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5 Truths About Addiction & Counseling
4.
It is easy to open the door to let in other addictions
 Be on the lookout that you don’t exchange one addiction for another. It
might seem like healthy behavior to you when you start working out
excessively. Even so, it would be still be a bad exchange. One important
reason why this might happen is that you haven’t yet arrived at the issues
underlying the addiction. You remain obsessive; you simply change the object
of your obsession. Before letting another habit consume your time and
energy, it is better that you discuss it with your addiction counselor.
5.
An addict isn’t who you are
 For some people, the guilt associated with their addiction is all too real. Yet
they look at habit as something that is a part of them. Don’t let the addiction
become your identity because you are so much more than it. It is a habit – a
bad one that might even prove fatal but that is all the addiction is. Treat it as
you would treat any other problem and don’t be ashamed of it. Once you
realize this to be true, you would have taken the first step to getting your life
under your control.