Addictive Behaviors

Many people are unaware that addiction is multi-faceted or can affect an individual in several ways. Any activity, substance, object or behavior that has become the major focus of a person's life to the exclusion of other activities, or has begun to harm an individual or others physically, mentally or socially is considered an addictive behavior.

Process Addictions

Process Addictions are addictions to activities or processes such as gambling, eating, tanning, video gaming, spending, sex, Internet surfing and work, as opposed to substance addiction like that of alcohol or drugs.

Addictive Personalities

An addictive personality refers to a particular set of personality traits that make an individual predisposed to developing addictions, such as hereditary factors and other traits.

Denial

Addictions and addictive thinking creates a denial system that allows the individual to avoid the truth about their addiction and the harm it is causing to themselves and others in their lives.

Emotional Maturity and Addictions

Statistically, addicts are the emotional age that they began using or acting out and have yet to become functioning adults, and in essence are emotional children/adolescents pretending to be adults. The decisions they make are often that of an emotional child/adolescent attempting to make adult decisions, and are more often than not, self-sabotaging in nature.

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