Definition: Addiction

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Revision: 5 Jun 2026

Addiction

A pattern of craving over which one has little control.
An unconscious and deeply entrenched strategy for meeting a need (real or perceived) that tends to have a negative impact on physical, emotional, and/or spiritual wellbeing.
Addiction is typically a form of compensating for an unmet, and often unacknowledged, need.
All addiction is an attempt to compensate for a real or perceived lack of love.
Addictions may form as a strategy for coping or survival.
While addictions may be helpful initially as strategies for coping or survival, at some point they become counterproductive.
Addiction is transcended when all needs for love are met.
Addiction is thoroughly healed and released upon realizing the source of love.