Amber Hollingsworth identifies a key warning sign of addiction: when a substance or behavior takes up mental space through planning, managing, hiding, and trying to prove control, not just the time spent actually using it.
You shouldn't have to spend half the day deciding whether you're going to drink or how much you're going to drink or how you're going to hide it or how you're going to explain it or when you're going to stop or how to make up for it tomorrow. When the substance or behavior, whatever it is, starts taking up that much space in your head, it's not just about the hours that you're drinking or using or gambling or whatever. It's about the hours that you spend planning, managing, recovering, and trying to prove that you're still in control.
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