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Addiction & Impulse control disorder (6 components (Salience…
Addiction & Impulse control disorder
Definition: Addiction
A chronic brain disease that causes compulsive substance use despite harmful consequences.
A condition that results when a person ingests a substance or engages in an activity that can be pleasurable but the continued use/ act of which becomes compulsive & interferes with ordinary life responsibilities.
6 components
Salience
Addiction dominates behaviors, thoughts & feelings.
Euphoria
Subjective experience while engaging in addictive behavior
Tolerance
Increasing amounts required to achieve former mood modifying effects.
Withdrawal
Unpleasant effects (Physically/psychologically) during abstinence
Conflict
Conflicts with self/ others
Relapse
Tendency for repeated returns to earlier patterns of addictive behaviors.
Dependence
Physical
Individual rely on substance use to maintain normal functioning. Abstinence leads to withdrawal symptoms.
Psychological
Dependent on substance/ activity to fulfill psychological needs (eg. stimulation, pleasure, escape from reality) to maintain stable mental state.
Definition: Impulse control disorder
Impulse to engage in violent, sexual, immoral or self-abusive behaviors.
Failure/ extreme difficulty in controlling impulses despite negative consequences.
5 stages:
Pleasure when impulse is satisfied
Relief from satisfaction
Growing tension
Impulse
Guilt or lack of guilt