Society compels us to get with the program and we respond with hopeless apathy coupled with depression as attitude adjustment. Groomed in the image that will best conform to society, we internalize our frustration, our hurt, at not being accepted for ourselves. We are never at peace with our conscious mind. Addictions hide the hurt and bury the pain. Substance are ingestive, mood-altering chemical addictions, natural and artificial, legal and prescribed.
Compulsive are obsessive and repetitive behavior addictions.
Compulsive addictions are only limited by ones imagination. It has been thought that people who abuse food or drugs are trying to fill a void inside themselves. People are born filled with their own individuality. It is not until they are taught as children to suppress it that they fall into psychological trouble. Whether addicted to substance or compulsion, addicts are a product of a societal process gone bad, not of a people gone bad.