Addiction Treatment
Addiction treatment helps people break free from the chains of addiction and reclaim control over their lives. We will help you understand that most addictions have their origins in trauma, and once we work through this trauma via your body and personality, you will reclaim control over the habit and your life.
How Do I Know If I Have An Addiction
A key sign of addiction is that your thinking changes as a result of your behaviour. This may cause you to alter every aspect of your life including your routines or friendships. Addictions can cause you to forsake everything else in your life as you are trying to “scratch that itch”. Often feelings of irritability and negative emotions can occur if you are unable to feed your addiction. Because of the negative feelings that can occur, you may commit more time and resources to your issue.
Why Do Addictions Occur
If you have an addiction (including drug and alcohol), you may often mask or numb your pain through your behaviours. This often occurs because you don’t want to face a painful fact or event. Because of this, you lack self-control and sound judgement due to your addiction to resolve the issue. You may invest a great amount of time and energy to feed your addiction even though it may no longer be fun or healthy.
What Are The Types Of Addictions
People can become addicted to objects, experiences or even a process. Here is a list of the most common reasons why people may need to seek addictions treatment:
- Alcohol and Drug Addiction
- Digital Device or Smartphone Addiction
- Exercise Addiction
- Food Addiction
- Gambling Addiction
- Gaming Addiction
- Online Affairs and Cybersex Addiction
- Online or Internet Addiction
- Pornography Addiction
- Prescription Painkillers Addiction
- Shopping Addiction
- Sexual Addiction
- Social Media Addiction
What Are The Symptoms Of Addiction
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A slide from casual use into frequent and more prolonged use. The larger “fix” is often required to get the same sort of feeling as the first time
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Obsessive thinking and priority of tasking
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Priorities and choices shift toward that object over other things once important
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Abandoning others to pursue that object
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Inability to stop attachment and desire or use of that object
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Loss of job, health, relationships due to attachment to that object
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The shift in the use of time and money resources towards an addictive behaviour
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Lies, deceit, hiding about the level of involvement with that object
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Shame about that object when windows of rational, lucid moments emerge
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Depression then elation, anxiety than pleasure cycles around the addiction
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Defensiveness, anger or hostility if confronted on behaviour or usage of that object
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The decline in health and happiness over time
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Separation from a family member or a loved one