What exactly is an addiction?

khaled August 15, 2019 at 01:08 1800 views 3 comments The Lounge
And how is it different from a hobby? I’ve been thinking about it for a while and the best definition I could come up with is that an addiction is a hobby that’s seen by someone else as a waste of time, and so calls it an addiction.

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Wheatley August 15, 2019 at 02:29 ¶ #315715
Quoting khaled
I’ve been thinking about it for a while and the best definition I could come up with is that an addiction is a hobby that’s seen by someone else as a waste of time, and so calls it an addiction.

I think it's a matter of degree in that an addiction is much more stronger than a hobby. A person with a hobby is drawn to an activity, while a person with an addiction is glued to it.
khaled August 15, 2019 at 02:57 ¶ #315723
Reply to Purple Pond it just seems like a difference in intensity then. My point is though, if someone plays the guitar all day vs plays video games all day one is called an addiction and one is called a hobby. Even though both are just as gluing. It seems to me that what an addiction is depends on who’s saying the word
RegularGuy August 15, 2019 at 07:27 ¶ #315781
One person’s porn or heroin addiction is another person’s hobby.
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