KINE 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Psychiatric Association, Compulsive Buying Disorder, Substance Abuse
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Addiction: continued involvement with a substance or activity despite its ongoing negative consequences. Classified by the american psychiatric association (apa) as a mental disorder. Psychological dependence: dependency of the mind on a substance or behavior that can lead to psychological withdrawal symptoms, such as anxiety, irritability, or cravings. Compulsion: (obsession with / excessive preoccupation with) the behavior and an overwhelming need to perform it. Loss of control: inability to predict reliably whether any isolated occurrence of the behavior will be healthy or damaging. Negative consequences: physical damage, legal trouble, financial problems, academic failure, family dissolution. Do not occur with healthy involvement in any behavior. Denial: inability to perceive that the behavior is self-destructive. Inability to abstain: continuance regardless of outcomes. Habit: a repeated behavior in which the repetition may be unconscious. Addiction involves repetition of a behavior that occurs with compulsion, and considerable discomfort occurs if the behavior is not performed. Drug chemicals are not the only source of addiction.
