Overachievement in that constant unremitting drive for external validation was a major part of my denial. It actually mirrored the causes of any person's addiction, including my own or complex and multifaceted. Augustine of Hippo, an early Christian theologian, said essentially the exact same thing. There's addiction in all of us. And if it is in substances, then it's going to be something like that.

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