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ANTIDOTES TO TOXIC BEHAVIOR: THE GROUND RULES FOR ANTIDOTES TO TOXIC LIVING - THE PHYSICAL LEVEL

Each of us can stay alive only by assimilating what we need from what is available within our life. When we are able to adequately obtain this necessary nourishment, we survive and flourish. When we become ineffective in this process, our deprivations lead to disintegration and death. Consequently, it is essential that each of us protect ourself from the aggression of others who would, in one way or another, devour us in their quest for survival.

On the physical level, these realities are perhaps more acceptable and more obvious. Yet the same condition exists with respect to our need for emotional self-preservation. We must discover how to become an effective self-nourisher and how to have nourishing relationships with others. We must also discover how to minimize our own self-poisoning behavior as well as how to protect ourself from the toxic intrusions of others.

Regardless of a toxic person's reasons (excuses) when he fails to provide himself with adequate emotional nourishment, he commits psychic suicide, since he weakens his ability to satisfy his own needs and at the same time becomes increasingly vulnerable to attack. The only valid issue is whether a person chooses to do the best he can to stay alive or whether his personal existence—for selfish or altruistic reasons —is of secondary importance to him.

On the psychic level, a commitment to personal survival includes concern for others. For N people this attitude simply acknowledges that their emotional nourishment depends not only on their ability to nourish themselves but also on relating to others in a nourishing way. At the same time, the nourishing person is aware that everyone is continually in actual or potential contact with the toxic patterns of others as well as those within himself. We live in a social and physical environment that contains a great variety of toxic elements.

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