2007-01-16 19:23:15 · 11 answers · asked by shadow of a girl 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Addiction - it is a state of mind which initially gets attracted towards a particular act. Repeated attraction and subsequent actions slowly becomes a habit. When a habit of a particular act overwhelms ones mind and rubbishes all other thoughts and actions, it becomes an addiction.
Basically, it is the mind which controls the body. The pleasure or pain both are ultimately controlled by our mind.
There are two types of mind playing a significant role in our life. The bad or evil mind, most of the time suppresses the good and forces our body to behave and satisfy its needs. But, ultimately, it brings pain to the body and displeasure to itself.
The good mind, generally, polite and rational keeps reminding the other not to do but some how it is not programmed to overthrow the bad mind. Most of the time it is submissive.
If you can train the good mind to overpower your bad mind, then you can automatically throw the addiction, whether it is drinking or smoking or cutting oneself or erotically involved or involved in crimes!
The proverb 'where there is a will there is a way'!
Most of the time the bad mind uses this in a smart way than the good mind.
If we can TRAIN OUR GOOD MIND to incorporate this proverb, we will be out of the day to day bad addictions and enjoy every moment!
2007-01-16 19:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by Shooting stars 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a topic that brings back sad memories for me. A girlfriend that I was with for about a year and a half used to be a cutter. Her arms were full or scars, even including some elaborate designs. She always said to me that she felt relieved from her deep, inner troubles everytime she finished cutting herself. She claimed to have been molested when she was a young child. She eventually broke up with me (2 years ago), but I still feel close to her to this day.
2007-01-16 19:47:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cutting used to be rare. These days because of movies and an overload of information on the internet, you kids have learned about it so it is quite wide spread these days. Cutting is an illness, if you are 'compelled' to do it. You are not. You are doing something you learned about, heard about so you are copying this behavior. You said it all when you said this sounds stupid, because it is. You're not sick, mentally ill, suffering from psychosis, you're just trying something you heard about from your friends. I think you are an idiot. You have no idea what cutting is all about. If I were your mother, I'd kick your @ss.
2016-05-23 23:24:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any act can be addicting. Although there is a higher chance of addiction from pleasurable things.
2007-01-16 20:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps what you need to be ‘addicted to’
is the knowledge of ‘how beautiful and special you are’…
“Search deep in your heart for a beauty
which can be felt by those who are blind...
for even the blind have their beauty,
and it is there for us all to feel !”
http://uryim.blogspot.com/2006/07/in-heart-of-beholder.html
I can’t speak from the viewpoint of ‘a cutter’ as such…
But in my younger years, I used to take my frustrations out on brick walls.
Punching them with my fist, seemed to make me feel better !
I guess I stopped doing it once I realised
that the only person I was really hurting… was myself !
(The walls didn’t feel a thing !!!)
“You have a special kind of magic…
Don’t leave it on a shelf.
Show the world your ‘angel wings’
as you fly into our hearts !”
Please seek professional help for the ‘cutting’ problem…
You owe it to yourself !!!
2007-01-16 21:37:30 · answer #5 · answered by I_C_Y_U_R 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is it the cutting or the way you feel during or after, or a release of feelings you felt before cutting, I wonder. Can you talk to a therapist or counsellor?
2007-01-16 20:30:37 · answer #6 · answered by le païen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cutting ur self makes u busy with ur new pain and lets u forget the thing that's disturbing u for a while
2007-01-16 21:01:51 · answer #7 · answered by Tara 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you feel happy once it is done... and the only way for you to retain that feeling is to continue cutting.
2007-01-16 19:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by sunnee07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not addictive because there are no chemical changes in the brain. It's related to OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder).
It's called borderline personality disorder if you want to look it up.
2007-01-16 19:34:30 · answer #9 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Cutting get addicitve because it become your on means to stop pian. and it becomes a day to day habit
2007-01-16 20:52:58 · answer #10 · answered by bladetroubles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋