the ultimate purpose of psychotherapy; acceptance & commitment therapy in addiction

have you ever wondered about the important matter of ‘purpose of life’? why do people try so hard to improve their lives? what is the purpose of all these efforts and activities? why should all these planning for the future exist? what is the necessity of controlling our true and false current feelings (like leisure, joy, eating and drinking of any enjoyable, drug and alcohol abuse) constantly? for sure numerous responds to the above mentioned questions lead to one key answer: “to guarantee a healthy, joyful and comfortable future”. now the question is, how come human beings are less happy than any other existent although making so many efforts to reach a joyful life! for instance, we humans got the most varied and appropriate cloths for each season, various heath and cooling appliances, appropriate residential places, refrigerators, fridge, numerous markets in our neighborhood, ability to plant seeds, animal husbandry, etc.. but why do we worry about hunger and starve more than any animal? probably an answer to this question could be ‘we are intellectual creatures and contrariwise animals, we reflect about dangers to overcome the risks’. we will compare cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) principals with act and then briefly explain act method in this article.