Help With Drug Addiction: Difficulty Grasping the Concept of “addiction”?
Question by nicklovin: Difficulty grasping the concept of “addiction”?
For me when i think of addicts and how there drug they are addicted to can magically fix there withdrawal symptoms. its just illogical to me, like a few years ago i started smoking cigarettes, 3 months later i quit and didnt even notice the difference except for increased lung function and a few extra bucks in my pocket.. So its been 28 hours since i was last high off marijuana and i feel nothing. Just a little tired because its past bedtime. Now i dont want a explanation of “addiction” because when i visualize it.. it just doesnt make sense how one thing can magically fix a fiending person. I wanna know why and what causes addiction and withdrawals. Because ive never experienced them. or maybe i am know but i sure dont know it. and ive been smoking weed on a specific schedule, 2-3 days of highness. stop for 2 weeks then do again. Not only does the 2 weeks break kinda stop tolerance and give a better high. it gives me time to recuperate my money. Why dont i get addicted to things? i mean i play videos games for hours but i stopped for 3 months and didnt notice anything except being a little bored here and then.
Im not addicted to cigarettes i havent had any in 2 years and actually haven’t even thought of it.
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Answer by Brother of Fish
Addiction is due largely to compulsive attitude towards the drug. At some deep level it’s not even about the feeling of the drug – though that’s nice – but about the brain simply exaggerating NOT being with the drug, and feeling like you need it more and more. Many people just don’t have this trait..
Then there’s the feel good aspect of the drug. It allows addicts, many of whom are faulty in a particular area (esp. social), to FEEL as if they shine in that area. Whatever that area is, it causes them pain that they are not capable in it..Then some addicts just like to daydream, while high, and the highness magnifies the daydream’s intensity. Their real life situation dissipates. These were ambitious people, at one time; now they’re addicts. It’s sad, of course.
But mostly it’s that compulsive need. Getting up, your brain is like hitting a wall, all the things you feel like you need to do feel so overwhelming, and getting high is relatively easy and fun – and makes the daily things feel possible, the dreams more attainable, the issues you have w. yourself gone.
Insecurity plus Compulsion plus Sensitivity to mind/body state (over self awareness) causes, well aggravates at the very least, addiction
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