Sentences with phrase «described as an addiction»
Problematic cell phone use has been described as an addiction - like behavior leading individuals to use the cell phone compulsively [18 — 20].
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«Our culture's sexual freedom is more accurately described as sexual addiction,» says West, who was working this out in practice during his formative university years.
A cliché among empathetic therapists, eager to describe addiction as a standard - issue disease, is that «no one ever decides to become an addict.»
She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.
But there are several points that deserve special emphasis here: (1) «The radical new view of alcoholism, not as a disease but as a «central activity in heavy drinkers» way of life,» as described by Herbert Fingarette... clearly has transforming implications for conceptualizing and dealing with the ethical issues in alcohol addiction....
Rachel describes «se - xual addiction» as «a normal se - x drive that has become obssessive to the point that behaviour is out of control.»
Only 5 % of men said they looked at Internet porn on a daily basis, but a disproportionate 42 % said they would describe their behaviour as «compulsive or an addiction».
Why would this group give active consideration to advice from a woman Sheldon himself describes as «a kind, loving, religiously fanatical, right - wing Texan, with a slightly out of scale head, and a mild Dr. Pepper addiction?»
Within the past 10 years, the prescription of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain has increased and the abuse of opioid medications leading to addiction has been described as epidemic.
Cordellia Amethyste Rose, who started Wild Minds, an online forum for people who can not stop daydreaming, describes her compulsive daydreaming as an addiction.
JASON VALE has been described as one of the UK's leading authorities on health, addiction, and juicing.
She had never been a fruit and veggie lover or a cook and describes her relationship to refined sugar before her illness as an addiction.
Have you ever described your relationship with food as an addiction?
Sexual addiction is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts.
Dicky, self - described as being «squirrelly as f ***,» hopes for a comeback, though the crack addiction makes this unlikely.
Herzog describes the Internet as «one of the biggest revolutions we as humans are experiencing,» and yet he tempers this enthusiasm with horror stories from victims of online harassment and Internet addiction.
Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.
The film is described as being «a dramatic collision of four strangers struggling through drug addiction, existential suicide, terminal illness and death.»
My fascination with this app started as amusement (with terms to describe users like «sleepies» to identify people waiting on a call to wake them up), and progressed quickly to some kind of strange addiction.
Millions of people suffer from some form of food addiction, for some it s an addiction to their favorite food, for others it s anything and everything that could ever be described as food however the one thing we all have in common is that eventually our addiction will leave us unhealthy and unhappy.
Opioid addiction is often described as an «equal opportunity» problem that can afflict people from all races and walks of life, but while true enough, this obscures the fact that the opioid crisis has particularly affected some of the poorest regions of the country, such as Appalachia, and that people living in poverty are especially at risk for...
Chef - owner John Reusing describes his Fells Point spot as a bar with a bacon addiction.
These add - ons are what could be described as gateway drugs leading into the deeper addiction that is Popcap's library.
One anonymous former Overwatch player shared with me what drew them into what they described as a loot box addiction.
He has now been clean for seven years, largely thanks to an innovative prison rehab program, what he describes as «a compassionate judge» and the support of his partner Susan Stellin, a reporter with whom he co-wrote Chancers: Addiction, Prison, Recovery, Love: One Couple's Memoir, published by Random House in June 2016.
In what will most likely be his final post at his former blog, he describes the move as «same addiction, new drug,» and says he will write about not just the law, but also more general interests.
Delilah Saunders became an outspoken advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women after her 26 - year - old sister's death, something that hit her hard, say family members, who describe it as a factor in her battle with addictions.
The term addiction is used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive physical dependence or psychological dependence, such as: drug addiction, video game addiction, crime, money, alcoholism, work addiction, compulsive overeating, problem gambling, computer addiction, etc..
Describe the cultural and spiritual dimensions of addiction treatment as well as the forensic issues in the treatment of addictions.
Dr. Patrick Carnes has described addiction as the avoidance of reality at any cost and recovery as facing reality at any cost.
Understand and describe how EMDR therapy and the 8 - phase protocol can be used as a theoretical orientation for addictions treatment.
A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.
An addiction can be described as any compulsive and habitual behavior that limits your freedom.
Pornography is described as a sexual addiction that creates an enslaving dependence upon erotic excitement through images or words, fantasized or real, and has infiltrated our world through a variety of sources: advertisements, adult bookstores, movies, music, literature, television, telephone sex lines, the Internet, and more.
He also cites those who went before him, such as the feminist psychiatrist, Karen Horney, MD, who laid a good bit of the groundwork for our understanding of the importance of «shoulds» in depression and anxiety and relationship conflicts, as well as the role of some of the Self - Defeating Beliefs, such as the Love / Approval Addiction and others, although she used different terms to describe these potentially destructive beliefs.
Hypersexuality, or sex addiction, is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterised by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts.
Approximately 350 million people in the world suffer from hoarding addiction, and only 15 % of them describe their behavior as irrational.