What is psychological addiction?
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A psychological addiction is the desire to use a drug due to the effect it produces.  Stopping usage of a drug that causes psychological addiction may cause unease and discomfort but will have no physical effects on the user.  Marijuana is an example of a drug that causes psychological addiction.  Psychological addiction is not always limited to drugs.  Any activity that creates a feeling of euphoria that is craved to the detriment of other things can be a psychological addiction.\n\nA physiological addiction causes withdrawl symptoms and possibly physical harm when someone stops using the drug.  Heroin is an example of a physiological addictive drug.  Withdrawl from heroin can be fatal.
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Figure out why you're addicted.\nThe taste, \nno time to prepare something healthy, \nboredom, \nloneliness, \ndepression, \nallergies.\nLack of: \nsleep,\nexercise,\nvitamins,\nbalanced diet. \n\nOnce you know the cause, it's much easier to find a cure.\nGood luck!
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maybe a meth addiction ?
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Get medical attention... the psychological kind
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Not addicted but I certainly think about it a lot. haven't experienced it in over six years (No small thanks to Zoloft!) but I don't particularly miss it. Only want it within the context of a loving relationship!
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Several explanations (or "models") have been presented to explain addiction:\n\n    * The moral model states that addictions are the result of human weakness, and are defects of character. Those who advance this model do not accept that there is any biological basis for addiction. They often have scant sympathy for people with serious addictions, believing either that a person with greater moral strength could have the force of will to break an addiction, or that the addict demonstrated a great moral failure in the first place by starting the addiction. The moral model is widely applied to dependency on illegal substances, perhaps purely for social or political reasons, but is no longer widely considered to have any therapeutic value. Elements of the moral model, especially a focus on individual choices, have found enduring roles in other approaches to the treatment of dependencies.\n\n    * The opponent-process model generated by Richard Soloman states that for every psychological event A will be followed by its opposite psychological event B. For example, the pleasure one experiences from heroin is followed by an opponent process of withdrawal, or the terror of jumping out of an airplane is rewarded with intense pleasure when the parachute opens. This model is related to the opponent process color theory. If you look at the color red then quickly look at a gray area you will see green. There are many examples of opponent processes in the nervous system including taste, motor movement, touch, vision, and hearing. Opponent-processes occurring at the sensory level may translate "down-stream" into addictive or habit-forming behavior.\n\n    * The disease model holds that addiction is an illness, and comes about as a result of the impairment of healthy neurochemical or behavioral processes. While there is some dispute among clinicians as to the reliability of this model, it is widely employed in therapeutic settings. Most treatment approaches involve recognition that dependencies are behavioral dysfunctions, and thus involve some element of physical or mental disease. Critics like Stanton Peele point to the absence of medical evidence for an implied physiological process (beyond that of simple mood state changes) that can be equated with the disease of addiction.\n\n    * The genetic model posits a genetic predisposition to certain behaviors. It is frequently noted that certain addictions "run in the family," and while researchers continue to explore the extent of genetic influence, there is strong evidence that genetic predisposition is often a factor in dependency. Researchers have had difficulty assessing differences, however, between social causes of dependency learned in family settings and genetic factors related to heredity.\n\n    * The cultural model recognizes that the influence of culture is a strong determinant of whether or not individuals fall prey to certain addictions. For example, alcoholism is rare among Saudi Arabians, where obtaining alcohol is difficult and using alcohol is prohibited. In North America, on the other hand, the incidence of gambling addictions soared in the last two decades of the 20th century, mirroring the growth of the gaming industry. Half of all patients diagnosed as alcoholic are born into families where alcohol is used heavily, suggesting that familiar influence, genetic factors, or more likely both, play a role in the development of addiction.\n\n    * The blended model attempts to consider elements of all other models in developing a therapeutic approach to dependency. It holds that the mechanism of dependency is different for different individuals, and that each case must be considered on its own merits.\n\n    * The habit model proposed by Thomas Szasz questions the very concept of "addiction." He argues that addiction is a metaphor, and that the only reason to make the distinction between habit and addiction "is to persecute somebody.&quo
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Yes, it is! Its a harmless addiction though :) The withdrawal symptoms may be bad though.
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To a smaller degree, yes. Japan already has rehab for people who suffer from addiction to web games. This is a sign that yes, it can be controling. How many times have you waited to go to the bathroom cause your on it? How many times have you been on it and not wanted to eat? I could go on, but I think you get my point.
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is YA addiction associated with your backside\n\nYA= Y our A - -\n\nif that is the addiction then I have it..really I do..\nand to tell you the truth I do not want it to go away..I want it for life..\nand now that I have seen what it looks like\nwill have the addiction too.\ngood luck\nsmile\nsmiles make everyone look great\neven the real pretty one like you...make them look greater...
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If you enjoy plying video games, then they can become addicting. Anything you enjoy doing releases chemicals in your brain and you become addicted to them. So in a way video games are addicting, but so is your favorite food, sex, sleep, hot showers or warm baths. The trick is to simply learn moderation.
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No, an addiction of any kind takes over your life and destroys relationships as you start to ignore your responsibilities.\n\nSex as an addiction is often though of light-heartedly as people think that it is an addiction to something highly pleasurable. However, an addict will do anything to get a fix, and a sex addict could do some very degrading things that would hurt themselves and possibly others.
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It's called addiction. Addiction is a hard habit to break.First, you have to be willing to make a commitment to stop doing things that you know are harmful to you.Second, you need to learn self-discipline(telling yourself no)and Third,you need to pray and ask GOD to give you strength everyday so that you won't do the things that are harmful to you
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Okay, I didn't find what I had hoped to, but here's what I have:\n\nSexual addiction is fueled by anger and loneliness.\n\nDefinition of Sexual Addiction:\n\nA.  Unmanageable:  an addict wants to stop, but can't.  Patterns of out of control sexual behavior have developed over time. \n\nB.  Neuro-chemical Tolerance:  brain chemistry adjusts to whatever chemicals we put into the brain.  These include the chemicals produced when we think about or engage in sex.  Over time the brain will need more and more of the same chemical to produce the same feeling. Sex addicts will need to think about or be sexual more and more over time.  (combined with the adrenaline from risk-taking behavior, this is supposed to be as addictive as crack cocaine.)\n\nC.  Medication.  Depending on the nature of the sexual activity or fantasy, sex can be used as a mood elevator or a relaxant.  (In other words, addicts use sex to medicate themselves, as an alcoholic would resort to drinking to relax or elevate mood.)\n\nD.  Destructive:  Sexual sin leads to a variety of spiritual, emotional, physical, legal, social, and vocational consequences.\n\nFrom "Male Sexual Addiction" by Dr. Mark Laaser.\n\nThe roots of sexual addiction are:\n\nA.  Abuse:  \n     1.  81% of sex addicts are untreated sexual abuse victims.  \n     2.  Adult survivors of childhood abuse - physical, emotional, sexual or spiritual - often medicate their pain through compulsive sexual activity.\n\nB.  Abandonment trauma creates a hole in the soul that fuels an addict's compulsion to fill the loss.  Intense sexual activity or relationships get confused with genuine intimacy.  (From Female Sexual Addiction, by Marnie C. Ferree, M. A.)
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Anxiety is the second most common problem psychiatrists deal with; drug addiction is no. 1. Anxiety is frequently not that difficult to successfully treat; I suggest you see a Psychiatrist.
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I think it is a psychological thing. It is an addiction. Just ask someone who smokes, or drinks how hard it is to quit. You will realize it is an addiction then. I am addicted to food even though I am working on not over eating and only eating when I am hungry.
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because you're addicted
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u may have something so much interesting in it and may be something which have been a fancy for you in ur childhood..if u really want to quit from that strong addiction,try to remember some incidents which have strongly affected pple dur to this addiction or something which u feel is so bad that your mind can't accept it.To say as an example,i remember one of my friends who had such a fancy for mobiles that she couldnt live without..she spend about rs.10000 pm for the maintenence of her 3 mobiles and the bills she had to pay for the maintenance,accessories and the calls she made.One day,after paying these bills,she was coming out of the shop.....A girl of 15 or 16 came to her weeping that her mother was in bed and she had not had food for 5 days.My frind felt so embarraced that she had spent about 9000 rs at the shop for her silly fancy and there are pple beside her without even the money for daily basic needs.She helped the girl..yet...she couldnt further spend so much money  for those fancies..Whenever she had that interest,the face of that girl came to her mind.Similarly,i hope u can try some of these or if u have not had any such experiences,look around..u can see many...u will not have that fancy again.....sure!+BEST WISHES!