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Here's another entry to add to the list of things you can get addicted to: Argentine tango. This paper, a follow-up to a previous case study, reports the results of a survey of over 1000 online tango magazine subscribers. Based on these studies, tango can be classified as an addiction based on to several psychiatric guidelines. Although the consequences of this addiction were primarily positive, many dancers reported experiencing withdrawal symptoms when they didn't dance, even including "sadness, feeling uncomfortable and leg prickling." Maybe this finally explains the dancing epidemic of 1518?
Argentine tango: Another behavioral addiction? "BACKGROUND: Behavioral addiction is an emerging concept based on the resemblance between symptoms or feelings provided by drugs and those obtained with various behaviors such as gambling, etc. Following an observational study of a tango dancer exhibiting criteria of dependence on this dance, we performed a survey to assess whether this ...
