Kayla Weir’s Reviews > In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction > Status Update
Kayla Weir
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there is no chimera of redemption or any expectation of socially respectable outcomes only an unsentimental recognition of the real needs of real human beings in the dingy present, based on a uniformly tragic past We may (and do) hope that people can be liberated from the demons that haunt them and work to encourage them in that direction but we don’t fantasize that such psychological exorcism can be forced on anyone
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Kayla Weir
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“And this creates addiction’s central dilemma: if recovery is to occur, the brain, the impaired organ of decision making, needs to initiate its own healing process. An altered and dysfunctional brain must decide that it wants to overcome its own dysfunction”
— 7 hours, 55 min ago
Kayla Weir
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“Thus, we might say that three factors need to coincide for substance addiction to occur: a susceptible organism; a drug with addictive potential; and stress. ”
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“The fundamental addiction is to the fleeting experience of not being addicted.”
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Kayla Weir
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“I am prone to that human—but inhumane—failing of defining and categorizing people according to our interpretation of their behaviors. Our ideas and feelings about a person congeal around our limited experience of them, and around our judgments.”
— 14 hours, 47 min ago
