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Addictive And Compulsive Behaviors

A pattern of behavior marked by compulsive engagement despite negative consequences, a loss of control over the behavior's frequency or intensity, and a craving or withdrawal response when the behavior is stopped, whether the underlying object is a substance, an activity such as gambling, or a repeated behavioral pattern. This group gathers the addictive and compulsive phenomena recorded for this atlas, drawn from clinical psychology's own literature on dependence, craving and behavioral addiction, distinguished from an ordinary habit by the presence of a documented loss-of-control or withdrawal pattern in the entity's own recorded description.

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