Do People Use the Term “addiction” as a Way to Control People to Do as They Desire?
Question by Seeker Of Painful Truths 2: Do people use the term “addiction” as a way to control people to do as they desire?
I ask because it would seem to me that based on what experts say, “addiction” is bad for you. Yet when ever the word “addiction” pops up, people usually use it like this below:
– PORN addition is bad
– DRUG addiction is bad
– ALCOHOL addiction is bad
None of that make any sense to me because I thought it is “ADDICTION” itself that’s bad. If thats true then why the need to specifically point out what kind of addiction it is? It should matter what the addiction is because the problem is “addiction” itself.
I think that people have clouded the term addiction so much that it’s meaningless. I think when people have a real problem like alcohol addiction or what ever, the core problem isn’t that they are heavily into alcohol, but that they are seriously UNBALANCED.
‘Unbalanced’ (I just made it up but makes sense to me) means you are so heavily into a certain thing in life that the good things in your life are fallen apart. But to say “addiction” is like saying a bad word when in actuality we are all truly addicted to many things in life on a daily basis that doesn’t hinder our lives, but instead, betters it. I’m addicted to reading for instance, hardly a bad thing.
@darkeyes – So then, “love” is an addiction. It can make you miss an important meeting, forget to eat, and fore go fun things you normally would like to do. Depending on the perspective of the viewer, this “love” is non-productive because it’s taking time away from other aspects of your life, and unhealthy because the butterflies in you’re nervous stomach as you miss the one you want is hindering you from eating.
But just because things like “love” fall into the terms of “addiction” doesnt make “love” a bad thing. Again, this is why I think the term “addiction” has been polluted.
@hayley – That is a VERY smart answer! Agreed ot the MAX.
Best answer:
Answer by Milla ^.^?
Almost every addiction is bad, just some have more negative affects than others.
Drug addiction is the worst obviously. Then some drugs are also worse to be addicted to than others as well.
Addiction is seen as deviance, which is; behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms.
http://sociology.about.com/od/Disciplines/a/Sociology-Of-Deviance-Crime.htm
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Habituated is another good word, it has that snob value that comes with big, important sounding words that haven’t yet been overused in reality TV, or printed under the face of a “celebrity” on the cover of a magazine sold only in supermarkets.
I aim to get some mileage from it before it becomes as passe as “twerking”.
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“Addiction” is the term used for something that’s non-productive, unhealthy, and prevents you from living a normal productive life. It makes your perspective of what’s important change [i.e., missed an important meeting; forget to eat; fore go fun things you normally would like to do, etc…]
You know. Once a few years back, ,my daughter and I were discussing addictions. This in a nut shell is what I told her.
Everything in this world is an addiction, smoking, drinking, drugs, reading, watching too much tv. drawing, getting a million tattoos, education and getting good grades. These are all addictions to the people that choose each addiction. Mine is reading…. You will have to pick your addiction and choose it wisely because it could define your entire life and ruin you. And she actually listened and understood what I was saying to her. It was amazing! But I don’t like that the government is labeling addiction a health problem and allowing drug addicts and drunks to collect ssi. Those are all choices those people made. And we US citizens have to pay for their bad choices? But yet people that legit need to be on it cant get on it. Kinda warped system isn’t it! We shouldn’t have to pay for these peoples addictions. The government doesn’t pay for my damn books!
The entire Psychology and Psychiatry industry has been systematically declaring as many things as possible to be disorders, drugging those people with said “disorders”, and then taking their rights away under the pretext that they are “mentally unfit.”
No, people use cliches because they are too lazy to think about what they actually mean. Some people are able to carry on a conversation for some time without ever actually saying anything.