Social symptoms of addiction can be:
- Circle of friends changes as addiction progressess
- Close relations suffer
- Intimate or family relationship problems
- The social atmosphere changes
- Natural communication is hard
- Overemphasized and restless sociability before and during addictive behaviour
- Being social loses its importance, leaving ”you and the bottle”
- Hobbies change to serve the addiction or you drop them altogether
- Confused behaviour
- Your own home feels strange, you don’t feel comfortable
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