Behavioural Addictions for Beginners
Summary
TLDRThe video script discusses behavioral addictions, which often occur in clusters influenced by genes and can lead to relapse in primary substance addictions. It outlines three clusters: hedonistic (alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling), nurturant (overeating, shopping, workaholism), and relational (relationship addiction, compulsive helping). The script stresses the importance of abstinence from all addictive outlets within a cluster and the use of 12-step programs adapted for each addiction. It also highlights the grief reaction upon giving up addictions, which can take up to two years to process fully.
Takeaways
- 🧩 Addictive outlets often come in clusters, influenced by genetics.
- 🚬 Smokers face double the risk of relapsing into alcohol or drug use compared to non-smokers.
- 🎲 The hedonistic cluster includes addictions to alcohol, nicotine, recreational drugs, and gambling.
- 🍔 The nurturant cluster encompasses food addiction, shopping, and compulsive behaviors like excessive exercise.
- 🤝 The relationship cluster involves using others as a source of addiction, leading to unhealthy dynamics.
- 🔄 Abstinence from all addictive outlets within a cluster is essential to prevent relapse.
- 📉 Behavioral addictions can be as damaging as substance addictions, affecting families and businesses.
- 📋 Each behavioral addiction requires differentiation from normal behaviors through specific questionnaires.
- 👥 Anonymous fellowships exist for various addictions, following a 12-step program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous.
- 🌱 Recovery involves grief reactions that can take up to two years, but achieving acceptance leads to a fulfilling life.
Q & A
What are behavioral addictions?
-Behavioral addictions are compulsive behaviors that can have a negative impact on an individual's life, similar to substance addictions, but they involve activities rather than substances.
How do addictive outlets typically cluster?
-Addictive outlets often come in clusters, influenced by a single gene, and having one addictive behavior in a cluster puts an individual at risk for relapse with other behaviors in the same cluster.
What is the hedonistic cluster in the context of behavioral addictions?
-The hedonistic cluster includes addictions such as alcohol, nicotine, recreational drugs, mood-altering prescription drugs, caffeine, gambling, risk-taking, and sex and love.
What behaviors are included in the nurturant cluster of addictions?
-The nurturant cluster includes food addiction, particularly to sugar and white flour, leading to behaviors like binging, starving, vomiting, or purging, as well as shopping, spending, work, hobbies, interests, sex, computer use, and exercise.
What does the relationship cluster involve in terms of behavioral addictions?
-The relationship cluster involves using other people as if they were drugs, compulsive helping, and relationship addiction, where individuals may act in a dominant or submissive manner to control or manipulate others.
Why is abstinence from all addictive outlets within a cluster necessary to prevent relapse?
-Abstinence from all addictive outlets within a cluster is necessary to prevent relapse because using any one of them can trigger a relapse to other addictive behaviors within the same cluster.
How do behavioral addictions differ from substance addictions in terms of damage they can cause?
-Behavioral addictions can cause major damage and are not less severe than substance addictions. They can destroy families or enterprises just as much as alcoholism or drug addiction.
What is the role of specific questionnaires in addressing behavioral addictions?
-Specific questionnaires help differentiate behavioral addictions from equivalent normal behaviors, allowing individuals to identify if their behaviors have crossed into addictive territory.
What are Anonymous fellowships and how do they support individuals with behavioral addictions?
-Anonymous fellowships are support groups that work on a 12-step program adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, providing a community for individuals to address their specific behavioral addictions.
How should an individual with a behavioral addiction approach their recovery?
-An individual should abstain from using the behavior addictively, learning to engage in it for its primary purpose rather than to fill an emotional void, and seek guidance from those who have successfully completed the 12-step program.
What is the significance of the grief reaction in the process of giving up an addiction?
-The grief reaction is a natural process that individuals go through when giving up an addiction, involving stages of denial, anger, sadness, and negotiation, leading to acceptance, and typically takes about 2 years to work through.
Outlines
🚫 Understanding Behavioral Addictions
This paragraph discusses the concept of behavioral addictions, explaining that they rarely occur in isolation and often come in clusters influenced by genetics. It outlines three clusters: hedonistic (alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling), nurturant (overeating, shopping, workaholism), and relationship (using others as a drug). The paragraph emphasizes the importance of considering behavioral addictions seriously due to their potential to trigger relapse into primary substance addictions. It also mentions the existence of support groups like Gamblers Anonymous and the 12-step program adapted for various behavioral addictions, highlighting the need for abstinence and learning to engage in behaviors without them becoming addictive.
🌟 Overcoming Addiction: The Grief Reaction
The second paragraph delves into the emotional journey of overcoming addiction, which is likened to a grief reaction. It describes the typical phases of grief—denial, anger, sadness, and negotiation—leading to acceptance, which can take up to two years. The paragraph suggests that it is more practical to quit all addictive behaviors simultaneously to experience one grief reaction rather than multiple ones. It concludes by painting a picture of a fulfilling life free from addiction, where individuals enjoy spontaneity, creativity, and peace of mind, and are no longer controlled by external substances or processes.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Behavioral Addictions
💡Clusters
💡Relapse
💡Hedonistic Cluster
💡Nurturant Cluster
💡Relationship Cluster
💡Abstinence
💡12-Step Program
💡Grief Reaction
💡Anonymous Fellowships
💡Spontaneity
Highlights
Addictive outlets often come in clusters, influenced by a single gene.
Individuals with one addiction in a cluster are at risk of relapse with other addictions in the same cluster.
Cigarette smokers have double the risk of relapse to alcohol or drugs compared to nonsmokers.
The hedonistic cluster includes alcohol, nicotine, recreational drugs, caffeine, gambling, and risk-taking behaviors.
The nurturant cluster involves food addiction, shopping, work, and exercise.
The relationship cluster includes using people as if they were drugs and compulsive helping.
Some people have addictions in one cluster, others in two, and some in all three.
To prevent relapse, abstinence from all addictive outlets in a cluster is necessary.
Behavioral addictions can lead back to primary substance addictions, such as gambling leading to alcohol or drug relapse.
Behavioral addictions can cause significant damage, similar to substance addictions.
Each behavioral addiction requires differentiation from equivalent normal behavior.
Anonymous fellowships exist for each addictive outlet, following a 12-step program.
Abstinence in behavioral addiction means using the behavior non-addictively.
A life free from addiction, maintained by the 12-step program, is characterized by spontaneity, creativity, and enthusiasm.
Grief reactions from giving up addiction can take up to 2 years to work through.
It's more sensible to quit all addictive outlets at once and go through one grief reaction.
A life free from addiction allows for true peace of mind and fulfillment.
Transcripts
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behavioral addictions for
beginners only very rarely does an
addict have only one active
addiction addictive Outlets come in
clusters each of these clusters is
probably under the influence of one
gene anyone who has any addictive Outlet
in a particular cluster will be at risk
of relapse when using any other
for example cigarette smokers have
double the risk of relapse back to using
alcohol drugs as
nonsmokers the hedonistic cluster
includes alcohol nicotine recreational
drugs mood altering prescription drugs
caffeine gambling and risk-taking and
sex and love Addiction in which the
particular person is less important than
the activity the nurturant of self
pluster includes food addiction to sugar
and white flour leading to binging
starving vomiting or purging shopping
spending work including hobbies and
interests bels or sex and computer use
and
exercise the relationship cluster
includes relationship addiction using
other people such as staff in a business
as if they were drugs and compulsive
helping
using oneself as a drug for other
people each of these can take a dominant
form with a threat to hurt someone else
or a submissive form with a threat to
hurt oneself unless the other person in
our relationship complies with our
wishes some people have outlets in only
one of these clusters some in two and
some in all
three in order to prevent repeated
relapse abstinence is necessary say from
all addictive Outlets within a
particular cluster in which one has any
addictive
Outlet behavioral addictions therefore
have to be considered seriously not
simply in their own right but because of
their potential to lead the sufferer
back to his or her primary substance
addiction for example a gambling
addiction can spark off a relapse back
to alcohol or drugs and an exercise
addiction can spark off a relapse back
to an eating
disorder behavioral addictions can cause
major damage they are not the poor
relations of substance addictions a
gambling addiction or a sex and love
addiction can destroy a family or an
Enterprise every bit as much as
alcoholism or drug addiction each
behavioral addiction has to be
differentiated on specific addiction
questionnaires from the equivalent
normal behavior for examp example retail
therapy comforting oneself by a bit of
shopping there a far cry from a
full-blown shopping and spending
addiction Anonymous fellowships working
the same 12-step program first formed by
Alcoholics Anonymous but adapted in step
one for each Behavior exist for each
addictive
outlet for example Gamblers
Anonymous detor
Anonymous Workaholics
anonymous sex and love addicts
anonymous and helpers
Anonymous exist to support sufferers
from those particular addictive
Tendencies steps 2 to 12 are identical
for all Anonymous fellowships they are
therefore easy to follow when an addict
has a number of addictive
Outlets abstinence in the behavioral
addiction has to be from using that
particular Behavior addictively
for example a workaholic cannot stop
work allog together but has to learn to
work for its primary
purpose creating something and earning a
living rather than to fill up an inner
sense of emotional emptiness a
Shopaholic needs to learn to buy what is
needed rather than what happens to be
available an exercise addict needs to
learn to take exercise in order to be
healthy rather than exercising
addictively and risk getting stress
fractures ped muscles and other medical
complications a compulsive risk taker
has to learn to take similar risks to
those taken by other people in business
or in sporting or social activities a
sex and love addict has to learn to
avoid using other people as if they were
drugs and learn to develop relationships
that are mutually respectful and
rewarding in each case for any
behavioral addiction guidance is
necessary from addicts who have
previously worked the 12-step program
successfully giving up any addiction
results in a grief
reaction progressively going through the
phases of
denial
anger
sadness and
negotiation until finally achieving
acceptance grief reactions commonly Take
2 years to work through although
individual sufferers may get stuck at
any of the intervening phases it is more
sensible despite inevitable
protestations to give up all addictive
outlets at the same time and go through
just one grief reaction rather than a
series a life that is free from any
addiction maintained by daily
application of the 12-step program is a
beautiful life full of spontaneity
creativity and
enthusiasm Peace of Mind comes even when
there are unsold
problems relationships are happy and
mutually fulfilling our feelings are our
own they are not imposed Upon Us by
addictive substances or processes nor
are they created artificially for us by
the pharmaceutical industry at last we
are no longer ruled by external
substances and processes Our Lives
belong to us and we have the privilege
of living them to the
full
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