Biological Issues

Many people on my mom's side of the family have problems with addiction. There are no drug addicts as far as I know, unless you count nicotine as a drug. The majority of her family, which is a pretty big family (she was one of ten children) has some sort of addiction, be it smoking, drinking, or gambling. Some have all 3, the trifecta of addictive personalities. I think addiction is a genetic trait that can be passed down, but just because someone in your family is an alcoholic, it doesn't mean you're going to be. It makes you more likely to develop an addiction, but somewhere along the line there is something going on in your life that causes the addiction. Take my mom for example, knowing that the vast majority of her family are alcoholics, she very rarely drinks, maybe twice a year, and she never gets drunk. She doesn't smoke, or gamble, other than the occasional poker game with our neighbors. Who knows what makes her different from some of her siblings. Maybe they have some emotional void that they're trying to fill with whatever they are addicted to. I am aware that because of my family history, I am much more likely to develop an addiction, although I feel like I'm not going to care until I actually develop an addiction. I guess that why my mom freaks out when I go to play poker with my friends.

6 Psych perspectives

5. I guess I have a somewhat strange outlook on life. I'm an optimist, but I'm not really a happy go lucky person. I definitely have a positive outlook on life, and I'm a fairly laid back person. It's just that I get very easily annoyed by what some people have come to consider normal. Phoniness, political correctness, being condescended to, and other every day things like that annoy me and agitate me to no end. I guess the connection between all of them is that people aren't being real when they're doing that. Despite that though, I'm a big believer of letting things in life work themselves out. Kind of just going with the flow.

6. Well to start off, I'm a pretty big guy, so I've learned to just let fat jokes roll off me. It doesn't even affect me anymore. I guess that's the physical part. Genetically and biologically speaking, I'm screwed. A lot of members of my extended family have addictive personalities. There are addicted gamblers, drinkers, and smokers. Some are all three (the trifecta). Addiction is genetic, so I have to be careful with all that stuff I guess.