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The description of your craving process is both fascinating and horrifying. Well, mostly horrifying. Is there a scientific name for this very process? I'm not

The description of your craving process is both fascinating and horrifying. Well, mostly horrifying. Is there a scientific name for this very process? I'm not a drug addict either, but I can relate with some of it about my cigarette smoking habit (it's actually an addiction, I know). As for the metaphor, "every weekend" looks already like an enormous amount of debt to me.

mettamage 6y ago
Yea, I'm talking from the perspective of an addict or in-between addict during that sentence. From their perspective, every weekend is fine. Moreover, I know one (exactly 1) acquaintance that has done cocaine for more than 30 years every weekend and only in the weekends. So arguably he wasn't addicted, not in the psychopathological sense where he wasn't functioning in society (he was, I think he did construction work). Unfortunately, I don't know enough (anymore) on the science of craving, most of what I wrote is actually what I've noticed because of meditation and self-reflection, so it's a very subjective account. Though, what I stated about conditioning, that is scientifically proven, you can read the wiki of operant and classical conditioning. > The description of your craving process is both fascinating and horrifying. Well, mostly horrifying. In certain forms of mindfulness meditation you're asked to observe your sensations in your body. In practice this can translate to observing whatever craving you're experiencing :P Let me think a bit what areas of research might be interesting to account a bit for my subjective experience... - Wanting and Liking from Berridge's lab [1]. - Research on how to make slot machine's addictive [2] But those ideas are a bit more circumstantial I believe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_salience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_salience [2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247926701_Addictive_gameplay_What_casual_game_designers_can_learn_from_slot_machine_research https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247926701_Addictive...

mettamage 6y ago

Yea, I'm talking from the perspective of an addict or in-between addict during that sentence. From their perspective, every weekend is fine. Moreover, I know one (exactly 1) acquaintance that has done cocaine for more than 30 years every weekend and only in the weekends. So arguably he wasn't addicted, not in the psychopathological sense where he wasn't functioning in society (he was, I think he did construction work). Unfortunately, I don't know enough (anymore) on the science of craving, most of what I wrote is actually what I've noticed because of meditation and self-reflection, so it's a very subjective account. Though, what I stated about conditioning, that is scientifically proven, you can read the wiki of operant and classical conditioning. > The description of your craving process is both fascinating and horrifying. Well, mostly horrifying. In certain forms of mindfulness meditation you're asked to observe your sensations in your body. In practice this can translate to observing whatever craving you're experiencing :P Let me think a bit what areas of research might be interesting to account a bit for my subjective experience... - Wanting and Liking from Berridge's lab [1]. - Research on how to make slot machine's addictive [2] But those ideas are a bit more circumstantial I believe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_salience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_salience [2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247926701_Addictive_gameplay_What_casual_game_designers_can_learn_from_slot_machine_research https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247926701_Addictive...