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What Does Addiction Feel Like


Addiction feels like a chaotic loss of control, a sense of being outcast, rejected, unloved, and lost, all while having an intense craving, and only feeling fleeting pleasure. 

Addiction can cause a feeling of being unable to stop using the substance, even while desperately wanting to. This powerlessness over your own actions can be incredibly isolating, frightening, and lonely.  Addiction fuels the feeling of being unworthy of a better or different life. 

Addiction isn’t about a lack of morals, willpower, or discipline. It seriously damages and affects a person's neurological pathways and frontal cortex pathways where your brain manages and processes cognitive thinking, emotions, judgment, self-control and so much more. This damage explains why an addict is often unable to make a critical decision to not do something that, on some level, they know is harmful to them.    

For someone who has never struggled with an addiction, it's hard for them to understand how it can take control of someone's brain and make it almost impossible to make a logical and reasonable decision. This lack of understanding creates an ever further divide between the addict and loved ones.









Because there is such a disconnect between those who have an addiction and those who don't understand that the substance or behavior has moved past abuse and into a serious medical condition, the ripple effects of the addiction feel overwhelming for everyone.

The feelings of hopelessness that an addict experiences are also felt by family and friends who love and care for the individual.  They often times question what they did wrong or what they could have done better.  

Lack of self-love, self-worth, and self-respect is often times felt by both sides.  This is because addiction doesn't just have to the person with the substance or behavioral problem...it happens to everyone who cares about them.

Additionally, the stigma of addiction or being in recovery produces feelings of shame and embarrassment for both the addict and their loved ones.

These intense emotions felt on both sides often lead to estrangement and irreparable damage.