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:
- Educated, smart people have more difficulty accepting that they need help overcoming addiction than do ordinary mortals like you and me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
