Will Addiction ever be YOUR problem? Has it been?

[CipherLock]

I’ve never had an addiction. I’ve done drugs and drank every single day for months at a time and would just stop. I wouldn’t even say cold turkey because there was absolutely no effort for me to stop.

I think I’m drinking too much again now. I have been going through about two or three 26ers a week for the past two months. So this week I have only had eight drinks total, since Sunday. I had five drinks last night and three on Monday night.

I don’t know if it is that these substances aren’t hard to drop in comparison with a harsher compound such as heroine or prescription painkillers.

What have you gone through?

 

[tuc biscuit]

reckon you could stop posting here cold turkey?

 

[CipherLock]

reckon you could stop posting here cold turkey?

yes.

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

I have a problem with compulsion, but no problems at all with addiction... not sure how that works.

I will obsessively latch on to a concept and then make that my life, learn all that I can about it and exhaust my interest in it, then I will just drop it and move on.

As for chemical stuff, I have never smoked or tried heroin, so I don't know how things are for me in terms of hard drugs, but for any drugs/alcohol/caffeine in the past, I've been able to stop immediately if I want.

Unlike many obsessive-compulsive people though, I don't give a shit about cleaning my room, and I also am ambivalent towards washing my hands unless they are visibly dirty.

 

[tuc biscuit]

yes.

fair enough

 

[CipherLock]

I will obsessively latch on to a concept and then make that my life, learn all that I can about it and exhaust my interest in it, then I will just drop it and move on.

I don't quite make it my life but I have had similiar obsessions, I think that's something a lot of the trainers here will relate to. As for dropping it - def'n most.

I haven't tried heroin but liken myself to that character in Trainspotting who can just 'stop'. Won't be testing that theory out unless something very tragic happens in my life.

 

[from zero]

No.

 

[gtrcivic]

no addictions to any drugs. Two weeks ago got my wisdom teeth taken out. The doc gave me vicodin...no big deal for me and not sure why people are so addicted to them. good to not feel the pain, but nothing like being in heaven or nirvana....

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

no addictions to any drugs. Two weeks ago got my wisdom teeth taken out. The doc gave me vicodin...no big deal for me and not sure why people are so addicted to them. good to not feel the pain, but nothing like being in heaven or nirvana....

I'm certainly no expert on pain killers, but from what I understand, if you actually have pain the drugs work towards that - but you don't get the feeling that someone would that doesn't have physical pain and takes it.

 

[CipherLock]

I'm certainly no expert on pain killers, but from what I understand, if you actually have pain the drugs work towards that - but you don't get the feeling that someone would that doesn't have physical pain and takes it.

I don't know about that either. My wife had some pain killers for a pain and started to get a little too attatched to them. I tried one with her to see and could see why.

I had to throw them away though, I didn't like how much she liked them.

 

[Lumberg]

I'm pretty much psychologically addicted to caffeine. I've done painkillers and still have lots of pills sitting at home but have never had a problem with those. Working out gives a much better high than any painkiller I have taken (granted I have only taken codeine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone.

Alcohol is too hard on my body and mind to get addicted to it for me.

Nicotine is nice but also mucho pain in the ass to do it enough to get addicted (I smoke cigars occasionally I would never inhale tobacco smoke).

I might be addicted to orgasms and food but I'm not sold that those are true addictions.

 

[KillahBee]

No addictions here. Done nearly every drug in the book, each one with a lot of frequency in a short amount of time then just stopped and never thought twice about it. Same with cigarettes. I agree with the whole idea of picking up a new "hobby" or whatever, immersing yourself into it, then leaving it for something new. I have been like that most of my life and REALLY hoping that BBing doesn't go the same way for me, although it hasn't even come close at this point.

 

[the nature boy]

I will obsessively latch on to a concept and then make that my life, learn all that I can about it and exhaust my interest in it, then I will just drop it and move on.

have you ever felt this way about people? (serious).

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

have you ever felt this way about people? (serious).

Unfortunately I think there are more than a few that would say that I do.

I don't see it that way, but I could see how it would be seen that way.

 

[Deus Ex Machina]

I have a problem with compulsion, but no problems at all with addiction... not sure how that works.

I will obsessively latch on to a concept and then make that my life, learn all that I can about it and exhaust my interest in it, then I will just drop it and move on.

As for chemical stuff, I have never smoked or tried heroin, so I don't know how things are for me in terms of hard drugs, but for any drugs/alcohol/caffeine in the past, I've been able to stop immediately if I want.

Unlike many obsessive-compulsive people though, I don't give a shit about cleaning my room, and I also am ambivalent towards washing my hands unless they are visibly dirty.

wow, we're exactly the same.... i read what you posted and i share the exact characteristics... those would be categorized into 'compulsive' ? I thought it was normal behavior

 

[CipherLock]

wow, we're exactly the same.... i read what you posted and i share the exact characteristics... those would be categorized into 'compulsive' ? I thought it was normal behavior

I really think a lot of people on this board share a lot of unadmitted characteristics. The training and sarcasm is our zen.

 

[FreeballinDC]

I have experimented with a few things. None of them had such a strong effect on me for me to get addicted to it.

And no, I have not tried heroine. I have enough "fun" with pins as it is.

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

wow, we're exactly the same.... i read what you posted and i share the exact characteristics... those would be categorized into 'compulsive' ? I thought it was normal behavior

It very well may be normal - I'd like that very much if it were.
But I have had many people tell me that it wasn't normal, including counselors. My way of dealing with that is usually to ignore said people.

 

[Delinquent]

The only 2 things that I have became addicted are legal. Alcohol and cigs. Alcoholism runs in my family so should have know not to start but who thinks about that stuff when you turn 21. It's been so long since I have gone a month or even a couple weeks without getting sloppy drunk. I'm trying to stop but that little voice is pretty strong. No one can even understand what it means to have an addiction without actually experiencing it.

 

[coldblue1955]

well i'm addicted to movies so that's my big problem. Maybe i need to move to hollywood.

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

I'm addicted to Robert Palmer songs.