Do you always nail bite, always hanging out with naysayers, smoking, or taking excess drinking? Probably bad habit is at your doorsteps.
A bad habit is a term that characterizes a lifestyle in which a person deliberately harms his health by doing certain things that bring unpleasant sensations. Often, a person does not attach grave importance to many addictions, considering them to manifest his nature.
However, considering the list of bad habits of a person, some conclude that many of them are severe and dangerous deviations from the norm.
Most often, bad habits develop due to an unstable psyche or prolonged nervous disorders. But, other factors are also involved in the formation of these addictions:
- Own laziness;
- Unfulfilled hopes;
- The disappointment received;
- The too-fast pace of life;
- Financial long-term problems;
- Troubles occurring at home or work;
- Difficult psychological situations: divorce, illness, death of a close relative.
Bad habits actively form due to some global changes in everyday life—for example, the decline in the country’s economic development, leading to widespread unemployment. Peculiarities of mentality and even climatic factors influence the formation of addictions.
What are bad habits?
Bad habits are everyday actions that people repeatedly repeat, despite being harmful to human health. Also, many bad habits turn into addictions that bring short-term relief and pleasure, followed by considerable problems in the social, psychological, and medical spheres of a person’s life.
Any reason for developing a nasty habit in a person is not an excuse for addiction. It is the personality itself that is guilty of developing this problem in itself. No matter how a person justifies himself, the presence of a pernicious hobby speaks of his innate laziness, weakness, lack of initiative. To cope with the existing addiction and correct life, it is necessary to identify addiction’s prerequisite and get rid of it.
What bad habits do a person have?
What automatically comes to mind when talking about human addiction? Of course, craving for alcohol, addiction to drugs, and smoking. Indeed, these are the most dangerous bad habits for a person. But there are also other kinds of addictions that destroy the human psyche and personality itself.
Types of bad habits:
- Tobacco smoking,
- Harmful alcohol consumption,
- Consumption of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances without a doctor’s prescription,
- Nose picking,
- The habit of biting nails, pencil or pen,
- Crunching fingers,
- Promiscuous sex life,
- Improper diet and gluttony,
- Gambling addiction,
- Shopaholism,
- Computer and internet addiction
- Coffeemania.
They are all dangerous to vary degrees. For example, nose-picking and crunching of fingers bring inconvenience to the people around to a greater extent. Although different from alcoholism, drug addiction, and substance abuse, gambling addiction still represents grief for the whole family. After all, a person suffering from this habit can become mentally unbalanced or even lose control over himself and cause harm to someone. Besides, a person immersed in the computer world ceases to lead an everyday life, devotes all his free time to the game, spends money in it.
Impact on human health
It is challenging to find an organ or system in the human body that would not suffer from a bad habit, no matter drug addiction, alcoholism, tobacco smoking, or another. Nevertheless, the heart, blood vessels, brain, spinal cord, bones, joints, reproductive and respiratory systems are hazardous. It is worth remembering that a smoker not only pollutes his lungs but also significantly increases the risk of developing vascular atherosclerosis.
The harmful use of alcohol is the oldest human evil
An uncontrollable craving for drinking is one of the most dangerous and terrible human attachments. Over time, this bad habit turns into a deadly disease.
Alcohol dependence is formed at the level of physical and psychological cravings. The last stage of alcoholism is an irreversible and incurable pathology that leads to a person’s death.
The development of this addiction is formed gradually and depends on the frequency and amount of alcohol-containing drinks consumed. A genetic (hereditary) predisposition is also related to the formation of this dependence. The causes of alcoholism can equally include all factors caused by any other addiction:
- Tendency to laziness;
- Money problems;
- Disappointment in life;
- Long-term unemployment;
- Lack of desire to develop and learn.
It doesn’t matter which factor was the trigger in this addiction – the causes of alcoholism are terrible and merciless. First of all, the physical and mental health of the individual suffers. The alcoholic often plunges into drunken states. Becoming inadequate and insane, the patient is already a threat to society.
The transformation of a habit into a disease requires long-term treatment in specialized clinics. And sometimes, it is no longer possible to completely get rid of alcoholism. Therefore, it is necessary to connect therapy already at the beginning of the formation of addiction.
Consumption of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances without a doctor’s prescription.
Addiction to drug use in 80% of cases leads a person to death or complete personality degradation. If we talk about the influence of bad habits on the human body, then in the case of drug addiction, such a hobby becomes enormous.
With the penetration of drugs into the body, there is global destruction of all internal organs and body systems. What awaits the addict in the end?
- Complete degradation of personality at the psychological level.
- Social maladjustment: They cannot get a job and have many restrictions.
- Problems with the law: Many people with drug addiction have criminal records.
- Development of the most severe, often fatal diseases of the physical plane.
- Growing mental problems form psychoses, schizophrenia, depressive states.
- Suicidal attempts are a frequent result of this bad habit.
This bad habit must be eradicated immediately, without giving it the right to exist. Great attention pay to the prevention of drug addiction among the younger generation. Indeed, according to statistics, most people suffering from drug addiction begin their “career” at a young age.
Preventive measures
The best prevention of bad habits is a healthy and active lifestyle, love and care for each other in the family, responsibility. It is unlikely that a person who is fond of sports, education, and self-education, caring for loved ones, will decide to smoke or get drunk.
And education is of great importance. A child who grew up in a non-smoking and teetotal family, where conversations about the dangers of bad habits conduct from his early years, most likely will not smoke or get addicted to alcohol. But here, the environment in which the teenager develops is also of great importance. If all his peers drink and smoke, then it is difficult to resist the temptation to try. Moreover, adolescents rarely realize how dangerous this or that habit is.
Measures to prevent bad habits, including ongoing activities in educational institutions, conversations with parents at home, and other measures, are a certain step that will help avoid many troubles and maintain a growing body’s health.
A young person needs the correct formation of a scale of values in life, develops skills, and desires to learn new things. Strive for constant personal growth, including spiritual development, for doing what you love. And then bad habits will never become a problem for him and his loved ones.
