You Cannot Outsmart This Thing

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

In this podcast, we illustrate how smart, sophisticated people can also fall prey to a disease that is an equal opportunity predator.

We learn that:

1. Educated, smart people have more difficulty accepting that they need help overcoming addiction than do ordinary mortals like you and me.
2. According to the experts, this is a class of people who have developed a sophisticated defence system that creates a wall of denial as to the seriousness of their condition.
3. There is a certain arrogance that stands in the way of surrendering their old way of thinking. They think they can study this thing, understand this thing, and defeat it in their own.
4. The turning point for many of these people has not yet been reached: they must make the journey from the head to the heart in order for the internal changes to begin.
5. One does not have to be religious and “God-fearing” to accept the idea of a power greater than oneself. All it takes is the willingness to surrender one’s old way of thinking and accept that “I am powerless over alcohol or drugs on my own.”