Once I accidentally saw the term "addictive behavior" on Baidu, and I looked up some knowledge out of curiosity. Addictive behavior is an additional extraordinary hobby and habit, which is formed by stimulating the central nervous system and causing excitement or pleasure.
The concept of addiction comes from drug addiction, which refers to an individual’s uncontrollable repeated desire to engage in certain activities or abuse certain drugs, although doing so will or has caused various adverse effects to oneself. Consequences, but still beyond control. For example, drug abuse, stealing, etc. have a very bad impact on society.
Behavioral psychologists can explain addiction well: "Doing something makes you feel good, so you can't help but want to do it again, even if you don't know how to do it in the long run. It may be bad for you, but it's still hard to stop.
In addition, when you feel unhappy, you will also want to avoid experiencing the unpleasant experience by doing things that feel good. If this continues, you will become addicted. , resulting in dependence. "That is, under frustration and pressure, you will have psychological discomfort, anxiety and fear. In order to avoid those unpleasant emotions, you will find something happy or watch TV and listen to music to divert your attention.
So this explains why teenagers are addicted to playing games online and playing mobile phones.