From what I understand this is not an easy subject to deal with.
An addict's mind works in a completely different way. All standards of behaviour are put aside and the addiction only is the key issue. All norms are put aside, they can lie, cheat steal, and even murder etc to get the next fix.
With substances such as heroin we have the additional painful withdrawal period so great support is needed for the patient and also this fear pain must be something that adds to the reluctance to give up the habit.
But if we are going to deal with the totality of the case, we need to investigate why the person became addicted?
What actually made them take these substances that they know are addictive and harmful?
What is it that they are escaping from?
Why is the reality unbearable?
Until these questions and other similar issues are addressed, I fear we will not be dealing with the totality of the case. So I think a slow procedure of trust building needs to be established between the patient and homoeopath. Collections of symptoms as presented by the addict need to be addressed and the patient should be encouraged to attend as regularly as possible, but don't hold breath - they will not be reliable. In the end don't be surprised if you find some kind of a horror story deep down somewhere in their life - that is what they are trying to escape from. Most probably lots of TLC (Tender Loving Care) needs to be offered readily.
Good Healing
Soroush
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Re: Heroin and other addiction
Soroush wrote:
behaviour are put aside and the addiction only is the key issue. All norms
are put aside, they can lie, cheat steal, and even murder etc to get the
next fix.
I'm sorry to say so, Soroush, but I find this perspective judgemental and
extreme -- an artificial polarisation which betrays an understanding owing
more to tabloid journalism than unprejudiced observation. (Try taking a
quick look at the delusions of Opium and then consider the idea of
provings.)
The mind of someone addicted to something most definitely does not work in a
completely different way to the rest of humanity. To say so is tantamount to
expressing a desire to separate and distance yourself from these people. It
doesn't do to deny the truth that we are all one.
Performing this sort of excision on sections of society because they have
addictions that society doesn't sanction also draws attention away from the
ones that it does. Look at the "can't"s and "must"s of any case --- in the
"must"s you find a dynamic that is, in essence, little different from the
dynamic of addiction. The picture you paint is only one extreme end of a
continuum that has its origins in relative "normality". I very much doubt
that there are any amongst us who do not, on a daily basis, put our own
desires and needs before those of others at least some of the time (and if
we don't then a dose of Lac-c or Carc probably wouldn't go amiss!). And if
you're going to focus on lack of moral inhibition, then there's a good deal
more lying, cheating, stealing, even murdering, done by our governments and
corporations in the name of "the common good" than by people who are
substance-abusers. (Lack of morality doesn't cease to be what it is simply
because it's clever enough to put a more palatable spin on it, or because
nobody can figure out exactly who's finger was on the trigger.)
It can be extremely useful to look at the idea of addiction as one of
substitution. In a sense, the addict is reaching out for their simillimum,
in the way that we're all drawn to what we need. In very broad terms, the
closer the substance is to the dynamic that's needed, the harder it is to
break the addiction, so it can be very instructive to study the nature of
the substance they're addicted to -- not just in terms of the substance
itself, but the entire culture and ethos that surrounds it from all sides,
ie. not just those that become addicted, but those that try to help and
those that vociferously oppose as well. *All* involved are being drawn by
the Great Cosmic Magnet, as Jeremy Sherr calls it.
So the person who is addicted to opiates is often seeking to dull the pain
of everyday life to which (this being the polarity of the opiates) they're
extraordinarily sensitive. Look at the polarities of Opium -- Delusion he is
doomed; Delusion someone will stab him; Delusion he is a criminal and will
be executed; Confidence, want of self; Cares, worries, full of, alternating
with exhilaration; Benevolence; Blissful feeling; Confidence increased;
Delusion is in heaven ... Is it any accident that a large proportion of
heroin addicts come from environments where feeling doomed, criminalised,
under threat, or otherwise disadvantaged is pretty hard to avoid? Is it any
accident that the opium poppy is grown in many countries that have been
criminalised, threatened or disadvantaged by other nations? Dispense with
the idea of what is "right" and "wrong" and simply perceive the dynamic of
the substance and the soil (in all senses) in which it grows.
Alcohol addiction often displays the polarity between separation and unity,
that wonderful feeling of being at one - with yourself, your friends, your
society, Everything. It's not for nothing that alcohol has its place in
religious ceremonies of several cultures, or that organisations seeking to
help alcoholics have a strong religious component (Spiritus contra
spiritum), or that other religions are vociferously opposed to it. It's
associated with all kinds of social gatherings - from a dinner party with
friends to the jingoistic behaviour on the football terraces. It creates a
sense of oneness - so precious that anger, hatred and extreme violence can
be exhibited towards anyone or anything that is *separate* from the
particular "oneness" subscribed to, whether that be the wife who dares to
think for herself, the opposing football team, or the foreigner. Yet the
ultimate of the chronically addictive state creates the state of
separation - from all but fellow sufferers.
These are very broad-brush views and there are as many variations on the
general theme as there are people addicted, but I've found that exploring
each substance in this way - without attaching any societal or cultural
prejudice to your evaluation - can provide a very useful background against
which the individual context of the individual patient can be perceived.
Regards
Wendy
behaviour are put aside and the addiction only is the key issue. All norms
are put aside, they can lie, cheat steal, and even murder etc to get the
next fix.
I'm sorry to say so, Soroush, but I find this perspective judgemental and
extreme -- an artificial polarisation which betrays an understanding owing
more to tabloid journalism than unprejudiced observation. (Try taking a
quick look at the delusions of Opium and then consider the idea of
provings.)
The mind of someone addicted to something most definitely does not work in a
completely different way to the rest of humanity. To say so is tantamount to
expressing a desire to separate and distance yourself from these people. It
doesn't do to deny the truth that we are all one.
Performing this sort of excision on sections of society because they have
addictions that society doesn't sanction also draws attention away from the
ones that it does. Look at the "can't"s and "must"s of any case --- in the
"must"s you find a dynamic that is, in essence, little different from the
dynamic of addiction. The picture you paint is only one extreme end of a
continuum that has its origins in relative "normality". I very much doubt
that there are any amongst us who do not, on a daily basis, put our own
desires and needs before those of others at least some of the time (and if
we don't then a dose of Lac-c or Carc probably wouldn't go amiss!). And if
you're going to focus on lack of moral inhibition, then there's a good deal
more lying, cheating, stealing, even murdering, done by our governments and
corporations in the name of "the common good" than by people who are
substance-abusers. (Lack of morality doesn't cease to be what it is simply
because it's clever enough to put a more palatable spin on it, or because
nobody can figure out exactly who's finger was on the trigger.)
It can be extremely useful to look at the idea of addiction as one of
substitution. In a sense, the addict is reaching out for their simillimum,
in the way that we're all drawn to what we need. In very broad terms, the
closer the substance is to the dynamic that's needed, the harder it is to
break the addiction, so it can be very instructive to study the nature of
the substance they're addicted to -- not just in terms of the substance
itself, but the entire culture and ethos that surrounds it from all sides,
ie. not just those that become addicted, but those that try to help and
those that vociferously oppose as well. *All* involved are being drawn by
the Great Cosmic Magnet, as Jeremy Sherr calls it.
So the person who is addicted to opiates is often seeking to dull the pain
of everyday life to which (this being the polarity of the opiates) they're
extraordinarily sensitive. Look at the polarities of Opium -- Delusion he is
doomed; Delusion someone will stab him; Delusion he is a criminal and will
be executed; Confidence, want of self; Cares, worries, full of, alternating
with exhilaration; Benevolence; Blissful feeling; Confidence increased;
Delusion is in heaven ... Is it any accident that a large proportion of
heroin addicts come from environments where feeling doomed, criminalised,
under threat, or otherwise disadvantaged is pretty hard to avoid? Is it any
accident that the opium poppy is grown in many countries that have been
criminalised, threatened or disadvantaged by other nations? Dispense with
the idea of what is "right" and "wrong" and simply perceive the dynamic of
the substance and the soil (in all senses) in which it grows.
Alcohol addiction often displays the polarity between separation and unity,
that wonderful feeling of being at one - with yourself, your friends, your
society, Everything. It's not for nothing that alcohol has its place in
religious ceremonies of several cultures, or that organisations seeking to
help alcoholics have a strong religious component (Spiritus contra
spiritum), or that other religions are vociferously opposed to it. It's
associated with all kinds of social gatherings - from a dinner party with
friends to the jingoistic behaviour on the football terraces. It creates a
sense of oneness - so precious that anger, hatred and extreme violence can
be exhibited towards anyone or anything that is *separate* from the
particular "oneness" subscribed to, whether that be the wife who dares to
think for herself, the opposing football team, or the foreigner. Yet the
ultimate of the chronically addictive state creates the state of
separation - from all but fellow sufferers.
These are very broad-brush views and there are as many variations on the
general theme as there are people addicted, but I've found that exploring
each substance in this way - without attaching any societal or cultural
prejudice to your evaluation - can provide a very useful background against
which the individual context of the individual patient can be perceived.
Regards
Wendy
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Re: Heroin and other addiction
Wendy wrote:
"The mind of someone addicted to something most definitely does not work in a
completely different way to the rest of humanity. To say so is tantamount to
expressing a desire to separate and distance yourself from these people. It
doesn't do to deny the truth that we are all one."
Thank you--I totally agree.
Then Wendy wrote:
"It can be extremely useful to look at the idea of addiction as one of
substitution. In a sense, the addict is reaching out for their simillimum,
in the way that we're all drawn to what we need. In very broad terms, the
closer the substance is to the dynamic that's needed, the harder it is to
break the addiction, so it can be very instructive to study the nature of
the substance they're addicted to -- not just in terms of the substance
itself, but the entire culture and ethos that surrounds it from all sides,
ie. not just those that become addicted, but those that try to help and
those that vociferously oppose as well. *All* involved are being drawn by
the Great Cosmic Magnet, as Jeremy Sherr calls it."
I find this a very useful perspective. Can you expand on this around smoking and food addictions? These
are the 2 addictions I deal with most commonly. From a personal experience that proves your point, I had very
little problems stopping smoking years ago although I was a very heavy smoker. I always knew, even when
I began to smoke, that it was not my real "drug of choice." Coffee drinking was much harder for me to
give up, but I did so with tolerable discomfort. However, other issues are not so easy. As I said, I deal with
lots of smoking addictions and food disorders and am always trying to gain more insight into the dynamics
of these issues for people.
tanya
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"The mind of someone addicted to something most definitely does not work in a
completely different way to the rest of humanity. To say so is tantamount to
expressing a desire to separate and distance yourself from these people. It
doesn't do to deny the truth that we are all one."
Thank you--I totally agree.
Then Wendy wrote:
"It can be extremely useful to look at the idea of addiction as one of
substitution. In a sense, the addict is reaching out for their simillimum,
in the way that we're all drawn to what we need. In very broad terms, the
closer the substance is to the dynamic that's needed, the harder it is to
break the addiction, so it can be very instructive to study the nature of
the substance they're addicted to -- not just in terms of the substance
itself, but the entire culture and ethos that surrounds it from all sides,
ie. not just those that become addicted, but those that try to help and
those that vociferously oppose as well. *All* involved are being drawn by
the Great Cosmic Magnet, as Jeremy Sherr calls it."
I find this a very useful perspective. Can you expand on this around smoking and food addictions? These
are the 2 addictions I deal with most commonly. From a personal experience that proves your point, I had very
little problems stopping smoking years ago although I was a very heavy smoker. I always knew, even when
I began to smoke, that it was not my real "drug of choice." Coffee drinking was much harder for me to
give up, but I did so with tolerable discomfort. However, other issues are not so easy. As I said, I deal with
lots of smoking addictions and food disorders and am always trying to gain more insight into the dynamics
of these issues for people.
tanya
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Re: Heroin and other addiction
Tanya wrote:
smoking and food addictions? These
Glad it was helpful - I've certainly found it so.
Cigarettes, before they became a "problem", were typically used as part of
the ritual of introduction (still are in some parts of the world) - an
offering to the person to whom you were introducing yourself. Think of how
this ritual would typically be played out: the offering, the acceptance, the
immediate lighting of cigarettes by both parties, the first puff and the
first exhalation, pretty much in unison - an act which at once seemed to
create a sense of relationship between the two people, even if they had
barely exchanged a word.
I was always amazed at how, once the ritual was complete, the two parties
settled down to easy conversation as if they'd known each other for decades.
Isn't this the dynamic that attracts teenagers - in the midst of the social
awkwardness of adolescence - to tobacco? It certainly can't be the taste.
First Nation Americans use tobacco in this manner too - eg. as a gift to the
spirit of a plant or animal who's assistance they wish to call upon, and to
cement relationship between participants (in all dimensions) in a ritual by
the smoking of a pipe.
Place this in the context of a selection of Tabaccum rubrics:
FEAR, alone, of being; CONFIDENCE, want of self; COMPANY, desire for; FEAR,
people, of, anthropophobia; DELUSIONS, imaginations, others are conspiring
to murder him; FORSAKEN feeling, isolation, sensation of; DREAMS, heavy,
anxious; DREAMS, unsuccessful efforts to talk; TALK, talking, talks,
embarrassed; TIMIDITY, bashful;
versus
CHEERFULNESS, gaiety, happiness, tendency, dancing, laughing, singing, with;
DELUSIONS, imaginations, things look beautiful, wonderful; LIGHTNESS,
feeling of; TALK, talking, talks, vivacious.
Note that cigarettes and alcohol are commonly found in association - look
round your average bar and you'll see people with a drink in one hand and a
cigarette in the other. All seeking a sense of belonging, oneness,
relationship that they can't seem to achieve without the aid of these
substances?
As for food addictions - well you'd have to look at each individual
substance, explore the place it's occupied in various cultures through time,
attitudes to it - positive and negative, and tie that in with the nature of
the substance itself, etc.
The method of delivery of each substance also speaks of the nature of the
addiction - whether we fill our stomachs, our lungs (Tabaccum: SADNESS,
despondency, depression, melancholy; respiration; impeded), our veins
(Opium: DELUSIONS, imaginations; stab him, some one will) - look at the
common language we have about our bellies, our breathing, our blood; views
of these systems in different cultures (eg. TCM, Ayurveda). All of it is
full of symbolic associations that can lead to a much fuller appreciation of
the picture of a particular addictive substance.
Regards
Wendy
smoking and food addictions? These
Glad it was helpful - I've certainly found it so.
Cigarettes, before they became a "problem", were typically used as part of
the ritual of introduction (still are in some parts of the world) - an
offering to the person to whom you were introducing yourself. Think of how
this ritual would typically be played out: the offering, the acceptance, the
immediate lighting of cigarettes by both parties, the first puff and the
first exhalation, pretty much in unison - an act which at once seemed to
create a sense of relationship between the two people, even if they had
barely exchanged a word.
I was always amazed at how, once the ritual was complete, the two parties
settled down to easy conversation as if they'd known each other for decades.
Isn't this the dynamic that attracts teenagers - in the midst of the social
awkwardness of adolescence - to tobacco? It certainly can't be the taste.
First Nation Americans use tobacco in this manner too - eg. as a gift to the
spirit of a plant or animal who's assistance they wish to call upon, and to
cement relationship between participants (in all dimensions) in a ritual by
the smoking of a pipe.
Place this in the context of a selection of Tabaccum rubrics:
FEAR, alone, of being; CONFIDENCE, want of self; COMPANY, desire for; FEAR,
people, of, anthropophobia; DELUSIONS, imaginations, others are conspiring
to murder him; FORSAKEN feeling, isolation, sensation of; DREAMS, heavy,
anxious; DREAMS, unsuccessful efforts to talk; TALK, talking, talks,
embarrassed; TIMIDITY, bashful;
versus
CHEERFULNESS, gaiety, happiness, tendency, dancing, laughing, singing, with;
DELUSIONS, imaginations, things look beautiful, wonderful; LIGHTNESS,
feeling of; TALK, talking, talks, vivacious.
Note that cigarettes and alcohol are commonly found in association - look
round your average bar and you'll see people with a drink in one hand and a
cigarette in the other. All seeking a sense of belonging, oneness,
relationship that they can't seem to achieve without the aid of these
substances?
As for food addictions - well you'd have to look at each individual
substance, explore the place it's occupied in various cultures through time,
attitudes to it - positive and negative, and tie that in with the nature of
the substance itself, etc.
The method of delivery of each substance also speaks of the nature of the
addiction - whether we fill our stomachs, our lungs (Tabaccum: SADNESS,
despondency, depression, melancholy; respiration; impeded), our veins
(Opium: DELUSIONS, imaginations; stab him, some one will) - look at the
common language we have about our bellies, our breathing, our blood; views
of these systems in different cultures (eg. TCM, Ayurveda). All of it is
full of symbolic associations that can lead to a much fuller appreciation of
the picture of a particular addictive substance.
Regards
Wendy
Re: Heroin and other addiction
Hi, Wendy --
I've found your comments on addiction intriguing & wonder what your take is on TV "addiction." I'm thinking of those kids who will watch TV obsessively for hours, something for which I've found no satisfactory rubrics. You could argue there's a kind of physical and mental inertia (or even anesthesia) that's induced, except that, depending upon the programs watched, TV can stimulate anxiety and restlessness. It's not as if these kids were searching for Nirvana via the tube.
So what's the payoff for the TV addict?
Peace,
Cinnabar
I've found your comments on addiction intriguing & wonder what your take is on TV "addiction." I'm thinking of those kids who will watch TV obsessively for hours, something for which I've found no satisfactory rubrics. You could argue there's a kind of physical and mental inertia (or even anesthesia) that's induced, except that, depending upon the programs watched, TV can stimulate anxiety and restlessness. It's not as if these kids were searching for Nirvana via the tube.
So what's the payoff for the TV addict?
Peace,
Cinnabar
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Re: Heroin and other addiction
Perhaps it may be a distinction in the use of language. Might you find agreement with the idea that someone tagged an addict is by definition one who has significant diminishment of their management facility when confronted with alternatives. And as a consequence does not perceive or is unable to execute choice. Choice being the active exercise of mental intention.
Wendy Howard wrote:
Wendy Howard wrote:
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Re: Heroin and other addiction
Not necessarily so. There are many states in which people do not have, or lack sufficient "management" facilities.
I find people commonly lack such facility in the state of fear for example. Or the countles professional worriers who
cant find alternative choices in the light of clear and convincing information other than their obsessive and/controlling
natures. I could on forever with examples of people whose management facilites are compromised in many ways.
Have you ever tried to get an OCD person to quit in the middle of their ritualistic behavior? Are we to lump so much
of humankind under the umbrella of addiction (addiction to their pathologies)?
And all drug addicts are not people who lack ethical or moral judgement. Many of them can afford their addictions--
all those nice middle and upperclass addicts who drink, pop and smoke their addiction substances.
I think I feel the way Wendy has expressed. Addictive behavior has some similarities and lots of variation. In some
ways we see the same behavior in a wide assortment of people. The only way to practice is to stay free from
judgement: categorical or individual. The challenge is to be honest with ourselves and be willing to ferret out
the biases when they rear their up within.
tanya
I find people commonly lack such facility in the state of fear for example. Or the countles professional worriers who
cant find alternative choices in the light of clear and convincing information other than their obsessive and/controlling
natures. I could on forever with examples of people whose management facilites are compromised in many ways.
Have you ever tried to get an OCD person to quit in the middle of their ritualistic behavior? Are we to lump so much
of humankind under the umbrella of addiction (addiction to their pathologies)?
And all drug addicts are not people who lack ethical or moral judgement. Many of them can afford their addictions--
all those nice middle and upperclass addicts who drink, pop and smoke their addiction substances.
I think I feel the way Wendy has expressed. Addictive behavior has some similarities and lots of variation. In some
ways we see the same behavior in a wide assortment of people. The only way to practice is to stay free from
judgement: categorical or individual. The challenge is to be honest with ourselves and be willing to ferret out
the biases when they rear their up within.
tanya
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Re: Heroin and other addiction
Cinnabar wrote:
is on TV "addiction." I'm thinking of those kids who will watch TV
obsessively for hours, something for which I've found no satisfactory
rubrics. You could argue there's a kind of physical and mental inertia (or
even anesthesia) that's induced, except that, depending upon the programs
watched, TV can stimulate anxiety and restlessness. It's not as if these
kids were searching for Nirvana via the tube.
Interesting -- not an addiction I've considered before. TV always seems a
bit indefinable in its variety - a bit like white noise. However, for those
that can sit and watch anything and everything for hours on end, then I'd
start to think about the contents of the cathode ray tube - the inert gases
(argon, krypton), particularly since the state of the person watching is
bordering on complete inertia.
Scholten gives the themes of the rare gases as rest; inactivity; retreat;
cocoon; internalised; locked up; denial of work, duty, ideas and
inspiration; unbound. So for these children, it's as if the normal healthy
period of "vegging out" after a long day at school or whatever has become
the state of preference - they've lost access to their own sources of
creativity and become inert, stuck in the resting state. This is almost like
a state of autism.
Scholten describes this stage as one where everything has been let go of,
there are no ties, just total freedom. Perhaps in view of the pressure our
children are put under to perform - in school, at home, in social contexts,
etc - a craving for a state of total freedom from all ties and
responsibilities is very understandable. Remedy comparisons made with this
stage are with Opium and Cannabis indica - interesting that both are
addictive drugs.
I don't know if that'll lead you to any satisfactory rubrics, though!
Regards
Wendy
is on TV "addiction." I'm thinking of those kids who will watch TV
obsessively for hours, something for which I've found no satisfactory
rubrics. You could argue there's a kind of physical and mental inertia (or
even anesthesia) that's induced, except that, depending upon the programs
watched, TV can stimulate anxiety and restlessness. It's not as if these
kids were searching for Nirvana via the tube.
Interesting -- not an addiction I've considered before. TV always seems a
bit indefinable in its variety - a bit like white noise. However, for those
that can sit and watch anything and everything for hours on end, then I'd
start to think about the contents of the cathode ray tube - the inert gases
(argon, krypton), particularly since the state of the person watching is
bordering on complete inertia.
Scholten gives the themes of the rare gases as rest; inactivity; retreat;
cocoon; internalised; locked up; denial of work, duty, ideas and
inspiration; unbound. So for these children, it's as if the normal healthy
period of "vegging out" after a long day at school or whatever has become
the state of preference - they've lost access to their own sources of
creativity and become inert, stuck in the resting state. This is almost like
a state of autism.
Scholten describes this stage as one where everything has been let go of,
there are no ties, just total freedom. Perhaps in view of the pressure our
children are put under to perform - in school, at home, in social contexts,
etc - a craving for a state of total freedom from all ties and
responsibilities is very understandable. Remedy comparisons made with this
stage are with Opium and Cannabis indica - interesting that both are
addictive drugs.
I don't know if that'll lead you to any satisfactory rubrics, though!
Regards
Wendy
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Re: Heroin and other addiction
Yes tanya, I concur with you that there are many states in which the exercise of mgt facilities are deficient. If you will find agreement with the idea that choice is the expression of intention to select amongst alternatives one option. And that the circumstance of the terrain and the condition of the vital force becomes determinative as to such an exercise. Then the condition of either may preclude clarity of perception or even with clarity of perception may diminsh one's reaction capacity. This would find application not only with so-called addicts--whatever that means--but
more generally as wendy asserted and of which I concur with you.
tanya marquette wrote:
more generally as wendy asserted and of which I concur with you.
tanya marquette wrote:
Re: Heroin and other addiction
Dear Wendy,
I find the possibility of TV addiction due to cathode ray tube a intriging theory,
Wonder if this applies to computer addiction also? If the major causes of TV addiction is
caused by the gases, will it cure the TV addict by giving him/her a plasma TV?
Time to buy a new TV
Almost a TV addict,
TC
Interesting -- not an addiction I've considered before. TV always seems a
bit indefinable in its variety - a bit like white noise. However, for those
that can sit and watch anything and everything for hours on end, then I'd
start to think about the contents of the cathode ray tube - the inert gases
(argon, krypton), particularly since the state of the person watching is
bordering on complete inertia.
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I find the possibility of TV addiction due to cathode ray tube a intriging theory,
Wonder if this applies to computer addiction also? If the major causes of TV addiction is
caused by the gases, will it cure the TV addict by giving him/her a plasma TV?
Time to buy a new TV
Almost a TV addict,
TC
Interesting -- not an addiction I've considered before. TV always seems a
bit indefinable in its variety - a bit like white noise. However, for those
that can sit and watch anything and everything for hours on end, then I'd
start to think about the contents of the cathode ray tube - the inert gases
(argon, krypton), particularly since the state of the person watching is
bordering on complete inertia.
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