Addiction
 

Have you ever been addicted? If so, what were you addicted to?

I myself have struggled with a reliance on alcohol since I was very young. I still drink heavily on occasion but mostly in social situations. I now tend to avoid drinking alone or having drinks every day. I'm not like most people who've struggled with this in that I can still be around alcohol and drink and be okay. This is likely due to the age limit in my country for purchasing alcoholic beverages is 21, and I am only 18. So unless I'm rooming with someone or living with my parents who are moderate drinkers, I'm not around it as much as others.

I'm an alcoholic.
The only way I can be interested in anything is by experiencing it under the influence of alcohol.

You're not an alcoholic unless you get that low.

Have you ever been to AA? I found it pretty ironic that listening to people whine made me want to drink.

Nah, never been to AA.
I'm a functioning alcoholic. The only problems I'm causing are strictly the concerns of my liver.

I never needed it either, I only went a few times for other people's sake.

Yeah, I have obsessive compulsions. My house is usually neat and tidy (largely because of my presence), and I can never be comfortable in rooms that are even mildly cluttered. Lots of these compulsions extend beyond just order and neatness though, many are bodily, and those are the most troublesome. I often succomb to compulsions such as oral picking, excessive blinking, and (for lack of a better term) symmetrical touching.

The farthest back I can remember having obsessive compulsions is probably when I was around 5 or 6. I would always whisper to myself what I had just said aloud after I spoke to make sure that it sounded right, and I still do that to this day.

I actually used to do that, too. I don't have any obsessive compulsive tendencies myself, but almost my entire family does. My brother especially suffers from severe compulsions.

I have a gaming and computer addiction. I don't like to joke about it and I'm certainly not proud of it, because I hate myself for it. I think that gaming's been responsible for 90% of the problems I currently have, and I'm sick of it. I've tried telling myself to stop more than once, but every time I start wanting to just finish one game or find out there's a new sequel for a series I love or something, and go back to it. My parents make every effort they can to keep me from wasting my entire life on it, and without them I'm sure I would, but I still waste hours and hours each day on it. And the thing I hate the most? I don't admit it. Whenever people ask about gaming or what I play, I'll normally try and change the subject or lie and say I don't play it much. I think I've given the impression with my friends that I'm a casual gamer rather than an obsessive one. Hell, I used to even appear offline on Xbox Live just to make sure nobody would cop on to me. One thing I've silently sworn to myself is that when I leave home, there will be no more. I don't care if I have to detatch myself from every electronic device in life to get away from it. Gaming's ruined my childhood and I won't let it go any further.

Formerly addicted to porongraphy.

Dont do it, kids. It'll ruin your life.

I'm addicted to cigarettes. I've made a few attempts in the past couple of years to give them up, or even just go back to social smoking, but failed miserably. I've never bothered trying any of the nicotine patches or anything else because they probably won't make a difference, but some day I'm aiming to give them up cold turkey. Now after typing this I'd love a cigarette.

I sorta have that same thing.
Except my obsessiveness is mostly centered on what I'm into at the moment, and it's always fluctuating.

For instance, I watched the entire Sopranos catalog in a matter of a week. Meanwhile, I neglected housework...
But afterwards, I could not stop cleaning.

When I was younger, I used to feel an uncontrollable urge to not let my eyelashes touch one another. Like, when I blinked, it felt like they were tangled, and I used to have to open my eyes wide to undo it. After a while, it just became this thing that I did. Even to this day, I feel like if I do it too much, I'll get addicted to doing it. So I avoid it.

I'm addicted to doing nothing, I love sleeping all day and I haven't done anything productive in a year. I'm too busy sleeping and telling people to fuck off.

I really feel ****ty for this, but if there was an "all of the above" option, I'd be more honest than ticking off one of the boxes.

I am pleased to say that my only major dependance right now is on nicotine, and alcohol to a lesser extent. I do smoke pot at least five times a week, but I really don't care if I'm without it; it's usually the people I'm hanging with.

One and six and both have got me into trouble.

Or both have been disappointing in their results :(

My first addiction was alcohol, which a stint in rehab helped me beat. I'm now able to drink at will thankfully.

I've been addicted to pain killers, which was only beaten due to a lack of supply and funding on my part.

Did Benzo's and downers, but that got old.

Psychadellics/Disassociatives were my favorites, but I wouldn't call that period an addiction really.

No addictions at the moment.

porn and weed for a year or so.

smoking off and on for the last 2 years

been chewing pretty much all day, everyday for 2 years

I'm addicted to codeine. It's been 4 years now. Kidneys are fine. Working on only taking them when absolutely necessary but it's a slow process.

I've been close to overdose due to combining with panadol twice.

Pretty sure I'm physically addicted to chew and smokes, if I don't have any I feel pissy as hell.

I'm also probably semi-mentally addicted to pot, I smoke pretty much everyday and I always think, this would be so much better stoned.

same here as well

and don't bother with patches or gum, after their effect wears off, your smoking goes up double - i've been on them

my other addiction is the internet, i get frustrated and agitated when i can't get online

I was addicted to Ativan when I was suffering from anxiety when I was younger.

I guess you could say coffee too, although not for the caffeine. I can go without coffee without a hitch, but I'm more addicted to the taste.

I've been addicted to cigarettes since I was about 16, but I've been smoking since 13. The sad thing is that I can quit cold turkey and stay that way for months or even years at a time, but I always go back. I had my last one on Wednesday and am hoping to make it til finals week in December when I inevitably get that urge, and with any luck by then I'll be completely over it and can get through it without one.

My only other real addiction is caffeine. I can real feel it when I don't have my morning cup of coffee, I can hardly think, keeping my head propped up is difficult, and finding the energy to do anything is pretty much impossible. I've tried weening myself onto tea, but it just doesn't have the same kick to it as coffee and I can't stomach energy drinks. If there's one addiction I'll never give up, it's going to be this.

I have my addictions. Most I am over now, and it was a few years ago at university. Now, I tend to use them as a crutch when I am angry, upset etc.

Opiates.

My one year clean anni is tomorrow :)

I'm a bit of a germaphobe where I tend to wash my hands a bit excessively from time to time. I also go around and spray down all my surfaces with Lysol spray.

I have a rather addictive personality. I'm mostly over it now but there was a time for a few years I was doing anything and everything, from coke, ketamine, and MDMA, to speed, morphine, and boozing like a fiend. Mind you, I was also on some rank anti-depressants that made me so numb that I was doing drugs just to feel something. Then I met this guy who made it is goal to get us ****ed up all the time. The combo nearly killed me, but I've been in recovery from chemical drugs for a little more than a year now. I still get high on weed but it's more therapeutic than drug-related now. My first step off drugs was quitting the anti-depressants cold turkey. I never looked back and I've never been happier.

I was a smoker, 20 a day for about 7 years and socially before then (I'm 22, I started when I was 11 maybe 1 or 2 with friends, then by 14 was smoking heavy). But I gave up last year, cold turkey as well. It can be done, it takes alot of willpower though - thankfully I have been blessed with two very stubborn parents, and it has rubbed off on me so my willpower and determination is through the roof when I decide to do something.

Congrats!

Thank you :)

I smoke, but I think I could give up anytime if I actually wanted to. I smoke roughly 5 a day. Like pete I can stop for ages but I always end up crawling back. I binge drink also, but I'd never call it an addiction. More of a habitual impulse. I have to wash my hands three times with the soap, otherwise everything has to be even numbers.

i'm an addict. i go from one addiction to another. i am a recovering alcoholic.

now i am addicted to running and extreme sports. if i stop doing those, i'll have to find somethinge else or i'll go back to alcohol.

I drink and smoke way too much, and acknowledge that's a flaw.

Aside from that, I currently abuse euphoric stimulant and hallucinogens like they were ****ing food or some ****. I love them. Even though I od'd on cocaine when I was 17.

i'm not addicted to narcotics

i did however go on a drug binge (poppers, weed, dunno what pills, suspect alcohol) once and passed out in the park

I wish it was a multiple-choice poll.

I'm slightly addicted to alcohol and nicotine. That is, I can go days without it without having too much trouble, but I get the craving. I almost only smoke when I'm also drinking, but in the last six months I've been drinking so much (getting ****faced 4-5 nights a week) that I've also developed a nicotine addiction.

I've also smoked a ****load of weed during the spring, and I have a hard time believing people who say it's not addicting, because I go get a rather strong yearn for it, especially now that I've been without for three weeks.

as i've mentioned in one of boozibloozin's threads, i have no problems with alcohol

i can go on a binge or abstain completely

It's not physically addicting, that's whats meant by it. You won't go through withdrawals from it like heroin, coke, or benzos, etc..
Psychological addiction is a legit thing tho.

Not so sure about that. When I gave up smoking pot I woke several times a night drenched in sweat. I mean I would have to get up and dry myself with a towel and change my sheets. Add to that flu-like aches and general crappiness and I'd say you have a physical addiction.

Tobacco is physically addicting. Marijuana isn't.

I wouldn't classify Tobacco as gripping people in a physical addiction.

it is

i had a horrible time quitting - having bad temper, lethargy and enlarged appetite

i've never tried illegal drugs. i know if i do, i'll get hooked. that's what addicts do.

strangely enough, i don't like the taste and smell of nicotine.

does weed affect everyone the same way?