Addictions

Living with an addiction is like walking around every day with an iron ball and chain shackled to your leg.  It goes everywhere with you, weighs you down, keeps you from reaching your full potential, and controls your life.

Every thought, action, and emotion can be dependent on this burden that you are dragging around.  It could be drugs, alcohol, tobacco – anything that is consuming your life and impairing your ability to make rational decisions.

ADDICTION: The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice – something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.  Some of the signs and symptoms of someone struggling with addiction would look like this:

• -Change in personality or tolerance level for people

• -Lying, manipulative behaviors

• -Significant change in sleeping and eating patterns

• -Feeling that you need the substance regularly and in some cases, intense cravings throughout the day

• -Making certain you maintain a supply of the drug

• -Doing things to obtain the drug that you normally would never do, such as stealing or prostituting yourself

• -Feeling that you need the substance to deal with your problems

• -Driving or doing other activities that place you and others at risk of physical harm when you’re under the influence

• -Inability to fulfill major responsibilities at home, school, or work

• -Repeated legal problems because of substance abuse

• -Requiring more of the substance to produce the same effect

• -Repeated attempts and failures to limit substance use

• -Needing the substance to relieve withdrawal symptoms

• -Spending significant time using, recovering from, or obtaining a substance

• -Isolating from your family

         
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