Addiction to types of violence?

• April 24, 2024

Nowadays, people face different types of violence every day: at home, on the street, at school, at work, physical or verbal, which extends to almost all activities of daily life and It becomes a social problem.

In many cases, it is not just a "survival instinct or the law of the strongest", as evolutionarily could be thought, but underlying behavior addictive in people who are constantly immersed in these situations.

"Violence is an act of internal factors and genetic , which is also defined by social and economic forces that play within the same environment ", says Stanley Kippner, professor of psychology at the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California .

On occasion, violence can be reinforced to the degree of being considered a addiction , a obsessive and repetitive act whenever the opportunity presents itself. For example, the mistreatment of employees of a superior for his work addiction .

Under these conditions, violence becomes a way of life for individuals who find reward by such behavior , so they extend it to each area of ​​their life to try to achieve - unconsciously - the same result.

According to the doctor Sergio Rueda, of the Integral Program of Addictions of the Institute of Medicine and Advanced Technology of Behavior , there are people whose violent reaction occurs as a result of a altered state of consciousness due to neuro and physiological processes.

"There is the ability of certain people, before an attack, to have greater security (and even to heal faster), because their body releases various substances, such as cortisone, lactose and dopamine.

These hormones produce a state of reaction, attack , characterized by dilation of the pupil, alterations in metabolism, hypertension, tachycardia, higher rate of sugar and anticoagulants in the blood, which combined with adrenalin It can be a very addictive for one person.

Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to people with this type of behavior, because not only they are the ones who will present this state: the violent behavior it is generated in a chain, so it can pass from a man to his wife, from her to her children, from the older to the younger, and the latter to pets, as well as between co-workers or any other field.

One of the main points to determine that a person is addicted to violence and conflicts , is that as well as presents peaks of excitement due to the reward, also presents decreases in their mood, so this addiction also has spikes depressive .

However, these patterns can still be modified, but it is necessary to accept that it is presented as a psychosocial problem, and not only the consequence of education or circumstances, explains the director of the Youth Integration Centers (CIJ), Víctor Manuel Guisa.

If you want to know more about the types of violence and how to overcome facing this behavior, you can find information in this link: //goo.gl/CwJs6

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