Addiction is often debated as either a disease or a choice, but in reality, it involves elements of both. Many people first ...

Addiction is about Isolation and Recovery is about Connection. Healing happens when we address the core issues of addiction and other destructive behaviors. Addiction, trauma, depression, anxiety and ...

While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

Relatively recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) added compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) as an official diagnosis. Although most mental health providers in the United States utilize ...

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...

New research suggests that women fall prey to certain bad habits hard and fast—including an alarming breed of obsessive compulsive disorder. Anne* was 34 years old when she thought she'd found her ...

While the World Health Organization recognized compulsive sexual behavior as sex addiction, as reported by the Mayo Clinic, ...