How does work become the chosen behavioral addiction?
I do believe that there is more to work addiction than just the amount of time that you are spending at the particular activity we're calling work. There is an intentionality, there is a hope in individual conscious and being aware; unconscious, not being aware, but there is that sanctuary of some sort. That this is a place of high importance to the exclusion of other domains. There is an intentionality that this is the only place I can get rewarded and get good feedback, where other domains it is not available. So yes with intentionality as well as a time involvement, but I've seen people with Workaholic sort of Characteristics that it's not quite so clear to them what it is that is going on. Why they go back to work -- they give these very long, elaborate stories of justification for continuation of work load; we need the money or there is this big project on my desk and to the outside observer or maybe even to the addict themselves it appears like this is being motivated by real life circumstances and they are not in touch with their intentionality in the behavior.
