Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Behavioral Addiction
You need to pick a behavioral addiction. The possibilities are limitless. You need to DO SOME RESEARCH!!!! FIND AN ARTICLE AND LINK IT IN THE POST AND INCLUDE INFORMATION FROM THE ARTICLE IN YOUR RESPONSE.You article needs to help you do not just give my notes to me again. Then you need to compare the behavioral addiction you picked to substance addiction and also point out some differences. This should take you some time if done correctly.Due Thur BY 11:59pM!!!
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http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2012/05/08/11591538-addicted-to-your-cellphone-nomophobia-on-the-rise?lite
ReplyDeleteA behaviorial addiction is the addiction to a certain lifestyle or behavior. Nomophobia means "no mobile phone phobia", which is the addiction to your cellphone. Therefore, an addict would obsessively check their phone and take it with theme everywhere. Studies show that 66 percent of people are addicted to their cellphones.
An example of a cellphone addict is a mother named Karla Campos. Karla checks her phone more than 50 times a day while an average person checks it 34 times. She never leaves her phone, so she sleeps with it under her pillow so it can be closer to her and not miss any texts or calls she may get. Also, she takes it into the shower with her and places it in a dry spot above the shower, in case she gets any calls or texts. Above all that, she communicates with her 10 year old son through texting and facebook, even if they are in the same room. She believes that cellphones brings her family closer.
This addiction might not seem extreme, but it can be just as extreme as drug addictions because you become dependant on that behavior or object. You feel that you can't live without it and always need it to make you feel happy and complete, which is the same thing as drug addicts; They always need to have drugs to make them happy and take away the pain. The main difference between behavioral addictions and substance addictions is that behaviorial addictions may not effect you in a physical way to your body, like substance addictionts, but they can effect your lifestyle by making you less social, in debt, alientated socially, and keeping your mind away things your should worry about in daily life.
In conclusion, both substance and behavioral addictions are both extremely harmful, but in different areas of life.
http://addictions.about.com/od/lesserknownaddictions/a/shoppingadd.htm
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addiction is a non-substance where a person repeatedly engages in an action to the point where the action starts having negative consequences on the person’s physical, mental, and social state. This is often known as an impulse control disorder. Some behavioral addictions are gambling, food, sex, exercise, work.
This article talks about compulsive shopping also known omniomania. This addiction means the person does not just love shopping but shops excessively, more than the normal person. It becomes their way to cope with stress or when they are depressed or when something exciting happens in their life. They have the need to buy something or just spend money. Usually with the addicts it does not matter what they are buying they just get the thrill from purchasing items.
Ryan from an episode about addictions was addicted to shopping. He we go on 3 AM shopping sprees just because he had the impulse to buy something. His house was filled with item after item of the thing he bought some used once and some not at all. This addiction affected his life by putting him in debt because he will constantly buy things he cannot afford. This addiction originally started off when he got sexually abused as a child and his mom took him on a shopping spree to cope with that and that trigger led him to go shopping whenever a stressful event happened and it eventually caused him to become addicted.
This shopping addiction is like someone being addicted to Heroin. Just like a Heroin addict experiences an instant high so does a compulsive shopper. When they buy something new they get that high of spending money and having a new item that is there but that high lasts for a little while and eventually wears off causing them to buy something else. This is like a Heroin user, they experience that instant high but that soon wears off causing them to use again. Some of the differences though are that with a Heroin addict they experience severe physical effects while a compulsive shopper does not. Also a heroin addicts often use with their friends while compulsive shoppers shop by themselves because no one else gets the same experiences they feel.
Both addictions may have different consequences but still affect the addict’s life and are their ways to cope with stress.
http://www.addictionz.com/addictions.htm
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addictions are increased referred to as process addictoin or non-substance related addcition behavioral addicton includes impulsion to a repeated engagement in na action until the action causes serious negative consequences to the person's phyisacl,mental,social well-being.
This link shows sevearal examples to all the many types of behavioral addictions. Most of this addcition just like before have a trigger and have the same affects of substance abuse. Substance addiction and behavioral addiction are basically the same. They both have the same consequences. the only difference is that substance abuse are drugs that you put into your body where as behavioral abuse are things like shopping,gambling ,sex or picking scabs. Both, of these disorders hvae a drive which is a state of tension or arousal brought on by biological means. Just like how drugs give you a temperarly high so does substance is taboo a man was addicted to shopping even though he bouth stuff he didnt care about he still felt happy and had a high. The longes he ever went with out shopping was 48hrs and he got reaklkly sick and had to go to the doctors.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/gambling-addict-gets-home-detention-for-stealing-from-retirees/story-e6frg6n6-1226525635968
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addiction are also known as impulse control disorders, it does not involve substances. Its where one is addicted to a ceratin lifesytle and behavior. They can get the same feeling like someone who would be on Heorine, because they feel good about themselves. Like someone whos addicted to gambling. But Behavioral addictions are soft addictions and doesn't deal with substances. But like any addict they need help willingfully by choice or not. Either therapy or group therapy or to stay at a treatment center to try to get help with their behavioral addictions or substance addiction. But being an addict to a substance or something like gambling takes up most of someones time.
Karen Myhanh is a gambling addict who was a former commomwealth bank employee, and she had taken around about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the wealthy retirees. She gamlbed so much and got to the point where she was really needing money to continue her gambling addiction. So she was orderd to be assesed for home detention. But won't finish her home detention until for a while.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.healthyplace.com/addictions/work-addiction/addiction-to-work-workaholism/
ReplyDeleteIncreasingly referred to as process addiction or non-substance-related addiction behavioral addiction includes a compulsion to repeatedly engage in an action until the action causes serious negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being. One sign that a behavior has become addictive is if it persists despite these consequences.
A workaholic is a person who is addicted to work. Workaholism is not the same as working hard. Despite logging in an extraordinary amount of hours and sacrificing their health and loved ones for their jobs, workaholics are frequently ineffective employees. Experts say the incessant work-related activity masks anxiety, low self-esteem, and intimacy problems. As with addictions to alcohol, drugs or gambling, workaholics' denial and destructive behavior will persist despite feedback from loved ones or danger signs such as deteriorating relationships. Poor health is another warning sign. Also, because there's less of a social stigma attached to workaholism than to other addictions, health symptoms can easily go undiagnosed or unrecognized. Workaholism in Japan is considered a serious social problem leading to early death, often on the job, a phenomenon dubbed karoshi. Overwork was popularly blamed for the fatal stroke of Prime Minister of Japan Keizo Obuchi, in the year 2000. In the U.S. and Canada workaholism remains the so-called "respectable addiction" that's dangerous as any other. Workaholism is an addiction, an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it's not the same as working hard. Workaholic's obsession with work is all-occupying, which prevents workaholics from maintaining healthy relationships, outside interests, or even take measures to protect their health. Even though workaholics don’t have a needle in their arm, they are addicted just like a heroin addict. They risk everything just for their job. Them working gives them a rush, like heroin to an addict.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.professorshouse.com/Health-Beauty/Addictions/Articles/Exercise-Addiction/
Behavioral addiction is a process or non-substance related addiction. It consists of compulsively repeating and action. They can also be known as impulse control disorders. Some examples are food, sex, porn, video games, and exercise.
Laura is addicted specifically to exercise. She runs for hours every day and never skips one run. No matter how busy she is, she still runs. Also, if she doesn’t beat her time from the day before, then she makes herself start completely over. She exercises even when she is missing out on spending time with her daughter. Exercise addiction is often linked to eating disorders, as many anorexics and bulimics are addicted to exercise. A person does not however have to have and eating disorder to be anorexic. Most exercise addicts are women due to the media and the many women with body image issues. Just like a substance addiction, being addicted to exercise has a trigger, like the media or the need to feel in control. Both also have the issue of comorbidity because Laura seems to be OCD with making herself start over if she does not beat her previous time. Laura’s exercise addiction is similar to a substance addiction because she could hurt herself just as a heroin addict could. The addiction also affects her family because she chooses to exercise rather than be with her family. Differences in exercise addiction and substance addiction are that the consequences can be different. With exercise addiction the person is less likely to die than with substance addiction.
Behavioral addiction is just as much an addiction as drugs. They have dangerous consequences and should not be ignored. A person with a behavioral addiction is very similar to a drug addict, they just happen to be addicted to exercise and not heroin. The effects however are very similar and destructive to a person’s life.
http://www.illpumpyouup.com/articles/addicted-to-bodybuilding.htm
ReplyDeleteBodybuilding can be just as addictive as heroine can be. At the end of a long day addicts find themselves cravinf for something to get their minds off stress, issues, work, and maybe even to just calm themselves. So they head to the local gym to lift. Many men could have what some call "Adonis Complex" which is a term to describe men who, in order to impress women, become addicted the extreme workouts that help get them big, quick. For others, they crave the positive comments they get at local gyms about there arms or legs. Even the atmosphere of the gym can help ease on the addiction. Now how does this compare to the substance addictions such as heroine, meth, or cocaine? Well some bodybuilders aren't addicted to going and beating up their bodies for an hour, but they are addicted to the rush it gives them when they squat 400 or bench 500. Just like substance abusers, they are addicted to the dopamine and the feeling it produces. Also it consumes their lives. While an alcoholic rearranges their life in order to get what they want, the liquor, a bodybuilder schedules around the time they spend at the gym. In 9/10 addictions there is a trigger that causes the addict to use the drug. In the bodybuilding addiction its the stress of every day life and the anger that a job produces that causes one to go to the gym and pound their anger out on dumbbell or barbell. Its time consuming just like a substance abuser is consumed with their high.
The behavioral addiction I chose is self-injury. People who self harm, usually have an underlying reason for the actions the take, but they self harm in order to express what they are felling and going through. Self-Injury(SI) is the intentional infliction to one’s body, usually used as an escape or distraction from some emotional trigger they are trying to avoid. There is a higher percentage of girls who self-mutilate over boys; however, there are male who self-harm as well. When someone cuts themselves, the brain produces endorphins. Endorphins are used as neurotransmitters that regulate mood and the way one responds to pain or stress. People who become addicted to cutting usually become addicted to the natural pain killers(endorphins) released to numb the pain, not the actual cutting. Endorphins are released when doing physical activity, such as, running, dancing, laughing, crying, and skydiving. Cutting can give you the ‘runner’s high’ feeling one get from strenuous workouts or activity. Like other drugs, this produces an altered state of mind, which acts as an escape route to avoid coping with issues. An opiate that produces a similar response from the brain is heroin. Heroin produces a surging high of euphoria followed by a devastating low. Opiates mimic endorphins by blocking pain. The heroin gives you an instant high like one cutting, which is why it is so addicting. Both Heroin and cutting can have similar side effects, these would include: addiction, infection, death, scars, and depression.
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http://www.wisegeek.com/what-kind-of-activity-releases-endorphins.htm
causes serious consequences to that addict’s physical, mental, social, or financial well-being.
ReplyDeleteVideo game addiction has been increasing since the first manufacturing of them in the 1950’s. Even though research is inconclusive, evidence shows that video games can be harmful to children, increase their signs of aggression and can lead to an addiction. Research shows that 10-15% of video gamers show the criteria necessary to become an addict. Heavy usages of gaming is said to be ranged at two hours a day, though some estimates say they range to 6-12 hours a week. Researchers go as far as saying that video games are some way of a coping mechanism for people who been put through a lot. Some affects of this addiction are increased risk of light induced seizures, musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremities and increased metabolic rate.
On the website I visited, I couldn’t get a name from the kid’s testimony, but it said how he started to play video games because of his cousins and friends (who were all over-weight). He started off just playing 2-3 hours a day, to when his cousin gave him his account and then he started to play 6-10 hours a day. He showed increase signs of aggression, because he would curse out anyone who tried to tell him get off. He got so wrapped up in his gaming lifestyle that he gave up hanging out with his friends and exercising with them, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he also gained a couple of pounds. He would also put countless dollars into his video game.
Video game addiction is a type of behavior addiction. Behavioral addiction and co dependency still go hand-in-hand. Co dependency is when on base their actions off a drug addicts (or regular person) actions. Even though it’s not a major, deathly drug, it still causes you pain, whether it’s physical, mental emotional, or financial. Behavioral addictions usually are acquired as a coping mechanism. Behavioral addiction is an addiction that can steer you away from reality easily, if you give it the chance too.
http://addictions.about.com/od/lesserknownaddictions/a/videogameadd.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/hooked-feeling-dangers-behavioral-addictions/story?id=17463393#.ULfIf-RX3dE
ReplyDeleteA behavioral addiction is referred to as process addiction[1] or non-substance-related addiction, behavioral addiction includes a compulsion to repeatedly engage in an action until said action causes serious negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being.
An example is 34 year old Anne. She got addicted to the feeling of a new romance. She was already married with two kids, but she'd risk it all for the high of a new romance. She called them all her boyfriends, and she jumped from affair to affair. She says that she needed more and more, which is typical for any person to say that is addicted to anything; whether it's a drug or a feeling. The feeling Anne gets is just like a feeling that a meth addict would get. They get so addicted to the feeling of it that they cannot live without it and it becomes an addiction, and dangerous. A behavioral addiction is different from substance addiction because substance addition is like somebody who is addicted to a drug, and it can hurt them physically, while behavioral addiction can hurt them mentally. They are the same because both addictions give off a high that the addict can't go without. Anne's behavioral addiction is very dangerous because she's risking loosing her family, and kids. A person who is addicted to a drug (substance addiction) is dangerous as well because they can end up killing themselves, or hurting themselves. Both substance and behavioral addiction are harmful and in many ways they are similar but in many ways they are different.
http://voices.yahoo.com/adrenaline-addiction-signs-symptoms-soteriology-6208158.html
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addiction is when someone uses an action rather than a substance to get a euphoric feeling. Just like a drug user, they keep doing the action no matter the consequences. They often risk relationships, social standing, health both mentally and physically, and financial security.
A type of behavioral addiction is when someone is addicted to adrenaline, the flight or fight feeling. Adrenaline has been proven to make us stronger or enable us to stay awake for long periods of time as in the cases of gaming addicts. This "super" hormone has enabled people to literally lift cars off of people to save their lives whereas under normal circumstances they could not exercise such a feat. The problem with this "feel good" hormone that was designed to alleviate stress on a short term basis or for emergency situations. Too much of a good thing ends up being a bad thing. Adrenaline can increase our cholesterol level, blood pressure, and even cause a heart attack from being too angry. Even more serious consequences include: cardiac disease, stroke, high blood pressure, sleep deprivation, diabetes, obesity, panic anxiety disorder, and major depression. Like the guy from the show taboo we watched in class, he was addicted to adrenaline. He would base jump off mountains and cliffs. He showed a photo with him and ten other base jumpers and five of them had died base jumping. He even had a girlfriend die while they were skydiving. Even after watching six people die he continues to base jump. Even though he isn't shooting up drugs, he is addicted to adrenaline.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4356517/Shopping-addiction-ruined-my-life.html
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addiction is referred to as process addiction or non-substance related addiction. It also is sometimes referred to as impulse control disorders and it also includes a compulsion to repeatedly engage in an action until the action causes serious negative consequences to the person physically, mentally, socially or financially. In this case the girl in my article is dealing with this disorder financially.
Her name is Chantelle Baldwin. Her addiction is shopping. She says, “I can’t imagine a day without shopping. My addiction started gradually when I was 16. I started earning money working at a beautician’s and I spent the cash as soon as I earned it. Sometimes I’d spend so much on dresses; I couldn’t afford to go to the occasion I bought them for. Now I earn £14,000 a year and still spend everything I earn and more on my wardrobe. If I see a dress I like I buy it in every color. I had a boyfriend for two years but my constant spending drove him mad because I never had any money to go out. Our relationship ended last year.” As you can see she felt the need to spend money right when she had it and that if she saw something that she wanted and then didn’t buy it then she would lose sleep over it. It also ended her relationship with her boyfriend because her addiction was consuming her life.
Behavioral addiction isn’t harmful like substance addiction. But it’s similar to it because then you become dependent on that object or behavior to take away any pain that you might have and to keep you from feeling low. The difference between substance and behavioral addiction is that substance addiction can harm you physically, where behavioral can affect your lifestyle as well as your social life.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/mental-disorders/10-strange-addictions5.htm
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addiction, also known as a process addiction, is a non-substance related compulsion to repeatedly do an action until negative consequences in any way. Common examples of behavioral addictions are gambling, food, sex, and computers. These behaviors can be just as addicting as substance drugs as in heroin, meth, and marijuana. There are hundreds of behavioral addictions, but the one I will use that comes out of this article is ice chewing.
Ice chewing is a habit that people have that indicate iron deficiency anemia. The proper term of compulsively chewing and consuming amounts of ice is pagophagia. This is a from of pica. Pica is when people crave and consume non-food items. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 2 percent of American men ages 18 and older as well as 16 percent of women between ages 16 and 19 are compulsive ice chewers. The best and easy way to treat this is treating the iron deficiency. For some people though this craving can be a sign of a mental disorder. This behavior will not necessarily have serious negative consequences but people still are addicted to chewing ice all the time. Behavioral addictions might not be as serious as substance addiction but people still suffer from these addictions everyday just like a person abusing drugs everyday just in a different way.
Usually when you hear the word addiction, you think of a substance addiction such as drugs or alcohol. Addiction is more than that, it can be an addiction to food,sex, video games, and a life style. Behavioral addiction is a process or non-substance related addiction.
ReplyDelete“Sometimes two people are addicted to each other. These individuals seldom interact with others and tend to be possessive of each other and jealous of their lover's interactions with other people. They are motivated by their own need for security and not by an appreciation of each other's personal qualities. Addicted lovers will see each other more and more in order to maintain a secure state, often completely rejecting other people. When they are apart, they "long" for each other. Neither feels that he or she is a whole person without the other. Even if their constant contact degenerates into conflict, fights, and problems, they feel that they cannot separate. When the lover are separated from each other for a long time, withdrawal symptoms of sleep and eating disorders, shaking, confusion, weeping, and feelings of failure, depression, and hopelessness occur.” http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/rbook/readabd.htm
Behavior addiction is the same as substance addiction by the fact that you get addicted to something or someone being there that when that something or someone is gone the person doesn’t know what to do.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/16/south-korea-s-video-game-addiction.html
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addiction is a form of addiction that do not rely on substances, such as drugs or alcohol. Behavioral addictions have the same symptoms as drug addiction and alcoholism. Addictions alter mood by creating a "high" feeling. When engaging in an addictive activity, the brain seeks to recreate this feeling even if it results in negative consequences to a person's physical, mental, social, or financial well-being. Shopping,gambling, video games and sex are some types of behavioral addictions.
This article is about a South Korean video game addict who was found dead in his home. He’d played intensely since graduating from high school, rarely sleeping or leaving his room. Also in 2005, a 28 year-old man collapsed and died from organ failure after playing for 50 hours straight. The most high profile case was a married couple who were so addicted to a video game, they completely neglected their child. The baby starved to death. As you can see, any type of an addiction is dangerous. Whether its substance or non-substance abuse, people depend on these life styles. These video game addicts are like many other drug addicts. For example, playing a video game can take your mind of something just like alcohol or marijuana. Many people who have a drug or behavior addiction are triggered by something. In the interventions we've watched in class, most people have a past trauma relating to family issues. Substance addiction are people who are addicted to a drug(marijuana,heroin,meth,etc.) Behavioral addiction(non-substance abuse) are less harmful than substance abuse but at the same time can be very dangerous. Both addictions are dangerous and can result in death.
http://addictions.about.com/od/sexaddiction/a/sexaddiction.htm
ReplyDeleteA behavioral addiction is a compulsion to repeatedly engage in an action until the action causes serious negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social, or financial well-being. One sign that a behavior has become addictive is if it continues despite these consequences.
Sex addiction would be an example of a behavioral addiction. Sex addiction, like other addictions is a maladaptive pattern of behavior which involves constant dependence on various forms of sexual expression in order to deal with the stresses and problems of human life. Like other addictions sex addiction has a cyclical pattern of behavior which involves urges and cravings to engage in the behavior, a ritualistic way of planning and acting out the behavior, and a sense of relief and elation on engaging in the behavior, followed by a period of withdrawal and repeated cravings.
This article basically just talks about what sex addiction is and how it can affect the life just like many other addictions. Sex addiction takes its own course or cycle similar to most drug. You feel depressed or down and because your addiction is sex, you turn to sex to get you up and feeling happy again. Once the satisfaction of the sex leaves you began to miss the pleasurable feeling it gives off and start having withdraws before soon hitting rock bottom once again. Each time you hit a low point in your life the next time may be lower and lower until you eventually hit an all time low and possibly never come back from it. This is why the addiction and cycle can be so dangerous.
This type of behavioral addiction can be compared to substance abuse addictions because they both come with devastating cycles. Sex addiction and drug addiction both share similar cycles that involve the depressed feelings, the actions to relieve their depression, the "high", he withdraws, and then finally the downward fall to rock bottom again just so they can star over and repeat the cycle.
Difference between these two types of addiction would be the drugs and substances itself compared to just the behavior traits. They are two way different types of addictions that carry some of the same characteristics and consequences. More differences would be the affects drug and substance abuse physically have on your body. Most behavioral addiction probably wont play such a physical toll on your body but maybe more of a mental one.
Thank you for your time Sir and I hope to see a 20/20 on renweb.
http://www.covecenterforrecovery.com/Cutting-Addiction-Treatment.asp
ReplyDeleteThe two main forms of addiction we learned in class was behavioral and substance abuse.
Behavioral addiction consist of being addicted to a certain lifestyle or behavior.
Substance addiction however is being addicted to a substance that releases that dopamine.
The addiction of cutting is a very common yet severe addiction that tends to be overlooked or ignored. In fact cutting leaves permanent marks on your body as opposed to most substances usually abused. People who harm themselves usually start from something that triggers them. And to forget about all the things they struggle with they escape through this method. When someone cuts themselves, the brain produces endorphins. Endorphins are used as neurotransmitters that regulate mood and the way one responds to pain or stress. Cutting can give you the ‘runner’s high’ feeling one get from strenuous workouts or activity. Like Meth and other drugs cutting will give you an instant high so in different ways it is different and the same.
http://www.treatment4addiction.com/addiction/behavioral/
ReplyDeleteBehavioral addictions is a addiction to a lifestyle; or a repetitive behavior. The addict continues his or her behavior even though the negative consequences affect the well being of the person.
Behavioral addicts have a lot of similar symptoms that drug/alcohol addicts fall under. Shopaholics are behavioral addicts, whatever their doing they do it because they like the feeling it gives them; just like drug/alcohol addicts. Shopaholics fall under hoarders too in my opinion because they just endlessly buy things they don’t need because of the feeling it gives them. The euphoric feeling is what gives you that high, that adrenalin that stimulates your feelings. The feeling you’re addicted to makes your happy and makes you forget about the bad in your life that you’re trying to get away from which is why most people become addicts; it’s a big sticky cycle. Unlike a substance abuse addicts you’re putting yourself through something, rather than putting something in you. They work in similar ways in some cases, like having a lot of the same symptoms but also following the same cycle that makes their addiction hard to break; whatever is making them do what they do happens then they go into their addiction and after comes the guilt then it starts all over again.
http://addictions.about.com/od/lesserknownaddictions/g/defoniomania.htm
ReplyDeleteOniomania is the technical term for the compulsive desire to shop, most people call it compulsive shopping, shopping addiction, shopaholism, compulsive buying or CBD or Sushma Syndrome. Compulsive shopping may be considered an impulse control disorder, an obsessive-compulsive disorder, a bipolar disorder, or even a clinical addiction, depending on the clinical source. The criteria for being considered a shopping addtict it, 1. Over-preoccupation with buying; 2. distress or impairment as a result of the activity; 3. the compulsive buying is not limited to hypomanic or manic episodes. While initially triggered by a mild need to feel special and less lonely, the failure of compulsive shopping to actually meet such needs may lead to a cycle of escalation,with sufferers experiencing the highs and lows associated with other addictions.The 'high' of the purchasing may be followed by a sense of disappointment, and of guilt,precipitating a further cycle of impulse buying in the quest for a sense of special identity.With the now addicted person increasingly feeling negative emotions like anger and stress, they may attempt to self-medicate through further purchases,followed again by regret or depression once they return home- leading to an urge for yet another spree.
As debt grows, so the compulsive shopping may become a more secretive act. At the point where bought goods are hidden or destroyed, because the person concerned feels so ashamed of their addiction, the price of the addiction in mental, financial and emotional terms becomes even higher.
This addiction can be as severe as the substance addiction to marijuana. This addiction can consume the persons life causing them to lead a life that isn't beneficial to the abuser. Similar to marijuana the person may continue the behavior/abuse despite significant harmful consequences. If the person does it too much it will leave them in debt, causing them to loos every thing they own. Many people may not think that oniomania is as detrimental as marijuana but it can have some of the same long term effects.
You need to pick a behavioral addiction. The possibilities are limitless. You need to DO SOME RESEARCH!!!! FIND AN ARTICLE AND LINK IT IN THE POST AND INCLUDE INFORMATION FROM THE ARTICLE IN YOUR RESPONSE.You article needs to help you do not just give my notes to me again. Then you need to compare the behavioral addiction you picked to substance addiction and also point out some differences.
ReplyDeletean example of a behavorial addiction is the one of shopping during class we watched a part of an episode where and Australian man had an extreme addiction to shopping for example he couldnt contain himself from buying a watch which was at a mall he made an extremely impulse purchase because he gets that so called high from it. But it was only temporary because after that he didnt feel it anymore nonetheless actually want to where it. The term of this has been very recent when people could actually spend money on things that were not necessary at all really. And while these are not substance abuse they still should be taken seriously. Many people just need someone to keep them in check and help. But sometimes they need an intervention. But ultimately that shopping addiction is just perpetuate by the fact that that high of buying something new is soon worn off and then they feel the need to go and purchase something else. The main thing they have trouble with maybe something happened early on in there childhood that caused they to want to buy things constantly.
A behavioral addiction is an impulse to perform certain behaviors or take part in activities obsessively. Shopping is one of these behavioral addictions. A shopping addiction, like other behavioral addictions, exhibits a person’s lack of impulse control. A shopping addiction can be detrimental to a person’s relationships with others, and can take a hard hit on their finances. There is a theory that behavioral addictions, such as shopping can create a sort of natural “high” for a person. If the behavior causes their brain to release dopamine, they will feel happy, causing them to be more likely to repeat the behavior in hopes of re-achieving this feeling. Some signs of shopping addictions are: spending over budget, compulsive buying, hiding the problem, the problem lasts for a long period of time, impaired relationships, and many more. There are many things that can trigger a person’s impulsive shopping behaviors, such as negative feelings, fighting with another individual about the problem, buying items on credit instead of using cash, and the rush a person may get from shopping. A person can be cured from this addiction by attending Debtors Anonymous, which is a 12 step program similar to 12 step programs for substance addicts. A behavioral addiction like this is similar to a substance addiction because it can create a high, effects relationships, and creates a negative impact on a person’s life. It is different than a substance addiction because it’s not necessarily bad for your body physically, nor does it involve the risk of death by overuse.
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