The Tendency towards Pleasure

What is the difference between pleasure and happiness? Never mind happiness ; what is pleasure? It should be very physical. And there is a noticeable fact about pleasure: Craving.  Craving has a physiological reason. The frequency of the pleasure generates a serious physio-psychological condition that in a ordinary language is referred to misery. Alcohol, drugs, smoking, games and many other habits and addictions reduce the pain of feeling misery, while they worsen the condition. After proper addiction, craving becomes the strongest element with overpowers the whole entity of the person.Craving –> PleasureThis simple understanding was a big step to a much bigger fact:  does pleasure make people happier?Craving –> pleasure –>misery–> neutral status–> craving againExtreme recurrence of pleasure changes the body balance (homeostasis) to a critical condition, which generally referred to “misery”. The craving to pleasure get stronger and longer as the person become addicted to that specific type of pleasure – up to a point that they permanently desire the pleasure. The “neutral phase” depends on the strength of craving and misery. Feeling miserable, itself ought be cured or distracted by pleasure. This positive feedback gets into a very crucial state. A normal person has not very much craving feeling, instead, they experience a neutral state instead craving. Media which support our modern marketing system, act directly on brain centres involving pleasurable reactions. Without any desire or need, people cannot be considered as “addicted” and they will not desire things that they usually do not need. In many cases, the human sexual response is the main axis for rest of troubles – especially among teenagers.  The results will succeed to other stages of their life.  For a serious addicted person, only craving and misery remains. However pleasure does not always lead to misery, unless it is tightly recurrent. On the other hand, strong craving to pleasure uses most usual premeditated functions of the brain to fantasize what they desire.  A good understanding of misery resulted by pleasure reduces craving to pleasure. Indirectly, reduction of misery feels happy.Nevertheless there are many important concerns about pleasure. Direct suppression of craving, or pleasure, or both of them build depression.  Which one would you like to choose: misery or depression? Depression is no better than misery; because it is rather psychic in addition to getting rid of it is not easier than misery. Luckily depression is not inevitable.  Depression in this case happens because of feeling frustrated. Frustration occurs because the person is not quite aware about the doom results of severe pleasure. It really does not matter if they control themselves (in religions and philosophies) or other people prevent and control them (like cultural repression or governmental oppression), the frustration takes place. The person will not be happy because life feels unfair and injustice.Craving –> No pleasure –> frustration –> depression  –> griefThe perception of quality and quantity of addiction is the healthiest way to reduce misery without its associated side effects. Therefore it is directly related to education and interrelated level of knowledge.Regarding all uneven parameters associated with pleasure, I was wondering how Buddha stopped waning and as result of that become content and happy?  In fact, Physiological mechanisms of addiction and craving interact with social and biological functions of pleasure.  There is no hesitation that instinctive presence of pleasures facilitates the survival of living organisms. However our society has an important role in development and magnitude of them.  There are cultures and societies which are quite suppressive to many aspects of pleasure. However they cannot change the sensitivity to pleasure; in fact, the relative sensibility to pleasure remains equal to other liberal civilization. In other words, by suppressing people, they would not bring anything but an emotionally ill society.Even the direct fear of excessive pleasure, as defined by religions, has many functional paths to happiness. That is why normally religious people look happier than voluptuaries.