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| Every Human Is An Addict. |
| ""addiction" is used to describe a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences to the individual's health, mental state or social life..."
Come, on now. Admit it. You're addicted. I don't know to what. Maybe the standard stuff: Alcohol, drugs, sex, religion, TV. Maybe it's something the doctor gave you. Maybe something subtler, like fishing or bowling or collecting beanie babies. Or work, or the Internet, or your lover? I don't know which, but you do. You know... The ones you can't live without? |
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Yes, yes... No argument here |
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I very reluctantly admit the veracity of your observation:
Everyone has something or someone they seem to hang onto or cannot live without.
Even sex or food normal as these are, can be taken to unattractive new levels which you label as
"addiction".
I would call it being out of balance.
All things have a balance, where what was the addiction becomes wholesome.
Too much vitamin D will calcify your soft internal organs.
Too little vitamin D your bones will snap where you stand.
It is just an example of the necessity of Balance.
Bringing balance into the force ;-) to quote Quygon Gin ;-) |
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Everyone has some sort of addiction I agree. A lot may smoke, drink or do drugs. Others gamble,
shop or use prostitutes. My mum may not do any of the above but take away her hourly cup of tea and
she would be frothing at the mouth searching the bins trying to find an old tea bag to suck on. |
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I'm addicted to breathing too. And food and water. And pissing and pooping and masturbating. |
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I'm addicted to breathing. Every time I try to stop I go into withdrawals. |
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Well, everyone I know is addicted to something... Mainly being in a social situation and being
connected. (my cousin and her friends have it super bad. The most anti-social of them can't stand
being alone and awake and without some connection to the rest of the world for more than an hour,
and would flip if they ever had their ability to communicate with other humans taken away for that
time)
And tell me, how many of your AREN'T addicted to caffeine? Me and 95% of people I know can't wake up
without it...
Ya, social situations and caffeine are the two most common things I've noticed people being addicted
to and denying they're addicted to them...
You can also have the opposite of the social addition: The alone time addiction. You're not alone,
you explode!
And I agree with Misery. People on this site are addicted to debating. :P |
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I agree to the fullest...For a proven example EVERYONE who has an account on here(for and against)
is in some way, shape or form addicted- whether the cause being to strike conversations, arguments
or just plain curiosity...Just the constant logging in to see this site is an addiction :O) ...fun
lil tid bit of a debate... |
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I am a human..... I am not an addict..... I may participate in addictive behavior, but I am still a
human, not an addict. The moment a person identifies him or herself as "I am an addict" they can
never be free of it. The have told their subconscious, that's who they are, and it has no choice but
to act that way forever. This is one of the problems I have with 12 step programs ( inn....I know
they help many people) But it puts them in forever bondage to the addiction, when I work with people
with addiction, I'm not done til they are completely free, never to struggle with it again. Like
myself, smoked 2 packs a day, chewed tobacco and had snuff in my lip all at the same time, while
drinking 10 cups of coffee a day. I have no problem are desire to do that ever again, and I have
gone through the tests of fire since (many deaths and life tragedies) |
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I think that's a soft form of addiction as a definition. With addiction it is a combination of
compulsion and obsession, and although dependence is possible for anyone, an addictive personality
is a little different. An addictive personality can result in an otherwise rational person acting
irrationally in their particular need. There is a difference between a desire and want, to an
actual need. For the addict the substance or whatever goes from that intense desire to a need. One
of the reasons why 12 step programs work so well is that only those in that addiction can really
understand the mindset of an addict.
Also a true addiction has a component of withdrawal. |
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03 Jun 2008 07:03
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