Process addiction
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Addictions are often placed into two broad categories: substance addiction and process addiction. The term process addiction is often used interchangeably with behavioral addiction and is meant to differentiate between addiction to behaviors or processes and addition to substances. Process addictions include behaviors such as compulsive gambling, shopping, eating, sex, and Internet use. The behavior in question dominates the lives of people with a process addiction, resulting in out-of-control actions, damaged relationships, and even withdrawal symptoms. Although not as well-understood as substance addiction, process addiction can be just as destructive and disruptive.
Process addictions have become more widely recognized in the 20th and 21st centuries, and the proposed fifth revision of the American Psychiatric Association's widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to be completed in 2013, includes a new category for behavioral addictions. Increasing scientific research is being undertaken on process addiction, with the hope that it will be better understood and more effectively treated in the future.
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