Depression comes in many forms, some types of depression are situational and caused by loss of job, divorce, death, or radical changes in lifestyle where the person is unable to cope. Then there is acute depression, this comes when a continued form of unhappiness transfers itself into the disease “depression”. This type of depression is [...]

“Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance.” This is the accepted definition of  addiction.
Addictions come in all packages, large and small. The human has a pension toward fixating themselves, from a hedonistic point of view, on “feeling better”. Feeling better costs them a big price in the long run. More than they realize. [...]