this is a longer article but it deserves some merit i believe. it addresses other addictive people not just a drug or alcohol addiction. hope this may help you ..
Quote:
Nearly everyone has had a taste of what it would be like to have an addiction—eating a second (and third) piece of cake, staying out until 4 a.m. drinking when work starts at seven, buying three pairs of shoes when you had just enough cash to cover one. You know the consequences: the stomachache and spare tire, aching head and lousy day at work, the credit card debt, and above all—the guilt.
But the immediate payoff, whether it’s pleasure or simply a sensation of feeling alive, calls to you like a siren’s song.
In the addicted mind, the urge hijacks the brain, overpowering the analytical part involved in good decision-making. Whether sex, shopping, or heroin, mental health professionals generally distinguish a habit from an addiction when it takes center stage and shoves everything else off, destroying relationships, finances, and careers. As one mental health expert put it, a healthy person plans exercise around their life. An addict plans their life around exercise, etc..
Via http://www.divinecaroline.com/22181/...#ixzz1ksEV9xfj
|
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22181/...-personalities
__________________
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand
|