Invisible addictions.
Many may never have suffered from an addiction in their lives, but what I am sure of is that in one way or another, those who have not experienced it directly have also felt its effects, even if indirectly through a family member, friend or acquaintance.
An addiction, although harmful to the sufferer, is more common than anyone could think; it is something as simple as the excess of one thing. These behaviors, let's call them so, are harmful in the long run, something that I was told as a child and that I later found difficult to understand. Science typifies them as disorders or behaviors that generate negative consequences in the individual, and the reality is that this is very true.
Recognizing that these behaviors generate adverse effects is not the only thing that is required to avoid them, especially when we tend to think that by recognizing the damage we can control it, something all too common in human beings. The worst thing is that this behavior is always accompanied by the inability to stop the activity or avoid the substance.
We almost always associate these disorders to common problems such as the consumption of harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco and drugs, and even to activities such as gambling or risk-taking, but the reality is that any activity, no matter how simple it may seem, can generate an addiction.
Playing any sport, mainly extreme or contact sports; playing video games; eating any type of food, speeding or feeling the need to use any additive, such as those that come in little brown bottles or sachets and that serve to increase energy and physical performance; and that for marketing reasons, only claim that they contain vitamins, could become an addiction and generate this serious disorder from which many, unfortunately, cannot escape just by identifying it. I am grateful that in my time I was able to open my eyes in time and quit.
Many years ago, in my adolescence, I remember becoming addicted to video games. Before any console game that represented some difficulty or mental challenge, I was always trying to figure it out, so much so that I used to spend hours disconnected from the outside world; it was like being transported to that fantasy world.
Most addiction problems require the support of friends and family to overcome them and, in more serious cases, even professional help to prescribe medication.
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La adicción es algo que se suele subestimar mucho e incluso, no se le da la cobertura informativa que amerita. Por ello es que, reducir su avance no ha sido posible y, aunque generalmente se le vincula solo al adicto, la realidad es que el entorno termina en ese mundo (Tal como lo destacas) y, eso agudiza más la situación.
He conocido personas que lamentablemente destruyen gran parte del núcleo familiar por la adicción que tenían y, desde la primera vez que conocí ese caso, le tengo respeto a ese conflicto.
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Hola amiga. Es muy cierto lo que dices y bueno cuando la adicción se sale de control, la persona termina generando un gran caos que incluso termina dañando su entorno familiar, y lo peor es que si termina alejándolos, sus oportunidades de mejorar y salir de ese problema se vuelven muy escasas. Es muy triste eso y quienes más sufren a la larga son los seres que le aman como los padres y los hijos, principalmente.
¡Muchas gracias por el apoyo!🤗💚
Addiction to video games is something that is currently wreaking havoc on youth. In addition, this element is added where they challenge the child.
I have known of many deaths due to the poor completion of these video game challenges.
I'm glad you were able to get out of that addiction. We have so many bad habits in life that we don't realize when we are addicted.
Of course, my friend. From bad habits is that addictions come, anyone thinks that because an activity, in theory is not harmful, can not become an addiction, because it turns out and it happens that much of something is what causes them, mainly with that mania that we all have in believing we can control so many circumstances. I didn't want to write it clearly in the publication, but I have noticed that there are young men who have become addicted to vitaferm... I can't even imagine the harm they do to themselves in the long run, and so many other things my friend, like those who become addicted to adrenaline, that seems to me even more dangerous, because sometimes they even put at risk those who have nothing to do with them.
This is almost always the first thing that comes to mind when we talk about addiction.
That's right, my friend. Those are the first situations that come to mind, but the truth is that there are many more that are sometimes overlooked.