Negative effects of addiction

Negative effects of addiction

Addiction have some negative effects on person's life. It can effect his personal, professional and educational life. There are two main categories of negative effects of addiction.

• Psychological effects
• physical effects

Psychological effects

Initially addict uses any kind of addiction to decrease the level of stress or for pleasure. With the passage of time it becomes addiction that have some negative effects on our psychological health. There are some negative psychological effects of drugs.

• Craving
• Mood Swings
• Mental illness
• Hallucinations
• Confusion
• Tolerance
• Paranoia
• Aggressive Behaviour
• Impaired Judgement
• Loss of self-control

• Craving 

When a person becomes addict he feel craving for the addictive object. When a person see or even thinking about an addictive object he may feel craving.

• Mood Swings

Addiction directly leads to mood swings. Addict suddenly show bad mood and suddenly show good mood.

• Mental illness

Chemical and non-chemical addiction can cause some psychological disorders in addict.

• Hallucinations

Some types of drugs cause hallucinations in which addict perceives the objects that do not have physical appearance. For example, person may report that he has seen a person who is dead.

• Confusions

Addict may also cause confusions. Addict always remain confused about their acts. They do not know what to do and what to say.

• Tolerance

At the specific time addict's body develop tolerance and he has to increase the dose of addictive object otherwise he experiences some withdrawal symptoms. It effects badly both physical and psychological health of addict.

• Paranoia

Addict may have the feelings of paranoia in which he always mistrust, misjudge, blame, jealous and try to harm other people.

• Aggressive Behaviour

Addiction may cause the aggressive behaviour in addict. Addict may show aggressive behaviour on little things. If other people try to stop him from addiction or other anti-social behaviour addict will show aggressive behaviour. Aggression also develop as a withdrawal symptom.

• Impaired Judgement

Addiction may also effect the judgement of person. Addict can not differentiate between good and bad. He can do any thing to get addictive object.

• Loss of self-control

Addiction causes the loss of self-control. Addict has no control on his feelings, emotions, cognition and action.