What Is the Difference Between a Bad Habit, and an Addiction?
Question by abnjim5: What is the difference between a bad habit, and an addiction?
Can both behaviours be changed by using thought control, or is an addiction too difficult to overcome with thinking and self-discipline?
I thought humans could adapt and change to fit and survive in a particular social enviornment.
Is Alcoholics Anonymous correct when they tell people addicted to the drug alcohol that they are powerless?
Are humans truly so powerless over a behaviour?
As a person that once needed to change a problematic behaviour, I was told that I had a “disease”. My addicted voice (inner voice) seemed to enjoy hearing that diagnosis as it then had permission to continue with that life threatening addiction. I had to challenge my addicted voice (conscience of ID), and supply it with another more healthy behaviour, like exercise.
What in the world is happening to this world?
People addicted to the drug alcohol pay several thousands of dollars to attend institutional Alcoholics Anonymous !!
Best answer:
Answer by KARLPILKINGTON
A bad habit is something your brain has subconciously got used to doing. An addiction is when your brain needs it.
An addiction is seriously more powerful.
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Physical addiction or psychological addiction? The nerve pathways in your brain form certain connections after you experience something pleasurable multiple times making it harder to break the need for that certain pleasure.
Depends upon whether it is a physical addition, like heroin, or a bad habit, like chewing one’s fingernails. To stop chewing one’s fingernails would be a bit easier to overcome with self-discipline. Smoking is probably somwhere in the middle. A lot of self-discipline and thought control in order to suceed. Heroin addition would require more than just wanting to stop, though it would be a start.
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The situation where humans have trouble is where short-term pleasure leads to long-term pain. In that case, human decision making is pretty poor and can lead to full scale addiction. People are never powerless, but they can only break the cycle when they are able to be fully conscious of the long-term pain that will result from every action. This includes mildly bad habits, like poor eating, to severe addictions like heroin. So if you’re interested the cases where humans are powerless, it is when they cannot fully bring long-term consequences into consideration.
Well, you have several question here. To answer the first one: a habit is something that you enjoy doing, and an addiction is something you NEED to do. From there, it appears as if you stated, in so many words, that alcolism is a bad habit and can be changed by what we call a “cognitive” approach, i.e. changing the way you think, and replacing bad habits with good, as you yourself said you did. Well, it isn’t that simple. For some people, yes, problem drinking or drugging is a maladaptive coping skill and they can change their actions. But others become physically addicted. The reasons for this are too complex to go into here, but trust me, in some people, the addiction can happen on a cellular level in the brain and body: cells actually transform their shape from the addictive substance, and then “need” it to function properly again, and scream out for more if they don’t get it. Lastly–you appeared to take a swipe at the rehab programs by saying that people pay a lot of money to do something–attend AA–that they could do for free. Well, again, some people need to be confined and assisted and detoxed in order to even think about joining a help group. You should refrain from belittling others simply because you may have been able to accomplish something. Everyone is different.
What’s pretty crazy, is that the success rate for people who go to A.A. , is less than 20%. Makes one wonder if it’s that hard to quit, or if A.A., doesn’t have a very good program. When I was young, I was addicted to booze, and about every recreational drug that was out there. Once I got married, and started having a family, I lost interest in all of it. I’ve been married for almost 32 years now, and had 5 kids. Change can only happen, if you want it to.
Your first mistake is to consider addiction a ” behavior “. Habits are patterns of behavior and breakable with will power. Addiction is not a behavior of you, but it is all consuming of you. When AA tells you you are powerless, they specifically mean alcohol,but they generally mean you, that is all of you, is the problem.