We probably have some similarities I hope your therapy will be more useful though than mine was, given that you are more on the starting side. These tendencies about the addiction and distraction is something I now would always tell a T right in the first session and ask them to keep an eye on it and push me a bit if they see I get into that pattern, onto all sorts of irrelevant tangents all over the map etc. Ask to push me back in line with my goals (this can only apply to you if you have specific goals though and willing to work on the blocks both in and outside of therapy). I actually did tell my Ts, including that I had a tendency to email too much and use that as distraction as well - my first T got totally confused and entangled himself, second T did not reinforce it but unfortunately never said anything I did was wrong or not in my best interest either. I wound be much more mindful not to let that happen now but, as I imagine, only I could lead that, many Ts tend to be too drawn into all the interesting but often useless tangents and investigations and don't care much about seeing practical benefit, or say it will take time. Of course, then we pay them longer...