The way we see our problems determines how fast we will be determined to get a solution. We seeing our problems as problems is different from when we are being told that we have a problem. They are two different situations.
Identifying something that we have become addicted to would make us be quick to getting help or solution but for instance, someone who is sick and needs medical help but they are not convinced that they're sick then it will be hard to help such person or the person getting help themselves to get healed.
I'm saying this in the sense that, even some people who are addicted to something never realizes that they are addicted already. It just still feels like their normal way of life, their ways of getting relieved of that pain, ways of forgetting their past sorrows, ways of escaping from their challenges or even ways of enjoying to do something but little did they know that they have come to become addicted to it.
For me, I will say we can always view addiction to be a Choice And a Disease. I am going for both because as humans, we have the power to make choices of whatever our lives become either good or bad. We have the power to turn back and desist from a bad path or rather stick to the path because we felt like we're on the path already. So the CHOICE is ours.
Just like I mentioned above before, when we view addiction as a disease, something we shouldn't be having or doing, then we will be open to receiving help and also standing firm in our decision to retract and become a better version of ourselves. What would we call someone who feels they can never satisfy their partners unless they are high on drugs or something? What is with someone who feels like unless they use a certain pills or take alcohol, they can't do a powerful manpower job or stay long on working and so on?
Writing to this point made me think of someone who fell into depression over losing his properties because he fell into the wrong hands of the so-called investment and along the line I guess his work and source of income too turned upside so he became a shadow of himself and made alcohol an escape route from the rough side of his life.
Normally you might forget your pains when you're drunk but as soon as you're back to your normal self, your whole problems comes flashing back at you so I guess from there he became a close friend with alcohol to the point of addiction. Friends and neighbours would wanna help him just to make him realize that the alcohol is doing him no good and has become too much just so they can help him in the little way they can but it was all a negative outcome and up till now he still lives his miserable life all around.
It's always sad seeing the outcome of these terrible addictions on people especially when it is about people we know and previously known to be good and great people so it hurts but untill we see and realize we are addicted to that thing or act, we can't make our choice of leaving it.
Funny enough some addictions are not negative but eventually cause harm to us because we ended up doing it too much and there has always been a saying that excess of everything is bad.
In conclusion, Addiction is a Choice and a Disease, until we diagnosed ourselves to know that we have that disease we can't make the choice of leaving it or not.
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I agree with you.
Most people that struggle with addiction go through a phase called denial, inability to acknowledge their addiction, in doing so it get worse.
Considering addiction as a disease in order to get diagnosed or seek professional help, is not bad but if people start thinking of addiction as a disease just to shift the blame, then it becomes an issue.
At the long run, naturally there is no medicinal cure for addiction, it is still a person's determination to choose to stop that would free them from their addiction.
Exactly.. The healing doesn't come from medical attention like the normal illness but still based on CHOICE
Thanks for your input emrys
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Está en los manuales que el primer paso para la recuperación es reconocer el problema, solo así podemos buscar ayuda, y aprovecharla.
Exactly 💯 It's hard to render help to someone who doesn't see themselves having a problem
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I.love how you analysed addiction being a choice ur disease. We must first recognize that something is wrong, a disease , before making a choice of treating it
Awnnn thanks grandma.. Problem identification comes first before sourcing for solution
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