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RE: Addiction – An Overview

in #psychology7 years ago
In fact, everyone can have an addiction to something. Whether it's food addiction, work, playing video games, alcohol, sports, shopping, to drugs. Addiction is a condition that a person loses control of what he does - caused by a strong desire or desire for something - and happens for a long time. People who are addicted have no control over what they do, use or consume for something they make opium. Addiction does not just happen to physical objects that you can consume, according to experts many types of addictions to behaviors that you may not realize. Conditions of addiction that occur in a person can cause adverse effects for his health, especially psychological health. It is not possible that addiction causes behavior, habits, and even brain function to change.

Of course, addiction is different from the habit that is done repeatedly. When you do the habit you always do, you can stop it at any time according to the conditions that occur. But not with addiction, you really hard to stop the behavior, whatever happens to stop it. In essence, you lose control and control over what you do so you can not afford to stop the activity. Disturbance of a person's psychological aspects can also be one cause of addiction.

Some traits that show a person experiencing an addiction are: Can not stop in doing habits Unstable emotional changes Increase appetite Increase insomnia Withdraw from the environment because of the importance of things that become anger Do many denials and always justify themselves for What he did Have problems in a relationship of romance or social.

Addictions are basically these conditions in three stages: The initial stage in which the desire for the object arises The second stage, began to like the object and then lose control of themselves in doing activities related to the object.The last stage that occurs when the behavior is continued into a habit which is hard to stop. The cause of addiction is actually the emergence of a sense of pleasure in the brain. Whatever the activities, whether it is sex, psychoactive drugs, abundant wealth, or foods that taste good, will be interpreted with the same thing in the brain .They will respond to all the pleasures through a similar response, that is by producing the hormone dopamine or the pleasure hormone.These hormones will increase when you feel satisfied, happy, and happy about a thing.In this condition, it turns out dopamine is not just a response to the pleasure you just faced, but this hormone also causes timb ul excessive likes can lead to your addiction. If the dopamine levels generated by the brain are normal, then it will not cause addiction. But when you get addicted, the object that makes you addicted stimulates the brain to produce excessive dopamine.

Here's what I understand from your writing, I myself am still in the process of learning, sorry if I am wrong in understanding and commenting for your very useful post. Thank you for sharing, salvation and love always with you and family.

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Thank you very much for your thorough comment and for sharing your detailed understanding of my post @jamalgayoni! You did a good job here in integrating all the models :) I am very glad that you include the significant role dopamine plays in this!

I wish the best to you and your family too :)

I think here should be differentiating between addiction and dependency. Although people use terminology, addiction and dependency, alternate there is a difference between addiction and dependence. Addiction is the result of a condition in which the use of individual substances becomes a daily life aid. The nature of the disorder may vary. This can affect the relationships in life, work and responsibilities that a person has in life. It is both psychological and biological. However, the dependence is slightly different from the addiction. This is when a person needs a certain dose for physical health. Without it, the body has a negative reaction.