Sophie White: My hobbies may have become mildly toxic obsessions — but I had to replace my alcohol addiction with something

Bailey Smith makes raw admission on obsessive personality

‘It’s the one thing that keeps me sane. It’s either that or I’m on the drink.’

Sophie White: My hobbies may have become mildly toxic obsessions — but I had to replace my alcohol addiction with something

Hobbies are supposedly benign things that I always seem to take too far. Perhaps this is you too? I’m incapable of engaging in any activity on a nice, casual level. Everything becomes an obsession. For me, hobbies are — to paraphrase American novelist David Foster Wallace — seemingly fun things that I WILL do again, over and over until it has consumed my entire life and everyone around me is threatening to set themselves on fire if I say one mor…