Can withdrawal from addiction lead to another addiction?!
Question: Are there ways to prevent this?
Much appreciate all your help.
Answers: Are there ways to prevent this?
Much appreciate all your help.
Yes, absolutely - only too often, simple withdrawal from one drug results in the person using a different drug. This is because there are underlying reasons for drug use, and they don't go away simply by stopping the drug. Usually, there is painful stuff from childhood which the person may have totally blocked out and keeps numbed from by using their drug. Hence - the only way to work through the things that cause someone to become addicted is psychotherapy.
If you're in the UK, you can find a psychotherapist through http://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/ Wherever you are, do be sure to find a psychotherapist who is properly qualified and registered, preferably with experience in working with addicts.
Yes - addicts always have second additictions to fall back on. For example, my brother is a compulsive gambler who drinks and smokes heavily when he quits gambling.
There's something about the brain chemistry of an addict - they always have to have something.
I would say yes as a possibility for both. I don't know of any ways to effectively prevent a 2nd addiction as it would be an addiction to what? You will have to be more specific
Yes, addictive tendencies is a recognised medical condition. If you have been addicted to one substance, alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex etc it is quite often that the sufferer will switch from one addition to another and back again. The addictive tendencies is are what need to addressed with medical and psychological support.
People who are addicts often have addictive personalities and can switch from one addiction to replace it with another (not necessarily a substance) almost like an obsessive behaviour. Another factor is brain chemistry which differs from individual.
there are ways of beating this, one is to understand the behaviour, what triggers cravings and how these can be combated. One of the most effective ways of treating people with addictions is a counselling approach called cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which looks at the thought processes behind behaviour and how these thought processes can be changed once understood.
At its most simplistic level: thoughts lead to feelings lead to actions. Once you understand how to recognise what sets off the chain leading to relapse then the outcome can be headed off.
CBT
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Hello,
(ANS) YES! definitely. If you withdraw from one substance or form of addiction all you would be doing is replacing the old addiction with a new different addiction. This is very very common especially when the withdrawal is done cold turkey as it were.
**Some people have addictive personalities or addictive personality traits, meaning they are far more at risk of addictions than other people.
**NOTE: One of the ways I think about addiction which I find quite helpful is that we live in a culture that positively encourages us to become dependent upon other things, in order to fill the emptiness or pain within our lives. in order to numb out the endless repetition of work, sleep work etc. Alcohol, food, sex, TV, drugs of various kinds such as cannabis, ecstasy and so on.
**The best way to avoid replacing one addiction with another one, is to NOT do cold turkey. Is to do a VERY slow very controlled withdrawal over a long period of time, this allows the body & mind to adjust without any trauma. Recovering addicts always need ALOT of emotional support in order to deal with the feelings that arise as a part of the withdrawal process, you cannot brake an addiction by yourself without support from other people.
**The longer or deep the addiction the longer & slower the withdrawal needs to be and the more a person needs that emotional support.
Ivan
(ex member of Energy Stream practitioners group of therapists).
It's called Cross addiction Minor stimulants such as coffee and cigarettes that are in fact worse then the drugs we use on day to day Basis try an athletic addiction video games computer etc always stay busy and eat 3 balanced meals and plenty of bread and plenty of watter this will help stabilize your mind a full Belly is an unfull mind. sincerely Doctor Unoptrid.
Of course. My mom is is a sober alcoholic. She went from drinking Diet Coca-cola in the morning when she drank and drank at night and stuff to some it up short. Now, for over a year and a half, she drinks diet coke like crazy!! A 24 case a day!! It is crazy... It doesnt answer your question, so I dont expect the 10 points, just an example. ;-). I have often wondered the same thing...Oh ya.. She also smokes now. It is very frustrating!