Addiction: The Start

Addiction is a global issue, and many people face it every day. Are you the victim or the user? Both are addressed in this podcast. Listen to what are the causes, influencers, and results. Get a short, accurate glance of what is going on.

Transcript

What is addiction?

The definition of addiction is a repeated involvement with anything despite excessive costs because of the craving for a long period of time.

A complicated definition.

I am going to explain you more clearly.

In this definition we have four main elements which play the crucial role.

We have considered the fact that addiction is a disease of the brain.

The brain is said to create a series of events that lead to the addiction.

Science has proven that the brain of severely addicted persons differs from that of healthy persons.

And the main factors of this definition are.

Number one.

Number one statement is that anything can be addictive.

Anything,

And I literally mean anything that is around us or even an imagination can become an addiction sometimes leading to a phobia.

And number two are the costs.

Every addiction brings costs to the addicted.

Addiction never comes cheap.

It always needs an investment.

It can be low or extremely high,

But it always brings some costs.

Number three statement is time.

Addiction is like a child.

It grows slowly and can take years to fully grow.

Addiction of most activities and even products go through phases like the growing of a child.

From baby to child,

From kid to adolescent and then it becomes adult.

Number four statement is that great things that start in the lower conscious and is constantly there.

Even when you think you're not aware of it.

Great things is the feelings that you want something and only to get it becomes a reason that it makes you feel better.

Addiction has a face for most people.

What are your thoughts when you think of an addicted person?

The general vision of an addicted person is that it is somebody thin,

Poorly dressed,

Clear graving in the face and burning eyes.

But is that true?

Are addicted this kind of stereotype people?

The answer is not at all.

Most addicts look like the common people and show no signs of their addiction.

Do not be surprised if in your direct environment is an addicted person.

Addiction starts with a common,

Often accepted try of something new.

A concept or product or thoughts or just try.

The new experience makes an impression to the user and awakes specific emotions.

This first impression persuades the user to try it again.

To see if that emotional status and physical experience happens again.

After a period the habit is no longer under control but becomes a compulsive habit.

Gradually the compulsivity becomes a force and turns into a need.

A person is no longer in charge of the use of the product or behaviour but cannot live without it.

And then it is called addiction.

Addiction is the state that a person loses control over the use of a product or activity and is no longer able to control his or her habits rationally and emotionally.

The definition leaves open the fact to what can you be addicted.

Some people are serious health threatening addicted such as foods,

Gaming,

Sex,

Clothing,

Shopping and so on.

All these can lead to the same dangerous effects of addiction,

Loss of control and finally a physical and or mental dependency that can lead to death,

Often to suicide or even murder.

In our society more and more people become addicted to a variation of things and for different reasons.

What are the causes of addiction?

Cause number one is the mental aspect.

Every addiction you take,

Every thought comes from the brain.

Many scientists suggest that the brain creates chemicals that are the cause of addiction.

To make you feel satisfied you need a certain number of endorphins,

Ziratamine,

Dopamine and oxytocin.

Even the greatest minds cannot solve the mystery why some people need more of this.

The happiness feeling than others to live a normal life.

But the gaining of happiness seems not to be the leading argument for addiction.

As real addicts never reach a moment of complete satisfaction and dissolvent of the gravenings.

Behind addiction is a greater force,

Such as genetics and epigenetics,

Which seems to be the motor of the disbalanced emotional,

Physical and mental control.

But even that cannot be the full explanation.

And we must consider an energetic force that turns on and off these switches when and how it believes it is right.

How these energetic forces control our life and how we can manage it is one of the topic of my many other podcasts.

Cast number two is considered the initials of events.

Every addiction has a starting point.

We call that the initiation point.

It is the moment that the person gets into contact with the product or event and he or she will become addicted to.

Let me give you some unlikely example to make you consider this carefully.

I choose this because it is really an unlikely event.

You hardly find a person who is addicted on ice cream living in a cold country covered with ice and snow,

Where the cold is freezing and not inviting much to eat ice.

Neither do you feel and find an ice cream addict in a tropical country where the ice starts to melt the moment it comes out of the fridge.

You find an ice cream addict in a country which warms up us,

Cool winters.

During summer the ice cream lover tastes and tries and used every opportunity to eat ice.

In winter she will create opportunities to eat the ice and it is always looking for new challenges to eat and try.

The event here is the summer and the initiator,

The ice cream.

It is easy to blame the initiation moment for a person's failure to stay away from the addiction.

But I believe in fate.

A person has a life plan beyond our understanding of control.

Everyone needs 30 moments in life to be tested.

Each test is a step in another direction.

None of the directions is good or bad.

All are considered teaching moments.

We learn to survive and most of all we learn to develop.

And from that thought on becoming addicted is not really a problem but another way,

Another road to learn.

It becomes a problem when the individual does not learn anything and becomes a plague to its own environment.

Cost number three is social.

The kind of addiction is often connected with a certain social status.

In every social status we find people who are addicted to something as it is directly connected with their personal mental situation in that social environment.

And then it is really number four,

The environmental issue.

The availability and the opportunity are both directly linked to the living environment.

And are the creators to start or prolong an addiction?

Cost number five is genetics.

Some people have a genetic influenced addiction.

It is understood that alcoholism,

Drugs and even gambling are possibly genetic transferable.

This statement is still under dispute but amongst professionals it is a common good to know that when an addict comes in for a treatment to ask the past family history.

Often we find at least a father or a mother who used or still is using a specific addiction in that environment.

Cost number six is physical.

Unlike the common idea that addiction starts as addictions after the first try it takes time to become addicted to nearly everything.

There is an exception.

Sex is really an exception.

The reason why this addiction is difficult to control is based on the physical aspects.

Sex is an addiction where the physical behaviour and satisfaction is needed to satisfy the mind.

And sex addicts have a tendency to become extreme.

In the last ten years we see a development of chemical addictions which can start after one or two times of trying and which are severe and dangerous.

In most addictions the physical dependency on the product takes time to even develop and build up.

And it delivers more or less severe medical physical problems when the person needs to stop the use of it.

Cost number seven is the chemical dependency.

Chemical dependency is something we often find with medication and hard drugs.

In most cases the person who is addicted to a medicine gets it via doctor's subscription.

Chemical dependency is initiated by the advice and mainly of doctors or friends.

The victim often takes it to conquer psychological or physical problems or specific limitations.

Cost number eight is improved feeling of wellbeing.

The first part of chemical dependency is in fact that you are feeling better after taking the product.

You sleep better,

Your mood is better,

You can think clearly.

You feel healthier,

You have more energy.

All these feeling better moments contribute to the wish to continue that feeling and the wish to take again the product.

The problem with most of these products is in the fact that your body is getting used to the product and often needs more and more and more to get the same effect.

We call that the rebound effect,

Till you reach a toxicity level that is called an overdose.

Cost number nine is food related.

People with a food addiction wish to look or feel better.

Most know that they eat too much,

Others desire to slim down.

Both sides are busy with the focus on food,

The eating and the digestion.

The overeating group is not considering their health as an issue but use food as an emotional medicine.

They keep eating or stop doing so.

Both are on opposing sides of the food addiction.

But finally they have the common aspects of endangering their health and the inability to stop the behaviour.

And cost number ten is the morphological related.

There is a group of people who wish to grow,

Look bigger,

Stronger,

Better in shape.

Stirrods are easy to get products for mainly boys and men who wish to look muscular,

Grow big in size and show off for their friends and women.

But they have become increasingly popular amongst women in recent years.

The products are very addictive to men with an inferiority complex.

One of the real problems is the balloon effect.

Using the products makes you grow amazingly fast with a minimum of training.

When you stop the use of stirrods you lose the gained volume and start slimming down.

Most men wish to keep a specific shape and size and start reusing it again and again.

And that is creating the addiction.

This is the end of part one of the whole survey.

There is much more to follow.

If you have any questions or opinions please post them here.

And I will address back to you,

Keep in mind that in the postcards I always can handle a certain amount of things.

That there is much more to talk about.

And that is what I do in my lectures.

So the postcards are often just a short part of the real concept of the things.

So listen well,

Any questions just ask.

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