Showing posts with label habits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label habits. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

What exactly is Addiction/Dependency? The causes of this?

Everyone has an opinion on addiction including me but this article focuses on the medical classifications of what an addiction is and the difference between habitual and addictive behavior.

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What exactly is Addiction? The causes of Addiction?


People who have a dependency don't have control over what they're doing, taking or using. Their dependence may reach a stage where it's not harmless. Dependencies do not only contain physical things we have, like drugs or booze, but may contain almost anything, such intangible matters as gaming to apparently innocuous products, like chocolate - in other words, dependency may reference a material dependency (e.g. drug addiction) or behavioral addiction (e.g. gaming).