We use the social media the way an alcoholic uses drink.

When we reach The stages study course we have become very proficient at our dissociating methods. So much so that we have fooled ourselves. One of our favourite paraphernalia for our addiction fix are social media, computers, games, films and books.

We use the social media the way an alcoholic uses drink.
We do not question WHY we would need this social addiction. It is just accepted as a matter of fact that we are slightly flawed and weak and would attempt to escape living life whenever possible. We are not seen as different  ‘defective’.but as cool, well liked sociable people when the opposite is so often the truth.
Social Media are still a favourite way of feeding our dissociation addiction. As an alcoholic has bottles hidden all over the house, We have Facebook, instagram, twitter..etc.

 What would happen if there was an empty moment, and we did not have a phone or tablet to whisk our mind away from actually living in the present moment? What would happen if we actually had to ‘be’ instead of dissociating???

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