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>> This isn't addiction, nor is it anything uncontrollable in general. With as much respect as I can offer I think you should consider the following notion, wh
by tanseydavid 6y ago
>> This isn't addiction, nor is it anything uncontrollable in general.
With as much respect as I can offer I think you should consider the following notion, which in my personal experience is an actual fact:
"Until and unless you have been an addict you truly cannot understand the experience. And subsequently you are not able to point out what is and is not addiction."
- memorysafety 6y agoAsking for opinion: can one transfer experiences with non-drug addictions (videogames, promiscuity, social nets, etc) to the substance-abuse kind? How similar are these?
- tanseydavid 6y agoI think this can be done reasonably. I believe the most-essential factor is this: loss-of-control over the behavior in question. IOW, when the behavior takes places in spite of the individual wishing to stop, or committing to stopping -- then it is almost certainly "an addiction". It is the behavior that is most important, not 'substances' particularly. The trouble is that it is very, very difficult for someone to recognize AND admit that they are unable to control some aspect of their behavior. Most of us will create elaborate explanations to avoid admitting (to ourselves mostly) that sometimes we window up in a situations where we are completely powerless to control our behavior.