Liza May wrote:

> Actually, any substance, or behavior, can be addicting. I could have an
> addiction to biting my nails, or always stepping around a certain spot on the
> rug,

You are so right in my opinion. Much of my view on addiction comes from
personal experience, but also from correlating my research in biological
psychiatry with Tilden and Sheltons discoveries about toxicosis as the
cause of disease. Anything the body cannot use is a stimulant, and all
stimulants are toxic and addicting. People who have repressed their
emotions in childhood have toxic levels of neurochemicals in their
brain. Stimulants trigger detox crises and therefore, people with toxic
brains crave stimulants. They get a high from them. Its irony that the
very thing that triggers a needed detox is a poison. Most addicts have
to continue abusing whatever, a drug or biting their nails, until the
pain is so bad, they want to get help. I  don't remember if I went into
this in the version of my paper I sent you.

My best, Ellie