I don't think I have an addictive personality, but still, taking a low dosage of Xanax every day for the past years causes a kind of dependence, but a dependence on feeling OK, you know life will look slightly better after you take the med, so you struggle on. Also it creates withdrawals if stopped. I've quit it (mostly because I forgot to get refills, I'm still way below what I'm allowed to take), and I get this physical feeling like I do when I have a silent migraine. I feel kind of shaky inside and I have visual stuff going on. Also, I might have ringing ears. It's not a very nice feeling, but I sort of learned it's not the usual benzo withdrawal feeling. So even withdrawals can vary a lot. I had much worse withdrawals from my SSRI, it also gave me the silent migraine feeling but also a feeling of darkness and some aggression to boot. Still one med is seen as addictive and the other not. When in fact the SSRI has worse withdrawals for me. Makes me feel they need to sit down and discuss what stuff they want included in the word addiction. Because using the word loosely just creates confusion.