Paul John Escudero’s Living Legacy
Together we can.
Has your life been touched by addiction?
A family member? A colleague? Yourself?
Alcohol? Food? Shopping? Relationship? Screen Time? Work?
Please read and realize the essential points conveyed below.
Current Facts: In 2022, 140,000 people died as a result of an addiction with alcohol. 110,000 people died of a drug overdose/poisoning. 1 million people have died due to a drug overdose/poisoning in the last 20 years. At least 100 million Americans struggle with a dependency on a substance or activity aka addiction with public health consequences. 10% have initiated participating in treatment. Of that 10%, 42% have completed treatment. A significant portion of the individuals who completed treatment don't maintain their gains. These are critical reasons it is imperative the understanding and treatment of addiction significantly and intentionally upgrades.
Leading Edge, Fact-based Paradigm: Like players on the same team are separate, the science of biology and the science of psychology are separate parts of a human being. Like players on the same team work together, psychology and biology work together within a human being in a logical manner.
The widely accepted and practiced treatment for addiction has been based on a nonscientific, reductionistic biological theory, a disease model, created and adopted in 1934 rather than current psychological facts uncovered. At that time, the biological theory was leading-edge, for addiction treatment included lobotomies, involuntary commitment to asylums and jail time.
This biological theory has included addiction is a biological disease like cancer, “the addict” fails to complete the necessary work when the addiction resumes and the addiction is resolved when the behavior such as drinking alcohol stops.
A Few Current Psychological Facts
1. An addiction such as drinking alcohol is a go-to, automatic behavior, a habit due to the current level of mental health inside.
2. An underlying purpose of the automatic behavior has been to alleviate the stressful, insecure, emotionally painful feeling state inside, the symptom.
3. This is a coping mechanism and in some moments a survival strategy, attempting to remedy the symptom and in some cases, unbearable symptom inside, the feeling state. The coping mechanism has often been adopted from conventional social trends at that time whether embedded in the local culture and/or generations of family.
4. Unlimited levels of mental health can be cultivated, experienced and understood inside, thereby, sustainably resolving and healing the source of the symptom.
Paul’s Experience
Paul had an incredible sense of humor. His quick wit was one way his high level of intelligence was apparent. Paul was also an incredible athlete. Football was his passion. Paul was tall, handsome and a hard worker. His personality was larger than life and infectious in a good way.
Like too many teenage boys, Paul’s trauma became apparent as he delved deep into substance abuse in his junior year of high school. Since the trauma he experienced was untreated in his twenties and thirties, his addictions metastasized.
In his mid to later decades, Paul earnestly sought and participated in extensive in-patient addiction treatment, the secondary layer of his mental illness as well as maintenance level outpatient psychiatric treatment and mental health counseling. Like many others, he would experience temporary relief from a symptom, the emotional anguish inside since he less knowingly participated in conventional addiction treatment that was widely available throughout his and many residential regions. An outcome was the targeted, habitual behavior would extinguish.
Since the outcome (the go-to coping mechanism) and the symptom (the emotional anguish) were less apparent, it appeared the internal source was healed. Like a bear hibernates, the emotional anguish would return and the go-to behavior to alleviate it.
After experiencing the same internal outcome after another and another round of extensive addiction treatment, it would reinforce the guilt, the shame and the fear inside. It was some variation of, “It is hopeless. I am beyond help and permanently damaged inside".
Like too many others, Paul lost “the long-term war” (multiple battles) with addiction and mental illness on September 18, 2022 at the age of 60.
Paul John Escudero’s Living Legacy
There is hope.
We are built to heal at new and enduring levels inside.
Paul John Escudero’s Living Legacy is dedicated to upgrading understanding of and access to essential, leading-edge psychological facts critical to sustainably resolve as well as prevent the source of symptoms, resulting in addiction behavior through vital education and treatment initiatives.
Please support these essential upgrades by contributing to PJE’s Living Legacy now. It can be a financial contribution whether $5, $50, $5000, or $50,000. It can be using your digital resources and/or voice to share PJE LL's link. It can be distributing a postcard and/or posting a small poster of PJE LL and its link at a work or social soiree. It can be sponsoring a small or large fundraising event for PJE's Living Legacy. Then contributing the funds raised through the PJE LL's donation button.
Even in recent past, psychology education, treatment and research has been significantly underfunded due to a lack of understanding of mental health, the internal epicenter of life. This has resulted in mental health ETR being grounded in biological theories, educated guesses rather than psychological facts. It has also been influenced by skewed research conducted within large-profit-margin industries such as pharmaceuticals. While pharmaceuticals have the ability to assist, this intervention has often been grounded in biology rather than psychology, a separate part of a human being. This is like shooting an arrow at the building next door rather than the target.
As the unlimited psychological capabilities are cultivated and experienced inside (the source) from current psychological facts uncovered, these new leaps of understanding inside transform into a sustainably higher-quality feeling state, decision-making, performance, relationship awareness and skills as well as biological health, originating more knowingly from authentic, healed self inside than the conditioned, less aware and/or traumatized self inside.
Financial contributions to PJE’s Living Legacy are tax-deductible. The mission outlined above is executed and achieved in cooperation with Reversing Hopelessness, Inc. Click the link to learn more details about the mission. https://donorbox.org/reversing-hopelessness-inc-a-non-profit Have a question? Write to [email protected] Replies are often emailed in 48 business hours.
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