devoted to their work as an exceptional worker, but when the word disorder is used that is no longer considered a good thing. The reality is these "defective" traits start in their childhoods, but often overlooked in school due to the fact that teachers welcome it. Being a student that is devoted to their work, and makes sure to pay attention to every detail until it is perfect are normally the ones praised for being scholarly. In the short term there is no consequence to this behavior, but in Victor
I was too ashamed to mention my problem in therapy, but I finally confided in a close friend. She told me about compulsive skin picking, also called dermatillomania. I cut my nails short and picked up hobbies such as knitting and guitar that kept my hands busy, but nothing stopped my constant picking. One day, I happened to buy a hand strengthener to improve my guitar
studies as this article points out paints a different picture on exercise addiction as something that can be exaggerated as a behavioral dysfunction. There are also statements on the obsessive nature of exercise addiction and how individuals gain short term satisfaction and long term repeated urge to do the exercise repeatedly by the individual. The problem in defining exercise addiction as an issue is that there is no consistent base on how to test, no specific way to test if an individual happens
A drug is any chemical that affects the human body or mind when consumed in any way such as, smelling, smoking, tasting, injecting…etc. Drugs have been within the public for quite a long time, it has been popularized since the 1960s by music, movies and mass media. An estimate of 208 million people consume illegal drugs worldwide. You probably know someone who has been affected by drugs, directly or indirectly. The most commonly used drug is alcohol. The most commonly used illegal drug is marijuana
Acknowledgments I want to acknowledge several people who have given many hours of their time and expertise in helping me make this project a reality. One is Barbara Crafton, whose advice, support, and depth of life and ministry I greatly appreciate. She walked me through this process with clarity and gentle prodding and deftly critiqued the manuscript. I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Sue Stanley, who labored for many months typing the various changes in the text. Her patience, humor, and generosity