Are Your Positive Habits Becoming Compulsive?

Amelia Zimmerman
2 min readSep 25, 2021
Photo by Franzi Meyer on Unsplash

Compulsive behaviours are masks we wear to disguise deeper problems.

Anything compulsive is bad for you. It pushes one part of your life out of balance, and balance (though necessarily imperfect) is the ideal human state.

Compulsive behaviours overcompensate for the problem at hand. They are either an attempt to remedy the situation or numb the pain, but…

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Amelia Zimmerman

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