good evening guys today my topic is
about the relationship between addiction
and social environment when you’re in
addiction you might assume that I’m
gonna talk or I’m gonna use the stories
so publicly public figures who are known
for their addiction just like Amy
Winehouse Farrah Fawcett Elton John and
probably Williams yeah but so sorry but
I’m gonna use the personal story to
state my idea so I was brought I got
addicted at the age of 15 that was
really young so yes 15 years old but
before that I was brought to an
organization for children which is
called the source and this organization
is following the family based care
program where the children like me is
given a was given a new family a new
mother a father and many see things a
part of the part of the program is for
us to be transferred in a yield facility
when when they became teenager or when
we reached the age of 13 or 14 years old
and and so when I was transferred to the
8th facility that was the time I got my
addiction addictions not addiction so
but first of all what is addiction there
are many definitions for addiction and
the term usage is always seen as
controversial and the most common
definition that we know is the
biological definition which at teach
which defines addiction as the as the
brain disease a progressive brain
often we can see that we have this
stereotype
stereotypical image of addicts like
people who are using drugs or drinkers
alcoholics and smokers for that that’s
at a point according to the Cambridge
English dictionary addiction is the need
or the strong desire to do or to have
something or a very strong liking for
something meaning it’s not only the
dependence or the abuse of drugs or
substances but it’s all also conviction
and are believers in human behavior so
it can be addiction in the substance and
can be behavioral addiction so we’ll be
back to my story I was transferred from
the Village Voice village to a facility
because I was 15 years old and
chattering from the youth facility –
from the village the facility actually
set up a lot of challenges for me
because it was a new environment it was
like it was completely different like
the setup so I was I was living with a
lot of guys so it’s only one gender and
I’m out and I met those guys with
various fermentations and it was one of
my butcher shop so when I was when I was
in the village I was I had a daily
routine
I had like a complete daily routine for
every four in the village and when I was
transferred to the youth facility he
didn’t work because I don’t know why
maybe it’s because of the the new social
environment where my stable pattern was
was completely changed and my eating
anything happens workability change as
well so so I haven’t told my addiction
so I got addicted to pornography
computer games alcohol
smoking cigarettes and also I’ve tried
with many time is like my one at my
honor um so this is tempura so
weights my one and I didn’t get addicted
to them to my one of it
I got addicted to the side effects of
people like GP arts psychedelic music
you name it
but when I was when I was in the youth
facility it was it was a it was a
challenging face for me cuz I didn’t
know why i got easily addicted so it was
like a question in my mind so so I I
hang out with these people were who
offered me different experiences because
I I portrayed those addictions as my
opportunities for me to go because that
those were not those things were not
offered in the village so it was
actually a new thing for me so I tried
everything and I got addicted to it like
it was those addictions were eventually
incorporated incorporated into my
lifestyle so it was it was almost one
year I was doing that so I was just like
you know binge drinking drinking all all
day all night I was smoking with
computer games pornography but I still
continued going to school I was still
attending school even though I spend
most of the time in the street so I got
like I got in too many street fights
bottle before but it was part of my
experience but the thing the the lover
education was still there for me even
though I got a tea
III had addiction so I still managed to
loot the school and attend like every
day and and I managed to stop those
so I was in grade seven at the time it
was like really was I was really young
at the time so I managed to stop
everything because that experience was
actually one who year and and when I was
on the process of realizing everything
and I was I stopped free so it’s almost
it’s almost five years now just I’m
already 20 years old I got I got curious
and interested about this personal issue
of mine why I got you addicted so I
researched and I’ve learned that there
are there are many factors that
contributes to addiction
this can be biological and social
environmental factors biologically
genetics it’s because of genetics
parents the genes of the parents are
transferred to the to their offspring
and The Offspring they are at high risk
they are at high risk to become a deacon
sobs second second biological example of
factories the second biological factor
could also be because of the underlying
psychiatry conditions like anxiety
depression and mood illnesses when these
conditions were affected by the strong
feelings like the sadness the feeling of
emptiness this actually can lead to for
example I the individual I had this
emptiness in my in my emotional and
mental thinking those Exodus actually
also also social factors as a big social
environment is a big factor because for
example you’re in it you’re in your
house or your school or in your work and
those environments were are exposed to
activities related to your personal
addiction or your others or other
people’s addiction so but there’s
another another factor as well which you
rarely hear but it’s about the traumatic
experience so an individual suffering
from a traumatic event whether it
happened in the past or in the present
such as abuse neglect or loss of loved
ones those are those things can actually
those things can actually be a big
factor for an individual to to be very
dependent on something that can help
them to waste their time or just the
feeling of being cheated for something
so in my case that was that was I
discovered that that was my the mean
factory that affected me also it’s not
because of the social factor there in
the facility it’s also because of my own
use of traumatic experience because I
was abandoned so it was it was it was in
my character that I was still hiding
those things from other people but then
when I got exposed to this new social
environment where it offers different
kind of addictions or different
activities that I haven’t seen before or
haven’t experienced before those
triggers my my emotion to to be awakened
or to be voice out and that’s why I
tried those because not only for father
or not only for experienced but
emotionally it gives me it gives me
something that I cannot say or it gives
me a pleasure for something if I can
actually like for spending my time high
like I was Estonian before so spending
my time I was like feeling not I was
attached away from my body so it was
like a new me so he was just giving me
so so I had this experience for a year
imagine pornography street fights binge
binge drinking marijuana computer games
it was it was really terrible but during
that time it was it was not it was
actually elected a fun for me it was a
pleasure it was a joy it’s not a it’s
not just for wasting time but it’s also
for me to to get rid of my problems from
so getting out of my addiction was not
magic you know it’s it’s one year so it
was really difficult to get rid of those
but I undergone three main processes it
was not I didn’t like I didn’t get rid
of all my addictions in one night it’s
not possible so the first the first
process I did was acknowledging and
admitting to myself that I am here I’m
an addict
I got like more than five editions and
I’m doing it all at the same time in one
day managing it to yourself as necess
was it’s necessary and it was necessary
for me to admit to myself that oh yeah
I’m a dick and I’m an addict and what
should I do
I need help so technology and knowledge
in your addiction and asking for others
hub actually opening up yourself to one
person or the people you trusted the
most so that’s what I did I asked other
people to help me I had this I came to
them and and I said I had this addiction
and I can I couldn’t I can’t get rid of
those with only by herself it’s it’s not
possible addictions cannot be solved by
you individually it’s not actually
possible so it was it was the first
stage of knowledge and admitting it to
yourself and to other people asking them
asking them how second is second process
I did was lessening the substance the
the marijuana inside the cigarette the
cigarette smoking and ah who I was just
listening it because actually I had this
history of taking 20 beers in one night
so it’s it was like it was crazy
before but it was normal for me before
so
lessening the the intake of substance
and lessening the time spent doing the
activities because just like what I
mentioned before addiction is not only
the intake of whether the overuse of of
drugs or yeah jobs or alcohol sourcing
it it’s not only that it’s not only like
that addiction can also be seen in the
behaviors like everyone here can be
orkut or everyone here can have an
addictive tendencies actually because
for example you’re really into sugar or
caffeine or sweet or social media
addictions everyone of us have
tendencies to be added it’s just that it
depends on how severe it is and it
depends on how you are aware that this
habit or this activity you’re doing is
actually considered or categorizes
addiction but not many people know that
they don’t consider that the activities
they’re doing are actually addictions in
for some people so first acknowledging
the problem it was like me addict but I
was not I’m not actually part of it but
I did ii lessening lessening the attack
of the substance and lessening the time
you spend doing you those activities for
example when I got here into a PC I’m
still I didn’t get this I didn’t I
wasn’t really addicted to something but
I had this activities like Facebook use
so as I was actually over I was spending
or wasting my time and Facebook just
doing nothing scrolling down and that’s
it so yeah so it’s like lessening that
time you spend in doing those activities
just like parties or lkf you know like
you lessen the time if you’re
addicted to it then again I should like
go every night if you do that and then
try to lessen for a week or lessen the
month you go there and second the third
the third process I under God was the
fighting the temptations because if you
are addicted to something you’re still
even if it is physical or psychological
for example I got an addicted to
marijuana I got this I stopped but I
still having this craving for something
for this thing so until now I can say
that I mean really into the psychedelic
music sand chip your arts but still that
the clipping is still there but I don’t
do it you know it’s gonna be I don’t
think I’m gonna get rid of those
cravings because it was like a year of
addiction so I don’t know how to fight
it but as long as I don’t do the same
things the same situations I was in I’m
not going to do it so those are the main
three stages acknowledging the problem
of managing what your addictions were or
your tendencies to become addicts second
nestling the time you’re the intake of
the substance or the time you’re
spending on those activities and third
is fighting fighting fighting the
temptations or the the cravings that you
have with this substance or activities I
like this I like I like this quote from
a well-known psychologist oh my name is
elizabeth ann Ragsdale she said that all
humans are addicted to something
it’s just depends on how aware or
unaware you are and also there’s another
idea about this addiction where anything
we do can be at
or not addictive the difference is and
how we do it and while it to me so this
is my challenge to you I’m starting here
to to attest that addiction can actually
the cycle of addiction can actually be
broken it’s even though the temptation
and the craving is there if it can
actually you can actually like break the
cycle of addiction it is possible even
though it was quite hard to quit for me
during those years it was I’m here I I
can say that I’m still using those but
not on addiction level it’s just for
like a bit you know again I can
categorize say that it’s not an
addiction because I know what addiction
work so my challenge to you is my
challenge to the audience is for you to
define your own addiction maybe you have
habits that can actually categorize
dissipation
you just need to know what it what it is
well there goes so this is some
addictions are very harmful some
addictions are not really depends on the
severity so as long as you’re aware of
what you’re doing you’re balancing
everything you’re balancing yourself
you’re balancing your social environment
just adjusting to a new social
environment is quite hard but we can
actually do it physically and psychology
psychology yeah so cycle of addiction can be broken