Addiction starts with a choice.
irresponsibility, dishonesty, and denial; can and are symptoms of mental/physical addiction. Addiction; as in the context of this thread and in most definitions; is something that starts with a -Choice- at some point. The shopping addict chooses to keep shopping despite the toll it is taking on their finances and denies the fact that they responsible for it. The drug user chooses to chase that next fix and denies the problems it causes in their lives. There is a choice there.
A dependency is not made by choice.
A dependency can be something you are born with, as in the way that people who are born with diabetes are dependent on insulin. None of us just up and out of the blue choose to be TG. There is internal feelings in each and every one of us that has always been there that makes us CD or Express Ourselves.
I find it disheartening that people in the community would find crossdressing a compulsive desire caused by addiction.
-Donni-