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Elder Douglas Derrick Lattimore is an International author, known for his "Out of the box" thinking in matters of theology and business. You will come away with interesting points of view from a variety of topics and subjects.
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Episode 20: Episode 20: Seeing Our Addictions
09/01/2024 Duração: 01h01minMany people consider addiction to be a problem of personal weakness, initiated for self-gratification and continued because of an unwillingness or lack of sufficient willpower to stop. However, within the medical and scientific communities, the notion that pleasure-seeking exclusively drives addiction has fallen by the wayside. Clinicians and scientists alike now think that many people engage in potentially addictive activities to escape discomfort — both physical and emotional. People typically engage in psychoactive experiences to feel good and to feel better. The roots of addiction reside in activities associated with sensation seeking and self-medication. People allude to addiction in everyday conversation, casually referring to themselves as "chocolate addicts" or "workaholics." However, addiction is not a term clinicians take lightly. You might be surprised to learn that until the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), the term addiction did not appear in an