What Fact(s) or Statement(s) in the Article?

1. What fact(s) or statement(s) in the article?

A. Reading this article, there were many statements that made an impact. The writer states that swimmers are like addicts. In comparing your swimmer, you are taught to swim and you don't forget. Once you are in a pool you automatically start swimming. If you want to you can choose just to stand there and not swim, but it's not something you forget. What about a dog they get in water and they also automatically start to swim and they are born with this they are not taught.

B. Comparing the addict. The baby can be born with the addiction and then have to go through withdrawal until it's all better. Does this follow them throughout life or does it then go away. When you choose to use and become an addict and then you get the help you need to stop. You will have to make sure you do not put yourself in a dangerous situation that will cause you to start all over again.

C. Comparing swimming and addicts is very good. We have the swimmer who has to stay away from water if they do not want to swim and then we have the addict who must be alert to just stay away from all temptation in order to stay clean.

2.

A. Addictions, then, are complex automatisms, involving the progressive automatization of feelings (urges), thoughts (obsessions) and actions (behavior). In the end, an addiction becomes Mark Twain's all-or-nothing experience of loss of control or powerlessness. Something inside has acquired a life of it's own. When that something threatens the well-being of the whole (just like runaway blood pressure), then it is rightly considered a disease.

B. Why - When you have an addiction you can get the help, then try to make sure you can control that urge and control the thoughts which can lead to the obsessions which leads to the action which makes you powerless over your control. It is like running away because you are being attack by a disease you thought was under control.

3.

A. In this article there wasn't anything that I though was better than the other it was all good. The comparison and facts were very interesting.

4. What is your reaction to Dr. Sandor's explanation of "addictions as "automatisms," or disorders of automaticity"?

A. Dr. Sandor refers to the swimmer and the addict to "automatisms". A swimmer once they learn they never forget and would be able to swim at any time if need be which is controlled. An addict can learn to use any type of drug which they can control and give-up, but still know without the control they can relapse and continue to use and be worse off than they were at the beginning before the use. It all makes sense.