When a thought occurs to me, do I immediately act on it without considering the consequences? In what other ways do I behave compulsively?

This is old behaviour. Addiction is Compulsion.
I was compelled to buy drugs with money that was needed elsewhere. I felt compelled to take sexual actions that led immediately to shame and suffereing. I compulsively left jobs and relationships and cities, thinking I was solving problems, when of course, looking back I se simple addiction and its' consequences at work.

No longer. In meetings I have heard "Play the tape thru to the end". I can and do do this today. I no longer run my life Compulsivley. Thanks God