Mental Health and Addiction
According to National Institue of Mental Health in the US, both drug and alcohol addiction are mental disorders. It is changing your way how you cope with daily life, it influences your behavior and your relationships with family, friends, and partner. It also influences your work, going to school or university.
Statistics from the US shows that more than 18% people have a substance addiction and of that number more than 8 million have both substance abuse and another mental illness. And as it seems that number is rising.
Chronic use of drugs makes short and long-term changes in your brain. That changes can lead to hallucinations, depression, anxiety or aggression. Our brain has plasticity which means it can change during whole life. People usually think that our brain is changing until some adolescent age or even just of some age of 5 years old. But what is discovered is that our brain changes through whole our life.
New synapses and chemical talk through neurotransmitters are occurring this second as you read this. So according to that, you will be as new as you finish this reading, just as it is a new experience to you.
I am linking here TedTalk from Lara Boyd a neuroscientist explaining this.
Another thing is that when people are depressed they have also health problems. What is happening is that then people reach for a solution and that solution is substance abuse.
Another way of looking the issue is sensitivity. It is often stated that people who are substance addictive are sensitive people. I will refer that question later.
Food addictiveness is also one of the problems which affect a large population. In the same manner, obesity is the expression of depression or/and other health problems.
As you saw brain plasticity can change our way of thinking and is responsible for a new experience adaptation that could change our patterns of behavior.
It is never too late.
Look at the Banksy: Wall and Peace
Statistics from the US shows that more than 18% people have a substance addiction and of that number more than 8 million have both substance abuse and another mental illness. And as it seems that number is rising.
Chronic use of drugs makes short and long-term changes in your brain. That changes can lead to hallucinations, depression, anxiety or aggression. Our brain has plasticity which means it can change during whole life. People usually think that our brain is changing until some adolescent age or even just of some age of 5 years old. But what is discovered is that our brain changes through whole our life.
New synapses and chemical talk through neurotransmitters are occurring this second as you read this. So according to that, you will be as new as you finish this reading, just as it is a new experience to you.
I am linking here TedTalk from Lara Boyd a neuroscientist explaining this.
Another thing is that when people are depressed they have also health problems. What is happening is that then people reach for a solution and that solution is substance abuse.
Another way of looking the issue is sensitivity. It is often stated that people who are substance addictive are sensitive people. I will refer that question later.
Food addictiveness is also one of the problems which affect a large population. In the same manner, obesity is the expression of depression or/and other health problems.
As you saw brain plasticity can change our way of thinking and is responsible for a new experience adaptation that could change our patterns of behavior.
It is never too late.
Look at the Banksy: Wall and Peace
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