[madisgram]

Pride and the Addictive Personality

The addictive personality is a set of attributes that is often associated with addiction. Not every addict will have all the characteristic of the addictive personality but they are likely to have at least some of them. Most of those people who fall into substance abuse will have problems with self-esteem. The individual may react to this by putting on a show of excessive pride – this is sometimes referred to as bluster. The addict develops an amazing capability to be lying in the gutter yet still looking down on everyone else

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[grlnmt66]

I like this...it was SO me! (unfortunately) Thanks for sharing!

[gma45]

Very interesting reading! Thanks!