Addiction

THE ADDICTION DISEASE

This essay will focus on the phenomenon that is pervasive(penetrante) in our lives, although we may not always be able to spot it(detectarlo) in ourselves and others. Theissue is addiction, both physical and psychological. Physically addiction is a pathological body state when a person cannot discontinue the use of the substance without damage to one's health or physicalcondition. The state of the drug addict who is suddenly deprived(privado) of drugs is so severe that a person can go to extremes, such as kill somebody to get access to the drugs.

From thischronic condition related to the use of certain substances that results in physical dependence, the concept of addiction was transferred to psychological dependence on some material or immaterial things.For example, a person who has a passion for shopping can be described as a shopping addict. Somebody else going to the movies every other night can be termed a 'movie addict'. Similarly to drug addicts,these people are hooked up to their passion. In this case if they lose access to the source of their addiction, they may develop depression that cannot be removed by any other benefit. At this pointthe hobby or activity becomes an addiction if the person loses control over emotions and can no longer be happy without the object of one's addiction.

Subtler(sutiles) addictions develop in allkinds of people. It will hardly be an exaggeration to say that almost everybody has some kind of dependence on little things in life that males us crave these things. I would say, for instance, that somepeople are TV addict. They turns on the set the moment they enter the room and switches it off only when they are about to go to sleep so they can hardly imagine living without a TV. The matter isthat TV forms a background to all their activities. To illustrate this issue: without it they would probably have a hard time because they would have concentrate on one thing at a time, and now they...