On Overcoming Addiction: The Real Reason We All Have Bad Habits

Chloe Mason
3 min readOct 30, 2019

In the modern world, we feel increasingly vulnerable to addiction — from shopping, junk food, social media, pornography, smoking to substance abuse — it seems as if we are constantly trying to find something to distract ourselves for a sense of relief.

It feels comforting. It’s a safe place to retreat to, like a home.

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