addiction to safety

The worst addictions, the most powerful ones, are addictions to things we think will take away the pain of being alone. So the real addiction is to the feeling of being safe. We fluctuate between the things we think give us this temporary feeling of safety. Drugs, food, people, behaviors…anything can be a source of an addiction, anything can make us feel happy and relieved from our worrying mind for a moment, or longer. But eventually it will always wear off and then we need another fix. And we need the fix fast. Because as soon as it wears off, our mind goes into panic mode, now that we are faced with the very worries we wanted to avoid. Faced with our fears of being alone.

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