What’s the Difference Between an Addiction and an Obsession?

Question by mister?: What’s the difference between an addiction and an obsession?
Can an addiction turn into an obsession and can an obsession turn into an addiction?
This is my take on the definitions: An obsession can be an unwanted thought that sticks in your brain and you have to perform certain rituals to alleviate the stress and anxiety produced from it for example, your unwanted thought is that your hands are germ infected and therefore you never stop washing your hands. Whereas an addiction is something you actually get a pleasure out of doing and don’t realize the negative affects of it.

Best answer:

Answer by Sunshine L
i would have to say yes..to both because an addition to say drugs can become an Obsession because once you need something so much you depend upon it and then it becomes known as an Obsession!
i hope i helped!

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