When you have a strong, uncontrollable desire for something.... (A person, a drug, a computer, or candy). Whats your problem? You have an addiction. So what does that make you? It makes you an addict. Being an addict means you have an addiction, wheather you like it or not.
Addictions are a problem. To much of a god thing can be a bad thing. So what do you get when you have too much of a bad thing? You have a extremely bad thing. You may ask yourself, what makes people addicted to things that are bad for them?
It all begins with a feel good, something that makes you feel powerful, high, invincible, or just plain happy. In the beginning you only WANT this certain feel good, so its not that serious when that feel good isn't available to you. The more and more you have the feel good the more you want it, and that want soon become a NEED. But it doesn't become a true need, like food or water. It becomes a false need, one that can only make the addict vulnerable. In reality all this addiction does is leave the addict with a worse sense of need than they had in the first place.
The addict's addiction soon brings them to rock bottom. After hitting rock bottom, the addict soon realizes that the addiction is not a need, but only a hinderance in disguise of a need. With this new information the addict soon trys to find a solution to their problem, wheather that means going to rehab, finding a support group, or completely cutting a group of people or friends out of their life. Through this struggle of healing the addict also realizes that its so much easier to fall back into the addiction than it is to climb their way out of it. In the words of David Davila (former gang banger who is learning to live life away from his gang that was his addiction) "its the high" that all the addicts miss. That certain feel good. For more information on Davids struggle visit http://www.newsweek.com/id/183677 . It may not be easy, but it is possible for addicts to become completely independent of their addictions. Make no mistake the road to recovery is long and it's always a struggle to find a new high and a positive outlet for that now unoccupied energy.
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