Process Addiction no different to the compulsions that drive drug addiction and substance abuse.

It makes little difference if it’s a Process Addiction to gambling, or shopping, or eating because of stress, or eating for no apparent reason at all – mentally, psychologically, and emotionally, it is no different to the compulsions that drive drug addiction and substance abuse.

Many people find it difficult to understand why a person with a Process Addiction doesn’t just stop doing the harmful activity.  They sometimes think that Process Addictions are not as difficult to control as drug addictions because there is no addictive substance involved.

While it’s true that drug addiction produces additional physical chemical dependency from the drug itself, the neuro-chemical and psychological processes in the brain that drive both types of addiction are real, visible on brain scans, and basically the same.

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