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what are you addicted to????

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    #32
    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I'd consider myself addicted to food. I know, mental, but it's a very real thing. I've lost a decent bit of weight but I still use food as an escape route for certain thoughts and emotions, but I have developed much more of a mastery over it. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't blow some bloke in a McDonalds bathroom if he offered me every item on the Eurosaver menu. Then again, I don't have to, because there's an infinite variety of dopamine-rich, highly-palatable, easily-accessible and very low-cost foods which sooth my negative feelings.

    I happen to think there's a lot of people in Ireland who have developed addictions to food, but they mistake this habit for gluttony and weakness because that's what our society tells them the problem is, and when they can't stop it only further embeds the feeling of inadequacy and low self-esteem which they were seeking to escape in the first place!

    I don't know how we expect to solve an epidemic if we overlook the simple fact that obesity stems from long-term overeating, which in itself is a symptom of something greater, something sadder. Pains me to say it, but Ireland is going to hell in a handbasket lads.


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    #33
    DivingDuck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭DivingDuck


    Mentally, the internet and exercise. I just feel generally anxious and unhappy if I don't get a fair amount of both, and I become pretty unpleasant to be around. To me, that the real measure of an addiction: if it affects your personality when it's removed.

    On a physical level, green tea and chocolate. If I don't have a little of both every day, I get headaches.


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    #34
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,717 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Might as well face it your a d!ckhead to love.


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    #35
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Someone made a good point about self control. I believe that self control and indeed strong self control cannot help against addiction. What I mean by that is that addiction is much more than wanting something. It is a need and then a release of dopamine when you get it. Without that actua want/need then you are not addicted. For me I am not addicted to anything. That is until alcohol is in my system. Then it’s like fear and loathing Las Vegas. For me the biggest addiction is gambling and only roulette. The noise of the ball clicking off the metal dividers just before it drops is the biggest rush for me that I cannot even explain.

    So, I cannot put myself in that situation. It is like a different person and there is no sense. I have had over 20k in chips in my pocket and I still want that buzz of that noise. It is nothing to do with winning, it is knowing that I have money gambled and can hear that noise. For instance, I was in a Christmas party tonight where there were roulette tables and mock chips. I heard the noise and got nothing. Similarly I was in a casino and placed a considerable amount but had to take a phone call and missed the noise but won. Again nothing. Very difficult to explain unless you know. But the only driver is alcohol. Even just 4 pints.

    My point is, it’s not self control. In my opinion anyway.


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    #36
    old_aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    I'm addicted to some good home grown.


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    #37
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    Cigarettes, energy drinks, junk food and online shopping.


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    #38
    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Biscuits :(

    Time to give up again


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    #39
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    Nicotine, booze and diet coke


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    #40
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    lukesmom wrote: »
    why I ask is because I have such an addictive personality. Hoping I'm not alone. I reckon it can be genetic. a few members of my family are the same

    You still haven't answered what your addicted to!

    I'm addicted to nothing.


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    #41
    Tauriel
    Registered Users Posts: 30,343 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Tea, boots and TV.


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    #42
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    lukesmom wrote: »
    cool but something to consider. If you walk him too much he might get tired and not appreciate his nicer walks. :D

    He’s an athlete. I wa… walk him 10K every day :pac:


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    #43
    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Raisins .......







    Sorry I mean cocaine.


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    #44
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Used to be alcohol. Bloody awful. Getting over that now but it's still early days.

    Crisps and hummus - lovely together. :)


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    #45
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    JenovaProject wrote: »
    Cigarettes and alcohol.
    And a woman whos as bad for me as the previous 2 things:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfFSZ1WE_ME


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    #46
    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    I gave up cigarettes back in 2004...

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    #47
    McCrack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,968 ✭✭✭McCrack


    Brazzers


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    #48
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    I probably have a mild addiction to video games. And hummous. I could snort that stuff


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    #49
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    Chocolate. And after work beers. I'm not a massive drinker really, wouldn't be after drinking at home - but at the end of the day, a couple of beers on the way to the train chills me right out.


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    #50
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Food. It's a habit I picked up as a baby.


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    #51
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    What I'm not addicted to would be a shorter list :p

    Chocolate, sex, masturbation, my phone, boards and books are the main ones.

    Oh edited to add that I have an addiction to Pepsi max and diet coke drinks in general, though I have cut down from about 3 litres a day to 500ml :o

    I also get addicted to people sometimes which is a very unhealthy habit altogether. I can also be a bit addicted to gaming, if I get into a game I pretty much do nothing else for days on end.

    Basically I overindulge in anything I really like :p


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    #52
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Games, casiopea, anime, cats and of course strawberry jellies!


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    #53
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Running. Better buzz than any drug all things considered.


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    #54
    murphyebass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭murphyebass


    Amirani wrote: »
    Running. Better buzz than any drug all things considered.

    I take it you've tried all of the drugs then so. Good on you still being able to run.


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    #55
    Hang on Now
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 77 ✭✭Hang on Now


    Day dreaming


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    #56
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,815 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Gaming, smoking, self pleasure (well no one else is offering), buying stuff I don't need (or sometimes want), gaming memorabilia, One Piece (recently, getting to work very tired these days), Qwertee, Funko POP figures, taytos (not the brand, but I refuse to call them 'crisps'), Diet Coke (used to be normal, but changing to diet helped me lose a load of weight, and I actually find it hard to drink a normal can now! Thankfullly).

    I'm sure there's more...

    Oh, i'm addicted to using ! and ... also!!! (<--case in point... damnit!)


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    #57
    Birneybau
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    #58
    lukesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    You still haven't answered what your addicted to!

    I'm addicted to nothing.

    sex
    smoking


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    #59
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I was going to say nothing but that's a lie. I'm addicted to my phone and the internet. I have a sweet tooth and love tea but I think I'd struggle pulling the plug on t'internet over giving up those.


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    #60
    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    lukesmom wrote: »
    sex smoking

    Lube might help with that.


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    #61
    clairewithani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    Alcohol, phone, toast, fantasy football, chocolate.


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