Tag: mental-health
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Two of the common factors of any addiction are tolerance (needing more of a substance or behavior to get a high) and withdrawal symptoms after stopping use of the addictive substance or behavior. Withdrawal involves a set of physical and emotional symptoms. With drug and alcohol addiction, withdrawal often involves changes in the body that lead to physical symptoms, often the opposite of what the substance provided. For example, if you used a stimulants like nicotine, withdrawal might involve feeling down, depressed, or lethargic. If you were addicted to depressants like alcohol, you may feel anxious and revved up. If you are able to maintain sobriety over a prolonged period of time, withdrawal symptoms will dissipate.
With process addictions, including sex and love addiction, there is no intake of a substance involved. But sex and love addiction involves dopamine production that affects the brain similarly to that of a cocaine addict, meaning you may experience both physical and emotional symptoms similar to that of withdrawing from substances. Maintaining sobriety through withdrawal…
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