What’s the Psychological/mental Cause of Addiction?
Question by Joel Z: What’s the psychological/mental cause of addiction?
For a school project I’m doing research to the mental/psychological causes of addiction, and I was hoping that you could help me out with some questions.
– What are the proven mental/psychological causes of addiction? (Does depression, enviroment, family situation, etc. play a part in addiction.)
– Is it true that some people are mentally more vulnerable to addiction than others? If so, how come?
– When people are physically totally cured, are there any psychologycal/mental causes which make them fall back into their habits easily again?
I would really appreciate if you could answer these questions. Any other information that you can provide about the psychological/mental causes of addiction is very welcome as well.
Thank You!
I know most of this is on the internet, but I am recquired to ‘interview’ experts or/and ex/recovering addicts about it, to hear their personal experience.
Best answer:
Answer by A B
Well, I do have to say that posting a question on Y!A and getting some random bunch of people to respond scarcely qualifies as actual interviewing. You would gain something from talking to a real person that will never happen on here.
I’m a psychotherapist, and often deal with addictions. In my experience, there is absolutely no point whatsoever in getting someone off their substance if you don’t also deal with the psychological aspects. Almost anything will set them off again, using the familiar methods of ‘self-medicating’ the pain they feel inside.
I don’t have any doubt whatsoever that the underlying issue in addiction relates to the experiences the addict has had in childhood, and how they managed them, thus acquiring ways of relating, of feeling about themselves, etc which stay as one’s apparently ‘natural’ self. A very high proportion of addicts report obvious abuse in childhood – physical, sexual or psychological. Those who claim to have had a perfect childhood when I first meet them often turn out to have learned a way of behaving that got them approval but underneath it has not been OK for them to be themselves. Gradually the sense of not being OK, which has been buried and pushed down, tries to reassert itself, which makes the person feel bad. Then they discover the drug – and it makes all that painful stuff go away.
I am certain that some people are innately more susceptible to becoming addicted (just as our genetic diversity means some people are better at running, some like chilli), but no-one will become an addict without there being a need to numb some sort of pain.
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