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The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People by Michael Smith

The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People runs 6.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by AI Voice Cove (about 4.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

6.1listening hrs
Mental Health & Psychologystore shelf
2026released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 6.1 hours of listening.

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1 hour / day7 days
2 hours / day4 days
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What our data says

  • At 6.1 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People is an audiobook by Michael Smith: a 6.1-hour unabridged recording, read by AI Voice Cove, released May 18, 2026, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
6.1 hrs
Narrated by
AI Voice Cove
Released
May 18, 2026
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Mental Health & Psychology
ISBN
9798240152900

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People as an audiobook?

The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People runs 6.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.1 hours.

Is The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People?

The Emotional Addiction: Why Humans Become Addicted to Pain, Validation, Chaos, and the Wrong People is narrated by AI Voice Cove.