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Old 05-14-2007   #1 (permalink)
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Default what are you addicted on?

Hello,
recently, I realized there are couple of things I can't live without. Coffee, for example: if I didn't have one (two, three..) a day, I feel even physically sick! Or my habit to stretch my whole body before I go to bed: I can't fall asleep without it.
I hesitate whether as well count my bad habit to turn on the laptop before I even open my eyes here, because 'lack of computers' make me feel physically better (no head+neck ache ;-) you know).

I'm pretty sure everyone is addicted to something, may it be a chemical substance, food, thing, person, habit or whatever. What are you addicted on?
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Old 05-14-2007   #2 (permalink)
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my ipod. i take it with me everywhere.

i love the new shins album, i cant put it down.
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i would have to say coffee,just cant get started inthe morning without my 2 cups.
at times like this ,i should have gone fishing 24 hours in a day,24 stubbies in a carton,coincidence.?

I saw a sign that said:-caution small children playing,so i slowed down.then i remembered i am not scared of small children
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Default Re: what are you addicted on?

Computers.

I really dont feel right if I do not sit down at a computer and do something, productive or not, at least once a day.

Ok, done with step one...*whipes forehead*
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Old 05-14-2007   #5 (permalink)
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Coffee. Email. Making my computer do things it wasn't designed to do thereby causing breakage and giving me an excuse to learn something new.
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So many things that's supposed to be bad for my health except for drugs...

I am addicted to something - a state of being- which I'm not: truly "good" people make me melt inside. Their entire being, their eyes and everything else simply breathes out kindness. I think I could call that "beauty".

But where have they all gone?
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Old 05-14-2007   #7 (permalink)
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As I have gotten older, I have found that addiction goes far deeper than just the phyical. I have so many addictions, it's scary.
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I guess the worst thing I have been addicted on is cigarettes (coming out on that one ).
In my mind, I knew it was bad for my health, that it was expensive etc.

I had been on and off for many years. When I was feeling unhappy, stressed, whatever, I would go back to it.

Then I started to think about it, think about why I would fill me up with toxics. In the process, one day, I just said stop. I want to have a choice, I want not to continue hurting myself when hurt comes from the outside, I want to smell good, basically I want to be free.

I guess addiction is a very complex and individual process.
Now I spend too much time on the computer, but it does not impair my day to day life, I even can say it improves it in many ways.

@ xyz: that was a heart melting post
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Mainly computers and skateboarding, but with OCD I develop habits I don't like, daily.
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Definately coffee. I only usually drink two cups a day - one in the morning and one when I get back from work, but if I miss that morning one in particular I'll feel terrible for the day.

I'm also partial to a nice cup of tea in the evening - particularly Earl Grey.
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Old 05-14-2007   #11 (permalink)
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Programming. I have an itch for programming. Heck, I've even started a thread on the ubuntu forums programming channel asking what I can do to find more programming projects.
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Default Re: what are you addicted on?

I have a very addictive personality, partially because of gentics, partially of just because who I am. So i do my best to stay away from ANYTHING addictive (inculding things which I'm sure many of you would laugh at me for calling addictive.)

My big addiction is probably caffeine, but I dont drink coffee, and i really dont like energy drinks, so its pure soda for me.

another "addiction" i would have to say is my computer, while I can (and have) gone a month without it, its deffinately addictive.
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Caffeine caffeine caffeine caffeine caffeine caffeine caffeine caffeine caffeine caffeine ....er, sorry, jitters there for a minute.
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Computers (most people can't sit in front of them for 12+ hours a day. I don't know what I would do without it ), Caffeine (anything caffeinated will do (tea, coffee, soda, etc))
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Soda.. Mountain Dew.. I am trying to stop.
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Default Re: what are you addicted on?

The Internet!
i'll go mad without it, even if i'm kept away for a day...
( which usually happens when my net subscription expires ... oh the Pain! )
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Default Re: what are you addicted on?

SILICON! I can't get enough of those wonderful bits. I'm completely addicted to various technological gadgets most notably my computer and the Internet that have me practically confined to the house sometimes. I guess I'm pretty hooked on Coca-Cola most of the time but I put up with the headaches for a few days and I'm clean I tell you
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Old 05-15-2007   #19 (permalink)
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Computers for me too, I can't remember the last time there wasn't a computer on in my room for an extended period of time (more than a few hours). Although I turn my main computer off at night, servers stay running, and my computer turns itself on in the morning before I get up
My laptop is normally always in my backpack, and I always have that since I'm at uni during the day, so yeah, oh and I can't live without the internet.

The other thing I'm only aware I can't live without until it's taken away from me is electricity, I'm lost in a powercut (literally if it's at night )
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life
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