 hours. And so it has been with every other addict I have encountered.
One of the problems is that mortal mind is very good at getting people to believe that they have a very good reason to feel cursed ( rather like the case on page 4 of the 14 Sept Sentinel).
Thank you once again for the wonderful article
God bless
Anthony
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