Addiction and personality disorder

Substance abuse and Addictions (alcoholism, drug addiction) is a form of pattern recurring and self-destructive of misconduct. People are addicted to all sorts of things: games of chance, shopping, Internet, reckless and sides of life-danger of the same coin. Adrenaline junkies abound.

The link between the chronic anxiety, pathological narcissism, depression, features obsessive compulsive and drug addiction, alcoholism and substance abuse is common and well established in clinical practice. But not all Narcissists, compulsive, depressive and anxious people are turning to the bottle or the needle.

Frequent claims to find a complex of genes responsible for alcoholism was constantly thrown in doubt. In 1993 suggested Berman and behavior addictive Noble and bold is just emerging phenomena, and can be connected with other, more basic features such as risk taking or new research. Psychopaths (patient with an antisocial personality disorder) are the two qualities in abundance. We expect them, so strongly of alcohol and drug abuse. Yes, as Lewis and demonstrated convincingly in 1991 Bucholz, they do. Although a negligible minority of alcoholics and drug addicts are psychopaths.

What was established that most of the addicts are narcisstic in personality. Cocaine abuse serves its purpose. The places him above the laws and pressure from secularism and humiliating and depressing reality requirements. They make him the center of attention - but also locked up in 'splendid isolation' troublesome and less than the quantity.

These pages of the wild and mandatory judgment gives a psychological exoskeleton. They are a delegate existence connected. The narcissistic advice with an agenda, with timetables, goals and false results. Narcissistic-adrenaline-junkie-feel that he is in control, alert, energized and vital. He does not consider his condition as a dependency. Narcissistic convinced he is responsible for his addiction that he may leave at will and in a short time.