Do you struggle with addiction? Maybe not... Or maybe you do and don't event realize it. Do you smoke? Do you eat sweets, drink soda or coffee? Have you tried to stop any of these?
Many people think of an addict as someone abusing drugs or alcohol and wonders why they just don't stop. Have you seen the commercials on smoking, showing a person dying from lung cancer and still smoking? Why would anyone keep doing something that may cost them everything? They may lose their job, their family, their freedom or even their life.
The answer is not that simple, but it involves your brain. In simple terms, your brain was taught by you, what to like or not to like and when this changes your brain is not happy. Everything you do affects your brain; exercise, watching TV, drinking coffee or even social media. Yes their is an addiction called Internet addiction disorder (IAD). Have you ever tried to start or stop a habit? Its not easy.
Lets magnify this a little, if you use drugs or alcohol it changes your brain chemistry an when you try to stop your brain doesn't like it at all. It will doing anything to get those chemicals back you have been pouring into it every day for years.
Think of addiction this way, have you ever had a snow cone, at first it taste really good and is a bright blue or red, but then all that flavor and color drains to the bottom and now their is no color and no flavor. This is your brain on drugs.. once the ice has not flavor and no color the brain wants it back.. The brain says.. "Pour more of that syrup on me please".
Your brain will try to override everything you do to get you back to doing what it wants. Until... You retrain you brain. So next time you can't just walk by a cookie think about who is asking for that cookie? you or your brain.
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