Thread: Do you have any addictions?

Coming to the forum seems to be my addiction these days, but i do love a kit kat chocolate bar to.

I use to smoke and drink but i gave up smoking 25 years or more ago and gave up the demon drink fully about 3 years ago though i had been slowly drinking less and less for quite a few years.

And now i'm just a boring old fart, oh well i'm a happy boring old fart.

Yes, thanks for asking.

Yes, and that's all you're getting.

I have an addictive personality so I tend to go through everything as a fad and some fads are harder than others to stop.

The way I see it is that you can't actually be addicted because of something. I think people have addictive personaities and this makes it easy to obtain an addiction.

An example is that you could get someone who gives up smoking then goes straight into eating food or someone who gives up heroin but develops a drinking habit.

It's when the nature of the person with the addiction is aknowledged and helped then all addictions will cease or at least ease off a bit.

From the age of 14 til about 17, not long before I joined this forum, I was addicted to a certain form of explicit, "adult entertainment". I was introduced to it pretty early on in my life by some questionable "grown-ups", so I can't say I'm 100% to blame, but it's a period of my life that I'm finally starting to move on from. Everyone laughed when I admitted it, but I took and still take it very seriously.

I'm ashamed of the stuff I watched, but it was actually an incredibly important phase. I learned about restraint, staying true to what I believed in (no matter what my body wanted) and being honest with the people who loved me instead of suffering in silence. It's not exactly class A drug stuff, but I was addicted. I hope this doesn't offend.

I read an interview with Eric Clapton who has had many addictions drugs booze and so forth, but even now he sees everything as a "fix" from fancy cars that he collects to swanky suits he wears. I guess you can be addicted to anything Tv, chatrooms, cleaning the house, playing the guitar,clothes or just surfing the net. It's the nature of each individual and how each indiviual that makes it an addiction. I use to spend hours playing the piano but that wasn't seen as an addiction but a hobby, but i wonder if it's so ?

Originally Posted by Bruno Spatola

From the age of 14 til about 17, not long before I joined this forum, I was addicted to a certain form of explicit, "adult entertainment".

This was all pretty new when I was that age -- harder to get to and mostly images. We didn't even have internet access -- but some of my friends did. I'm betting that if it had all been there to look at like it is today, I would have done it -- and as often as possible. I'm not condoning it -- just saying that sounds pretty natural and expected to me. Now that you know better, there really is no reason for you to feel ashamed.

HobNobs, Custard Creams, Lemon Puffs, All Butter Shortbread and my wife's walnut biscuits - If I open a packet of biscuits it is an act of will not to eat the whole packet...

I kicked my smoking addiction. Along with that went coffee.

My sugar addiction is the really big one now.

I used to be addicted to Facebook, but only for the last two months I was actually using it. I made a bet with someone that I would stay away from FB for one whole year, and if I did he would write an article about my success. I've been Facebook free for almost a week now. I feel great. Time not spent on Facebook is time spent well.

Coca cola. I have drank six litres of it in one day before. If it isn't in the house I am fine and if I have not drank it in awhile it's fine (usually a few days, I get really strong cravings for it as well and nothing else I drink fully satisfies until those few days are over) but if I drink it and there is more in the house I will not stop until it is gone.

I have been the same with pepsi max, but I find with both I have to get used to it first, a glass or two until I really enjoy it, but until then it tastes kinda nasty. Today I have drank about 2 litres of coke that we got in for my 21st last saturday. However I am gonna stop tomorrow and only drink water again as strangely enough I do prefer it.

I suppose writing to an extent, I get headaches if I don't write for awhile that will not go away until I write something. Other than that I don't really have any addictions, though I was hyper aware of alcohol addiction and my usage of alcohol when I began to drink, I am more relaxed about it now, but that's really only because there is a history of alcoholism in my family.

Currently and probably always, Georgia style sweet tea.

I used to have a rather bad addiction to adult entertainment. I finally beat it after recommitting myself to Christ a year or two ago.

Originally Posted by JosephB

This was all pretty new when I was that age -- harder to get to and mostly images. We didn't even have internet access -- but some of my friends did. I'm betting that if it had all been there to look at like it is today, I would have done it -- and as often as possible. I'm not condoning it -- just saying that sounds pretty natural and expected to me. Now that you know better, there really is no reason for you to feel ashamed.

It's not the thoughts or urges that I'm ashamed of, only the amount and type of content I needed to quell them. That didn't feel so natural at the time. Thanks though, that makes me feel better . It's way too easy to get a hold of this stuff on the internet, so I had to download software that banned certain words from appearing in search results and the like. When I was asked to create a password (which is required when you want to change the settings), I just banged at the keys with my eyes closed so I couldn't uninstall it later, which I know I would've done -- that's how ridiculous it got. I'd even watch it when I was eating my dinner, how bizarre is that?

Anyway, I could have done worse things; it's all in the past. Let's just hope the urges go away.

Chocolate Cereal. There is something about milk mixed with crunchy chocolatey stuff that I never get bored of.

Totally agree, elite. I am on a Coco Pops binge at the moment.
My favourite bit is the chocolatey milk leftover.