When it comes to various types of addictions, a person immediately imagines something bad and harmful. But sometimes good habits can lead to addictions that can be difficult to cope with. And people who have become addicted do not want to admit that they may already need the help of a specialist.
When people go to the store to shop, this is a normal habit of a healthy person. If you can't do without going to the store in order to improve your mood or just spend money on a thing that, in fact, is not needed, this is an addiction called "shopaholism."
When a person works well, receives satisfaction from this, bonuses from his superiors, a promotion, but at the same time rests, has fun, takes time for himself, family, friends and acquaintances, goes to the theater and cinema - this is normal. But if a person works, forgetting about everything in the world, he cannot imagine himself without work even on weekends, which eventually disappear from him at all, does not care about himself, about his loved ones, if he has them, his health, this is called "workaholism".
But what exactly is addiction to sports and fitness?
What is fitness addiction
Fitness is useful for people who lead a healthy lifestyle, who are fond of sports. When a girl decides to lose a few pounds, then going to a fitness club is the right decision. She may or may not go there, it all depends on her desire, free time, state of health and other factors. Going to the gym is a hobby that brings satisfaction to a person as long as he goes there only because it is interesting and useful, but if there are more important things to do, then it is quite possible to postpone the visit to the simulators. This is how normal people, not subject to addiction, think and act.
If a person cannot imagine life without fitness or suffers from the fact that he cannot get into the gym due to some accidental circumstances, then this is no longer normal. If a person is oppressed by the inability to start training right now, he blames himself for not being able to go to the gym today, because he is sick or lacked strength, this is already an addiction. And such addicted people begin to treat badly those who do not do the same as they do, and will only respond to any objections that they lead a healthy lifestyle, are completely independent of it and do not understand why others do not do the same. way.
Fitness addiction is a constant adjustment of your body, even to the detriment of your own health. For people subject to this addiction, their body is not ideal, so you need to go and improve yourself constantly.
Among those involved in fitness, it is very common to meet women with eating disorders. Most often they suffer from bulimia (overeating). Once in the gym, their food addiction turns into a workout addiction.
People with very specific psychological problems get into fitness addiction, who try to solve them with the help of training.
For example, low self-esteem. A person thinks that if he has a "perfect" body, then self-esteem will rise. Therefore, until he feels confident in himself, he will go to training. The trouble is that training does not always lead to an increase in self-esteem. This applies to both men and women.
Some women believe that if they have a perfect figure, they will finally meet a "prince", get married or improve relationships with someone who is now around. Gradually, the improvement of the figure comes to the fore. They begin to think that just a little more and that's it, and then life will change. But more often it happens the other way around. An ideal figure does not lead to an ideal relationship, and for some reason the "prince" does not come.
Many people cannot understand that fitness will not get rid of deep inner psychological problems, but, on the contrary, will intensify them. But this becomes clear only when a person turns to a psychologist for help. Fitness addiction is about avoiding a problem, not a solution.
