Addiction comes in many forms. Unfortunately, when the topic comes up, we tend to default to its more insidious and obvious expressions. Alcoholism and substance abuse, while complicated diseases, are easy to recognize in ourselves and in others. Less obvious, however, are the compulsive and potentially harmful patterns that arise from other relatively benign behaviors. Numerous studies have begun to look at the impact of social media addiction, just as people have started to discuss their addictions to binge-watching television shows. Pornography abuse, and the effects it has on the brain, particularly those of younger people, has become a hotly debated topic as well. Even things you might otherwise think of as beneficial, like exercise, can fall under the realm of addiction, as a recent study discussed. While there are frameworks for understanding and treating the more typically recognized addictions, it맥스카지노�s possible that many of us are developing habits that we might not even recognize as potentially detrimental, particularly as the pace of our digital lives incentivizes and exacerbates those behaviors. As with any addiction, the first step to mitigating its impact on your life is recognizing it might be there in the first place.That was the impetus behind a survey put together by Rehab Pathway, a group that offers resources for people interested in learning more about recovery options. Recognizing addictive aspects in our everyday lives might help chip away at our inability to talk about more pernicious addictions. That맥스카지노�s something that is sorely needed at the moment, in the midst of the opioid crisis, and at a time when one in seven Americans will develop a substance abuse problem at some point, according to a study last year by the Surgeon General, but only one in 10 will get treatment. The stigma of addiction that leads addicts to often feel otherized or outcast is partly to blame.맥스카지노�A lot of people don맥스카지노�t understand the mechanics behind addiction, and they can't really relate to that on a normal, everyday level,맥스카지노� said Mike Genevieve of Rehab Pathway. 맥스카지노�When you start relating a scale typically used for addiction to other topics, daily dependencies that we all live with and you don맥스카지노�t think of as an addiction—Ah, I need to get home and watch the rest of Stranger Things tonight!—when you start to ask these questions, you might answer yes to more than you think you would. Our goal was to bring it down to the everyday person so they can relate.맥스카지노�To achieve that, they repurposed the American Psychological Association's DSM-5 Substance Dependence criteria into a different context. Typically, the questions there will ask someone at risk of abusing a substance if they take a larger amount than intended, if they want to cut down but cannot, spend a lot of time attaining the drug, or if they have their home, work, or school life affected by using it. Here, Rehab Pathway's survey of 1,000 Americans transposed that framework onto a series of common, daily routines: internet use, social media use, binge-watching, pornography, coffee, and exercise.맥스카지노�Part of what we looked at with the study were all these things that may not immediately come to mind when you think of addiction,맥스카지노� added John Bernasconi, also part of the team at Rehab Pathway. 맥스카지노�I맥스카지노�m on the computer eight hours a day at work. That맥스카지노�s a third of my time I spend looking at a screen. Whether or not you are actually addicted, it맥스카지노�s something worth looking at.맥스카지노�For each of the habits examined, respondents answered negatively or affirmatively to seven questions. While it might not be a shock to find that 64.2 percent of respondents believe that they should drink less coffee, some of the other results were indeed surprising: 13.5 percent of people said they sometimes think, 맥스카지노�I should exercise less,맥스카지노� while 56.8 percent said they have injured themselves while exercising, or have been instructed not to by a doctor, but continued anyway.Even for Rehab Pathway, some of the results were a surprise.맥스카지노�We didn맥스카지노�t expect to get so many yeses to some of the categories, exercise in particular. People answered that they thought they should exercise less? I didn맥스카지노�t really think that was a thought that people who exercise have,맥스카지노� Genevieve said.Elsewhere, 66 percent of people said that their internet use has had negative consequences, including losing sleep or arriving late to work because of they were online, while 50 percent reported continuing to use the internet despite suffering from physical side effects like headaches, or that they continued use despite being told by someone they trust that they should take a break. A lower percentage, 45.8 percent and 39.3 percent, respectively, said the same for social media use, and 38.4 percent for binge-watching television. 맥스카지노�We look at addiction primarily as substances, but I don맥스카지노�t think a lot of us realize how much time we spend doing these things, and the effect these things have on our lives,맥스카지노� Bernasconi said. 맥스카지노�Looking at the past 10 years, everything has changed about the way we live. Just read the questions and ask yourself, do I show any of these characteristics? A lot of time we맥스카지노�re so caught up in what we맥스카지노�re doing that we don맥스카지노�t think about what we맥스카지노�re doing.맥스카지노�Each individual is different, and this is not intended to be a medical or scientific diagnosis. However, for those of us who suspect we could be struggling with, or on the verge of, addictive behavior, answering the questions yourself could be a beneficial first step.