dependency
Through life we all find something that we swear we couldn’t live without, sometimes it’s chocolate, sometimes it’s a particular game and sometimes it’s a drug or alcohol.
Dependency unlike addiction becomes an easier battle to break one’s self from. If you depend on something you are most likely to break free from it if you no longer have it and feel less exhausted. An addiction however turns a person’s world inside out and can sometimes have the same effect on the body.
A dependency is something you take for granted in your life until it is no longer there. Let’s use blood pressure medicine for instance. If you take blood pressure medicine it’s because you have high blood pressure, you probably take it at least once a day. You have become dependent on it not taking it would feel weird especially if you have been taking it for years; though you have not become addicted to it.
When it comes to drugs a person can become very addicted or dependent on them and this can happen within the first few times of trying out a new drug. It is true that an addiction seems to pick and choose who it wants to bring on board. When a person has become dependent on drugs, they could smoke, inject or snort a drug for years and then decide they do not want to anymore.
There are many people who can do that with drinking alcohol and smoking as well. They pick and choose when they want a cigarette or a beer, for others however it has turned into an addiction. Medically there is no answer for why it happens that way. Sometimes a person’s will is very strong and other times it is very weak, though those weak in the will area are far stronger in other areas.
If you have a dependency or addiction it is a good idea to find help. Dependency has been known to lead to an addiction and it happens very fast.
