• Any reflexive response to stress and anxiety, whether conscious or not, is a form of addiction. The chief motive of any addiction is, of course, to help one not feel what in fact one has already been feeling. Breaking the tyranny of the addiction will require one to feel the pain that the addiction defends against.
• All addictions have as their motive anxiety reduction through some form of connection with the “other”.
• Perhaps to greatest addictions in our culture do not include street drugs, but are television and food.

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