Originally Posted by
Boleo 
The paradox is... the suggestions themselves (good, bad, smart, dumb) seem to play little, if any, part in the high degree of efficacy in long-term recovery. It's as if ALL the results come from the willingness of the person following the suggestions and hardly any of the results are based on the quality of those suggestions.
are you going to try to tell me that there is a difference between that whole paragraph and the notion of just wanting to drink or not? i mean I agree with you i just don't think you need to use that many words or call something like that a paradox.