Do You Need Rehabilitation?

Do you try to smoke a cigarette every time you get a chance? You can't think of a day when you can't drink? You are attracted to things and you can't control this feeling? Are these things repetitive and you feel compelled to do these things??

You are in deep trouble because you are addicted. Though in English language addiction has varied meanings. A positive addiction is very beneficial to an individual while a negative addiction is bad. In this case the benefits are outweighed by the cost.

In medicine it is said to be influenced by genetic, psychosocial and environmental dimensions where one tends to overuse a substance or overdo something despite of its detrimental effects.

Today the common usage of addiction has spread to psychological dependence also. It includes behaviors which are not recognized by the medical community. At times it is also used for compulsions which are substance independent. Problems like gambling fall under this category.

There has been a number of arguments amongst the practitioners and the experts where they were divided on the exact nature of addiction or dependency. But the bio psychosocial model of it is generally accepted by mostly all the experts and often regarded as the most comprehensive theorem for addiction. Historically speaking it has been defined with regards to substances like alcohol and tobacco generally called as psychoactive substances, which when cross the blood brain barrier temporarily alter the chemical milieu of the brain.

Today both the medical practitioners and laymen are of the view that more generic things like food and sex should also be added to the long list of addictions as these in many cases lead to depression and epilepsy. There are few who classify these as obsessive-compulsive disorder and believe that the withdrawal symptoms for these can be observed by abatement of such behaviors. They feel instead of addiction one should call it behavioral disorder.

But experts in the field of brain and nervous system believe that food & sex should be regarded as addiction. Broadly speaking addiction can be always classified as the disease model and the behaviorist model. Though there always is a problem of unanimity when there is discussion about addiction but everyone would agree that addiction is one of the worst evils which can prevail in any society.

Give it any name addiction or behavioral addiction, in either ways it is very much injurious to health both physically and mentally. Rehabilitation to all sorts of addiction is possible. But it depends on an individual whether he thinks he really is addicted or he wants to go for rehabilitation.