Emotions are a part of life. It is part of being human. In fact, it is what makes us human. We laugh when we are happy, we cry when we are sad and disappointed, and we let out our rage when we are furious and mad. And, that is natural. Everyday, we convey various emotions more than we could envision. Typically, life events that we encounter trigger these emotions. And the body, as emotional feelings are natural to it, is able to manage with these expressions of emotions through a cycle. As psychologists would say, an individual does not feel the same emotion over a very long period of time. What we feel sooner or later changes. Precisely saying, the longest time you could feel happy is ten days. After that, the feeling of happiness subsides, probably shifting to anxiety or sadness.
Archive for the “Drug Rehab Detox” CategoryDo you sit on the couch with your best friend potato chips beside you as you cry out your heartache and bitterness in the world? There are times where we eat more than what our body needs. We eat not only to be full and to gratify our physical needs. Most of the time, we eat because it makes us feel good for a moment. We eat because it is our way of running away from the negative emotions we feel. When we feel depressed, we eat. We use food as ourrefuge, a sort of security blanket amidst our insecurities towards the world. The drug that is usually abused is heroin. It is a very addictive drug taken from morphine, obtained from the opium poppy. It acts on the person rapidly, as fast as 3 to 6 seconds. Heroin is. It affects the brain’s pleasure systems and disrupts the brain’s ability to perceive pain. With heroin, pain receptors of the brain are blocked, thus, the person is less likely to feel pain once he/she takes in the drug. To quote Franklin Roosevelt, “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” . Surely, when someone hears the word cocaine, all he/she could think of is addiction. Cocaine seems to connote a negative idea and even more, a negative emotion towards people. Indeed, it is a substance known to be easily abused and thus, users eventually become dependent to it and the cycle goes on and on. like any other substance addiction, cocaine addiction can harm lives. It changes the individual in many ways, his perspectives, his motives, perception, and behaviors. |
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