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Addictions???
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PureX
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You're still abusing the term. When a behavior is pleasurable, it's easy to form a habit of engaging in that behavior. A habit is not an addition. If you're able to stop, even though it may be difficult, you're not addicted. Addiction refers to a condition of having lost the ability to control one's own behavior.methylatedghosts said:Addiction definitely requires pleasure to start it off. But once the addiction takes hold, it can become un-pleasureable.
As for computer use, I feel it can be an addiction. An old flatmate couldn't find the motivation to go out and find work, because he spends every waking hour on World of Warcraft. He is also addicted to Coke (the drink, not the white powder)
I can easily spend a while not posting on a forum, but I enjoy it, it gives me a sense of satisfaction, and reinforces and expands my knowledge. That is the addicting part. The learning and developing that I do is addicting for me.
So, in that sense, the computer can be addicting, but I am not as addicted as some people.....
There is growing evidence that addiction is a "Brain disease".
the following was published only yesterday:- http://www.physorg.com/news89575066.html
Research Links Change in Brain with Addiction
A researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) has found a change in the brain that occurs after drug use and that may contribute to drug addiction.
The finding, reported in the January 2007 issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry, demonstrates that repeated exposure to different types of drugs of abuse such as cocaine, nicotine, amphetamine, and alcohol lead to a persistent or long-term reduction in the electrical activity of dopamine neurons in the brain.
Dopamine neurons are the origin of the reward pathway responsible for the "feel good" experience that is such a strong component of drug use and abuse.
"A persistent reduction in dopamine neuron electrical activity after repeated exposure to different types of drugs appears to be the result of excessive excitation of dopamine neurons," according to Roh-Yu Shen, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and the lead investigator on the study. "This represents a new and potentially critical neural mechanism for addiction and provides a working model that suggests how the reward pathway function is altered and how these changes can be responsible for triggering intense craving and compulsive drug-seeking."
Initial exposure to drugs of abuse causes dopamine neurons to release dopamine in target areas of the brain that provide the reward effect of using drugs. Repeated abuse of drugs results in long-lasting changes in the function of the reward pathway that leads to craving for drugs and the compulsion for more drugs.
Also see:-http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/141223/study_finds_brain_area_linked_to_smoking.html
A new study has found an area in the brain linked to smoking addiction.
"Smokers often feel it in their gut when they crave a cigarette," said writer Carl T. Hall. "An unusual study of people with brain damage, caused in most cases by a stroke, suggests the compulsion to light up might be driven by the same little-studied brain region that helps us make sense of hunger pangs, nervous twitches, and all sorts of visceral body signals."
I have an addictive personality - I am fully aware of it. Addiction traits can show up in all aspects of life............
the following was published only yesterday:- http://www.physorg.com/news89575066.html
Research Links Change in Brain with Addiction
A researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) has found a change in the brain that occurs after drug use and that may contribute to drug addiction.
The finding, reported in the January 2007 issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry, demonstrates that repeated exposure to different types of drugs of abuse such as cocaine, nicotine, amphetamine, and alcohol lead to a persistent or long-term reduction in the electrical activity of dopamine neurons in the brain.
Dopamine neurons are the origin of the reward pathway responsible for the "feel good" experience that is such a strong component of drug use and abuse.
"A persistent reduction in dopamine neuron electrical activity after repeated exposure to different types of drugs appears to be the result of excessive excitation of dopamine neurons," according to Roh-Yu Shen, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and the lead investigator on the study. "This represents a new and potentially critical neural mechanism for addiction and provides a working model that suggests how the reward pathway function is altered and how these changes can be responsible for triggering intense craving and compulsive drug-seeking."
Initial exposure to drugs of abuse causes dopamine neurons to release dopamine in target areas of the brain that provide the reward effect of using drugs. Repeated abuse of drugs results in long-lasting changes in the function of the reward pathway that leads to craving for drugs and the compulsion for more drugs.
Also see:-http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/141223/study_finds_brain_area_linked_to_smoking.html
A new study has found an area in the brain linked to smoking addiction.
"Smokers often feel it in their gut when they crave a cigarette," said writer Carl T. Hall. "An unusual study of people with brain damage, caused in most cases by a stroke, suggests the compulsion to light up might be driven by the same little-studied brain region that helps us make sense of hunger pangs, nervous twitches, and all sorts of visceral body signals."
I have an addictive personality - I am fully aware of it. Addiction traits can show up in all aspects of life............