This module is about helping you identify all the ways in which addiction may show up in your life. The reason is that for most, addiction is not a problem centering around just one substance or behavior, but involves multiple addictions.While you may work hard to overcome one addiction, other addictions can keep you stuck if you have not addressed the underlying drivers discussed in Why Addiction Starts and Why Addiction Gets Harder to Stop.

Why is it important to identify and address all addictions at the same time? The primary reason is that your brain doesn’t really care about specific addictions, it operates in similar ways with all addictions. Which means that if you overcome one addiction but continue to engage in others, your brain remains stuck in an addictive state, and you remain vulnerable to relapse on the addiction you thought you had addressed.