RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION

This recovery is not easy to put in 25 words or less, but, to reiterate, the critical points that the recovery process must address and use are: 1. Addictions and other detrimental hypoic decisions and behaviors come out of a brain machine designed by evolution to make unconscious decisions signaled and cued by feelings. 2. This machine is regulated by genetic alleles. Low activity genetic alleles force those who are born with them to overuse neurotransmitter substitutes (chemical addictors, drugs) and instinctive behaviors (neurotransmitter stimulators or raisers, behavioral addictors) in order to change feelings. 3. This machine is located in an unconscious place in the brain not well influenced by conscious will. 4. The outcomes of this machine are believed willy nilly by the ATB and directly result in behavior, frequently detrimental to the person. 5. There’s no practical or humane place within this machine to intervene except the ATB. 6. Thus, another person must be used by the hypoic via the process of surrender for decision-making purposes. All else is accepted by the hypoic out of the understanding of the genetic neurobiology behind his decision-making limitations. Because this process frees the hypoic from the messy and confused hypoic life, he is free to pursue and maximize his genetic assets to their fullest extent under the tutelage of his sponsor, the desired outcome for all hypoics.

First, recovery: Recovery is from the disease, the whole disease, not from just individual addictions as occurs today. The reason for this is that the disease not only causes addictions by unconsciously driving the hypoic towards drugs and behaviors that change his genetically induced hypoic feelings, but also causes the two other major symptoms, 1. decision-making disasters of all varieties and 2. evaluation mistakes that lead to other kinds of disasters. [See the Hypoism flow chart at the end of the paper.] All three groups of symptoms are caused by the same problem: Low activity (high motivating) genetic alleles influencing unconscious decision-making with respect to changing feelings, maximizing “good” feelings. Life disasters, failures of recovery, and relapses of addictions are caused by these other symptoms not being covered by current addiction recovery as well as by the mistakes in current recovery methods that have no concept of the decision-making part of the disease that is causing the problems. Of course, modern medicine dictates that treatment is always best when it treats the actual disease and not just the individual symptoms. This holds for Hypoism as well. The recovery process must take into account that all symptoms are caused unconsciously and against the will of the hypoic by these low activity genetic alleles and how they influence the decision-making apparatus. For hypoics already addicted, recovery would begin in detox and rehab, requiring drastic changes there as well.

Moreover, this recovery can be started and done in children diagnosed with Hypoism via biochemical and neurobiological means (when the technology becomes available from future research) and this is where the only possible form of real prevention is derived. Just as in other medical genetic diseases, once the in-born pathophysiology has been defined by research, the diagnosis of the disease, Hypoism, can be made in infants and the recovery methods can be begun long before any symptoms of the disease, addictions and decision-making mistakes, have occurred. The disease isn’t prevented but the symptoms can be and from the get go. Now wouldn’t that be something?! Genetic engineering is out because the genes that cause addictions all have terrific positive effects, ARE ASSETS, for the individual. We all know this empirically. The Kennedy family is a good example of this. This family has Hypoism not some superstitious curse. It explains their pluses as well as their minuses. What recovery does is limit the downside of the genes, the Hypoism symptoms, and maximize the upside of those same genes, exactly what all hypoics would want if they only knew about it. Well, here it is. And it’s all available with the correct theory and using this theory. (By Dan Umanoff, M.D.)