Everyone you meet is experiencing the same thing: The Body is sounding the alarms and The Intellect is fetching a frenzy of thoughts. Everyone experiences The Life Wave. Everyone is caught in The Thought-Storm just like you are. Those who are lost in the desperate cycle of pain, pleasure seeking, and compulsive activity provoke empathy. Even if their life situation is different to yours, and even if their compulsions are so severe and harmful that they warrant rehabilitation and/or incarceration, you share the same fundamental pathology: compulsive pleasure seeking and avoidance of discomfort.
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