HTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Codependency, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Disorder
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Addiction: persistent, compulsive dependence on a behavior or substance, including mood altering behaviors or activities, despite ongoing negative consequences. Substance addiction: refers to dependence on a specific substance. Process addiction: refers to dependence of a behavior. Loss of control: inability to predict reliably whether an isolated occurrence of behavior will be healthy or damaging. Negative consequences: includes physical damage, legal trouble, financial problems, family dissolution, etc. Denial: inability to perceive behavior as self destructive. Habit: repeated behavior in which the repetition may be unconscious. Compulsion: preoccupation with a behavior and an overwhelming need to perform it. Also involves experiencing discomfort if the mehairo is not performed. Codependence occurs when a person becomes bound or addicted to the addict. Self defeating relationship in which a person is controlled by addict"s addictive behavior. Codependents find it hard to set boundaries and often live in a chaotic, crisis- oriented mode. Often assume responsibility for meeting the addict"s needs, even at their own expense.
