Addictions and How to Get Past Them

Addictions and How to Get Past Them
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Introduction
Can addicts drop harmful habits that lead to a drug-free life? People might differ from each other regarding this question because of their beliefs and understanding of addiction. People should not consider addiction to be a habit but an insidious disease that takes control of people so fast and takes them to a lifestyle that they find difficult to drop. There are different types of addictions ranging from eating, sex, viewing pornography, playing video games, exercising, drug addiction, alcohol addiction to substance abuse. Moving past these addictions is not an easy task because many recovering addicts are bound to relapse back to their addictive behaviors. The focus of this essay is to confirm that addicts can drop their harmful habits and lead drug-free lives positively. Therefore, awareness and early acknowledgment, exploring recovery, implementing the recovery process, maintenance, and rehabilitation are the phases that lead to dropping addictive behaviors.
Awareness and Early Acknowledgement
Through addiction, individuals dedicate their time, resources, and energy to the sources of harmful behaviors (Pickard, 2020). The first step towards overcoming addiction is acceptance, whereby one readily agrees to explore the addictive behavior's sources the impact on the individual, family, and the community. Acceptance will help the addict understand that factors such as the environment, genetics, and psychosocial influence the development and manifestation of their addictive behaviors (Pickard, 2020). Awareness means that the individuals will readily learn about addiction, how they affect their personal and professional lives alongside their families, and the community in its entirety. It is the first step towards dropping these harmful behaviors because the addicts will be equipped with how to manage and control these habits. Moving past addiction is a change initiative that demands that the addict should acknowledge that they have a problem that needs to be addressed swiftly.
Exploring Recovery
Having gathered information that helps an individual understand the situation in which they are, the awareness should propel the addict to decide whether they need to start the rehabilitation process. Decision m-making at this point demands that the addict should view themselves in a different life whereby they do not depend on substances, alcohol, drugs, or social media. Therefore they will be able to pose questions such as why are we doing this? Is it worth it? With such consideration, addicts will seek to understand moderation. The motivation to learn is derived from the fact that the addict has already considered the worth of moving past addiction (Costanza et al., 2017). Exploring the recovery phase will be significant for the addict because it will motivate them to examine the want to make a difference in their lives.
The addict will then examine which recovery process fits them while reinforcing the already initiated change. The addicts are allowed to observe how their actions and behaviors affect them, their families, and frie...