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When addiction transfers to seemingly healthy behaviors

I have not used drugs in five years but I transferred my addiction to work and I am just as miserable and compulsive as before.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The underlying pattern of using external activities to avoid inner experience remains unchanged despite the shift in substance or behavior.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Addiction as mental health condition?”

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