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Running on empty: Can excessive exercise really be an addiction?
Back in 1997, I published my first academic paper on exercise addiction – a case study of a young women addicted to martial arts – at least according to the definition of exercise I was using. However,...
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Eat to the beat: What is the relationship between exercise addiction and...
In previous blogs I briefly examined both exercise addiction and eating addiction. However, there is some research that these two disorders sometimes co-occur. In some of the papers I have co-written...
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Never mind the anabolics! A brief overview of body building dependence
In a previous blog, I briefly examined exercise addiction and its relationship with eating disorders. A recent review of 11 different addictive behaviours – that I co-wrote with Dr Steve Sussman and...
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Om Sweet Om: Can Transcendental Meditation be addictive?
Back in 1991, not long after I had been awarded my PhD, I was asked (by my then girlfriend) to attend on a course in Transcendental Meditation (TM). Up until that point, my only knowledge of TM was...
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Working out: Are Olympic athletes addicted to exercise and/or work?
As someone who has spent over 25 years carrying out research into behavioural addiction, I have published a fair amount on exercise addiction over the years. One question I am often asked when the...
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Riding high: Can cycling be addictive?
One of the many music books I got for Christmas this year was David Buckley’s excellent 2012 biography of Kraftwerk. Given the media shyness of the band since their official formation in 1970, I was...
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Stats entertainment: A review of my 2012 blogs
My last blog of 2012 was not written by me but was prepared by the WordPress.com stats helper. I thought a few of you might be interested in the kind of person that reads my blogs. I also wanted to...
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Out of this whirled: Can dancing be addictive?
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but here in the UK, celebrity dancing television shows (such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice) have become highly popular as evidenced by the huge...
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Stats entertainment (Part 2): A 2013 review of my personal blog
My last blog of 2013 was not written by me but was prepared by the WordPress.com stats helper. I thought a few of you might be interested in the kind of person that reads my blogs. I also wanted to...
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Give me strength: Muscle Dysmorphia as an addiction
Muscle Dysmorphia (MD) describes a condition characterised by a misconstrued body image in individuals interpret their body size as both small and weak even though they may look normal or even be...
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Winning runs? Another look at exercise addiction
Research appears to indicate that at times of psychological and/or emotional hardship, some habitual exercisers engage in such activity as a form of escape. The reliance on exercise as a means of...
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Let’s get physical: Exercise addiction (revisited)
At present, exercise addiction is not officially recognised in any medical or psychological diagnostic frameworks such as the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)...
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In dependence days: A brief overview of behavioural addictions
Please note: A version of this blog first appeared on addiction.com Conceptualizing addiction has been a matter of great debate for decades. For many people the concept of addiction involves the taking...
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Whirled piece: Dancing as an addiction
In previous blogs I have examined various (admittedly extreme) aspects of dancing including people that are sexually aroused by dancing (choreophilia), dancing as a form of frottuerism, people that are...
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Naming desire: A personal look at my new job title
Back in 2002, I was incredibly proud when I became one of the youngest full Professors in the UK when I was bestowed the title of Professor of Gambling Studies based on my research contribitions to the...
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Myth world: Addictive personality does not exist
(Please note: This article is a slightly expanded and original version of an article that was first published in The Conversation). “Life is a series of addictions and without them we die”. This is my...
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Ride on high: Another look at the psychology (and cycleology) of ‘cycling...
Back in 2012, I wrote an article on cycling addiction for my blog and classed the behaviour as a sub-type of exercise addiction. Recently (June 2016), I was interviewed by Cycling Weekly magazine for...
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Higher and higher: A brief look at rock climbing as an addiction
In previous blogs I have looked at the alleged addictiveness of extreme sports including BASE jumping and bungee jumping as well as briefly overviewing so called ‘adrenaline junkies’. Over the last...
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Term warfare: ‘Workaholism’ and work addiction are not the same
Reliable statistics on the prevalence of individuals addicted to work on a country-by-country basis are almost non-existent. Only two countries (Norway and Hungary) has carried out nationally...
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We can work it out: A brief look at ‘entrepreneurship addiction’
Last month, a paper appeared online in the journal Academy of Management (AJM). I’d never heard of the journal before but its remit is “publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds...
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