I am an addict. You can throw the term alcoholic into the hat too if you want. But bottom line I suffer from addiction. Not just the typical drug addiction but behavioral addictions. It’s not important to offer the nouns or verbs associated with this, I think everyone has their own idea of what I’m talking about. Today I’m doing an exercise associated with said addiction. (Exercise 8 from the book, “The Tao of Sobriety”, by David Gregson and Jay S. Stern, Ph.D.) I’m conducting an interview with the committee in my head to confer and come up with some answers to my thoughts on my particular responses to my addictions. Here is what transpired: 1. How would you describe your relationship to your drug of choice? It’s my Linus blanket. Sometimes my thinking gets really harsh and I find myself going to extremes, all black, all white and I’m afraid of where it will go. I’ve crossed the line of suicidal attempts and have a frightening fear of standing clos