Busting Addiction and Its Myths
The purpose of our podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.
Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Mini Series 9 - You, Too Could Be addicted and Not Know It
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A friend said to me the other day that she feels like everything we do is becoming pathological. We eat a lot, so we’re a candidate for Overeaters Anonymous. We have sex with more than one person, we should join Sex Addicts Anonymous. We got drunk, so we should join AA.
If I choose to call an addiction “repetitive behaviour that causes you and those affected by your behaviour major harm, and you can’t stop even when you want to”, then maybe you have an addiction.
This was hardly a scientific definition, of course.
Using it as an informal standard, think of the many things besides drugs and alcohol that we know people are addicted to.