Addiction: Everything We Know Is Wrong! (EXCERPT with Conor Ryan, Eyes Wide Open Podcast)

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[@uk7769]

Yep. Like most of it, " its all bullshit, and it's bad for you" George Carlin I quit drinking after 40 years and changed my diet cold turkey in 2020. Still don't drink. Lost 70 pounds. All on my own. It can be done.

[@uk7769]

food, porn, alcohol, religion, 'self help' (the seminar Tony Robbins type) and rehab itself, all addictions.

[@leanneswift2445]

Absolutely 💯 correct!!!! I know through years of unfortunate personal experience 😔. It's a money 💰 business as usual!!!!. Addiction is inside trauma 😔 or sometimes being inquisitive,and who your friends and family!!!!. The addict has to be ready,also knowledge,age !!!!! Rehab is not knowledge, experience is knowledge!!! The addict has to be ready within themselves, everyone has an addiction to something,and addiction can be very positive as if many addicts used their addiction for something else in life ,they would be a force to be reckoned with in any field of profession they chose!!!!. Addict's don't need Rehab,they need talking therapy,other therapies in the community,also medical intervention meaning medicines to stop that particular choice of drug working,and craving and physical illness!!!! And Addiction is very complex indeed and Rehab is definitely not the answer,as soon as the person leaves Rehab goes back to that environment!!! So unless the person removes themselves from the area and all forms of contact with everyone who comes from where they came from before Rehab,then maybe 🤔 but they can't as their family and friends are left behind which would cause more trauma 😔 meaning the addiction would most probably come back to haunt them !!!! Talking therapy,and especially needed in school's PERIOD 😔 The root causes need to be tackled well before the addiction starts as becoming an addict takes time it doesn't happen overnight!!! So Rehab ain't long enough at all 😢. Anyway godbless us all 🙏♥️🖤💙🤎💚🧡🤍💛💜⭐

[@vlamberty6351]

Great post Amen❤! FREEDOM came through leaving the spheres of influence as you well explained, as well as spiritual!!! if interested see also without spot or blemish ministries and/or WSBM on KZbin/rumble on addiction, and narcissism. FREEDOM and joy now several years. Now, several friends are FREE as well. Much Love and God Bless you I really resonated with your post. ❤

[@ann-sylvianalule305]

This is very interesting stuff!

[@DavidBarry-kn2uk]

Amen.this man is a genius,we need to listen to everything he says.

[@phoenixrising4762]

97%

[@CalmEyeglassFrames-bg6cg]

Thank you dr Sam i have been sober for 2 days now and i feel really thirsty im going to get help now

[@emilyogles4942]

Keep it up!

[@user-kv3ws7ip7w]

THE ANTI-ZOMBIE THESIS The foundation of all pathology is *nihilism* as a general psychological state of experience. Nihilism occurs when all ideological systems collapse - and this includes the *cereal* meanings generated by culture. The normal person avoids the extreme feelings of nihilism by desperately clinging to those meanings and values implanted by culture, childhood and a weak biology, regardless of how irrational, painful and dull these meaning systems seem to be. Healing occurs when the person regains his feelings of power and reinstates his ability to create *meaning structures.* This theory is based on Friedrich Nietzsche's observation that the world is a work of art, created by the self. The "pathological" person is a failed artist, while the "normal" person has *accepted* consensual art and, in this sense, does not own the concept of personhood. In this context it is important to constantly keep in mind that the *person himself is the work of art.* Healing occurs in the will to create and form the world and self as one's own creation. The feeling of power, and the rational application of it to the ends of ones own creation, is the primary reflection of health. WORKING THE ZOMBIE The greatest danger of rationality and logic is not in the method but in substituting the method for life. To apply rational and logical processes to solve a problem is one thing - but to try to live within a rational model is not living. Life, with all its hell and joys, *must* be an adventure in order to remain human. Life inherently is a-rational. It is whole and chaotic. It can only be "taken apart" for a peek. What we see is only a dislodged part - how we live is whole. The attempt to make life safe for breeding and for the meager indulgences of housewives has created this new race of Zombies. Division is simply a convenience for fulfilling the desire to control - to have more for less. But it is this "less" that is the lie, the ultimate illusion. This "less" is a lie greater than any lie ever told. There is no way to have "more" for "less." Even God gave up his solitude for "more." The earth and the sky and the heaven are One. To divide them for convenience is one thing - to act as if this division were truth is another. The facts are that with all this "more" we have "less." We have become so rational, so logical, so full of self-satisfaction that we are empty. Yet, in this search for more individuality - more form - we find even less and less of life. People are as empty in their individuality as they are in their collectivity. People feel an absence to the point that they must drown themselves in a world of addictions. An interesting quality about addiction, however, is that it offers the person a chance to have the experience of re-birth. It allows him to change - with justification. Recovery from an addiction allows a person to change and "gives" him permission to do things which would ordinarily disrupt his relations to those around him. (Keep in mind that most people do not want anyone to change.) He has hit bottom. He must learn to say *no.* Much like a transpersonal crisis, recovery makes a person special and unique. He has *overcome.* He has done something *special.* Addictions are created in order to be cured. People need to feel and not to feel - desperately they want more in order to pay for their debts of the past. The addiction I am referring to is called - *form.* The process of substituting form for essence can only continue for so long - ten years, twenty or one-hundred years. Sooner, rather than later, the machine collapses and, with the collapse, comes the potential for recovery. We see the emptiness of dogma, the emptiness of ritual, the true Pharisee - the middle class - lost in form and circumstances, clutching desperately to symbols. We begin to realize that form cannot replace substance. We begin to realize that grand ideals, assertions and "acting-out" are not enough. We begin to realize that the Zombie is not just within but also without. Still, we do not yet fully appreciate the depths of this depression - this emptiness - waiting not so silently behind us and in front of us. Yes, there is a new force on the horizon - a new cry for life. There is a strong desire to put an end to this non-living - this powerlessness - this non-purpose. The Zombie is waiting for a great thunder-storm - to be reborn. However, neither crying nor waiting will help - It is the time to be bold - to dance on the edge of the abyss - to fly again - where? BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES (Christopher S. Hyatt, "To Lie Is Human" ca. 1994)

[@laurakillian4758]

Perfect. Thank you for sharing!

[@poison_natalys]

I completely agree, thanks for the video) 🙏🔥

[@marquese1960]

I have a friend who had a bad drug addiction for over 40 years then one day he found out he was going to be a millionaire due to his inheritance...he stopped getting wasted immediately!!!😂😮😂

[@FullRevive7]

dang what a bozo 😂 i’d be turning way more up! 😂

[@laurakillian4758]

Hope. When our dreams seem to be unreasonable considering our circumstsnces and resources, escape from the despair can be temporarily achieved by intoxication. People need a way to use their gifts and abilities. A way to turn those skills into the necessities for social standing. In the current construct, opportunity is limited.

[@aries81M]

😂😂😂😂

[@baethamora]

So spot on. 🙏

[@yancyhebert9937]

Great conversation and ideas Thanks for sharing

[@yancyhebert9937]

@@whatap-Prof_Sam_vaknin_ I got off of morphine in prison. It was horrible. But I keeps me sober today

[@michelfinielkraut]

I was watching the Griselda serie and all the things you said about drugs came up to my mind as I was watching it. Also what you said about the propinquity between paranoia and narcissism. So I was wondering : Isn't the cocaine like a chemical incarnation of narcissism and psychopathy ? + I remember Spinoza who wrotte : _Superbus parasitorum seu adulatorum præsentiam amat, generosorum autem odit._ (The proud man delights in the company of flatterers and parasites, but hates the company of the high-minded.)... What would this inspire you?

[@Caroline-up8nl]

He speaks common sense

[@seerona-wa-yaraona]

Thanks Prof Sam and Conor.

[@greglee4897]

Which one of your books is more of a self-help based book? And thank you very much for sharing you share awesome knowledge in it is very helpful and understanding what is going on in the mind out here.

[@tapsi6928]

cheers to that

[@JoaquinArguelles]

Thank you. Maybe I missed it (or it wasn't covered): What are the solutions to addiction?

[@samvaknin]

Watch the videos listed in the description.

[@objektiv3039]

Dear Dr. Vaknin, how does a schizoid narcissist „work“? How is it possible to obtain supply while withdrawing from society? Trank you for answering!

[@Riostunning]

Great as usual, prof sam. if you have time would you please recommend some resources/books to understand more about addiction?

[@samvaknin]

Watch the addiction playlist and read the literature in the descriptions of the videos.

[@Riostunning]

Thank you so much 🖤🖤

[@spaceye1302]

I already saw this video on his page. You speak about some articles you have written in the past about addiction (positive thing). Would it be possible to get a link to them? Really curious. Thx in advance.

[@samvaknin]

Listed here: www.narcissistic-abuse.com/mediafile.html

[@magdalena6491]

There are good addictions and there are bad addictions...