What are your addictions?

[Narz]

Do they bother you? You can list them by good/bad/mixed-bag.

You can argue about the nature of addiction & where is the line between choice & non-choice in another thread (just start one if you want to do this). It's an interesting subject - willpower, habits, self-control, etc. but this thread is more light in nature.

Bad

• Late night snacking
• Gluten free cookies (sweetness in general)

Mixed-bag

• My ex
• Women in general (I just love them & pursue them with more passion than it seems like most of my peers do, they are able to detach & not care as much it seems)
• Internet (forums, email, fb, etc.)
• Dominon Online
• Staying up late
• Paying attention to my "monkey mind"

Good

• Drinking lots of water
• Being cheap

 

[Goodfella]

This website. It doesn't bother me too much since I don't use it too excessively and mostly only when I have a lot of down time.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Video games are a mild addiction, I can go for a few weeks being concerned with more important things. Internet access cutoff for greater than 24 hours is a hazard to my mental health.

 

[onejayhawk]

Online bulletin boards.

J

 

[Narz]

bulletin boards

Clearly you've had this addiction for decades.

 

[Zelig]

Bad
Passive aggressiveness.
Being too timid in pointing out that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably isn't a real thing.

Mixed-bag
Correcting people when they're wrong.
Beer.

Good
Exercise.
Healthy eating.
Organization.
Efficiency.
Champagne powder.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Internet access cutoff for greater than 24 hours is a hazard to my mental health.

I noticed this about myself some years ago.

At least I don't leave the TV on all day, every day. Going without TV for several years got me out of the habit, and there are lots of current shows people keep talking about that I never heard of.


That said, my worst addiction has to be potato chips.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Food. I absolutely love to binge on food, and it's absolutely horrible for my body.

Only way to prevent it is just not keeping food in the house, so I only keep the bare minimum, i.e. food for lunch and dinner, and make sure to not buy snacks.

Or all that weight I lost and re-lost is going to come right back.

 

[Narz]

Being too timid in pointing out that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably isn't a real thing

All I know is when I eat wheat I feel very ill @ ease in my stomach & light headed. I don't think its all placebo.

Is that really an addiction (you think about it constantly & need to restrain yourself from talking about it)?

 

[madviking]

good: early 80s music
mixed bag: pornography
bad: meth

 

[Tee Kay]

CFC
Coke
Junk food
Certain kinds of porn

 

[Phrossack]

More habits than addictions, but:

CFC
Snapping all my joints with loud crackling sounds
Looking up reviews of games/movies I've already played/seen to see if it's okay for me to like/dislike it
Crippling procrastination
Dark chocolate-covered thin pretzels
Ritz crackers
Having this "mental CFCer", or this fear of being contradicted that makes me guard my words and thoughts carefully lest it gainsay me, like a dog that's quiet because it got zapped by its shock collar for barking too many times

 

[H4run]

cigs (my guilty pleasure)
game
surfing aimlessly on internet

 

[The_J]

- Til I was 14: TV
- Til I was 23: Computer games
- Til I was 26: The internet in general
...and now:
- a bit this site
- online news
- coffee
- adult entertainment
- everything sweet to eat

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Being too timid in pointing out that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably isn't a real thing.

Not seeing the problem here. In fact, they're making life easier for people who do have the condition diagnosed.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Pornography. I am very proud that I am on a thirty-one day clean streak. This is even more remarkable as I am in the US. Porn is everywhere here.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Pretty similar to most everyone:

Bad:
Cookies/Ice Cream

Mixed Bag:
Computers
Staying up late

Good:
Exercise
Watching Cute Kitten videos on Youtube

 

[cramstpuee757]

Games :x Guilty as charged.

 

[H4run]

- Til I was 23: Computer games

you already overcome your game addiction? ck ck ck, so fortunate of you. I never addicted to tv as far as I remember, I had tv in my room from 7 grade till I finish highschool but I only used it strictly for my console (to play game). I even nearly 30 now, uff I'm old, I don't like this feeling. And I'm still quite addicted to game, I even sometime still replay some of the games from my childhood

 

[Traitorfish]

Soft drinks and coffee are probably the big ones for me. Coffee I can live with, but soft drinks is something that I'm trying to get away from because they are doing my teeth no good whatsoever. Can't hurt the waist-line, either.