Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

The Unseen Signs: Do You Have An Addiction #addictionawareness #shorts #addictionhelp #youtubeshorts

9 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video (shorts) by Anne Truong MD explaining how to recognize addiction. Emphasizes that engagement in a behavior (e.g., drinking, gambling, porn, substance use) is not automatically addiction; addiction is indicated by signs such as compulsive behavior and loss of control when trying to limit use.

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How do you know you have an addiction? So there are certain things to look for when it comes to an addiction, because not everyone who engages in a certain behavior, whether it's gambling or porn or even using a substance, is going to have an addiction. Lots of people drink alcohol, not addicted to alcohol. So just because you're engaging with that doesn't mean you have an addiction. So where it actually becomes an addiction, it is when there are certain things to look out for, there's the compulsive behavior. That's a big one. There's also loss of control. So when a person has a plan, oh, you know, I'm only going to use this quantity or this frequency or this amount, they set out that way, but then they're not able to keep it within the parameters that they have decided to, there's a loss of control.