Patterns of Addiction.
Patterns of Addiction
Addiction Patterns Many variations of addiction exist and there are some which are manifested in very, very different ways. Below are some ways in which addictions can be manifested in a person. These manifestations are combined, varied, and interlocked at times and they overlap each other, which is one reason why addiction is a difficult habit to break. Resistance and Avoidance The fact is addictions contain a feel-good factor in that they deliver the person from their painful experiences. But with addiction, everything that is accessible to a person's view is addiction, especially when it serves as an instrument for resistance and avoidance of the pain that this person feels inside. Even the worst situations, such as cutting up oneself or flagellation can become addictive. They usually start out feeling the pleasure or the fascination of doing something over and over again and then they begin to find out quite "accidentally" that this pleasure or dark fascination actually has some benefits they keep them from the pain and the struggles that they experience in everyday living. And it also anesthetizes their consciousness. And then they begin to indulge in a substance less for the pleasure but more for the results, to be able to keep the ache and the pain away. And when addiction becomes a compulsion, then they begin to resort to greater heights and levels in order to keep the pain away. Obviously, taking drugs is the most common form of addiction but whether it be ordinary and common stuff such as biting your nails, compulsive shopping or even using your cell phone for most of the day, when these are something you feel that you should do, then it becomes a pattern.
The solution would be to ask yourself what would happen if you suddenly stopped this behavior. The real question would be: - Are you willing to stop?
- Can you stop doing this even for just a minute?
- If you feel that you can't, then there is really a pattern. But if you tried to stop these addictions, what is the first thing that you would feel?
Well, the most obvious would be that if you stop doing all of these things, then there is that immediate feeling of fear. This is actually the fear that tells you that if you stop doing this, something bad will eventually happen and then the pain will recur once more. The things that make you feel bad are the things that probably happened to you a long time ago with relationships, or the things that you have been avoiding for so long that you can't deal with them.
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