Addiction occurs when there is a compulsive and repetitive action that affects a person’s ability to perform ordinary activities of daily living such as, work, school, personal hygiene, etc. As described on Psychology today website (https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/addiction), this continuous act of addiction could be abusing of drugs, ingesting of chemicals or substance such as cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, food, etc., or partaking in activities such as gambling, shopping, internet surfing, sex, exercise, among others. This essay will try to discuss some form of addiction and the effect it has on the individual and/or others.
Physical addiction is a type of addiction usually used to describe the biological state whereby there is adaptation …show more content…
The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) developed in accordance with the Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental illness sets criteria for diagnosing substance abuse. In order to be able to diagnose food addiction with this YFAS, at least there must be three addiction symptoms together with a clinically significant disorder present (Meule, Rezori, & Blechert, 2014). Bulimia nervosa is also another eating disorder and just like any behavioural disorder, individuals suffering from this disorder go through some form of addiction. The health consequence of this disorder is excessive self-induced vomiting, which leads to chronic regurgitation of gastric hydrochloric acid which also causes the wearing off of the mucosa lining at the angels of the mouth and pain (Mehler, …show more content…
Some of the physical symptoms exhibited by such individual are increased heart rate when resting, excessive nocturnal thirst indicative of some dehydration, and in severe instances, decreased or lack of perspiration as a compensatory mechanism to retain fluid in the body. Physiologically, the sufferer may have high cortisol and stress hormone level. In extreme cases, the testosterone level decreases and it affects spermatozoa production. The immunity also becomes weak and makes the individual susceptible to minor illness (Perna,
Physical addiction is a type of addiction usually used to describe the biological state whereby there is adaptation …show more content…
The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) developed in accordance with the Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental illness sets criteria for diagnosing substance abuse. In order to be able to diagnose food addiction with this YFAS, at least there must be three addiction symptoms together with a clinically significant disorder present (Meule, Rezori, & Blechert, 2014). Bulimia nervosa is also another eating disorder and just like any behavioural disorder, individuals suffering from this disorder go through some form of addiction. The health consequence of this disorder is excessive self-induced vomiting, which leads to chronic regurgitation of gastric hydrochloric acid which also causes the wearing off of the mucosa lining at the angels of the mouth and pain (Mehler, …show more content…
Some of the physical symptoms exhibited by such individual are increased heart rate when resting, excessive nocturnal thirst indicative of some dehydration, and in severe instances, decreased or lack of perspiration as a compensatory mechanism to retain fluid in the body. Physiologically, the sufferer may have high cortisol and stress hormone level. In extreme cases, the testosterone level decreases and it affects spermatozoa production. The immunity also becomes weak and makes the individual susceptible to minor illness (Perna,