What about the addicts that have the full love and support of their family, a job, children even.... But still don't/can't stop? How does the isolation theory apply here? Also, loving an addict is very different than loving the person... To let an active addict prime in his/her addiction closer isnt letting the person in, that's letting the addiction in. The persons isn't at charge at that point, the addiction is, whose main aim is to consume, consume, consume... And it will consume everything around...once it has nothing left to consume, only then will the addict attempt something different., only then does the person come back online. Gambling is absoulty a chemical dependence, one is addicted to their own chemistry being produced in the brain while gambling (dopamine, neperiphrine, serotonin) So while I absoulty agree that drugs arnt the problem, just the solution(just look at Sex and love addiction) and that the problem is essentially feel disconnected and alone the approach isn't as simple as loving and not isolating the addict. Because the in it of itself makes one believe they are isolated and alone, nothing anyone says or does can change that... Because the person in the addiction is actually offline. Sometimes the most loving thing you can do for yourself and the addict is step back. Check out some open AA and open Alanon meeting.
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What about the addicts that have the full love and support of their family, a job, children even.... But still don't/can't stop? How does the isolation theory apply here? Also, loving an addict is very different than loving the person... To let an active addict prime in his/her addiction closer isnt letting the person in, that's letting the addiction in. The persons isn't at charge at that point, the addiction is, whose main aim is to consume, consume, consume... And it will consume everything around...once it has nothing left to consume, only then will the addict attempt something different., only then does the person come back online. Gambling is absoulty a chemical dependence, one is addicted to their own chemistry being produced in the brain while gambling (dopamine, neperiphrine, serotonin)
So while I absoulty agree that drugs arnt the problem, just the solution(just look at Sex and love addiction) and that the problem is essentially feel disconnected and alone the approach isn't as simple as loving and not isolating the addict. Because the in it of itself makes one believe they are isolated and alone, nothing anyone says or does can change that... Because the person in the addiction is actually offline. Sometimes the most loving thing you can do for yourself and the addict is step back. Check out some open AA and open Alanon meeting.