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"When you do something compulsively enough that it's affecting the rest of your life"

Similar to what I was told: "When you compulsively do something despite it having negative impacts on your life"




Yeah this is better actually, because "affecting" might be a positive thing :)

But I like framing it this way because if you only think about compulsion you're going to waste a lot of time shutting down things that don't actually matter. We're creatures of habit - we've gotten this far BECAUSE of compulsion, not in spite of it.




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