Addiction is just one kind of hell of a situation where if you become nib by it, you cannot get enough. It can be that terrible that even though what you are addicted to is bringing you losses you still cannot help but want to continue.
Once you start getting addicted to something it takes hold in your mind and develops a tolerance for the addiction, so you must do it increasingly.
Addiction is actually all about "love and needs" for something that you are aware can be bad for you and even though you are scared of it, you cannot stop doing it.
Addiction is not merely alcoholism or drugging, but it could be anything that we have in our lives like the computer, phone, video game, TV, work, some food which we eat, what we do to make money, etc. Addiction is "to have a compulsion to obtain some effector results from the possession of a substance or engagement in an activity, irrespective of its detrimental consequences.".
An addict of any or anything will make the most of it to fulfill his/her goal.
Addiction has some level of truth in it. Everyone is addicted to something or other, but you have to be smart enough to know your limit and have a turnaround for what makes you not be an addict.
I find it difficult to deal with an addiction that I have found myself plugged into over the past while. I found myself trapped in a Whatsapp chat that had become an addiction which caught me and isolated me from everything else.
The worst part of this addiction is that I wasted my whole day doing nothing productive other than searching for any chat on Whatsapp to participate in. I got addicted to this thing that I could sit stuck to my phone chatting on WhatsApp and Facebook for most of the day.
You know how they consume data. I got a 4GB data bundle used up in just 24hrs for nothing. The same data bundle would do me for a week and 3 days when I am online on thread. From last Thursday to today, I have used a total of 8GB data package for just chatting and through my browsing on these message groups that I am hooked to.
I caught myself awhile ago today thinking, "Don't you just wish you could just block out this addictive thing that you've gotten yourself involved with and find some way of escaping this pit that has you stuck?"
I don't know where this addiction will lead me, I don't know if I should just quit or spend every conscious second of my day waiting for this one thing that makes my day and night wretched.
There's nothing that I am winning by speaking, I guess that it is the time that I get myself out of the hook. I am hoping to come out of it with my mind and not half a mind.
I have already decided to disable my telegram alert and freeze my WhatsApp app for now so that I can completely take my mind off them and try to find my focus. It has entered my mind so much that I hardly had a good enough amount of time to develop new inspiration to write, and it's also the reason why I haven't been posting on thread and publishing articles late at night which is not my usual way of doing things.
I want to get back my balance and focus on the aspects that give me peace of mind and freedom from this addiction. It will be difficult but I will do my best to leave this addiction behind before I become shipwrecked.
Maybe you can consider this article as a mini-example of how it happens with addiction. Does it happen to you too? Do you keep looking into this or that over and over again a day? Then don't make yourself a slave to it. Liberate yourself from it. It's time for you to do as I have just made myself do.
Posted Using INLEO
I've often hit a point in many things where I will ask myself 'Is this bringing me joy or am I trying to relive that first 'good' moment that brought me here?' and I usually just stop that activity or visiting the place. Everybody is different and it takes a lot to realize that the 'addiction' isn't fulfilling whatever the need was now.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on addiction. Some don't realize that an addiction can be related to anything if it is done enough times with little value gained to the individual.
Congratulations @thelastdash! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain And have been rewarded with New badge(s)
You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP