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Addictions

When a behaviour or substance has started taking too much space

Addictive behaviours, impulses and loss of control.
Work with responsibility, without empty moralising.
Space to understand both the symptom and what sustains it.

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When a behaviour or substance has started taking too much space

Working on addiction is not only about cutting the symptom. It also means understanding emptiness, impulses, emotional regulation and context.

How it often feels

Addiction is rarely only about the substance or behaviour itself

There is often also distress, repetition, impulsivity or difficulty holding certain emotions in other ways.

You feel you lose control too easily

You promise yourself to stop, regulate or do it differently, but end up falling back into patterns that wear you down.

There is shame, secrecy or a double life

Sometimes the heaviest part is not only the behaviour, but everything around it: guilt, isolation and the feeling that it cannot be spoken about openly.

The symptom is covering something deeper

Impulses, emptiness, anger, loneliness or difficulty regulating yourself are often very present underneath the addictive pattern.

What can be worked on in therapy

Detect triggers and relapse patterns.
Recover more control, awareness and responsibility.
Create new ways of carrying pain without self-destruction.

When it makes sense to start addressing it

The sooner the role of the behaviour is understood, the more possibilities there are to begin changing it for real and not only fighting with the symptom.