From: Brett

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/25/dr_gabor_mat_on_the_stress

"Much of our culture and our economy are based on exploiting people's 
sense of emptiness and inadequacy, of not being enough as we are. We 
have the belief that if we do this or acquire that, if we achieve 
this or attain that, we'll be satisfied. This sense of lack and this 
belief feed many addictive behaviors, from shopping to eating to 
workaholism. In many respects we behave in a driven fashion that 
differs only in degree from the desperation of the drug addict.
...
"My pessimism about my clients' future is based not on any limitation 
of their innate potential, but on their dire social, economic and 
legal situation and on the essential indifference of policy 
makers--and of society--to their plight. In short, the resources that 
could go into rehabilitating people are now sunk, instead, into 
persecuting them and keeping them marginalized. It's a failure of 
insight and of compassion. We are simply not living up to our 
possibilities as a society."

http://www.amazon.com/Realm-Hungry-Ghosts-Encounters-Addiction/dp/155643880X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364323325&sr=8-1&keywords=n+the+realm+of+hungry+ghosts%3A+close+encounters+with+addiction


"People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions"