Name: 依存症の力を弱める方法 (How to Weaken the Hold of Addiction)
Uploaded: 2025-08-06T18:06:37.000Z
Duration: 5 min 37 s
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Many of us are prey to addictive behaviours which we know run contrary to our deeper interests, but which we find ourselves entirely unable to desist from at key moments. Let's pick three of these – bulimia, porn addiction and alcoholism. We will appreciate, as soon as we come out of the tunnel of addiction, that we have neglected our interests and harmed ourselves. And yet we are at a loss as to what we might do. What, if anything, could help? One kind of answer is this. We should try to notice when the desire to regurgitate food or watch porn or drink strikes us. Though this might sound strange, those in the grip of addictions seldom do notice. They don't pay much attention to what has immediately happened before their desire strike. It doesn't occur to them that anything has. And yet, if they did look into themselves and studied the answers very carefully, they would have an important weapon with which to escape the downward spiral. And that's because, to make another generalisation, before there is ever an addictive behaviour, there is always a moment of feeling bad, very bad, about something. The triggers can be varied. A partner may not be as warm as they should be. Or someone at work seems disapproving and mean. Or one has been left out, perhaps not for the first time, of a social occasion. In other words, the triggers for addictive, self-harming behaviours are rooted in such emotions as loneliness, shame, a sense of unacceptability, a feeling of rejection or a belief one is not good enough.

私たちの多くは、自分の深い関心に反するとわかっていながら、肝心なときにまったくやめられない嗜癖的行動の餌食になっている。過食症、ポルノ依存症、アルコール依存症の3つを挙げてみよう。中毒のトンネルから抜け出せばすぐに、私たちは自分の利益をないがしろにし、自分自身を傷つけてきたことを理解するだろう。しかし、どうすればいいのか途方に暮れてしまう。助けになるものがあるとすれば何だろう？ひとつの答えはこうだ。食べ物を食べたくなったり、ポルノを見たくなったり、お酒を飲みたくなったりしたときに、それに気づくようにするこ

様態の副詞

The addictive pattern is only a response, a part B to a part A, that we are not used to exploring. Addiction has nothing to do with loving what one is addicted to. It's to do with finding relief from a prior pain which has not been understood or addressed.

依存症のパターンは、私たちが探求することに慣れていない反応、Aの部分に対するBの部分にすぎない。依存症は、依存するものを愛することとは何の関係もない。それは、理解も対処もされていない以前の苦痛からの救済を見出すことと関係がある。

基礎受動態

Over a time, the addictive behaviour offers a kind of soothing, an escape from an intolerable discomfort. Vomiting after a meal brings a sense of lightness. Porn leads one into a series of physical highs. A state of drunkenness stills critical voices. The way to start to break the pattern of addiction is simply to realise, before we have rushed to the addictive solution, that we are in trouble. That we have, for whatever reason, grown very sad and hopeless about ourselves and therefore that we are in a danger zone and need help now rather than in a few hours. We have to become better historians and observers of our moods and aim to put a gap, in time and in mental activity, between the moment when we are hurt and the moment when we reach for our self-destructive solution. If we manage to slow down the process, then we should be able to wake ourselves up from our narcotic impulses and say, in a profoundly helpful way, I am upset. Just the realisation that we are so is half the battle at least. I am feeling deeply upset and therefore I am in danger. And from here, we can ask another extremely pertinent set of questions. What am I upset about? How am I upset? We may need to close our eyes and just sit still for a moment to let the answer percolate from the unconscious. Alternatively, we might try and complete the following sentence. I am currently feeling upset because… It is one of the quirks of the strange brains we all have that it can take so long to know what we are feeling and to understand what might have caused it. When we do start to notice our upset, then we can begin the business of self-soothing in more fruitful ways. One side can run an arm around the other and say in effect, poor you, how awful to be feeling awful again. Almost certainly, in early life, no one had much sympathy or the remotest bit of interest in our feelings of loss, self-hatred and abandonment. That is why we find it so hard to get interested in them ourselves. But we can patch up the damage. We can ask, how am I feeling about myself and what has happened to give me that feeling? We can replace addiction with self-compassion and understanding. No one falls prey to addictions by coincidence.

やがて、習慣的行動は一種の癒し、耐え難い不快感からの逃避をもたらす。食後の嘔吐は軽快感をもたらす。ポルノは人を一連の肉体的高揚へと導く。酩酊状態は批判的な声を静める。中毒のパターンを断ち切るには、中毒的な解決策に走る前に、自分が困っていることに気づくことだ。どんな理由であれ、私たちは自分自身について非常に悲しく絶望的になっており、それゆえに危険地帯にいるのであり、数時間後ではなく今すぐ助けが必要なのだ。私たちは自分の気分の歴史家、観察者になり、傷ついた瞬間と自己破壊的な解決策に手を伸ばす瞬間の間に、時間的

The behaviours always have roots in an intense, normally childhood-derived sense of being a terrible, unworthy person. In summary, the route to stopping addictive behaviour is to ask oneself how one is feeling, realise one is probably feeling very bad, grow curious about and sympathetic to the causes and then ask, what would be a better, kinder way of handling this sense of awfulness? Knowing that there is room and love for the feeling that provokes addiction is the key to weakening the hold of – and one day overcoming – what we are addicted to.

その行動の根源は常に、自分はひどい人間で、価値のない人間だという、通常なら幼少期に由来する強烈な感覚にある。要約すると、嗜癖行動を止めるには、自分がどう感じているかを自問し、おそらくとても嫌な気分になっていることに気づき、その原因について興味を持ち、共感するようになり、そして、このひどいという感覚を扱うのに、より良い、より優しい方法は何だろうかと問うことである。依存症を引き起こす感情には余裕があり、愛があることを知ることが、依存症に陥っているものを弱め、いつか克服する鍵なのだ。