2024-01-25 20:38If you often have some bad feelings (such as loneliness, depression, anxiety, sadness), and you accidentally find that something (such as drinking, brushing short**) can effectively alleviate these bad feelings, then in the future, when those bad feelings appear in your heart, you will use such things to dispel these bad feelings. Over time, you become dependent on it. That's addiction.
To put it simply, the main reason why you become addicted is that you often have some bad feelings, and addictive behaviors can get you rid of these bad feelings.
On this point, actor Matthew Perry, who plays Chandler Bing in "Friends", has made it very clear in his autobiography "Old Friends, Lovers and **Annoyance": "For an alcoholic and addict like me, the only purpose of drinking is to feel better......I couldn't help but feel better, and an indescribable urge came over me. ”
A study published in Psychological Science provides the basis for this view: "High levels of negative emotions, or personality tendencies that contribute to negative emotions, can be the beginning of smoking." For example, Lippus et al. found that among personality traits, the hostile trait (a type of hatred that refers to hostility towards others) can lead to smoking addiction problems and difficulty in quitting. Tschann et al. found that a composite measure of emotional distress prospectively ...... substance abuse behaviors, including smokingPerhaps smokers' strongest expectation of smoking is that smoking will reduce negative emotions, and there is plenty of evidence to justify this expectation that smoking reduces negative emotions quickly and significantly. (Source**: Listening to Nicotine: Negative Affect and the Smoking Withdrawal Conundrum).
Adam Aort's book "Addiction" also provides a wonderful illustration of this point: "If we do not become slaves to drugs or behaviors because of our own psychological pain, they are not addictive." For example, if you're anxious or depressed, you may find that food or gambling can help relieve your pain. If you're lonely, you might be ...... in an immersive video game that encourages you to build a new social networkAddiction is really about the relationship between the person and the experience. It's not enough to just keep giving people or a certain behavior – the person must also learn that the experience is a viable way to suffer from their own psychological suffering. ”
After figuring out the correlation between negative emotions and addictive behaviors, several issues related to addiction are well understood.