How to Stop Self-Sabotage: 2 Proven Ways
Do negative thoughts limit your growth and affect your life? Here are two ways to turn it around.
Are you addicted? To love? To food? To substance? To a bad habit? Or perhaps to someone? Addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disorder.
Being an addict, you will engage in compulsive behavior that provides compelling incentives and rewarding effects repeatedly. However, it will lead to seriously adverse consequences in the long run.
Substance use disorders can result in long-lasting changes in your behavior and your brain. But not all addictive behaviors are related to substance abuse. You need to understand that addiction can severely ruin your life whether you’re addicted to a person, social media, food, alcohol, drugs, love, sex or anything else.
Being an addict, you will find it extremely difficult to control yourself and prevent yourself from using the specific substance. You will continue engaging in detrimental addictive behavior even when you are fully aware of the negative consequences.
As it makes you feel better, at least initially, you will start avoiding other activities and focus only on that specific substance. The positive physical initial rewards will hide the looming negative effects completely. It is a mental disorder which controls you. Regardless of what you’re addicted to, your pleasures, preferences, impulses, fears and anxieties will dominate you over reasoned judgments and decisions.
If you are struggling with addiction, then you can find a lot of valuable resources like articles, stories, blogs and tips on this page that can help you to identify and recover from it and live a normal, healthy life.
Do negative thoughts limit your growth and affect your life? Here are two ways to turn it around.
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– David Heinemeier Hansson
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