The Addictive Personality by Craig Nakken

Author:Craig Nakken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hazelden

The Addict: Wanting to Be Alone

In this late stage of addiction, addicts may totally withdraw from others. After all, the addict’s ritual of acting out is most often a solitary act done with no one around or done only in the presence of other addicts:

Compulsive eaters most often binge in private.

The gambling process is a private, internal strategy.

Shoplifting is a private act.

Sex addicts retreat into a private world often filled only by other sex addicts, if by anyone else at all.

It’s natural that as the addictive personality develops and gains more control in a person’s life, skills used to maintain personal relationships will start to weaken.

By Stage Three there is little in the person’s life that is permanent and doesn’t pertain to the addiction. The person has become totally afraid of intimacy and stays away from any sign of it. Addicts frequently believe others are the cause of their problems. They think people can’t understand them. Thus, people are to be avoided.

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