Caitlin Moran's personal essay "I Know Why the Fat Lady Sings," calls compulsive overeating "the most pointlessly secret of miseries" for women. Her words continue to make the Facebook, Twitter, and ...

The series turned a voyeuristic lens to people with unusual habits, but it did raise awareness of various compulsive ...

Dr. Lochan Naidoo, Program Director at the Jullo Centre for Advanced Addiction Recovery and an Addictionologist. Photo: Supplied. THE term wielded by gambling and companies, “Winners Know When To Stop ...

Are you curious about the world's most unusual habits? People can get hooked on things you might never even consider addictive. While some addictions are widely recognized, there are others that fly ...

Some clinicians have been treating sexual excess as an addiction without any scientific evidence. Now, a more ethical new era ...

Back in the early 2000s, I (and one of my colleagues, Dr. Michael Larkin) carried out some research at the Promis addiction clinic down in Kent. We were researching people’s phenomenological ...

New research suggests that women fall prey to certain bad habits hard and fast—including an alarming breed of obsessive compulsive disorder. Anne* was 34 years old when she thought she'd found her ...

CSBD refers to difficulty controlling sexual behaviours despite negative consequences, causing significant personal or social distress; however, the diagnosis remains a topic of debate. Cultural norms ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. What’s the difference between having a high sex drive, watching a lot of porn, and having an addiction ...