How do you think "normal" people can benefit from a 12 step program?
Debbie Strand
Will: The 12 Steps
were developed to successfully treat the neurological disease of alcoholism,
which is centered around damage and dysfunction of the limbic brain .... The
limbic brain literally affects all human functioning and dysfunctioning – whether
addicted or not …. It is the center of
the human disease one might call "Normal "
-- which can be as challenging as alcoholism and addictions but nowhere near as
obvious....
In my experience, all human emotional challenges originate
from the limbic area of the brain -- which the 12 Steps treat …. So it has
proven applicable and effective in my life, and in others lives for anything as
difficult as addiction/alcoholism, as painful as the death of a loved one, or
as simple as spilling a coke at McDs ....
- Unfortuntely – in my experience -- most humans lack an even
remotely necessary level of conscious emotional necessity -- desperation -- to
do and accept the treatments .... Thinking is the primary human addiction of
the disease of “
