Is Not Addiction a Pleasure?

Question by snehu: Is not addiction a pleasure?
Just read an article, where a researcher says, addiction doesn’t give pleasure as those who got addicted didn’t want to get addicted for that specific thing.
Is it right? I guys we are all addicted to one or the other. Don’t we get pleasure from it?
C
Check out this article.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201202/distracted/pay-attention
I asked this because, I’m addicted n I don’t feel any repugnance.. I mean I don’t want to avoid it…

Best answer:

Answer by Ahhh! Real Monster
I shall read it after my retort…

Pleasure is simply the Relief of a negative stimuli. So appeasing the addiction is relieving the craving.

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Read half of it, got bored. Everyman articles stopped inspiring me once I stopped reading fiction.

What they are saying is that Dopamine, the neurotransmitter, may not do what they thought. Instead of making you feel good it instead forces you to become alert and focus on whatever is stimulating its release. This increased sense of awareness may feel good to some or in some situations, but the real reason to exist is to function as a survival mechanism. It forces you to be aware to all sorts of essential dangers and ‘pleasures’.

ie: Water is refreshing after a trek without it. Dopamine
ie: The tiger you just scared off excites and terrifies you. Dopamine.
ie: the cocaine you just ingested makes you zippy. Dopamine.

Not all of these above are ‘pleasurable’ in the sense of the word…

Answer by Socially Awkward
You gain pleasure from things; they stop being pleasurable once you’re addicted. You might enjoy something so much that it becomes an addiction. Once an addiction, you often feel remorse and wish you could stop, but you can’t.

It’s better not to become addicted.

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