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People (and perhaps all living things) have five basic needs that we are all trying to meet daily:
Fun
Freedom
Power
Survival
Love/Belonging
We can meet these needs positively or negatively to get the results that we want. We can use pro-social or anti-social behaviors. When these needs are being negatively met, they become addictions which are never satisfied. Everything will always break down because the needs are not being met legitimately in a lasting way. When we seek to meet our needs negatively, we are only band-aiding a deeper issue, and causing ourselves more problems in the long run, as well as negatively affecting others.
When we positively meet these needs, it is in lasting, life-changing ways that become manifest throughout multiple facets of our lives. These types of successes build future success and train you to deal with the real world.
Psychologically, if you do something about 7-13 times, it becomes habit. The longer you do it, the more of a habit it becomes. This works positively and negatively. The longer you have a habit, the harder it is to break. However, anyone can change at any time, given they make the choice to change and seek out ways to support this change.
People trapped in negative spirals are suffering from behavioral patterns to meet the addiction to negatively fulfilling their needs.
That's my thoughts. Feel free to ask me to expand, expound, or clarify if anyone's unsure of what I meant.
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-Unknown-
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