Addiction

[Bulerias]

Uhh, that really depends on the type of addiction. Physical and mental addictions exist either one without the other, or both together... all depends on the drug.

 

[Panties]

'Pends.

 

[bittermeat]

Gotta go with mental.

 

[random guy]

I'd say mental.

 

[OJ.]

There are chemicals in your brain (making them mental) but create physical reactions. However, the triggers are in your mental system, clarifying that these reactions are mental rather than physical.

 

[Charles]

The body reacts to the mind. When the mind thinks it is being hurt, the body will correspond with hurting itself(whatever part of the body goes into chakras, which I don't know much about). The body becomes dependent on said substances or aroused(not always sexual) feelings and the mind tags along whether it likes it or not.

Addiction is not just mutual...it is a form of slavery. Training the body's resistance to the substance or feeling is how you break an addiction, but if the body is addicted to something that it will die without, this is true slavery.

 

[beehdaubs]

It's entirely mental unless you've become so addicted to the substance that it becomes fatal not to take it.

 

[OJ.]

It's entirely mental unless you've become so addicted to the substance that it becomes fatal not to take it.

I completely agree with you.

My friend tells me her father is slightly addicted to his weed, but the farthest he'll go is getting mad if he doesn't have it.

 

[Sporge27]

There really are both. And besides that you almost have to ask at what point do you stop considering something physical and consider it mental, after all your brain is a physical thing. Your body is a powerful pharmacy on its own, and can overcompensate on certain chemicals if you take certain ones, this can lead to extremely bad life threatening situations if you then stop taking the chemical.

 

[MrCrazyDavis]

Mental.