What Are Addictions

Addictions control and ruin our lives and we usually get addicted early. Whether we're addicted to food, shopping, gambling, sex, recreational or prescription drugs, alcohol, work or extreme sports or have any other form of compulsive behaviour, the underlying belief system is the same. We believe ‘we can’t live without it or that life is not worth living without it’!

Addictions start off as obsessive feelings; these feelings can come about in any number of ways. If we come from a family where our needs were not met, (neglected, deprived) we were bullied or rejected at school,(excluded, outcasts, misfits) indoctrinated by advertising that we must have the very latest of everything, or look the way everybody else does, (fashion victims) the negative memories of a childhood trauma, (adoption, child abuse, illness) or having been introduced to our parents’ addictions (food, drugs, alcohol, gambling) before our frontal lobe (See - 'About The Brain’) could understand what we were doing, and of course with food, it's literally eat or die!

As teenagers we are reckless, we want to test our mettle and take control back from the people who've dished it out to us all our lives. We're sick of being controlled and forced to do what everybody else wants. We're tired of obeying the rules and living the way society expects us to. We want to try things we’ve been told are bad for us. We feel indestructible and think we know all the answers. All teenagers feel the same. It is nothing new; it’s always been the same and always will be. Once upon a time at 11-12 years old boys were taken out and initiated into man-hood. As soon as girls menstruated they got married and had children to raise as well as help with the food production. They were responsible for themselves and others at a very early age, now they are forced to sit in classrooms until they turn 17, no wonder they are bored silly and want to try living dangerously. Now teenagers seeking pleasure and control, turn to drugs and alcohol and shopping and food binges to replace their boredom and apathy. This can quickly turn into compulsive behaviour and a full-blown addiction. They believe that food, drugs, alcohol will make them feel better, not wise enough yet to understand the consequences.

So, what's a teenager to do these days? With more spare money than ever before they can afford to buy junk food, shop ‘til they drop, booze, shoot up, do a line or smoke a joint. What else is there for them to do with their money and abundance of energy? Or they can buy the latest computer games and sit transfixed for hours living virtual lives, in a made-up reality. This is great news for the multi-nationals who make billions of dollars out of our addictions, but dreadful for us.

Of course the problem with becoming addicted when we're young is that it generally means we're stuck with it for many years, sometimes a lifetime. Some of us are lucky or tough enough to break the habit on our own, or with some help, but these days most of our addictions are continually in our face on television. Your favourite shoes, that beer you love, the Big Mac - with fries & Coke - and, “wouldn't it be great if the world were chocolate!” And there's dozens of TV programmes about alcohol and drug taking and drug pushing. If you want to learn how to take drugs just turn on the television or log onto the internet, it’s all there in graphic detail.

For bulimia and anorexia sufferers there are the hundreds of TV shows and fashion magazines where stick-thin actresses and models proudly display their twig-like arms and knees, parading designer clothes that only the rich can afford, and the reality shows on how to be the latest supermodel - all in their obeisance to gay clothes designers who want to make girls look like boys. How can we break the hold on these addictions if they're constantly and consistently pushed down our throats, implying us that we are not good enough as we are or that we must have more and more and more!

Most of the stuff advertised is designed with a four week shelf life to give us a ‘quick fix’. After a then it’s superseded and old and if we don't have the latest Wii, sneakers, fashion labels or iPod, well then, we are nothing. The other problem is that once caught up in our addiction we believe we like it so much we don't want to stop it, even if we hate ourselves for it, or until they become life-threatening, or lead us to behave badly, get in huge debt, or commit crimes to in order to keep feeding them.

We found by removing compulsion beliefs our addictions just seemed to die a natural death. One day you're drinking 5 vodka shooters, a six pack of beer or several coffee cocktails, the next day you just drink one, the next day there's not even a thought of a drink. It's like an ‘addiction switch’ has been shut off in your head. That's not to say addictions die overnight but they do die. Our desire for our ‘choice of poison’ simply dissipates. Why? Because once you've removed enough negative beliefs you stop feeling empty and hollow and you don't need all the things you needed before to fill you up or make you feel better.

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“For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings." Peter McWilliams