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How to Identify Addiction and Get Help if You Need with psychotherapist Rebecca Harris

Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri

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How Do You Overcome Your Addiction?

What do we know about what's going on in the brain when people are having a substance? We can have dopemen release when something makes us feel good. But if we something like drugs or gaming, gambling, et cetera, that becomes the thing that we rely on to feel good. So then you're relying on that thing. And is that a physical addiction, or psychological addiction, if it's in your brain? Well, that's the kind of psychological end of emthough it's physical in terms of the reward centres,. It's not dangerous, like you can't stop doing it. Les talk about treatment, cause we've spoken about the possible wis and wherefore

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