Addiction

Addiction

I suppose this is something everyone is guilty/proud of. Even I have issues with this term, although I suppose when I deal with it the end result is of towards more of a general good product than losing to it. Basically, addiction is just overuse of anything. Skating too much, reading too much, gaming too much, eating too much, studying too much whatever that comes into mind. One of the scariest thing about these kind of psychological issues is that many a times, because it is more of a mental issue rather than a materialistic one, it is very hard to grasp the concept that thyself is addicted to whatever. The hours spent on it increases, negligence on other possibly more important priorities decreases and depending on the type of materialistic or mental matter that one is addicted to, most of the time oneself social life would also be degraded. Addiction covers everything, and this will stand true. Even if debating about addicted to breathing, it can come in many forms. Intoxication of chemicals, smoking, sniffing of substances and so on. Everything can be addicted to. I suppose getting addicted is easy, be it a chemical, psychological or a forced reaction to equate into this state. Addiction mostly is a negative effect, based on the principal that too much of anything will become a problem now or later in the future. But sometimes addiction has their advantages. Because some addictions are easier to get off than others, one use of addiction that I have never quite seen first-hand is to jump from one addiction to another till it reaches one that can be resolved easily. Such as a chain smoker to an alcohol drinker. Both are bad, but so is everything. The concept is to change addiction to something maintainable, using the psychological effect of addiction to ween off the previous one. Also, it could prove as motivation, same as many workshops provided by the school to psycho students into hardcore studying. The result might not show the fruits of the done labour, but it induces a chance that the person addicted to a "supposedly" good thing might emerge with something worthwhile. It is a totally different thing from interest or hobby, both of which are controllable, but addiction is not. Proving one is not addicted is often difficult, where pleasure usually overrides the decision to point out that one is addicted to a certain thing. It may not be a every single minute addiction, but addiction would mean that the density of usage increases as time goes on, to a point where it becomes a destructive matter. It is possible to be addicted and then not to a certain thing without ever being conscious of it, as it is possible to be addicted and not able to do anything about it. Basically, the degree and the existence of any addiction highly depends on a person. The ability to psychologically manage it, the attitude to detect and be aware of it, whether it is maturing or aggressively manifesting, deteremines the level of addiction to anything in a person's life. Because it covers so many angles in the world, it is hard to lay anything down on this addiction matter, because it is too diverse. The possibly only thing that I can truly know about it is that it is always up to you to decide if you got an addiction or not and whether you should ween of it. Proving an addiction is hard. Resisting an addiction is never because you can't, but rather that at whenever instance, you can do it, but you choose not to do it. It's always a free will thing.