What are your addictions?

[BizarroAids]

Congrats.
Thinking of it I must of thought that sedatives would of covered painkillers or else I'd of given it its own category.

Oh well, not like this is being considered by Reuters.

If you go back to the 3rd or 4th page, you'll see your comment on it. You were pretty supportive about it.

 

[Bubonic]

I'll be damned, I was.
Here I was thinking I was an incessant jerk back then or something.

I also was an active member in the fitness board... Ugh, I'm embarrassed to present myself in there now... Next week is the week though... Get my ass addicted to physical activity again!

 

[BizarroAids]

No man, you were cool about it.

Hey, maybe your next addiction can be the gym!! That's a good one at least!

 

[Hotwire]

Got SW from Amazon, arrived last night

But have you seen him at any stores near you?

 

[Bubonic]

Not according to that show Obsessed, but I definitely need to start pouring my energy into something positive.
I'm thinking maybe something like crossfit and getting back into mma.

 

[Gunga Diner]

edit: dealing with it on my own

 

[Bubonic]

I've been addicted to Spice for half a year now. It's a legal incense product that has effects identical to those of Marijuana when inhaled. The fact that I can buy it has made quitting so hard.

I feel that people like yourself have resorted to getting high on untested chemicals instead of weed since they've been made arbitrarily legal.

I'm sure a lot of you guys are going to have some nasty surprises in future years.

So much worse for you, heck the hypocrites that put this out explicitly state that it isn't made for human consumption on the package. You've no clue what it really is, probably messing with you at the genetic level.

And who knows, whereas I pointed out that for me weed was psychologically addictive this stuff is probably made to be physiologically addictive as well.

I hope this didn't come off as me *****ing you out, I just have a huge hate for all these legal synthetic highs.

 

[Speedball]

Some I checked but I'm not putting here (so obviously, they're what you think).
I'm addicted to exercise: the endorphins and adrenaline are my drug.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Internet

Anytime I have free time I'm checking my favorite sites for updated news and posts.

 

[WolfCypher]

The Internet. I'm curious if I'd be so open to admitting to complete strangers my addiction(s) if it were something more serious like drugs. But as it stands, its the web. I'm always on. My friends usually have to come by and drag me out of the house if we had something planned because when I tell them I'm on my way, I'm still online and usually don't show up at all.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Both my parents were addicts way before I was born. Dad doesn't live near me but they both been T Total for over 30 years...

... But I do believe addiction runs in the blood.

I am not addicted to any specific drug, but I am addicted to getting inebriated. Not on a daily basis (though I have bordered on that when I was working full time in a pub), but I would find it difficult to stay entirely sober for 2 weeks. I don't tend to go mad anymore, but I gotta have SOMETHING, even if it's just a little.

Also addicted to internet, Superman, and Cigarettes.

 

[JAK®]

All of the above

 

[Ponyboy]

cherry coke and vanilla coke

Ditto. And gummy bears.

 

[StarLord]

Cigarettes and Tattoos.

I have 2 full sleeves, my right hand covered, knuckles done, my neck fully covered and just started a chest piece.

As far as the cig's go, I normally only smoke when I'm stressed or out having drinks...

 

[Erzengel]

Way to reinforce the stereotype SHH. More people are addicted to pornography than sex.

 

[Ponyboy]

Tattoos.

I hear ya bro! I got the "tattoo itch" man... it's been over 2 yrs since I got my last dye job.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Both my parents were addicts way before I was born. Dad doesn't live near me but they both been T Total for over 30 years...

... But I do believe addiction runs in the blood.

I am not addicted to any specific drug, but I am addicted to getting inebriated. Not on a daily basis (though I have bordered on that when I was working full time in a pub), but I would find it difficult to stay entirely sober for 2 weeks. I don't tend to go mad anymore, but I gotta have SOMETHING, even if it's just a little.

Also addicted to internet, Superman, and Cigarettes.

On what basis do you come to the conclusion that 'addiction runs in the blood'? Because if it is the above information, I think you are being very melodramatic with your own experiences.

A lot of people your age, early twenties, spend a lot of time going to pub, and can overdo it, especially if they are still trying to build a life for themselves, and don't really have anything to fill their spare time with. It's just part of being a young adult, you just have to be careful with that.

I developed an addiction to alcohol over the years basically because I was depressed with my life, and used it to self-medicate. I don't suffer from depression or anything, i was just frickin depressed.

and neither my mum or dad ever drank at all, I mean, like, never. Maybe a couple of times in her entire life my mum had a drink at some do, but my dad never drank at all, he did smoke, but a lot of folk his age got addicted to those things back in the days when they told you they were healthy.
My mum used to smoke, but quit it very easily.
My brother and sister don't have any addictions whatsoever, neither have ever smoked, did illegal drugs, and are just average with the booze, go to the pub with friends on occasion, but don't overdo it.

I know exactly the emotional factors that led me to get addicted to booze, it was nothing to do with genetics or whatever.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

On what basis do you come to the conclusion that 'addiction runs in the blood'? Because if it is the above information, I think you are being very melodramatic with your own experiences.

A lot of people your age, early twenties, spend a lot of time going to pub, and can overdo it, especially if they are still trying to build a life for themselves, and don't really have anything to fill their spare time with. It's just part of being a young adult, you just have to be careful with that.

I developed an addiction to alcohol over the years basically because I was depressed with my life, and used it to self-medicate. I don't suffer from depression or anything, i was just frickin depressed.

and neither my mum or dad ever drank at all, I mean, like, never. Maybe a couple of times in her entire life my mum had a drink at some do, but my dad never drank at all, he did smoke, but a lot of folk his age got addicted to those things back in the days when they told you they were healthy.
My mum used to smoke, but quit it very easily.
My brother and sister don't have any addictions whatsoever, neither have ever smoked, did illegal drugs, and are just average with the booze, go to the pub with friends on occasion, but don't overdo it.

I know exactly the emotional factors that led me to get addicted to booze, it was nothing to do with genetics or whatever.

I'm sorry if you took that offensively (as you seem a bit defensive), but I didn't say that your parents have to be addicts for you to become one.

It's just something that's always been spoken about within my family, within AA, on tv, in books I've read. It's a theory, and one that I sometimes wonder might be true.

I was being underdramatic in my description because I didn't wanna make myself sound too bad.

At the end of the day, I don't know if I'm an addict. I constantly get judged by the people in my life who don't touch drugs. I smoked weed from 14, experimented with uppers at 17, developed anxiety disorders at 18, started drinking heavily at 19, by 20 I was seeing specialists because I was self harming every time I had a drink but wouldn't stop drinking. And when I got over the depression, for some reason I started experimented with other things too, because I felt like having fun again.

Now, like I said, I struggle to go too long without a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I'm no where near as bad as some of my friends from back then, most of whom have all developed mental illnesses or are in prison. I have a degree, a job and aspiritions for the future but I could be seen in some people's eyes as an addict. It's just a question of how you view it.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I'm sorry if you took that offensively (as you seem a bit defensive), but I didn't say that your parents have to be addicts for you to become one.

It's just something that's always been spoken about within my family, within AA, on tv, in books I've read. It's a theory, and one that I sometimes wonder might be true.

I was being underdramatic in my description because I didn't wanna make myself sound too bad.

At the end of the day, I don't know if I'm an addict. I constantly get judged by the people in my life who don't touch drugs. I smoked weed from 14, experimented with uppers at 17, developed anxiety disorders at 18, started drinking heavily at 19, by 20 I was seeing specialists because I was self harming every time I had a drink but wouldn't stop drinking. And when I got over the depression, for some reason I started experimented with other things too, because I felt like having fun again.

Now, like I said, I struggle to go too long without a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I'm no where near as bad as some of my friends from back then, most of whom have all developed mental illnesses or are in prison. I have a degree, a job and aspiritions for the future but I could be seen in some people's eyes as an addict. It's just a question of how you view it.

Ok, first off, I am genuinely sorry for making you feel like you had to bring up things from your personal life, when you did not want to.

But, I will say that anyone who thinks of you as a 'bad person', because of these experiences, is an ignorant moron, they should realise you were just a person going through some terrible problems, and should have sympathy for you.

and yeah, there are different degrees of addiction, like, it's said that it's not necesarily the amount you drink that makes you an alcoholic, it's the reasoning behind it.
If you take a drink to make yourself feel different, to escape from yourself because you don't like yourself, then you have an alcohol problem. edit: or indeed, if you use it as self medication(like i did) to escape depression it is a problem.

If you drink to be sociable, or to just have fun(I mean, that is what it is there for), then you don't have a problem, well, y'know, you have a problem if you drink too much, or think you can only have fun if you are drunk.
But, you said that nowadays you drink to have fun, so that is a good sign, as long as you don't think you need to drink to have fun.

 

[POWdER-man]

I am not really addicted to anything. I don't do drugs, I rarely drink, I never smoke, I am only on the internet if I am bored or I am looking for something, I only watch shows that I am really into, and could go days without turning it on, I rarely gamble, etc....If anything I sometimes get short addictions and will focus on this one thing until I get sick of it (which is quickly). ie play Black Ops, watch Mantracker, look through failblog, etc....

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Ok, first off, I am genuinely sorry for making you feel like you had to bring up things from your personal life, when you did not want to.

But, I will say that anyone who thinks of you as a 'bad person', because of these experiences, is an ignorant moron, they should realise you were just a person going through some terrible problems, and should have sympathy for you.

and yeah, there are different degrees of addiction, like, it's said that it's not necesarily the amount you drink that makes you an alcoholic, it's the reasoning behind it.
If you take a drink to make yourself feel different, to escape from yourself because you don't like yourself, then you have an alcohol problem. edit: or indeed, if you use it as self medication(like i did) to escape depression it is a problem.

If you drink to be sociable, or to just have fun(I mean, that is what it is there for), then you don't have a problem, well, y'know, you have a problem if you drink too much, or think you can only have fun if you are drunk.
But, you said that nowadays you drink to have fun, so that is a good sign, as long as you don't think you need to drink to have fun.

Cheers That's what I say!

I know the difference in my heart. I've been on the outside of it with so many people in my life, and on the inside of it too. It's a complicated world and time we live in because drugs and drink are so rife in society and yet there is still this sense of being 'better' if you don't do that stuff.

My mum always said that you know your an addict when the cost of what your doing means more than just the money. If it costs you your job, your friends, your future or your health. I agree with that.

 

[Duke]

My addiction/s are just internet, movies & tv, action figures, videogames (to a point), & thats about it. I don't smoke, rarely do I drink, only on festive ocassions, definitely no drugs.

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

i might as well face it... I'm addicted to love

rofl....

F t w.

 

[gn6196]

for the amount of sheer time spent, it has to be the internet.

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

But spending time with it and being addicted to it....there is a difference.