In this world, a lot of people are under the impression that they can only become addicted to drugs and alcohol.  But in truth, a person can become addicted to just about anything.  While you might think that there is a limit to the number of addictions that a person could theoretically take on, there really is no such limit.  Only the imagination of the individual addict can possibly begin to work on the number of different things that a person could become addicted to.  If you would like a good list of all of the different things that a person can become addicted to, your best bet is going to be reading the entire dictionary.  After all, literally any sort of activity or object can become addictive, because the patterns of addiction can work with just about anything.

An addiction will typically start out with an incredibly good feeling about whatever it is that you are doing.  At this point, you can hardly imagine how you ever got through life without this great rush of raw, beautiful emotions.  Of course, after that initially great feeling, you are never going to get up to that same level again, no matter what you do.  It is a little bit like inflation, where it wears away a very small amount per time, and just continues to do so.  While the initial loss of greatness in your enjoyment of whatever it is may only be a little bit, over time it will start to become noticeable.

At about the point of noticeable loss of awesomeness (which should be a medical term), you enter a state of dependence.  Now, you can be dependent on cocaine, or on gambling, or even on shopping online for random “stuff.”  While the level of harmfulness of an addiction may vary somewhat (since nobody ever likely died from shopping online), the overall effect can still be dangerous to your overall life.  After all, what you do decides where you get to.  And if you are putting more and more of your energy into your vice of choice, you’ll suffer.

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Far too often, when an addicted individual goes into a rehab center, they are just going through a set of motions which someone else has prescribed for them.  In far too many cases, this is all very superficial, and lends itself only to being a joke that they endure for a little while in between significant binges.  If a person does not really want to get better, they are not going to get any better.  They are simply going to continue onward with the trends which got them to where they are, and take those roads to their inevitable conclusions.  Of course, those are typically some pretty horrible conclusions, but often the addict does not really care about that.

After all, what possible reason would a person who typically spends all of their time enjoying the moment have for thinking about what “might” happen in their lives in some distant, unspecified point in the future?  To many addicts, the entire notion of rehab is just ridiculous, and ends up being little more than a bump in the road on their path of addictive “bliss.”  While they might be focusing on having a good time now, this will ultimately end up harming them after awhile.  So they might want to consider focusing on actually getting better, instead.

If you have a problem with an addiction, you can go to rehab and slog your way through it, just working to get to the end of it and go home to your wonderful fix.  Or you can focus on getting better, so that you can live a real life that is not dependent on some kind of nonsensical chemical dependency.  While the first few months are going to be both a physical and psychological hell, as you readjust to the “real” world, it does get a lot better after awhile.  There are some really good, completely real things.

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