Addiction=Coping Mechanisms

As you read, I hope you’ll see how anything can form a sort of slavish attachment, a sort of addiction. Habits like checking Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook? Yes. Substances like booze and opioids? Of course. Dependencies on the material, on money, on entertainment, on sex? No doubt.

I’ll suggest that our bad habits, addictions, and dependencies are the things we use, attach to, or love in an effort to cope with the pains of life.

…Coping mechanisms—we all have them, even the best of us. Mine was booze, then book buying, then a bowl of cereal and a good Netflix binge. Anything…