Professor and lecturer Peg O’Connor asserts that many addicts frequently try to find their “breaking point." This is the limit of their endurance of pain and suffering before they have a complete mental and/or physical collapse. Unlike most of us, who ponder the how-much-more-can-I-take question as an interesting intellectual exercise, active addicts may find that reaching their breaking point can bring about relief and transformation. This concept has been talked and written about for years. William James, author, physician, and lecturer, is well-known for his series of lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902 on the individual’s “threshold of misery.”Read the entire article here: The Light at the End of Suffering