After years of a terrible addiction to psychics I finally can say that I have crossed that bridge, But an addiction is just a symptom of something lacking inside and that does not really go away. If I look back at my life I think I have substituted one addiction with another, I worked too much, or I read too much, or I played too much sports, and the list is long. Some addictions are not as detrimental as others, but bottom line, they took me away from facing the sense of void that I carry inside. I think that it is the human nature, addictions of any sort give us security, (the attachment to that object/activity)- I don't know if there is a fix...
in my opinion.