First, he points that not all addictions are chemical substances and there are many activities that can be addictive to people. These activities do not alter the brain in such a way to be able to say the addiction has changed the brain so much it is diseased. In addition, the American Society of Addiction Medicine declared addiction to be a brain disease based on findings that addictions effect
Empathy and drug addiction Thomas Dawson Interpersonal Communication Empathy is the ability of one person to understand another’s point of view, and is important in some approaches to drug addiction treatment, in which the empathizer understands the addict’s point of view as valid. Empathy is powerful in building trust, and in developing a good relationship with the user, especially if the user’s behavior has lead to judgment and criticism from others in the past. It takes some people a very hard time to have empathy for drug addicts especially if they never had to go through life knowing and loving someone addicted to something as evil as drugs. Then after all the time, sweat and tears of understanding what empathy really means and to finally stop all the negativity and hate towards someone you love and to finally want to help this person you lose them to the power of the addiction. This happens every day to people all over the world, even me, and is a topic that people need to hear and understand.
Prior to analyzing human development through the scientific study, philosophers offered theories to explain age related differences observed in individuals of different ages. Many of these theories continue to influence the field of human development and many Western beliefs in practiced today, originated from those theories (Boyd & Bee, 2006). This paper will consider human development in the areas of prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. Developmental theories pertaining to the various stages of development will be explored as will the affect early stages have on later development. Finally, this future clinician will attempt to evaluate how the knowledge learned in this class will influence planning inventions in her specialization of clinical psychology.
These addictions seem familiar because in many circumstances they don’t go without being detected. What isn’t understood is that addiction goes beyond these popular activities. In fact, “…some behaviors are so common that an addiction can easily go by unnoticed.” These less recognized addictions could include shopping, working, caffeine, television, exercise, negativity, and love (Uttley, 2011). Although there are many addictions that are not perceived, it does not necessarily mean they are rare. Meaning, many people have these dependences but they don’t classify them as addictions.
Some individuals may be rewarded by the energizing, exciting or pleasurable effects of a substance or of a behavior such as gambling, some people may engage in addictive behaviors because the physiological or psychological effects relieve physical or emotional pain or addictive behaviors may divert attention from upsetting or overwhelming life situations. For example, some substances can temporarily reduce the symptoms associated with anxiety, depression or chronic frustration. Unfortunately, many of the destructive consequences associated with addictive behaviors. These could include damage to relationships, finances, self-esteem and emotional and physical health. Development of physiological tolerance and increased anxiety, depression and other symptoms could draw the person even deeper into his or her addiction.
Substance Abuse Kinsey Vess PSY/270 November 16, 2014 Joan Rachmel Substance Abuse There are many theories as to what causes a person to abuse substances. In all truth, all of the theories surely have some truth to them. Each person is different and what causes them to abuse drugs is custom to them. However, the theory that I believe is often the cause of substance abuse is the psychodynamic theory. The psychodynamic theory says that the reason for substance abuse is that people have a dependency problems that come from an earlier time.
Unlike soma, the drugs produce numerous negative aftereffects. Furthermore, the use of drugs is not regulated. As a result many accidental overdoses do occur. Although drug use is not mandatory as it is in Brave New World, many people choose to take drugs. In both societies, people use drugs for the euphoric feeling to escape from their worries and problems, instead of dealing with their emotions.
Date Rape by Alcohol Abuse There are people who asked all the times why alcohol were considered the most common things to be used in date-rape. The simple answer to that question is easy because it is least expected to go wrong. You never know what people planned to do to you or other people. Alcohol consider easy because it seems to be so common that people do not think of such consequence of going wrong in a few drinks. The outcome of being unaware of your actions and actions of others to no memory of what happen when during your intoxication of being powerless leads to “RAPE”.
Sadly, people who are truly themselves, and stick to their values and beliefs tend to be alone and get overlooked often, but that’s not their problem. Just because some people use their brain, it doesn’t mean they’re boring. People who can't enjoy their life without alcohol, drugs, partying, and all their friends, are much more pathetic than people who can enjoy life without all
The main principle of lifespan psychology is that human development is influenced by external (historical and cultural) and internal (psychological and physiological) factors. It finds it's reflection in internal working models which seem to be influenced by fixity and change. Developmental psychology aims to understand connections between experiences and behaviours in childhood and adulthood, as well as identify continuities between those points; it therefore implies that although internal working models become fixed with time, they can