Las Palmas Addiction Treatment
What is addiction?
For an addict, balance has become dependent on the substance or behavior in question. This loss of choice, along with the fact that the body calls for repetition of the behavior at a deep level, make it difficult for the addict to stop the behavior that is causing problems for a long time, so it helps Specialized is usually the most effective way to achieve changes that allow you to get out of the circle of addiction. No one chooses to be addicted, but is the victim of a pathology. Addiction is a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual illness, but this is not widely accepted in our society today, so there is generally a stigma towards addicts, and we tend to think that a successful person in some areas of life cannot be an addict.
In addition, this disease has antisocial and multifaceted manifestations that make its detection, diagnosis and treatment difficult. Most addicts are able to stop or limit abuse for some time, but as the person and their loved ones know, sooner or later they return. to the same behavior despite having the best intentions to stay abstinent. This occurs because the addiction syndrome includes underlying conditions that need to be addressed in order to feel lasting relief. It is necessary to make important changes at the psychological and emotional level, so personalized treatment is usually the most effective way to achieve a change that will allow the person to abandon substance abuse or long-term behaviors, while significantly increasing their quality of life.
Types of additions
Substance addiction
Drug addiction is a disease that presents different symptoms depending on the type of substance consumed but with a common cause, even in the case of legal drugs such as alcohol or tranquilizers. Addiction originates and is sustained by certain “addictive” ways of thinking and feeling. When properly treated, the desire to consume addictive substances can be completely lost.
Gambling addiction
Playing is one of the most adaptive and formative behaviors from childhood,
helping evolutionary development follow a normal process in the mental health of children and young people, but it becomes a big problem when it comes to a plane pathological. Relationship problems, emotional disconnection and financial suffering are just some of the consequences of gambling addiction.
Shopping addiction
The consumer society, with its incessant promotional bombardment, has managed to make buying behavior addictive. Compulsive shopping addiction has symptoms very similar to chemical addictions, including withdrawal syndrome. Although it may seem like a relatively harmless addiction, its effects on life are devastating, especially considering that it is often accompanied by compulsive indebtedness.
Sex addiction
Some of the symptoms that sex addicts display include a repeated pattern of sexual fantasies and resorting to sexual activity in response to unpleasant moods such as stress or depression. Furthermore, these individuals fail to succeed in reducing or stopping their sexual activity when they realize that it is problematic. Many people use sex from time to time to escape stress, this is normal. The problem is that for these patients it is a constant behavior, which is intensified to such an extent that sexual desire controls all aspects of their lives, and they also feel powerless in their efforts to change it. Some of the most notorious manifestations of sex addiction are compulsive masturbation, obsession with pornography or social networks, infidelity or consumption of prostitution.
Work addiction
Work is another of the clearly adaptive and conventional behaviors in
any society in the world, but it can lead to addiction problems when its development and execution becomes pathological, affecting health, relationships and well-being. The workaholic considers that his image is revalued before others by the fact of working incessantly, a question that today has a lot of social truth, in addition to considering that work is the most important thing in his life. The most significant aspect of the workaholic focuses on his personality characteristics: high impatience and urgency to do things, high degree of physical and verbal hostility, constant self-references, over-involvement and over-commitment to work.
Sports addiction
Sport has been the paradigm of health since time immemorial. Although it is paradoxical, sport can become addictive and serve the opposite purpose. The concept of sport has evolved over time. In the last century, sports activity has taken on a more hedonistic and narcissistic sense. Possibly this fact, together with the increase in competitiveness and the search for economic and social successes, have promoted the abuse of physical exercise to become one more behavioral addiction and related to mental disorders such as dysmorphophobia (TDC). This is because it generates an authentic dependence on maintaining or achieving certain physical characteristics or a relief from work stress in which physical exercise can have a central role.
Relationship addiction
Relationship addiction may be one of the most difficult behavior patterns to interrupt, as the person experiencing it – and others – may not recognize it as compulsive and destructive behavior. As with all addictive behaviors, you may end up feeling that life depends on being able to maintain the relationship as a source of external self-validation. And so, as with any other addiction, the person who suffers from it may be aware that the situation is unsustainable but is unable to change their perspective and behave differently.
Codependency
The codependent usually forgets himself to focus on the problems of the other (his partner, a family member, a friend, etc.), so it is very common to relate to “problematic” people, just to rescue and create from this mode a dependency loop. With his constant help, the codependent seeks to generate, in the other, the need for his presence, and when feeling needed he believes that in this way they will never leave him. It is very common that in a relationship, the codependent cannot or is very difficult to put limits on their own behavior and that of others, which results in frustration or depression as a result of neglecting their own needs.
Technology addiction
With the advancement of the information society and interconnection, cases of cyber-addictions are becoming more common, which are divided into two categories: specific technological addictions and generalized ones. In the specific ones, technological objects such as smartphones, tablets or pc’s become vehicles for the consummation of other addictions, such as cybersex, online pornography, gaming, “gaming”, auctions, online purchases, or social networks. Instead, the general technological addiction is the pathological state in which the virtual world of the person has eclipsed the rest of his life.
Addiction test
If you think that an addiction could be your problem, find out in a few minutes by taking our test completely confidentially and without obligation.
The first step towards freedom
Treat your addiction in Reconnect
If you think that you could have a problem with alcohol, some legal or illegal drug, your relationship with gambling, sex, work or any other behavior that we mention as types of addictions, you can contact us by phone, email or our contact form to arrange a personal appointment or simply request more information. In any case, you would contact one of the therapists directly with total discretion and confidentiality, in order to receive professional guidance about your case or that of a close friend.
Reconnect is a private center, with no links to other public or state entities. We offer an individual and completely personalized treatment that is drug free and does not require any type of hospitalization.