Trading Psychology  |  FEB 2003

Overcoming Addictions by Adrienne Laris Toghraie, MNLP

Overcoming Addictions by Adrienne Laris Toghraie, MNLP Addictions will turn your successful trading into a lost cause. What to do? Addictions play a major role in the lives of many traders. With few exceptions, addictions inevitably lead to behaviors that can destroy a trader’s professional and personal life, break down hard-earned performance, and sabotage success. How can addictions create such ruin? As the need to satisfy an addiction grows, traders can be driven to the outer limits of normal behavior. When an addiction worms its way into the center of an individual’s consciousness, it pushes the most important things in life out to the periphery. Activities that were once considered off limits may become normal if the addict deems them necessary to support the addiction. At the same time, activities that once supported success may become difficult to sustain as addiction-related activities compete for limited physical and emotional resources and time.

by Adrienne Laris Toghraie