**I'm going to be posting a variety of my writing here just so I have a place I can look back on that's public enough that it might reach people without being a place I advertise, this happens to be just a string of thought I had tonight and isnt poetry or anything but it's something I want to work on further*

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The scary part about addiction is how easily it can go unnoticed. A detrimental pattern, a cycle of habits - aren’t just based around substance abuse. If anything, those are the easiest to resolve - as they have easy ways to be avoided : IE : Don’t do drugs. The issue is, most addictions in the modern world aren’t as easy  to prevent. For example, the addiction of self validation is one created through accident. Posting a picture online - receiving likes - stimulating a feeling of self-worth : This goes unnoticed. It’s something we don’t attempt to resolve, or see as an issue. Now let’s take this a step further, let’s think about this cycle in regards to emotional stability. Can depression become an addiction ? Is it possible that this could be something stimulated through social conditions rather than literal chemical instability. If we believe this to be the case, it becomes much harder to resolve. How can I fix a pattern that I didn't choose to partake in, that I can't get out of without external intervention. What if I don't have any external intervention that's possible anymore. This illness seems much more terminal that I previous believed it to be.