Eugen Popa, president of the Romanian Hypnosis Association, explains that addiction occurs when we pursue that compulsion to install the game for the first time and intensifies after we catch the first Pokemon, which is usually nearby, according to a statement issued on Thursday Ziare.com.
In his opinion, that little “victory” generates in the brain a small “explosion”, which releases a large amount of dopamine, also called the pleasure hormone.
Thus, Eugen Popa shows that every time we put into practice that behavior, corroborated with the increased interaction offered by game, we feel a great pleasure and our brain wants to repeat its behavior thus creating a vicious circle. The more we repeat the gesture or move to a higher level, the more the need, respectively the addiction, increases.
read a psychologist’s explanation for the Pokemon Go madness
“Behind any kind of addiction – so even in the case of addiction to the Pokemon Go game – there is always an emotion, an inner state of imbalance, stress or inner tension. Addiction thus becomes a defense system that works most of the time. unconscious, independent of our will, protecting us from that stress.
What we can do consciously is to combat these harmful behaviors, to eliminate the internal tensions that lead to automatic behaviors. We will not talk about self-hypnosis or other methods of working with the subconscious, but about what we can do by working only with the conscious mind “, says Eugen Popa, president of the Romanian Hypnosis Association.
How can we get rid of the Pokemon Go obsession?
In order not to become obsessed with the game or to keep the addiction under control, the basic idea is not to follow the impulse to open the application every time.
Here are two techniques that could help us in this regard:
Whether or not we give in to the strong urge to play (or any other addiction), its intensity decreases radically until it disappears completely. And this sometimes happens after about 10-15 minutes.
Basically, when you feel that you “have to” give in to the urge to smoke, drink, eat or play Pokemon Go, you have to wait another quarter of an hour and focus on something else.
Another method is to delay the action for about 15 seconds before starting the game and observe our gesture.
“It seems trivial, but the effects are incredible. Since we make many gestures without realizing them, they become automatic, and in those 15 seconds we have time to visualize our gesture and qualify it as impulsive or natural.
In this way, we manage, in time, to eliminate that strong desire by postponing its satisfaction. The technique can be used in many more addictions, including smoking, compulsive eating or alcohol consumption “, concludes Eugen Popa, president of the Romanian Hypnosis Association.
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