LMAO !!! This calls for some serious psychotherapy from a guy (no, not me) who described the problem of creative addiction perfectly before the PC had even been thought of ;o) Enter Erich Fromm (from "The Anatomy Of Human Destructiveness", 1973) : "Observations of daily life indicate that the human organism as well as the animal organism are in need of a certain minimum of excitation and stimulation [...] Accidents, a murder, a fire, a war, sex are sources of excitation; so are love and creative work [...] a different kind of stimulus, one that STIMULATES THE PERSON TO BE ACTIVE.[...] The person who is driven by the simple stimulus experiences a mixture of release and thrill satisfaction; when s/he is "satisfied" (from the Latin satis-facere, "to make enough"), s/he "has enough". The activating stimulation, on the contrary, has no satisfaction point - i.e., it never makes the person feel s/he "has enough", except, of course, when normal physical tiredness sets in." ...And sometimes not even then LOL In other words, folks, you suffer because love and creative work are simply far more addictive than "the usual suspects", that's why we get so helplessly hooked. "No satisfaction point" ! [Insert ominous drum roll here] As with all good psychoanalysis, Fromm's analysis makes one's problem perfectly clear, and offers no way whatsoever of getting rid of it ;o)