Indeed, self-help is the major path people take toward change, take cigarette smoking for example, most people stop on their own rather than entering some treatment program. However, no matter what medium of help you employ for your behavioral, buyer beware, for if you you do not know where you are going, no matter what [...]
All behavior is goal directed. In other words behavior serves a purpose. Here is the point: Behavior is a pattern of thinking, feeling, and action. When we talk of addictive behavior, we are referring to the thoughts that trigger the feelings of need that spawn the act of substance abuse.
The existential phenomenon of addiction has been around since the human organism first experienced pleasure. Although pleasure has remained a constant, the only changes have been the mediums used for pleasure. The use of alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, food, exercise, drawing, gardening, writing, reading and so on, are all pleasurable mediums that are open to function and dysfunction in terms of use and abuse.
