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The Difference Between an Addiction and a Compulsion

Sometimes people use the words addiction and compulsion interchangeably. However, they are not actually the same thing. What is the difference between the two?

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Elizabeth Hartney
2020
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Confessions of a Kleptomaniac

I became a drug addict only years after I'd discovered my first true love: Compulsive thieving.

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Dylan Lavene
2012
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Addiction

All addictions have the capacity to induce a sense of hopelessness and feelings of failure, as well as shame and guilt, but research documents that recovery is the rule rather than the exception.

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Psychology Today Content Team
2020
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