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Analysis-Paralysis: addicted to thinking

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most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. That the cute Boston AA term for addictive-type thinking is: Analysis-Paralysis.

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The doctrine's diagnosis of the mind as a second addiction: the compulsive relationship with one's own thinking, named Analysis-Paralysis, running on self-directed dread — a head spending nearly all its energy rehearsing bad futures and scaring itself. This is why the early-sobriety prayer is to lose the mind: the thinking is not a tool for escaping the disease but another face of it.

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