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ADDICTIONS

The Personal SWOT Analysis will provide insights based on your personality strengths and weaknesses, challenges you see ahead, opportunities present around you now, as well as future favorable circumstances.

As time goes on, addictions can allow the body to adapt to its presence, meaning that overtime people may not be aware of certain effects that are occurring and can end up taking control over someone's ability to properly think or do certain activities

substance abuse

Finally, look at any threats to your career growth. This part accounts for the external factors that could hurt the chances of attaining your goals.

Where does addiction affect the brain?

List out all the things that affect your work due to the external environment. See below a few examples and feel free to add your own:

1) Family problems
2) Issues in your marriage
3) Anxiety (mental health issues)
4) Childcare, etc.

the prefrontal cortex

Many roots to recovery

Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? Will there be a drastic change?

List out future changes that you will have to add or avoid if you own a business.

If you have a job, will advancement in technology cost you your job?

There is also clinical recovery. Where people can go talk to therapists and see professionals.

It is also a possibility for people to get support from community networks as well as peer-based groups throughout their community.

Natural recovery, where people improve their well-being, social, psychological, and physical functioning by themselves.

How can it make you feel?

Performing this analysis will often provide key information – it can point out what needs to be done and put problems into perspective.

These are sample questions and sample answers, please feel free to add your own questions and answers.

shame/guilt

failure

hopeless

Many addictions are accompanied by mental health problems, like depression and anxiety

Once you have listed out your SWOT - It's now time to evaluate and determine further steps that need to be taken in order to achieve your goals.

There are mainly two methods:
1) Matching
2) Turning negatives into positives

Many addictive behavior's are found to share many neurobiological features. They involve a lot of dopamine that is released throughout the body

The other method is converting your weaknesses into strengths or threats into opportunities.

For example: growing a skill set through education, finding a creative way to feature a weakness as a strength, etc.

Brain changes have to opportunity to be reversed after the behavior has stopped

You can evaluate your results using the matching method, which means connecting two of the categories to determine a course of action.

Please see a few examples here.

what is it?

This is the most important step of all: bringing the plan into action.

Start using your results to track your progress. Set up measurements and milestones and keep working toward them. Step by step, you will get where you want to be, so get started now!

A complex brain disease that is formulated by compulsive

A compulsive habit attained by a person as a result of repetition

Addiction can involve a variety of different things. You could be addicted to little things like sugar or your phone, but you could also be addicted to things like drugs and alcohol.

Kraat surveyed 169 people from 73 Pittsburgh households before and after one or two years of Internet usage. He reported that teenagers who withdrew from social contacts were using the Internet as an escape from reality (Kraat 1999).

“According to pathological theory, any person that reported 2 to 3 hours per week of Internet use is considered a normal user. Any one who logged 8.5 hours or more per week is classified as a pathological user” (Chebbi, n.d.)

Studies have confirmed that people who are having chemical dependency problems tend to spend more time per week online chatting than the “non chemical dependent” users (Chebbi, n.d.)

“Orzack conducted a study in 1999. She found that people who are susceptible to Internet addiction are people who are easily bored, lonely, shy, depressed and suffering from other addictions. The remaining seven reasons are marital discontent, work related stress, financial problems, insecurity, anxiety, struggle in life, and limited social life" (Chebbi, n.d.)

Internet addiction

For the opportunities section, look at the external factors you can take advantage of in pursuing a promotion, finding a new job or determining a direction for your career.

Treatments

What will you gain from the opportunities that you might take advantage of?

List out all the things that will help you.

Here are some examples:

• Learning new technologies
• Interacting with people currently working in that field
• Better Pay
• I will be able to teach and help other fellow colleagues
• This will help me move up in the organization

motivational enhancement therapy

cognitive behavioural therapy

In some cases this can also bring legal liabilities. For example, a female employee could be offended in the workplace by a male that is addicted to online pornography. This can lead to a sexual harassment lawsuit on the company

'Technology' is not equal to Information Technology. For example, if you are in the soap-making business and you bring machines that speed up the process, you have introduced new technology or a process.

• Is the process you currently follow going to change?
• What changes do you need to make in the current process to improve it?
• How much time will you need to learn the new technology?

Add some questions and answers related to your industry and niche.

There is a lot of controversy in regards to how much time is considered the normal amount to spend on the internet

• What Niche or Industry are you currently working in?
• Do you see potential growth in your industry?
• Do you see a better opportunity where you can excel?
• Will it create more jobs?

Try to create your own questions and answers that relate to your industry.

Internet addiction can be look at as either an impulse disorder, a psychiatric disorder, or a behavioral problem

An excessive amount of improper web usage can result in loss of what could have been productive time.

Brought to life with easy access to the internet

If you plan on changing your job or investing in your own business:

• Is this the right time to invest in your business?
• Will you get your desired salary if you change your job right now?
• Will you get the desired ROI if you invest right now?

Have you calculated the risk involved?

Add a few questions and answers of your own related to the industry that you work in.

Highly counter productive, little motivation Can cause legal implications at work Decrease mental health

Areas that are affected can be work, school, family and relationships Compulsive disorder

Life is taken over by their desire to be online, This affects many people all over the world as social media and societies become familiarized with more modern technologies.

Some individuals can possibly develop disorders from being addicted to the internet Can lead to destruction of family, themselves, friendships, relationships, and places of employment

People with this disorder find the virtual environment more attracting to them than the real world

Known as internet addiction disorder (IAD)

Food addictions

This part examines the areas which you need to improve and the things that will set you back in your career.

It is really important to be honest when you list out your weaknesses.

Because researchers have not identified a certain substance in foods that are involved in addiction, eating addictions are classified are behavioural

Some researchers say that consuming food can trigger dopamine in the brain and can also relieve stress topic

Some foods with high levels of carbohydrates and fats have a potential addictive nature

There is the possibility for any food to become an addiction

People can become dependent on certain types of foods

These are sample questions and sample answers, please feel free to add your own questions and answers.

After effects-

Ask people around you about your weaknesses - such as the colleague sitting next to you, your sibling or your best friend.

shame, guilt, discomfort, reduced self-worth, intensive food restriction, compulsive exercise, and self-induced vomiting

Body language is nonverbal communication, such as facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.

List out those weaknesses here. Here are some questions to help you:

• Do I have a weak handshake?
• Am I not making eye contact while talking to someone?
• Do I subconsciously shake my leg while sitting?

Symptoms

Do you have stage fright? Or do you become nervous and sweaty when you give a presentation in a room full of people staring at you?

That is something you should definitely work on!

List out such things that you need to improve.

obsessive food cravings, a preoccupation with obtaining and consuming food, binge eating, attempts to decrease food intake but tends to relapse, loss of control over quantity, negative impact on finances, family life and social interaction, eating for emotional release/avoid attention, and eating till the point discomfort and pain

Trigger foods

Have you ever heard a mother yell at her kid 'Get off your phone or I will throw that phone away'?

Again, be honest and list out all those negative work habits that you have. Your parents/wife/husband/colleagues might help you correctly point them out if you are stuck!

high sugar, fat and starch content, for example, ships, fries, candy, chocolate, cookies, white bread, pasta, and ice cream

Another affect that addiction has is that an individual will continue to practice an activity even if they know it’s physically or mentally harmful to them

Begin by identifying your strengths. These are the traits or skills that set you apart from others.

List out all your strengths - if you get stuck, talk to people around you and ask for their input. Please be honest with yourself.

Recovering from addictions can be very difficult. Some may fall into relapse and fall back onto their addiction.

Subtopic

Symptoms- desire to cut down, unsuccessful efforts to do so, strong craving/desire to participate in the activity, the use of the substance can interfere with school, work or home life. Use of substance continues whether or not it causes interpersonal problems. Can be involved in risky situations. Lack of motivation, withdrawal.

Causes- genes, psychological factors, gender, environmental factors

Treatment- detoxification, medication, motivational interviewing, cognitive behaviour therapy, group therapy, peer-support programs, family therapists, life skills training, and specific treatment plans for an individual