Addiction, Excuse or Disease?
Addiction, excuse or disease?
Addiction can have profound effects on a person 's thoughts, feelings and behavior. It usually disturbs perceptions and attitudes, and can significantly disrupt someone 's personality. This isn 't just because of substances involved - such as alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, heroin and valium. The experience of addiction itself also has an effect on how a person thinks feels and behaves. Addictions are present in almost every individual. Whether it 's a chemical dependence, or simply talking on the phone, they can start to control your life before you can even realize what is happening. A person with an addiction is not responsible for having it; however, it is that person’s responsibility to do something about it.
What is it about an action that forces a person to stay with it for so long? Allot of thought has been spent on the answer to that question. Some-what logical conclusions have been the lacks in ability to gain control of oneself or the addiction, shame, and guilt. Other feelings come from the everyday on-going misery of living stuck in a mess that 's throwing off all areas of life. Drugs, such as caffeine, alcohol, marijuana, narcotics, even exercises some have questioned are typically referred to as a mood-altering occurrence. People do these things for a change in mood, or to change the feeling on something temporarily. However, there can definitely be such a thing as long-term effects from the continuing the addictive behavior. Individual’s that are addict’s will often experience an increase in the feeling of having a desire to escape, such as: Depression, where one can range from feeling very down, blue, helpless, and suicidal. Another is anxiety where one can range from the general fearful feeling to lack of trust and extreme paranoia, or some may feel low self-esteem where one will become self-loathing and link to shame and guilt. No confidence, anger, and boredom are also most likely and can result in anxiety,
Addiction can have profound effects on a person 's thoughts, feelings and behavior. It usually disturbs perceptions and attitudes, and can significantly disrupt someone 's personality. This isn 't just because of substances involved - such as alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, heroin and valium. The experience of addiction itself also has an effect on how a person thinks feels and behaves. Addictions are present in almost every individual. Whether it 's a chemical dependence, or simply talking on the phone, they can start to control your life before you can even realize what is happening. A person with an addiction is not responsible for having it; however, it is that person’s responsibility to do something about it.
What is it about an action that forces a person to stay with it for so long? Allot of thought has been spent on the answer to that question. Some-what logical conclusions have been the lacks in ability to gain control of oneself or the addiction, shame, and guilt. Other feelings come from the everyday on-going misery of living stuck in a mess that 's throwing off all areas of life. Drugs, such as caffeine, alcohol, marijuana, narcotics, even exercises some have questioned are typically referred to as a mood-altering occurrence. People do these things for a change in mood, or to change the feeling on something temporarily. However, there can definitely be such a thing as long-term effects from the continuing the addictive behavior. Individual’s that are addict’s will often experience an increase in the feeling of having a desire to escape, such as: Depression, where one can range from feeling very down, blue, helpless, and suicidal. Another is anxiety where one can range from the general fearful feeling to lack of trust and extreme paranoia, or some may feel low self-esteem where one will become self-loathing and link to shame and guilt. No confidence, anger, and boredom are also most likely and can result in anxiety,
References: Dr. John Marsden, Psychological effects of addiction, March 2010