Honesty is having standars of moral and truth and sticking by your morals and also being able to be honesty when you are wrong never changing who you are as a person.

Additions

Addictions and its symptoms, causes and treatment.

Addiction is not only included physical thing they consume, such as drugs or alcohol but may include virtually anything, such as abstract things as gambling to seemingly harmless products, such as chocolate. In other words, addiction may refer to a substance dependence (Drugs) or behavioral addiction (Gambling and Internet).

People with an addiction don’t have control over what they do, take or use. Their addiction may reach a point at which it’s harmful.

A habit may develop into an addiction:

Many of us can use substances or become engaged in activities without any significant problems. Some people, however, may experience damaging psychological or physical effects when their habit becomes an addiction.

Addictions and Habits:

With a habit you are in control of your choices, with and addiction you can’t control your choices.

Addiction: Physical or Psychological component; the person is unable to control the aspects of the addiction without help because of the mental or physical conditions involved, they are not conscious what they do.

Habit: It’s done by choice. The person can choose to stop and will subsequently stop successfully if they want to. The psychological or physical thing isn’t an issue, very different with an addiction.

Addiction can cause problems with their activities at home, work, school and social environment. They are generally caused by a combination of Physical, mental, circumstantial and difficult situations.

The addicted needs larger and more regular amounts of whatever they are addicted to, in order to receive the same effect. Often, the initial reward is no longer felt, and the addiction continues because with drawl is so unpleasant.

Family is an important tool for addicted, because they can support them with patient.

Signs and Symptoms of addiction.

A symptom is something the patient senses and describes, while a sign is something other people, such as doctor, friends and family notice. For example, in Internet addiction when people have a backache, headaches because the usage of internet may be a symptom while too much surfing leads to decreased productivity at work and fewer interactions with family members may be a sign.

When a person is addicted to Internet, they are not able to control its usage. They continue using it, even though it may cause harm. 

Internet addiction can cause cravings. The addict may want to give up, but finds it extremely difficult to do without help.

Signs and symptoms of internet addiction may include:

Emotional symptoms of internet addiction.

The following symptoms are typical of internet addicts:

1.       Feelings of guilt.

2.     Anxiety.

3.     Dishonesty

4.     Depression.

5.     No sense of time.

Physical symptoms:

1.       Weight gain or loss.

2.     Disturbances in sleep.

3.     Carpal tunnel syndrome.

4.     Blurred or strained vision.

Causes of internet addiction:

Some people become addicted to the internet because of the social connections the make online. They have problem to have a relationship in the real life, some online relationship activity can be useful and healthy, and many people utilize forums for advice or chats for relaxation, but when a person has many close online friends and no one to count on in the real world, problems can develop.

Treatment of internet addiction:

Internet addiction is believed to be a largely treatable condition. When the addiction is acknowledged, a therapist or other mental health professional can help an individual take steps to address the behavior and regain the ability to use the Internet in a healthy way. Internet addiction differs from some other types of addiction in that some level of Internet use is generally necessary for function in society. Thus, the goal of treatment is usually not complete abstinence. However, when a person is addicted to online porn, for example, treatment goals may involve using the Internet without attempting to seek out pornography.

Internet Addiction.

    An addiction is defined as: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit forming. People can get addicted to alcohol, drugs, shopping, tabaco, Internet, etc.

    Maybe if we heard that someone is adiccted to the Internet, we think that is not so serious as when we heard that someone is addicted to drugs or alcohol but, the truth is that every addiction must be take with seriousness.

   The fact is, that the Internet is a really dangerous thing to be addicted to, the main reason why is because it takes our all of our time, the free one  and the one that we don't have to spend. The Internet is so wide and has so much information and distracctions, that we can surf in hundreds of pages during hours without even notice it. As a consecuence, it affects our lives in all levels, with our family, friends and love ones, because we don't have time to share with them; it affects in  our jobs, because instead of doing the things that we are being paying to do, we loose time in things that are not profitable.

   In my personal opinion, people become addicted mostly, because they feel an empty in their lives that is ''covered'' in appearance, with the bad habit (alcohol, drugs, sex, etc); and in other cases, there are people that has a genetic predisposition to be addicted to something. 

   At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what kind of addiction a person could have, in an overwhelmed mayority of cases, they would need help, support, and a relentless willpower to get over an addiction, it's a hard path to cross, where every step it's a little victory that they must build every day. My deepest respect for people that struggle every day with an addiction.

PD: I know I'm late with this assigment, sorry, I hope it's O.K.

                                Academia Dishonesty

      I wrote about honesty in my previous post. This time I'd like to write dishonesty -the opposite- you know what I mean. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary dishonesty is 

1. lack of honesty or integrity :  disposition to defraud or deceive
2.       As students we must be carefull the way we do business because (sooner or later) we will face the consequences of the things we do. Many of my peers always say that is not a big thing to cheat on exams, do not be fool, it is a snap in this way and so forth...
3.       For these little things according to them of course, not me but them (hahahha) I am a fool. I have always ended up arguing with them because of that. It is not I am a "Holly Being" however, I consider if you can not be honest with a simple test, how are you going to be up-front if you end up runnig a company or coordinating a program...
4.       So, cheating on exams is the big thing ever! At least for me. When you are like cheating on academia think about this question: How will you be able to correct your children if you did not make the right choice when you were supposed to?
5.       We (students) should give up on dishonesty and embrace honesty. That's the right choice to make. We should never cheat on little things like tests even though we end up flunking. Thanks for reading this post. Feel free to correct me as much as you want!

Honesty a lost value in the society

Honesty for me it’s one of the most important values because it helps us to be a better person, parents teach us since we are little kids that it is  not good to lie not even if it is for our own benefit and most of us don’t follow that teaching.

In these days it’s so normal for the people to lie that we can see it even in a resume, we say we can do things that we can’t, that we are things we aren’t and that it is just the beginning, we lie to our friends, our family, our boss and everyone around us, sometimes I think people can’t help it.

It is really difficult to find honest people but to be one it’s the best because even though we think we are winning with the lies we say sooner or later the truth will come out.

I’m not always an honest person but I try to be, sometimes I lie and that’s why I know it’s better to tell the truth because I have had bad experience lying. 

                                                                 Honesty.

              Hello! I was looking up the meaning of the word honesty, and I found the following definition:
" The quality of being what you appear to be, so that you say what you think, show what you feel." To me, this word means a lot. My humblest opinion about honesty is the key to keep healthy relationships with persons around you, relationships at work, relationships with your classmates, and all kinds of relationships someone may have.

                 A honest person is worthy to be admired these days because of people. Today we are living in a world where corruption is pervasive. Saying the truth could cost you a lot for an instance you could lose your job, you could get sued, even you might get beaten for saying the truth. Sometimes is better to keep our mouths shut, and go with the flow.

                The majority of us has told a white lie. Me as an example I tell white lies almost everyday. A white lie can save your ass in a troublesome situation like when your girlfriend asks if she is fat or sweetie, do I look attractive. In these kinds of situations you must tell a white lie; otherwise, you might get killed! hahahahahahha. The point is we must act wisely to survive in this world full of dangers. Thanks for reading this post. Feel free to correct me as much as you want. See you later!

Hello guys, last night we started unit two the topic of this chapter is the honesty. Honesty is a moral character and connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity and truthfulness. Lying, cheating, thetf, etc are forms of being dishonest. Furthermore honesty means being trustworthy, loyal,fair and sincere. Now in days in our society we have a big lack of these virtues is something very common at least for me  get someone dishonest. I don't get surprised when someone is dishonest with me. That is because dishonety has became in something usual, common, normal .I think it's important cultivate this virtue of the honesty and if you ask me cultive! But where I would told you in our families I'm pretty sure that here is where the problem comes from. So, let's go to work we still have time to make the difference. Remember that honesty is the best policy.