Do you know Addiction is a Physiological disorder? Well, keep reading so you can understand what I mean.
What is Addiction? Let's take a look at this image below 馃憞
What do I mean by Physiological need?
We have been taught about Maslow's Physiological needs that these are the essential things human beings need to survive in life. What are those things they need to survive? Things like food, shelter, love, affection etc.
We all believed no human being can survive without having these things as they are considered important in our lives.
There are some kinds of addiction that some people think they can't do without. This is why I said it is a disorder. We will look into some of them now.
1. DRINKING ALCOHOL
There is nothing bad in taking little alcohol just for fun, but excess consumption can affect one's body system. So many people are so addicted to drinking alcohol that they can't do without taking them for a day. They see it as their life. The truth is there are negative effects of taking excess alcohol which are;
You lose your integrity in the community
Destroys the immune system and damage the health etc
2. GAMBLING
So many people are into it. Gambling is a form of using a little or much amount of money to gain more money. Do you know gambling doesn't always favor everyone everytime? They are so addicted to it that they can even spend their feedings on gambling see, in the hope that they had get more in return. Gambling also has its own effects which are;
Lack of savings
Make you poor
Make you irresponsible
No plan of budgeting
No investment which leads to poverty in the end.
Mismanagement
3. SMARTPHONES
There is nothing wrong in being addicted to the phone with the right mindset, but when you are too addicted to it with the mind of seeing irrelevant stuff, educative informations and not getting to use it for your self improvement, then it's dangerous.
There was a time ago, I wasn't serious with my academics. Call me a phone addict, I don't mind then. I can keep recharging my phone to call different people. I can watch movies, many attimes, I go to search for pornography until it affected me. I have never searched good informations with my phone. It got to a time, my younger sister screamed at me and said "Google is your friend Busayo, go and learn" My younger sister to me, I was so sad and since then, I started using my phone for the right reasons. Not until she introduced me to Steemit in 2016. Lol
Be addicted to phone only if you are using it for the right purpose like making research on topics, heroes, educative content, watching inspirational and Educative Videos etc.
4. SHOPPING
I have seen many people engrossed to going for shopping all the time. Once they have seen any money, they spend all on shopping. I am not saying you shouldn't shop but not every time. Most times, you only buy things you need and not things you only want for the main time. I have this friend during my NCE days. She prefers spending her money on buying latest clothes, bags, jeweleries and ended up begging or borrowing for money to buy food.
Some are already influenced by friends with social life alone, they imitate them and want to be in their club. They wouldn't mind getting all those things with their last card on them.
You need to limit the way you shop all the time and learn to invest your money wisely for your own good.
We have so many kinds of addiction. Inasmuch as all these aforementioned are disorder, there are some kinds of addiction that are best for us. Such as;
Reading books
Going to the library
Exercises and so on
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