Have you ever been addicted to anything?

Okay,

I have an addictive personality. I cannot do anything to a moderate extent. I either obsess with the given thing/activity until my body, or manipulating external factors physically prohibit me from doing it.

I took up running last summer. However, instead of running twice, or 3 times a week, I ran everyday, 12km a day for 10 weeks. This ended when I physically could not continue. Even when I wasn't running I was thinking about it. If there was a reason I couldn't go (which happened on two days) I would spent that day depressed, and no matter how much I ran the rest of the week I simply could not forgive myself that I had missed that day. It was a crazy period.

However, I don't do that anymore. I realised, and I have spent a lot of time concentrating on not taking things so obsessively. There are some activities I simply do not do anymore (No, not that activity you sicko's) as I know I could not do it moderately.

I was wondering if any of you have ever been addicted to anything, be it physical or mental. Any of you have/had similar obsessive tendencies? How do you deal with them, or how did you solve/control them.

porn.

booty

Air.

No, I've never been addicted to anything. I don't have an addictive personality and I have no problem saying no to anything and everything.

@peasantabuse said:

Outside of porn I do like to workout alot. Not only to get in better shape, but it helps me relieve alot of stress. There's times where I get extremely pissed-off at myself, and I usually go to the gym to let off some steam...

I was honestly Addicted to Knight of the old Republic. So what my dad, when we weren't playing it it was all we could think about. We were breaking into colds sweats over it.

Once it was completed, we had kicked our addiction.

Other than that....girls. If I get a girlfriend I am addicted to them...which is not good for a relationship.

WoW.... Oh god, Wow. I had 14 level 80 characters during WOTLK that I actually played every day. It wasn't until Mists of Pandaria came out and all my friends had quit I was finally able to kick the habit - but damn those curvaceous lady pandas were tempting.

Girls, drugs and video games.

I'm addicted to quitting. I gave up drinking, being fat, Facebook, and online dating.

Clamato juice. I can't tell where the tomatoes end and the clam begins!

EVERYTHING

Or maybe you're addicted to saying no?

I'm addicted to sarcastic forum responses

I went through a drug phase when I was in my twenties. I bought an ounce every payday - at $140 for where I live it is nowhere near as expensive as anywhere I have seen in the States. I used to be huge into GHB, Acid, Coke, X, Whiskey, and Caffeine.

Alcohol was easily the toughest to quit of the bunch.

I smoked weed everyday for 5 years and then just quit. Now I'm addicted to exercise and caffeine. Since I graduated Uni I have managed to curb my caffeine consumption to 1 coffee in the morning and 2-3 green teas throughout the day.

Oh yeah I was also addicted to diet cola.

Typical sex, drugs rock & roll

@aegon said:

I was asked if I wanted to go for a walk today and I said yes, so...

I'm beginning to think I might have an alcohol problem, I bought a !.75 liter bottle Sunday night and I've just finished the last of it about twenty minutes ago. I guess it was inevitable, most of my family is alcoholic and I do like the feeling of being drunk. I think this is the fastest I've ever finished a bottle though, I normally only get drunk a couple times every two weeks.

@canteu: Congratulations on not understanding what addiction is, I guess.

@the_grindilow said:

Too true man. I went nuts when I turned 21 and started boozing every night, waking up drunk every morning, and then drinking more when I got off work. Then I became dependent on it and it scared the shit out of me. The shakes, the shits, the depression, the nausea, the anxiety, the sweating, the skin-crawling, the occasional terrifying hallucinations, and the insomnia....Ugh, never again man.

It took me three days to fully detox and it was Hell on earth. Oddly enough the sick feeling made the thought of a drink absolutely disgusting to me, but I just wanted to be back to normal again in the worst way. Luckily as the symptoms got worse I realized I needed to put the breaks on it and reached out to a friend who talked some god damn sense into me. If I had continued the way I was going I would've probably had to go to an actual detox where I'd be prescribed Xanax or something to keep me from seizing up. I always found it odd that they treat alcohol withdrawal with benzos since alcohol and benzo withdrawals are the only withdrawals that can actually kill you. Plus I could see myself easily getting hooked on benzos and replacing alcohol with them.

That's the only time I've been truly physically dependent on a substance and it's not fun. It taught me a good lesson though.

Boy, I don't think this post could possibly be any more dickish. And congratulations on having so little understanding about how addiction works.

Giantbomb... it's a hell of a drug

My closest addiction would be games but since its something that isn't a chemical addiction Id whine for a week or two then be fine if I couldn't play anymore. Knowing that I have addictive tendencies I keep myself away from drugs and alcohol. Although honestly that has been easy for me. Never have really been attracted to either and peer pressure has always been a joke to me since I don't care what anyone thinks of me.

@deegee: Obviously. I've smoked weed for the past 10 years. I've played video games for the past 20 years. I drink alcohol, love women and abhor tobacco.

Perhaps yes, I do not know what addiciton is, because I could forgo any of these things right the fuck now. Perhaps, simply because I am not addicted to anything does not mean I cannot understand what mental illness is.

Very presumptuous of you.

@mariachimacabre And you too, sir.

You should have just cut out all the needless information and posted this. It keeps the main thrust of you having no idea what addiction actually is without wasting peoples time telling them how much you love ladies or whatever.

Seeing that gif still makes me giggle abit...

Tasting my own poop. With stuff like heroin you don't have to be anywhere near it so it's easy to avoid, but you have to shit at least once a day (sometimes three or four times) so it's hard as Hell.

Wow good for you. It's too bad you lack consideration and courtesy.

• Carrot juice
• Thick thighs
• Music
• Video Games

Music and Video Games are iffy because I managed to go about 7~ months without either. Yeah, I'm pretty hardcore, y'guys.

@canteu: Welcome to the 21st century, man. Modern medicine can and will tell you that you're wrong.

Next thing you'll be trying to convince everyone that it's possible to just stop being ill. All you have to do is not, after all.

After a minor surgery, an oral surgeon prescribed me Oxycontin. I was afraid I might get addicted to it, so when it came close to time to refill the bottle, I left two or three in there and just dealt with the pain while eating. That was years ago, and I never did use those last pills.

@deegee: Your argument is not even that. You're simply telling me I'm wrong because I have no addictions. Mental and physical addiction are two different things. Both are most certainly voluntary.

You think because I have not personally experienced physical withdrawal, that means my experiences are invalid. Your reasoning is rather shallow. You have no idea what I've witnessed or why I am able to overcome such things. Get your head out of your own arse before you tell me what I know.

edit: @psylah See? It takes effort, but doesn't mean it's impossible. People are different believe it or not.

Video games duder!

Video games duder!

@canteu:

Haha, it's pretty great to see you just completely flipping out at something I never said. Let's review my three posts? I told you that you have no idea what addiction actually is, that you still have no idea what addiction is, and that modern medicine will tell you you're wrong.

but uh ... good job on that whole "don't tell me what I know" kick.

Maybe all that weed you smoke made you imagine the part where I tell you that you're wrong purely because you have no addictions?

@deegee: whatever, keep on keeping on I guess.

edit: more presumptions. Rule #1 Don't be a jerk.

Cigarets.

You broke that with your first post duder.

@darthorange: not really.

@the_grindilow: I remember laying in bed the first night kicking the blankets off and pulling them back on every 30 seconds, completely unable to sleep. I would close my eyes but it was as if my eyelids didn't work and I could still see my room. It scared the shit out of me. When I'd inevitably pass out for ten minutes or so out of sheer exhaustion I'd be jolted awake by some of the most vivid and terrifying nightmares I'd ever had. I thought about trying to gradually ween myself off it but I knew that as soon as I got a buzz going I'd say "fuck it" and black out all over again just like every other time I started drinking.