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While researching on what are, or could be various forms of addiction, I stumbled upon procrastination.

I think procrastination is positive.

Procrastination started as a distraction from work (what should be done). It was a different perspective, outside work. Since I have what should be done clogging my mind and just bringing in stress. I tend to distract myself from it. And since, it was stress; I went to things that made me feel relieved from that stress. Like things that I perceive as relaxing / calm / fun. For example, Music, movies, games, talking to other people, etc. (Everything else that I don’t perceive as work, or anything I relate to stress).

From all the things I was procrastinated with, I wasn’t just looked at them without perceiving it.

Can a person just look at something without perceiving it in any way? I think not.

What do I perceive from movies?

While watching movies;

understanding of different characters, different perspectives helps understand human behavior,

the plot/ space helps me see possibilities of spaces outside where i am.

the moral influences my thoughts

etc..

If the knowledge from work is considered as what should be done. How can I characterize the knowledge I gained while procrastinating?

What wasn’t supposed to be done? What shouldn’t be done?

It seems wrong and negative. Doesn’t it?

"Addiction can be known as a habit, but a habit is not always addiction" What is a habit? What is an addiction? Why can addiction be called a habit? Why can habit not be called an addiction?

Habit

Habit means a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up. (dictionary)

Habits are somethings which are done repeatedly, that over time becomes automatic. (mine)

I didn't consider a habit as a tendency as well. (contradiction)

Habits are also hard to give up. (observation)

Addiction

Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. (dictionary)

Addiction is when people try to stop doing a particular habit but are not able to because of craving, regardless of any consequence. (mine)

Addiction is a brain disorder. (observation)

Addiction can be called a habit as it is also a regular tendency towards a particular stimuli.

“I want to study the transition of habit to an addiction“

I know what addiction means but I’ve never been through the phase of being an addict. I get a feeling when I think I am getting close to the line of when the excess of a habit turns to addiction, which includes the negative effects as well as a feeling of not being able to get the same result that has made to hold onto the particular habit in any other way. For example, stress relief. This feeling is like a buzzer in my head telling me to stop, leading me to control and stop by distracting myself from the particular habit to test myself, if I could get the same result without involving in the particular habit.

When an activity becomes a habit and then when that habit gets out of limit. For example, When smoking cigarettes occasionally turn to the consumption of a box of cigarettes in one day.

After this excess point the cycle can either get boring, resulting you to leave the habit right there, or it can still continue, leading for the negative effects to show up.

Once the negative effects show up there are three ways it can lead the person to, first, the person could be unable to take control and be addicted to the particular habit. In the second way the negative impacts could get the user to decrease the use of the habit. And the third way is where the person stops doing the particular habit. For stopping the particular habit the person starts to distract themselves from that particular habit.

After deflecting the habit, the urge to involve in the particular habit again is still present, and when the particular habit shows up/ comes across again, it attracts the user by triggering their tendency to get involved with the particular thing, by giving birth to the thoughts about the feeling (eg. taste), which were felt when they were involved with the particular habit.

Which can then lead in three ways, first, the person controlling the urge. Second, the person tries again and leaves. And that the habit could become occasional.

As long as the particular activity remains occasional, there is a possibility for the cycle to repeat itself.

Contradiction

The cycle is just how an individual deals with addiction, cause when a habit got to its excess point, it also became an addiction.

The cycle just says that the way an individual responds to their stimuli decides whether they are able to resist their urge.

“I want to study the transition of a habit into an addiction”

Habits are somethings which are done repeatedly that over time becomes automatic. They are either good (positive) or bad (negative). For example, exercising every day or eating healthy can be considered as positive whereas, cursing, lying are considered as negative habits. 

Addiction is when people want to stop doing a particular habit but are not able to do that because of craving, regardless of any consequence. It is always negative since it leads to harm its users. For example, a gambling addict will still continue to gamble even in financial problems for the craving of wining.

Habits can be deliberately incorporated in our lives by first putting in effort to repeatedly do a certain thing, and after a while of repetition the thing becomes a habit. 

Habits are the ones that are in control and when a habit gets out of control, it turns into an addiction.