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Humans can get hooked to anything that triggers a 'feel good' response, be it gorging on food, drugs, gambling or even exercising. With all the grinding, long
by fb03 8y ago
Humans can get hooked to anything that triggers a 'feel good' response, be it gorging on food, drugs, gambling or even exercising.
With all the grinding, long hours and stressful situations "modern life" puts us through, it's not difficult to see how people more and more just want to hit the 'instant gratification' button instead of actually getting better by working their underlying issues.... there is simply no time for downtime and relaxation anymore, everyone is just too busy doing "actual important stuff", which is a sad matter of affairs.
- taobility 8y agoyou just want to give a reason to indulge yourself. Every adult should clearly know the difference between good habit or bad addiction.
- eikenberry 8y agoI don't think you meant it, but the way you put that makes it sound like you don't think people should ever indulge in things they enjoy.
- asdffdsa321 8y agoIs exercise a good habit or bad addiction?
- emodendroket 8y agoIt can both, since exercise can end up becoming pathological for some, especially those with body-image issues
- Kluny 8y agoEverything is bad for you if you do it enough. "All things in moderation", as the Greeks said.
- nerdponx 8y agoThe problem is that some of these activities that deliver gratification - drinking alcohol, drinking coffee, smoking weed, playing video games - can be physiologically addicting. You might not realize your habit has become an addiction until you're already addicted.
- rubicon33 8y agoIt's also sometimes a struggle to define when something is an addiction, and when it's healthy. A cup of coffee a day. A couple hours of video games in the evening. Are these addictions? Where do you draw the line between healthy, and harmful? That seems fairly subjective to me. Yet, there's plenty of functional alcoholics that would say the same thing about their abuse, right?