on how addictive thinking develops was presented in a 1983 article by Dr. David Sedlacek.1 He describes addictive thinking as a person’s inability to make consistently healthy decisions on his or her own behalf. He points out that this is not a moral failure of a person’s willpower but rather a disease of the will and inability to use the will. Sedlacek stresses that this unique thinking disorder does not affect other kinds of reasoning.
