Quite. Nor would I count breathing, drinking water or listening to music as addictions simply on the grounds that you couldn't imagine going without them. The reason? They are not harmful.

Addictions tend to have a harmful element, using the word harmful generously. And addictions have the function of enabling the addict to avoid; avoid facing something, experiencing something, knowing something. Quite often because what is being avoided is painful (or believed to be painful). Even avoiding living one's own life. (on the other hand, if I'm using music to avoid ..........)

Yes it is possible to be addicted to therapy/counselling insofar as, under the guise of doing one's therapeutic work, one is actually intent on doing no such thing.

There are many things one can be addicted to - money,sex, work,- and again, only if it is harming in some way. Of course, for the addict, there may well be no harm, hence the folk-memory line,"Can't you see this is ruining your .....?"."No."

Addiction to anger (as with other addictions), can be a tactic by which the person can be in the only situation they know where they are actually feeling something.

Chongo's story is telling when he asks THE OTHER about THE OTHER'S taking an anger management course,(while simultaneously knocking seven bells out of him!) Ah yes, it's always THE OTHER who has the problem,innit?






       Ivor