Contents:
- Medical Video: Drug Addiction : How to Tell if a Person is Using Cocaine
- What is addiction?
- Addiction is different from habits
- How do I know that I am addicted?
- What are the causes of addiction?
Medical Video: Drug Addiction : How to Tell if a Person is Using Cocaine
Do you have an addiction to something? Actually, anyone can have their own addiction to something. Whether it's addicted to food, work, play video games, alcohol, exercise, shopping, and drugs. What actually causes addiction? How do you know that you are addicted? Is addiction to something normal? Or is it a psychological disorder?
What is addiction?
Addiction is the condition of a person experiencing loss of control of what he does - caused by strong desire or passion for something - and happens for a long time. People who have addictions don't have control over what they do, use or consume for something they make opium.
Addiction does not only happen to physical objects that you can consume, it turns out according to experts many types of addiction to a behavior that you might not realize. Addiction conditions that occur in a person can cause adverse effects on his health, especially psychological health. It is not impossible that addiction causes behavior, habits, even brain function to change.
Addiction is different from habits
Of course addiction is different from repeated habits. When you make a habit that you always do, you can stop it at any time according to the conditions that occur. But not with addiction, you really have a hard time stopping the behavior, whatever happens to stop it.
In essence, you lose control and control over what you do so you cannot stop the activity. Disorders of a person's psychological aspects can also be one of the causes of addiction.
How do I know that I am addicted?
Some characteristics that indicate a person experiencing addiction are:
- Cannot stop doing a habit
- Unstable emotional changes
- Increase appetite
- Causes insomnia
- Withdrew from the environment due to the importance of things that are his passion
- Doing a lot of denial and always justifying himself with what he does
- Having problems in romance or social relationships.
What are the causes of addiction?
Before knowing the causes of addiction, this condition is basically in three stages, namely:
- Early stage where the desire for objects arises
- Second stage, began to like the object and then lost control of themselves in carrying out activities related to the object.
- Last stage that is, when the behavior is continued it becomes a habit that is difficult to stop.
The thing that really causes addiction is the emergence of pleasure in the brain. Whatever the activity, whether it's sex, psychoactive drugs, abundant assets, or foods that taste good, will be interpreted with the same thing in the brain. The brain will respond to all the pleasure through a similar response, namely by producing the hormone dopamine or pleasure hormone. This hormone will increase when you feel satisfied, happy, and happy about something.
In this condition, it turns out that dopamine is not just responding to the pleasure you have just faced, but this hormone also causes excessive liking that can cause you to become addicted. If the levels of dopamine produced by the brain are normal, then it will not cause addiction. But when you experience addiction, the object that makes you addicted stimulates the brain to produce excessive dopamine.
