Christianity Oasis Forum

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This forum deals with any and all types of addictive behaviors of any degree. Our goal is to reach out and help each other in handling day-to-day struggles. A fellowship of men and women who can share their experience, strengths, and hopes for obtaining serenity and peace within. You are welcome to read my testimony located on the home page under "Testimonies and Truths" (Living Real). This will give you an idea of my past experience. W are here for you and care. Feel free to contact me and if I do not have an answer, we will find one.

Addictive agents are those persons or things on which we form an excessive dependency. The catalog of addictive agents includes:

Money addictions, such as overspending, gambling, hoarding
Control addictions, especially if they surface in personal, sexual, family, and business relationships.
Alcohol, Drugs, Money, Food addictions
Sexual addictions
Approval dependency (The need to please people)
Rescuing patterns toward other persons
Dependency on toxic relationships (relationships that are damaging and hurtful)
Physical illness (Hypochondria)
Exercise and physical conditioning
Cosmetics, clothes, cosmetic surgery, trying to look good on the outside
Academic pursuits and excessive intellectualizing
Religiosity or religious legalism (preoccupation with the form and the rules and regulations of religion, rather than benefitting from the real spiritual message)
General perfectionism
Cleaning and avoiding contamination and other obsessive-compulsive symptoms
Organizing, structuring (the need always to have everything in its place)
Materialism