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Sorry bout that LittleJoe :) I will likely be lousy at replying to the right posts, cause usually my posts are to "All" on recurring themes in a thread so I don't think of it.

While I -do- feel compassion for people in spiritual pain, I still don't think it's the same as physical pain, and I don't think of mental anguish as an "illness" in the same way as a physical illness. I know that's how modern psychiatry treats it, but I think modern psychiatry is wrong on every fundamental level anyway.

It's just that to me, there's a big difference between the act of quitting a drug that brings you (after a few days of detox) back to a NORMAL level of non-pain, versus quitting a drug that brings you back to a level of excrutiating physical pain. Why is that so difficult a difference for people to perceive? Is it that they think that "being high is to normality as normality is to pain"? That it's relative, that it's just as much of a letdown? Having used drugs in my day, I don't buy that, sorry. Extreme pain is not the same as no longer being high.

Qwinn