Most people who enter recovery do not know why they have become "ALHOLIX",but there is a school of thought that identifies addiction as compulsions and obsessions powered by hidden emotions. This in some way would describe the immediacy and suddenness of being taken over by the need to use. Compulsions powered by the hidden emotions of childhood rage and fear can be devastating to the recipient, Identifying with the child in the supermarket who throws a temper tantrum when his favourite toy or food is denied him may sound difficult for an adult to identify. But the sudden denial of sex or a promotion at work, a slight taken against a neighbour may be easier to understand.Remember we are dealing with emotional response not logical response.Emotional responses are just feelings sometimes deeply hidden under layers of rationalizations.Childhood rage and fear can have childhood roots.
Opening the box into these childhood emotions is not difficult, but needs trust, consent and support. The identification of the troubling emotion need not be difficult but a matter of opening the box identifying this emotional landmine defusing and casting it away.Addictions can be seen as being powered by these infantile emotions which can destroy the addict.Its as if a time bomb is built the trigger mechanism is the infantile emotion which has certain words,feelings emotions attached to it.Certain circumstance that somehow mirror childhood trauma.
The method of defusing the dud landmine of childhood is increased autonomy and self esteem usually gained within self support groups where the child feels nurtured and can recount the trauma in a safe and loving environment.The individual become more mature and secure in there emotional responses and ability to see and recognise triggers.
The fear of being late for a meeting. The fear of others responses. The fear of acting co-dependently and sacrificing the self. Slowly will disappear. Giving in to these infantile fears constantly rearms the time bomb of relapse and strengthens the childhood capacity of reward to medicate these hidden emotional fears.
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