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What are the common causes of addiction?

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Elena Touroni, a private psychologist based in Chelsea, talks about how addiction can often have a root cause in other disorders, such as depression, anxiety or significant relationship difficulties. Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com

Video Transcription

Most of the time the cause of addiction might be other underlying psychological difficulties. So people can suffer, for instance, from depression or anxiety or might have significant relational difficulties. And as a result of those difficulties, they might go to addiction as a way of coping with very difficult emotional states.

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