Many people experience problems
with drug abuse or addictions. First they might want to experiment with a drug
or try something new, or maybe they are peer pressured by some friends. By using
drugs for the first time does not necessarily mean a person will become an addict.
Yes, it will give the person the high they are looking for temporary, but at
the same time it is causing so much harm to the body. There are many reasons
people turn to drugs at first they never believe that they will become an
addict they just do it as a regular things. Within a couple of months they
notice they have not stopped and never realize that they have been addicted to
something in order to stimulate their bodies. Others might do this in order to ease problems
such as stress, anxiety or even depression. They believe and feel once they use
the drugs that the problems they had will go away. Why do people become
addicts? Some the problems start at home they might have a family history of
addictions or abuse, neglect, or other traumatic experiences in childhood. Others
might just have a mental disorder which makes them believe that what they are
doing in nothing wrong. The addiction of drugs affects the brain so once the
brain has felt that feeling it will remember it and want to experience it again
and again. The drugs will take the same significance as other survival behaviors
like eating and drinking and will see it as a need to survive and ask for it frequently.
The drugs will affect the brain making it think you are thinking clearly when
in reality you will not. It will also impair you from having good judgment and
it will also take over your behavioral which would make you into a mood machine.
Having your drugs will become your main priority and will make you forget about
your family, friends, career/job, and even your own happiness and health all
the body will require is getting the high it has been use too. Now you might
ask, how does a person get over this? It will be one of the hardest and
challenging things they have even done but it is possible and could be done. All
within time and a process needed with support groups and counselling a person
could finally understand that they have become an addict and need the help to
change their life. There are many ways or paths people could take in order to
recover from addiction they could choose entering a rehab and getting the
therapy you need. For a person recovering from an addiction it is much easier with
the support of family members, close friends and therapists or counselors that
they can be familiar with and allow them to help them out.
There's certainly many factors that can cause a person to become addicted. At first, it might be just to try it out, like you said, but it's important to identify when your body has become dependent on the substance. Once that happens, it's difficult to recover. Some withdrawals symptoms could be fatal, like for alcohol addiction, and have to be treated by a doctor. For that reason, I don't think that what the video suggestion of treating addiction with hypnotherapy would actually work, especially if it's life long addiction of a person.
ReplyDeletePeople become addicts for a variety of reasons. It could be due to their surroundings and who they associate with, an unaware progression like you mentioned, and even genetics may play some part on their dependence. I would assume from stories I've heard, that overcoming these addictions are extremely challenging, but it came as a complete surprise that hypnotherapy is considered to be a possible form of treatment. Like Norma mentioned, I'm curious to see exactly how effective this therapy would be in an individual who is a long-term addict. From my understanding, hypnosis isn't always a clear winner when dealing with problems, but the fact that it may provide hope for individuals who are trying to come clean is an important factor in my opinion.
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