Are you an Emotional Addict?

Published: May 14, 2020

an suffering, struggle and emotional pain be emotional addiction?
Let’s walk down the emotional lane….
Suffering and struggle are emotional addictions as strong as addictions to alcohol, nicotine and drugs Anna Anderson (2017). So if you notice a pattern in your life of struggle and suffering from one issue to another with little breather in between, you’ve got an emotional addiction.
Life situations create a bunch of negative emotions such as worry, fear, anger, pain, depression, low self-esteem and victimhood. A typical example here is the "battered wife syndrome," where a woman is unable to leave an abusive relationship, and when she finally does, she finds another man who will continue the abuse as if subconsciously wanting to experience pain.
Every emotion, either positive or negative, is a blend of chemicals (neurotransmitters and hormones) that our brain instantly produces in response to thoughts. This cocktail circulates throughout the body producing corresponding sensations that are felt at both the psychological and physical levels. The chemistry of emotion is very addictive, if repeated frequently over a long period of time -- just like the chemistry of nicotine, alcohol and drugs. This is most noticeable in the case of negative emotions, as they produce stress hormones that our body, in a twisted, self-destructive way, can easily start craving like a drug.
How an Addiction Is Formed
If you often experience the emotional clusters of suffering and struggle (worry, fear, anger, depression, pain, low self-esteem and victimhood) -- that's what your body is addicted to, and will instruct your unconscious mind (via its own communication channels) to seek out or create the circumstances that will produce -- through those negative emotions -- its desired fix. If your unconscious mind has a program called 'struggle' or 'suffering' that fits the bill, it will ensure that this program will run continuously, if possible.
So this is your emotional addiction to suffering and struggle. You can also call it self-sabotage, as that's what it is.
Extract from Huffpost