Yes…it’s possible! The term “addiction” give us images of people in dark rooms, hearing bad music and sticking needles within their arms, but many addicts can be found in the gym or on the neighborhood school track, getting in the same way addictive a fix. In fact, the positive nature of the word “healthy” makes health and fitness addiction all the more alluring. Despite the positive media, health addicts did as much damage to their families and lives as any other kind of addict. In this post, we’ll look under the surface of health addiction and find a path to recovery.
How Can Something So Good Be Bad? Inside our modern Western culture, those willing to pay the purchase price for fitness should be applauded. You can find just so many temptations to accomplish otherwise. Exercise is mostly boring, painful and smelly, so those that endure it for about one hour, 3-5 days a week, have achieved a level of discipline most only imagine.
Health and fitness addiction isn’t about health or fitness…it’s about a compulsion to utilize healthy activities to fill a void we see in ourselves. Addicts are compelled, not disciplined. The addictive chemicals involved in exercise are much the same as those in sex and porn addiction. This may explain why many people suffer from both sexual addictions and health addictions.
Types Of HEALTH Addiction: These are addictions to the actions of health and fitness, instead of it, Internet and shopping addictions that could involve health themes. Health and fitness addictions are compulsions to engage in “healthy” activities, like exercise, dieting, etc. Actually, anorexia and bulimia nervosa have both been referred to as severe health addictions. Two key symptoms of these mental disorders are exercise and dietary control to a compulsive and excessive extreme. The specific exercise or diet plan doesn’t matter. It’s an addiction once you feel compelled to accomplish it.
How Do I Know I’m Addicted? We addicts don’t often recognize addiction because a common symptom of addiction is denial, that is even easier to have about health. That is why it’s easier to learn from a friend or loved one if you have a problem of this type. For health addiction involving eating, see Anorexia Nervosa Quiz. Here are a few things to watch out for concerning fitness exercise addiction:
1. Do you regularly save money than 8 hours weekly exercising and may be the time you spend increasing?
2. Does your exercise schedule interfere with normal family activities, home or work responsibilities?
3. Do friends or family complain concerning the time or money you may spend on fitness?
4. Have you wondered if you are being too compulsive about your fitness program?
5. Have you lied to your family, friends, or employers about the time you spend in fitness activities?
6. Do you often see fitness in an effort to gain acceptance or praise from others?
7. Have you ever pushed so difficult in your fitness routine you hurt yourself?
In the event that you answered yes to any of these questions, you should think about yourself at risk of addiction. In the event that you answered yes to 3 or even more, you’re probably addicted.
How Do I GET OVER Health And Fitness Addiction? That is caused by a negative self-image, like any other addiction. Instead of alcohol, you utilize exercise to fill a void you are feeling in yourself. Because the relief produced by exercise is temporary and you also become conditioned, you need regular increases in the activity to produce the same relief. Unlike alcohol, a certain amount of fitness activity is required for health, so, you can’t just quit. Instead, we need to hold ourselves to only an hour each day, 3-5 days a week.
Spend all of those other time you used to exercise likely to AA or other addiction meetings and participating in self-development activities. You could read, go back to school, join a volunteer group. You can take up a hobby, like gardening or building model airplanes. To help in building yourself up, avoid negative mental inputs, like the news, drama, negative, insulting friends. Replace people that have good music or reading or other activities that build you up. Push all of the negative, self-defeating, limiting thoughts from your mind with positive, uplifting, encouraging thoughts.
Because there are risks that health addiction could become full-blown anorexia, if you try and fail to get a handle on your addiction, please see a medical expert. Sometimes medical and psychological therapy can prevent a far more serious condition from developing, and allow you the mental energies you have to get control of yourself.
Health and fitness addiction could be just as severe as any other addiction. It could imprison us into destructive, compulsive activities. ozone water We can place our families, our careers, even, ironically, our health at risk through addiction to exercise and other fitness activities. The good news is, there is hope for anyone willing to reside in and work on recovery.