Common Characteristics of Addiction - Mood swings - Unmanageability - Impulse control problem - Uncontrollability - Strong needs for approval - Feelings of self-worthlessness, shame, or guilt - Patterns of substance use/uncontrollable behavior for more than one year - Obsessions with a behavior or substance - Behavior or substance use as a method of anxiety reduction - Negative consequences to self or others - Increasing patterns of substance use or behavior over time |