The Self and Drug Addiction

The problem with being selved all the time is that since the self is a way of thinking, our perspective invents the self with imagination, then it invents the ever-presence of threats to the self with imagination. It becomes the case with some of us then, that anytime we are selved, we are worrying about the things that threaten the self. Life becomes a misery with few breaks except brief moments of being unselved, during sleep, or drug use. The self program stops us from sleeping, so we rely on drugs or some other perversion.

The self program is like the zoom out feature of the - person shooter video game. Our consciousness learns to zoom in and out. When a threat is right before us, we can just run from or attack it. But if it might be way behind us, we have to zoom out, and then, we don't really see it so we have to invent the threat and ourselves and imagine it. Sometimes, we get to the point that we are always zoomed out to imagined threats, and always super stressed.

The problem with being unselved all the time is that then you cannot anticipate threats.

There is here an insight into why people do drugs. They have constant traumas that menace the self. It is close to paranoid schizophrenia, except that they have some conscious control over their perception of the realness of those threats.

Anyway, we often wonder why some people will do drugs which are not pleasant. It makes them mad, or sleepy, or some other state that isn't pleasant to them or anyone around them. Might they be doing it simply to be unselved. Anything that deranges the mind a bit will give you a break from constantly worrying about your life. People even abuse benadryl. There's not much of a high to be had, but there is dissociation, it will stupefy your ability to worry about yourself. One of the mechanisms of action of antidepressants are blunted memory and depersonalization, both of which simply decrease one's ability to worry about onself.

Also See:

http://dysautobot.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-does-it-really-mean-to-lose-self.html
http://dysautobot.blogspot.com/2017/09/bipolar-disorder-and-self.html