An obsession is being preoccupied by a certain thought. Addiction also has the usage, or acting out component.
obsession, devotion, infatuation, passion
Obsessive Compulsive disorder is where a person has an obsession, which creates intruding thoughts in their minds which are uncomfortable. For example, an obsession with germs, and constant thoughts that lots of things are contaminated. The compulsion is a behaviour which is done in order to remove the obsessive thoughts, e.g. hand washing. Therefore, it is different to an addiction, yet the compulsions are very difficult to stop -which is similar to addiction, whereby the addictive behaviour is hard to stop. Addiction on the other hand may be due only to the physiological need for a chemical, such as nicotine, and does not necessarily have to be caused by an obsession, as OCD is.
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dependance. dependence. dependency. habituation. habit, obsession, craving, enslavement to, attachment to
There is tons of information about overcoming different types of addiction depending on what you are addicted to. There are different methods and it depends on what your addiction is.
liking is like staring at him at lunch. obsession is stalking and being annoying
its compulsive
there not the same substance but the addiction is the same ADDICTION who would ask a question like that LAME
An eating disorder is an addiction, sort of
Today, ABUSER is a term thrown around in the drug rehabilitation clinics. Also chemical dependency is another one.
It is called trichotillomania, often abbreviated as TTM. It is not an addiction, it is a behavioral disorder. Treatment is very different from treatment for addiction.
While there are people with an obsession for stealing, kleptomaniacs, most of the stealing in the world is definitely not the result of it. Most stealing comes from greediness, desperateness etc.