If there was a comment prize of the month it would go to page friend Jacky Simpson for her brilliant addition to the obesity debate: As someone who can fluctuate from Lowrie to Reubens every few years - a topic close to my heart. I am also a qualified addictions therapist. To anyone not addicted, an addiction seems a simple matter of someone lacking will power to stop. Expecting someone just stop doing it, misses the point about as much as telling someone selling The Big Issue to solve their problem by getting a house. Addiction fills a hole in the soul. Something is wrong long before the person smokes, drinks, obsessively cleans, gambles, injects heroin or pigs out on Big Macs and fudge cake . Watch someone killing themself with anorexia and tell me that it is just a case of persuading them they are not fat and getting them to eat. Anorexia, Bulimia and Over-eating are different breeds of the very same species. The addiction of over eating has become the scouge of the affluent world because over processed, high fat, high carb, high sugar food is so easy to get hold of and generally it is so cheap. People have begun to fix on it. It is an easily accessible high. People with gastric bands suffer enormously. Their ability to eat too much is removed but their underlying issues are not. Fat is largely about lack of esteem and morale and carrying on eating comforts but makes it worse. Addiction is disabling - no question about that. The answer lies in to what extent a society can pick up the pieces. Financially, obviously it cannot. If people were more content and happy with their lot we wouldnt have so much addiction, so it is about flawed lives. Ask any addition specialist and they will tell you that some people are inherently addiction prone and others are not. There would seem to be a genetic predisposition, However that does not mean I discount people also making their own bad choices. Sadly with addicts unless you treat the person in the broadest sense the addiction will never be cured. Which is why people cross addict. It is common for someone who stops smoking to become an over eater or a junkie a drinker. There answers are complicated but those who dont know will forever sit back and judge. It is a symptom of a sick society.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:35:01 +0000
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