tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970261679520842842.post1826255196882502770..comments2011-12-28T00:11:30.528-08:00Evanorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05596754413864783601noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970261679520842842.post-37678843484126590032007-04-13T14:37:00.000-07:002007-04-13T14:37:00.000-07:00Well said! The idea of an addicitive personality, which dooms a person to a life without control of one's behavior is way too defeatist and fatalistic. People are learning animals. They don't come pre-programed to be addicts any more than they they are to be doctors. From birth people learn to get their needs met by trying new behaviors and using the ones that work over and over again. People may appear to replace one addictive behavior pattern with another, as if it were driven by an underlying personality type, but what drives that repetitive addictive behavior is that it is familiar and similar to a behavior that satisfied a need before. If people learn new skills, and new behaviors that are equally satisfying but don't have the negative consequences of addictive behaviors, they are perfectly capable of not repeating the old pattern. People seem to forget, everything they know now they learned, and much of what they used to know has been replaced several times with new knowledge that was more useful to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com