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Originally Posted by Rochard
I agree, but at what point does a "hobby" or interest become a problem? I have a friend of mine who is into Mustangs. Has five of them. His "hobby" plays such an important part of his life that it dictates the house he bought - He had to buy a house with extra garage space. He spends his free time working working on his various cars, weekends at car shows, and doesn't have time for a girlfriend.
You can say his hobby is interfering with his life. But no one calls it an addiction.
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In his case his hobby dictates to some extent how he lives his life. That is no different than someone who is really into gardening buying a house with a big backyard so they can put a nice garden in it or someone who is really into woodworking, or cars or any other hobby that takes up a lot of space buying a house with a big garage or a shop so they have room to do their hobby.
It sounds like he still has a job, likely has a pretty normal social life and so on.
To me the signs of trouble are things like it interfering with their work, it causing problems with their family life. If they regularly blow of other things that they used to do in order to do this then it is signs of trouble.
If your friend suddenly got fired from his job because he was missing work in order to work on his cars or he started spending so much on his cars that he was up this his eyes in debt and losing everything else you might consider it a problem.