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Providing mentoring services for men, specializing in recovering from damaging behaviors and reorienting life around your core beliefs.
At Jabbok Mentoring Services we will walk with men through their behaviors, beliefs, and battles, coaching them to live a renewed life.
What are Behavioral Addictions?
Typically, when people think of addictions, they often focus on alcohol or drugs. However, there are other types of addictions. Behavioral addictions, also referred to as process addictions, involve engaging in harmful habits despite their negative consequences. In fact, abruptly stopping these behaviors can even lead to withdrawal symptoms. Initially, these actions may seem rewarding, offering a fleeting sense of happiness, but they often result in feelings of shame and regret once the happy feeling subsides. Similar to alcohol or drug dependencies, behavioral addictions are disorders that can have significant impacts on individuals and their families. Just like alcohol abuse, these addictions require serious attention. Here at Jabbok Mentoring Services, you will be given the tools you need to create new behaviors and cultivate resiliency.
What are Examples of Behavioral Addictions?
- Food addiction
- Gambling behaviors
- Work
- Pornography/Sex addiction
- Video game addiction
- Shopping or compulsive buying disorder
- Internet and/or Social Media addiction
- Exercise
How Do I Know If I Have A Behavioral Addiction?
The signs and symptoms between different behavioral conditions can vary, however, a number of experts agree that there is a set of criteria, when met, indicate the presence of a behavioral addiction 1
- Salience – an activity becomes the most important in one’s life, and dominates thoughts, feelings and behavior
- Mood modification – an activity that elicits a high or feeling of escape
- Tolerance – increasing amounts of the activity are required to achieve satisfaction
- Withdrawal – unpleasant feeling states such as moodiness or irritability or physical effects in the absence of the activity
- Conflict – interpersonal conflicts between the addict and those around them, or internal conflict due to the psychological need to engage in the activity and the desire not to give in to the tensions caused by addiction to the activity
- Relapse – the tendency to revert to earlier patterns of the activity after a period of abstinence or control over the behavior
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Sources
- Alavi, S. S., Ferdosi, M., Jannatifard, F., Eslami, M., Alaghemandan, H., & Setare, M. (2012). Behavioral Addiction versus Substance Addiction: Correspondence of Psychiatric and Psychological Views. International journal of preventive medicine, 3(4), 290–294.
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