Definition of Addiction
This is the clinical
definition of addiction:
An activity that a person
does in an obsessive manner, which means
that you feel driven to the activity a lot (most of the time). It can be using a drug, sexual activity,
shopping, gambling, repetitive relations with dangerous people (women who are
attracted to dangerous abusive men---actually have a shorter life span than
women addicted to alcohol).
You learn that the activity
is damaging to your life which can be social, economic, health---any type of
detrimental effect.
After learning that the
behavior is damaging to you or your life in general, you continue to do the
behavior, you are ADDICTED TO IT, and need to seek help, professional help from
a mental health person or an organization like Alcoholics Anonymous.
Thus, with the massive amount
of research that proves that television is detrimental health, and more
specifically your values about what is important in life, your ability to think
critically, and your inability to stop watching, television watching is
definitely an addiction, and a very dangerous one to the society within one
lives. Choosing (by voting) individuals
with nefarious intent like sociopaths, has already almost ruined the nation
monetarily, and damaged our respect with other nations. The Global Warming will be almost impossible
to stop with these people with evil intent remaining in positions of power, so
our survival as a species is at stake.
The federal census bureau last data shows that the hours per day per
capita of television is still increasing, and that makes coping successfully
with television addiction much more difficult, but IT MUST BE DONE.
An intensive national
campaign by AA, medical societies, mental health organizations is what is
needed. This essay is a “call to arms”
for all who desire that our nation and our species survive.
MORRIS CREEDON-MCVEAN, DO
A gentleman and a scholar,
Austin, Texas
July 29, 2015
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