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Addiction as an Attachment Disorder

September 27, 2016 By Christine Askew BA, MA, MSc 1 Comment

How attachment styles make you vulnerable to addiction

If you are along the anxious attachment spectrum you will get ‘activated’ within close relationships. This means that your stress response system is constantly triggered. You will scan for signs of abandonment and tend not to trust other people’s motives. Because there is always a heightened sense of anxiety, you will probably struggle with worrying about what other people are thinking, doing, feeling and can end up looking for excessive reassurance.  You will often feel a sense of unease and this can result in:

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