Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue 3, (September 1, 2017) | Page 17

ADDICTIONS What is addiction and why it happens? In simple lay man language “addiction is being used to of something or some activity”; According to psycholog “Addiction is Habitual psychological or physiologic dependence on a substance or practice that is beyond voluntary control”. More or less all of us have some or other kind of addictions on varied degree like even morning tea/coffee, watching TV, mobile or even internet, cold drinks and on more serious notes ... different types of drugs & alcohol etc. List goes on. Now you must be wondering how come innocent things like tea/coffee, TV, mobile, internet etc. can be addiction; let me explain it to you... there are many people if they won’t get there quota of morning caffeine then all day they will have headache, feel drowsy in fact many of the time there entire world is topsy-turvy; now do the same with TV, mobile or internet with People and, they are like lost person in desert without water. And these are the withdrawal symptoms of addiction.