A connection: people who may be addicted to coffee are often self-medicating for depression.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Jun 15, 2024, 8:22 AM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > I was reading a book about addictions (Addictions - A Social Psychological > Perspective edited by Catalina E. Kopetz and Carl W. Lejuez, Routledge, > 2015) and was wondering if addiction and depression are two extremes on the > same spectrum. Addiction is in a sense the opposite of depression: we feel > either forced to do something or compelled to do nothing. We either can not > stop doing something or can not do anything at all. > > Rock stars and rich people or their kids often suffer from drug addiction > to alcohol or cocaine or other drugs, while ordinary people are more > affected from junk food and porn. Junk food is to supper time what porn is > to pairing time. They hijack the ancient mechanisms which ensure that we > maintain our bodies (by ingesting food) and maintain our species (by having > sex). The reward system in our brains is triggered without providing the > benefits the rewards were meant to guarantee. > > What do you think, could you say that addiction and depression are two > related phenomena where inbuilt reward mechanism go awry? > > -J. > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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