Created by: marija.horvat
Number of Blossarys: 21
Sex and love addiction, often referred to as SLA, can take a variety of forms. Sometimes addictions to sex and love are combined, and sometimes a person exhibits stronger symptoms of one than the ...
Shopping addiction, also called compulsive shopping and omniomania, is one of the most socially "acceptable" behavioral addictions in the world. Shopping is a normal part of life but it ...
Overeating is not just greed but a real and problematic eating disorder. It is also called compulsive eating or binge eating and normally means that the sufferer finds themselves going through ...
A video game or internet addiction should be treated in the same way as any other addiction. Gamers and compulsive web users are often trying to escape problems in their lives just as other addicts ...
An addiction to gambling, or compulsive gambling, is sometimes called a type of "impulse control disorder" where someone has trouble restraining themselves from acting on an inclination or ...
Eating disorder sufferers often exhibit abnormal behavior when eating food. This can take on a wide range of forms from following rigid or bizarre diets, obsessively counting calories on everything, ...
A codependent person is essentially addicted to helping people in a way that drastically exceeds the normal care someone would exhibit towards another person. Codependency sufferers need to be needed ...