psychologically addicting

[WannaSmokePot]

What the hell does that mean?

[orangeman]

Look up psychological, assuming you already know what addicting means you'll get your answer :thumbsup:.

[yzstoned]

its jus like a hobby u get really into it nd it all you wanna do

[8675309]

It's not physically addicting as in, there are no withdrawal symptoms. You won't start getting violently ill when you aren't smoking... Psychologically means you can find regular life more boring and feel compelled to do it all the time. However, lots of things are psychologically addicting. Shopping, sex, eating etc...

[DazedNblazed]

i believe there is no thing as pyschologcally addicitve when it comes to weed, i call it L.O.V.E

[thecurious1]

ANY action that creates emotions is and can be psychologically addicting.

You can be addicted to any action that produces emotions. Fighting, Sex, Eating, Sky Diving, Sports, etc etc.

What do you think love is? Nothing more than your brain pumping out polypeptides that reflect a certain emotion. Those chemicals are then released to the blood where they attach themselves to receptor cells in our body.

You love someone because they make you FEEL certain emotions. If and/or when they don't make you feel those emotions anymore you tend to fall out of love. Why? Because that persons actions no longer give you the "high" of emotions you have grown to depend on.

The polypeptides (emotions) that correspond with Love are probally the most psychologically addicting substances known to man. And indeed, the reason why many people do crazy things while under the influence of love.

When you smoke cannabis the chemicals rush through the blood stream and attach themselves to the SAME receptor cells that the chemicals our brain produce attach to.

It it then easy to see that marijuana, as well as any other chemical that attaches itself to receptor cells can become psychologically addicting.

The level of your addictions depends on your genetic code and environment.
Are people pre-destined for specific addictions? YES

Everyone is pre-coded to be more "sensitive" to certain emotions and chemicals. How we handle those emotions and chemicals depends on how strong willed the person is. For instance, you could have two people whom are both genetically more sensitive to the chemicals produced by alcohol.
One might be an alcoholic and the other might not be. Why?

Two most likely reasons.

1) The environment the alcoholic was/is living in broke their capacity to control their impulses. Lost of a job, a devastating incident, abuse, or being homeless are all examples of environment stimuli that can break a persons will.

2) The non-alcoholic has the mental focus (will) to beable to control their impulses. Their environment is most likely a positive one that ensures mental stability. They may one day experience something dramatic that causes their "addiction switch" to turn...they may not. But it's important to understand that we are indeed BORN with specific addictions that may or may never rise to the surface, depending on what's going on in our lives.

New studies are even finding that murderer's brains produce different amounts of chemical than a normal person. We may soon realise that our genetics has more to do with our actions in life than people think.

Some people may be born to desire the emotions released when you commit a crime while others may be born to desire the rush released to them by over-achieving at everything they do.

Eitherway, it comes down to our bodies desire to feel specific sets of emotions. We call those sets of emotions an identity, which in the end makes up our personallity.

When we can no longer control the emotions, they become an addiction.
Of course, there are different levels of addiction.

Is it possible for someone to become strongly addicted to marijuana psychologically? YES! Just like someone can become strongly addicted to any emotion or action that causes an emotion.

If you can voluntarily quit using marijuana then your addiction to the substance is small and relatively harmless. You may experience slight irritation or perhaps even find it harder to fall asleep for a few days but this is common with this level of addiction. This type of user generally likes to use marijuana regulary because they like how it makes them feel and they wish to continue to feel that way. When they no longer can, they get frustrated for a short period of time. But ultimately marijuana does not define their mental state for long periods of time.

If you can't voluntarily quit using marijuana then your addiction to the substance is at a high level and would be what most people consider "true" addiction. At this stage the substance becomes your first priority and you simply can't function properly without it. (Emotionally and/or Socially)

"True" addiction is rarer in marijuana than most other substances and emotions but it is important to know that it CAN exist for some people.

How you deal with your pre-destined addictions depends solely on your will to control your mind and body.


Hrmm..... that was long. lol I think I might make this into it's own thread. :D

[pixel]

some describe their marijuana withdrawals similar to ciggarette withdrawals...

personally i like to have it but i can force myself to live without it.

[SirTokeAlot]

The distinction should be made between physical addiction and psychological addiction. Psychological addiction simply means that we like to repeat enjoyable experiences - nothing more, nothing less. To me, marijuana (the physical substance) itself is not what creates the desire to repeat using it. I believe it is the state of consciousness which it propells one into (which can be very enjoyable depending on your individual temperament) that causes one to desire to repeat the experience.

[tokinggreg]

I'll keep it simple:

When you are psychologically addicted to something, you will keep thinking about the substance and say things like, "God, I wish I had some _____ right now," or "It would be a lot of fun to get high about now." Marijuana is highly enjoyable, so its pretty natural to love to do it, and to want to smoke it every day is pretty common. I, for one, find it pretty tough to limit myself to once or twice a week (but I manage).

Physical (Chemical) addiction has to do with the chemical makeup of a substance. When a person is physically addicted, they will face an imbalance of something in their body (usually neurotransmitters like seratonin/dopamine/etc) when they stop using the drug. This phase is known as withdrawal. It's usually quite unpleasant.

Marijuana is NOT physically addicting, but for many it can be highly mentally (psychologically) addicting.

I hope that helps.

[slipknotpsycho]

simply put, your mind gets addicted rather than your body, there can be withdrawl symptoms and all that shit, physically addictive and psychologically addictive shit can share the exact same properties and everything, the only thing that seperates them is that physically has some type of chemical or something in that your body gets used to and gets thrown off when it's taken away, where as psycholgically there is no chemical to get addicted to, therefore any thrown off symptoms you get when quit is all in your head.