Thank you for this piece! And I agree with you about some addiction support groups being problematic. We should not be defined by our addictions, as behaviors don’t define us. It is important to look at the underlying causes and get to why these behaviors/addictions are happening. I also think Johan Hari talked about this: the opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety but rather connectedness (feeling connected to other people, but also to oneself). The only way out is through, as they say.