define "controlled by it" though. if you do it automatically some of the time, are you partially controlled by it?
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Will ceasing it cause you to seek it out at expense of other activities? Will it cause you anxiety or pain not to indulge?
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And more importantly: are you pursuing it to the extent that it is reducing your overall quality of life?
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i sometimes feel mild anxiety when i don't indulge in social media, cannabis, & video games lately. overall QOL feels good tho
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That's what a typical addiction looks like. Relatively speaking, he wasn't even all that bad. Hence, most ppl not addicts.
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possible to have healthy addictions? i'm addicted to music to the point where i don't know what i'd do w myself if i lost it
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and yet listening to music for hours a day seems to boost my QOL a lot
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I think a lot of the noise around addiction also comes from people overestimating their own capacity for free will.