TRUTH ABOUT ADDICTIVE PERSONALITIES, THE

Most chronic `addicts' (especially people with addictive personalities who tend to go from addiction to addiction) have two things in common. The first is that they were likely raised in dysfunctional family environments where their need for `connection' were not properly met. There was inevitably a lack of patience and supportive discipline.

Children exposed to a dysfunctional environment who go on to replicate those interactions will inevitably have difficulty forming healthy connections w...