Addictive Agents

Here is a partial list of addictive agents (adapted from "Steps to Serenity") that can be helped by working the 12 steps:

• Excessive computer gaming
• Chemical dependencies (Alcohol, drugs, etc.)
• Work, achievement, success
• Money addictions (overspending, gambling, hoarding, etc.)
• Control addictions (personal, sexual, family, business relationships)
• Food addictions (overeating, anorexia, etc.)
• Sexual addictions (...)
• The need to please people
• Rescuing patterns toward other persons
• Dependency on toxic (damaging, hurtful, etc.) relationships
• Hypochondria
• Excessive exercise
• Preoccupation with trying to look good on the outside
• Excessive intellectualizing
• Religiosity (having a form of religion while denying the power of God)
• General perfectionism
• Excessive Cleaning and other obsessive-compulsive symptoms
• Over organizing
• Materialism