"Addiction - that has nothing to do with me! I'm not an alcoholic! I'm not a binge eater! I don't take drugs!" This is how most of us respond defensively. Addicts are always someone else. But is addictive behavior really foreign to me? Are there no dependencies or compulsions in my daily life? Dr. Mathias Jung, a psychotherapist and philosopher at the alternative health center Dr. Max Otto Bruker Haus in Lahnstein, asked his readers for confidential information in a ten-question survey. The response was overwhelming: 142 women and men shared their compellingly true soul protocols about their mild or severe addictive behaviors.