Despair and Drug Addiction

Despair can often be an overpowering and overwhelming emotion that can lead to excessive drug abuse and sometimes overdoses. Despair differs from feelings of sadness and depression because it is the absolute bottom of an emotional state. Despair is characterized by a complete abandonment and absence of hope. It leaves people in utter turmoil with feelings of overwhelming emotional agony. Depression and sadness is something felt by all at one time or another. Despair often leaves people with the sense that there is no way out of what they are feeling and they might as well give up. There are many ways that despair can lead to and cause drug addiction, including the following:

• A person who has given up hope will often decide to abuse a narcotic substance because consequences become meaningless.
• Despair that results from a traumatic loss can leave people feeling empty, which can lead to the abuse of stimulating substances that allow the return of good or happy feelings.
• Despair can leave people in a catatonic like state, being glued to a chair in front of a television while doing multiple types of drugs.
• People in despair often stop worrying about the consequences of their actions and can fall into a downward spiral of drug abuse, risky sexual behavior, excessive money spending, and even dangerous and sometimes harmful behaviors toward themselves or others.

People in despair often turn to hard and potentially dangerous substances as their perspective of consequences disappears. People in despair typically abuse stimulant drugs because these drugs tend to offer an uplifting emotional state. However, in other cases, people in despair may choose to abuse depressive substances in order to send them into a furthered state of lethargy.

Drug addiction and despair can be a dangerous combination that can lead to suicidal tendencies and harmful drug overdoses. Seeking immediate treatment for despair and drug addiction is essential to experiencing a healthy recovery. Many people experience better results from taking a holistic approach to treatment. Holistic addiction treatment programs will commonly offer an array of approaches that help a person overcome negative emotions while treating the addiction. Holistic treatment seeks to address all of the different problems that could be contributing to the addiction. Holistic treatment commonly offers spiritual and emotional therapy and seeks to equip the addict with multiple techniques for relaxing and overcoming feelings of despair.

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