Addictions can go hand in hand with fetishes and sexual behavior. Addictions can be defined as chronic dysfunction of the brain system that involves reward, motivation, and memory. Compulsive, out-of-control behavior, regardless of the negative consequences.
Addictions and the Brain
Addictions are neuropsychological disorders characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in behavior that produces natural reward despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive, addictive behavior often changes brain function in ways that perpetuate craving and eliminate self-control.
For the brain, the difference between expected rewards and rewards from addictions can be compared to the difference between someone whispering into your ear and someone shouting into a microphone.
Just as we adjust the volume on a radio that is too loud, the brain of someone who abuses addictive variables adjusts by producing fewer neurotransmitters in the reward center or by reducing the number of receptors that can receive signals. As a result, the person’s ability to experience pleasure from naturally rewarding (i.e., reinforcing) activities is also reduced.
This is why a person who overindulges in the addictive variables eventually feels flat, without motivation, lifeless, and/or depressed, and is unable to enjoy previously pleasurable things. Now, the person needs to keep engaging in their addictions to experience even an average level of reward—which only makes the problem worse, like a vicious cycle. Also, the person will often need to take more risk and invest more in their addictions to produce the familiar high—an effect known as tolerance.
Addictions and Pleasure
The goal of addictions, the addictive agent, is to reward to provide pleasure. When the addict is engaging with the addictive agent, the addictive behavior, and receiving the rewards they seek, there is little motivation for the addict to alter their behavior or to disengage from the addictive agent or behavior.
Pleasure can arrive in various forms for those afflicted with addictions. The delivery method can be through Drugs, cigarettes, alcohol or food. Putting something in your body that immediately quells your anxiety, your self-loathing, your fears, your pain. That moment of euphoria arrives.
Pleasure for an addict can also be arrived at by a behavior. Through sex, ingesting pornography, self-harm, gambling, participating in a destructive fetish behavior, etc. Although behavior addictions are usually thought of after the traditional Booze and Drugs, Behavior addictions similar to substance addictions can quell the pain and distract the addict from responsibilities and the realities of their life.
Escapism can equal pleasure for the addict. Whether substance or behavior an addiction can, temporarily, create a false narrative. A narrative that the addict is in control, they can moderate, that everything is good while their cerebral receptors are being coaxed into the belief that this is the norm. That this how things should be in their life.
Until the downslide.
Addictions and the Downslide
Most addicts chase the reward, the pleasure. It feels good and can create an atmosphere of euphoria. However, it is often short-lived. The downslide after the fact can be temporary but often, these downward slides for those with addictions expand with time.
That sounds like a deterrent for the addict. However, because addicts often have low self-worth, along with self-loathing that bubbles just below the surface, their response to the consequences of addiction is frequently skewed. They may be masochistic in believing, subconsciously, that they deserve the destruction in their lives. There is another category within those addicted masochists that not only think they deserve the destruction but become aroused both emotionally and sexually.
For this subset of addicted masochists, there is a facet of themselves that looks forward to and welcomes the downside because they know it will bring the conflict of both pain and pleasure.
This becomes the quandary. The addict may initially take pleasure from the addiction. Then, find additional pleasure from the destruction that follows. When the addict takes pleasure from both the addiction and the destructive consequences of the addiction, there is little motivation to evolve away from this mindset if pleasure is one of the outcomes.
Weave into that outcome the belief that they deserve a destructive outcome peppered with pleasure and everything becomes more complicated. Most addicts struggle with their self-worth and hold a fair amount of self-loathing. Their addictions both nourish and nurture the low self-worth and self-loathing they are afflicted with.
Addictions and Self-Loathing
The common thread among addicts is not their background, and it is not their addictive trigger. It is the self-loathing that peppers their life. Self-loathing often pre-dates a full-blown addiction; it also accompanies active addictions and can be a burden for a post-active addiction. Self-loathing can be the fuel to ignite the addictive trigger. Even in a post-active addictive status.
Addictions are equal opportunity. They can grab you in their clutches regardless of your socio-economic background. Irrespective of your education level. If you have the addictive traits within you, you are a target for an Addiction.
Celebrated British author Will Self’s autobiography narrates a lifetime journey and struggles with various addictions, self-destructive behaviors, and complex self-worth issues interwoven into the tapestry of his life.
Interactive Engagement:
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Audio Content
Suppose the interactive vulnerability is overwhelming, intimidating, or unfeasible for you. In that case, I have hundreds of audio clips that cover addictions and addictive behaviors in mp3 format, which are available at Loyalfans in the Cerebral Domme Audio Store for your acquisition. I have several Addictions-themed audio clips available. This is an easy way for you to test-drive my Addictions expertise and all the niches I specialize in. Those niches under the umbrella of Humiliation include
- Addictions
- Emasculation
- Emotional Masochism
- Emotional Surrender
- Findom
- General Humiliation Topics
- Homosexual Issues
- Sissy/Crossdressing Topics
I add new audio clips to the LoyalFans Cerebral Domme Audio Store monthly for my specialty niches. Custom audio content is feasible but must fall within my established niches. You should check the FAQs on the site for more information.
Epilogue
Are you interested in learning more about me and how we might engage? Check out the FAQs page. For information about my philosophy and the introduction to Addictions, click here. The more you learn and understand about me, my style, and my philosophy, the better our chances of successful engagement will be. Success breeds success.
The foundational pieces of a relationship are built upon one another. With each successful engagement, our rapport will grow, creating an algorithm for more opportunities for your Addictions to pepper the landscape of your life if that is what you seek. The foundational pieces will include humiliation, vulnerability, pain, and introspection.
If you are investing, once our relationship is established and I understand you, your backstory, conflicts, triggers, anxieties, and vulnerabilities, I will be very matter-of-fact in our engagements. You can expect the same matter-of-fact style if you consume my Addictions-themed audio content.
This opportunity is to nourish your cravings, addictions and your submission. It can feel vexing, daunting, and overwhelming. However, your needs must be met; otherwise, why are you here? Is indulging your addictions the right path for you? Can you take the necessary steps? Are you ready to invest?
An investment into something so essential to you as addressing your addictions, emotional masochism and submission can satisfy you. This allows you the opportunity to flourish in other parts of your life because your needs are being met. You cannot be productive or feed others if you are being starved and malnourished.
If you are an addict and want to indulge in emotional humiliation, this is an intimate, curated, unique opportunity. I do not ascribe to insults and humiliation to the lowest common denominator; instead every engagement between us is curated to you, your experiences, your anxieties, and all that makes you vulnerable. I look forward to our future engagement and the opportunity for you to indulge in your addictions with me, guiding you through the process: Caroline, The Cerebral Domme.
