ADDICTION IS SELF DESTRUCTION

 

Every person in the world faced different sort of addiction in their lives whether in their teenage or after 30s. Addiction is a curse that is hard to get rid of. There are many people who felt the need to get rid of their addiction to make their lives well.

The urge to fulfil the desire for their addiction is basically obsession for a specific thing. Drugs, success, power, pride which may lead to destruction if it is excessively practiced.

The extremist behaviour is harsh for oneself, society and to the environment which harms the innocence.

Addiction turns into compulsive behaviour that in fact induces changes in brain structure and function, provides short-term relief of distress only to create long-term problems of living and self-management, and is difficult to stop even when there is a strong desire to do so?

Once seen as a moral failure, addiction has more recently been viewed strictly as a medical problem. The push to regard addiction as a disease is well-intentioned driven by a desire to lessen stigma—but fails to account for the many facets and facts of the condition.

There is significant evidence that addiction is a complex cultural, social, and psychological phenomenon, as much as it is a biological phenomenon.

“Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you–it’s the cage you live in.” - Johann Hari.

Changes in neural circuitry make the reward extra compelling; it becomes difficult to pay attention to anything else and difficult to stop, even when use creates problems and there is a desire to quit.

The fact that addiction changes the way the brain works lends credibility to the idea of a lifelong disease.

According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the changes are “persistent”—which is not the same

Self-examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom – M scott peck.

Self-assessment cures all the doubt in the head and clears up the negative mind set