Our culture honors hard work to the point of sometimes worshiping it, so often we cannot see the tendencies of our hardworking nature to cross into the realm of addiction. Because working is praised by society and is necessary for well-being, it can hard for a person to admit that they have an unhealthy attachment to a good thing. With other addictions, specifically chemical dependency, the person attaches to something viewed as negative. But because work is a positive thing, the attachment...

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