The word "addiction" comes from English addiction - addiction, addiction. This term is applied both to chemical dependencies (narcotic, drug), and non-chemical, expressed in addictive behavior.
How is addictive behavior manifested?
Addictive behavior is considered a deviation and is manifested in the fact that a person has an obsessive need to perform some action again and again, to use some substance or to constantly communicate with some person. A person depends on these actions, because they give him short-term emotions of joy, after which he again returns to real life, from which he tried to escape. A dependent person is so attached to a certain activity that he is often not able to independently stop doing it.
You can talk about addictive behavior when addiction has become painful. It is accompanied by the loss of self-control, fixation on the subject of addiction, mental or biological self-destruction, social maladaptation, denial as a form of psychological defense.
Addiction is characterized by inadequate perception of reality and reaction to it, low self-esteem, difficulties in recognizing one’s emotions, feelings of anxiety and shame / guilt, inability to solve life tasks and taking care of oneself, inability to build full relations with loved ones and society, psychosomatic disorders. At the physiological level, colitis, peptic ulcer, neurocirculatory dystonia, metabolic disorders, headaches, tachycardia, arrhythmia, asthma, etc. can occur.