I know what you mean Bam, both when I am drinking and when I am sober, I exhibit other addictive or obsessional traits and I don't know if that can be changed.
I think the obsessional acts constitute the behaviour that needs to be modified, rather than the individual addiction it shows up in.
For me, at the moment, I am perfectly happy to transfer my obsessional traits (using distraction techniques) onto less harmful pastimes.
In the past few months I have been sober and I have also been spending a stupid amount of time online, probably more time than I spent drinking (surfing the web doesn't make you pass out
), and while this is not harmful behaviour, as such, it certainly isn't conducive to a normal life.
Now that I have realised that I have simply transferred my behaviour I can work on spending less time online and getting some balance into my life.
I honestly think that this tendency of mine to just doing too much of whatever it is that I enjoy is in no way a disease.
Not sure if this makes much sense lol I'm just putting some ideas out there.