Whats the normal brain mechanism involved?
2. What does this normal brain mechanism do normally for the normal person? 3. How does it work? 4. What causes its perversion? 5. How does this perversion change the function of this normal mechanism? 6. What are all the signs and symptoms of this perverted physiology, pathophysiology? 7. What is the course? 8. What are the complications? 9. What can we do to help someone with this disease ONCE WE KNOW THE ABOVE; just like any other disease? Lets use this scheme to define the disease causing addictions. Many years ago addictionology began looking at addictions starting at number 9. Treating the symptoms and working backwards towards number 1. BACKWARDS – Wrong perspective. That’s not always necessarily bad or wrong. Many diseases get discovered and worked out this way. It just hasn’t happened with this one. We can change that. During this backwards journey we lost perspective and were waylaid by what we call in medicine, “THE WHITE BEAR SYNDROME.” The big, scary, white bear, the major
