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Topic: Addictive personality:
Seakolony Joined Fri 11/07/08 Posts: 11968	Wed 05/09/12 07:49 PM Edited by Seakolony on Wed 05/09/12 07:50 PM
Everybody is addicted to something. Some are addicted to certain things considered unhealthy for you and others have healthy addictions. It's the choice you make to be addicted to something healthy or unhealthy.

Ladywind7 Joined Sun 04/08/12 Posts: 7833	Wed 05/09/12 07:53 PM
WTF I am up town shopping and had to have my fix. So I bought a latte and am hiding in my car in the supermarket carpark! seriously thinking of getting help.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Wed 05/09/12 07:57 PM
No addiction is healthy. Some addictions may be less harmful than others, but that doesn't make them healthy. An addiction is any uncontrolled impulse that takes over your life. For example, yes we all need food to survive, but those who are addicted to food have an uncontrolled impulse to over eat that controls their life. Those addicted to the internet have an uncontrolled impulse to spend hours online. This impulse controls their life. The thing is we can gain control of these impulses and gain control of our lives, instead of having our lives or addiction control and take over us.

Ladywind7 Joined Sun 04/08/12 Posts: 7833	Wed 05/09/12 08:03 PM
I guess the addiction fills an empty space huh?

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Wed 05/09/12 08:08 PM
Perhaps for some. For me it was more of an escape. I see addiction more as a symptom of an issue, rather than the issue itself. I feel that if you find out why you're addicted, and resolve those issues, you can resolve your addiction.

Seakolony Joined Fri 11/07/08 Posts: 11968	Wed 05/09/12 08:10 PM
No addiction is healthy. Some addictions may be less harmful than others, but that doesn't make them healthy. An addiction is any uncontrolled impulse that takes over your life. For example, yes we all need food to survive, but those who are addicted to food have an uncontrolled impulse to over eat that controls their life. Those addicted to the internet have an uncontrolled impulse to spend hours online. This impulse controls their life. The thing is we can gain control of these impulses and gain control of our lives, instead of having our lives or addiction control and take over us. How is an addiction to swimming or excercise a bad thing? bike riding kayaking.....if you turn your addiction into profitabilty but enjoy your addiction.....did it cause harm to yourself or others?? Addiction to philanthropy??

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Wed 05/09/12 08:14 PM Edited by Totage on Wed 05/09/12 08:14 PM
No addiction is healthy. Some addictions may be less harmful than others, but that doesn't make them healthy. An addiction is any uncontrolled impulse that takes over your life. For example, yes we all need food to survive, but those who are addicted to food have an uncontrolled impulse to over eat that controls their life. Those addicted to the internet have an uncontrolled impulse to spend hours online. This impulse controls their life. The thing is we can gain control of these impulses and gain control of our lives, instead of having our lives or addiction control and take over us. How is an addiction to swimming or excercise a bad thing? bike riding kayaking.....if you turn your addiction into profitabilty but enjoy your addiction.....did it cause harm to yourself or others?? Addiction to philanthropy?? When you're addicted to those things, you have an uncontrolled impulse to over indulge in such, potentially (or actually) causing physical harm, financial harm ( in the case of philanthropy), endangering relationships, etc. Your addiction can also take over your life, causing problems.

Ladywind7 Joined Sun 04/08/12 Posts: 7833	Thu 05/10/12 02:23 AM
I was just fooling around. Im really not addicted or in denial lol.

JOHNN111 Joined Wed 05/13/09 Posts: 9273	Thu 05/10/12 07:41 AM
Sell your car yet?

MissB4ya Joined Wed 04/18/12 Posts: 526	Thu 05/10/12 09:30 AM
LoL Holy ginger snaps! Y'all took this addiction talk to a whole nother level..LoL I did manage to put my car on craigslist annnnd i'm going to park it on a busy street with a sign. You wanna buy a car?

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Thu 05/10/12 09:32 AM
Give away free bread with the car, I bet it would sell faster!

JOHNN111 Joined Wed 05/13/09 Posts: 9273	Thu 05/10/12 03:03 PM
Yes.... A cash giveaway might just do the trick! Torgo could sell an igloo to a Canadian.... I'm tellin ya

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Thu 05/10/12 04:14 PM
Yes.... A cash giveaway might just do the trick! Torgo could sell an igloo to a Canadian.... I'm tellin ya Sold you that moose.

MissB4ya Joined Wed 04/18/12 Posts: 526	Thu 05/10/12 04:21 PM
Mmmmm....hot dogs.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Thu 05/10/12 04:30 PM
Even better! Throw hotdogs at them. lol

MissB4ya Joined Wed 04/18/12 Posts: 526	Thu 05/10/12 04:47 PM Edited by MissB4ya on Thu 05/10/12 04:48 PM
...no.... i want to eat them. HOT DOGS! I mean the hot dogs!

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Thu 05/10/12 04:50 PM
You want to eat the poodle!?

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Thu 05/10/12 04:52 PM
(:O

Seakolony Joined Fri 11/07/08 Posts: 11968	Thu 05/10/12 06:55 PM
No addiction is healthy. Some addictions may be less harmful than others, but that doesn't make them healthy. An addiction is any uncontrolled impulse that takes over your life. For example, yes we all need food to survive, but those who are addicted to food have an uncontrolled impulse to over eat that controls their life. Those addicted to the internet have an uncontrolled impulse to spend hours online. This impulse controls their life. The thing is we can gain control of these impulses and gain control of our lives, instead of having our lives or addiction control and take over us. Actually, I don't agree with your definition of addiction. There are many addictive personalities that handle their addictions without being controlled by them. I can not agree with that definition of addiction when there is free will to choose trying something or not trying something. You choose to do something or choose to not do something. You choose to control it or not control it. The only reason a person doesn't fight for it is self-esteem. The person that is going to give you self-esteem or lack thereof is the individual themself. You choose your path and life.

Dodo_David Joined Fri 08/13/10 Posts: 48948	Thu 05/10/12 07:00 PM
...no.... i want to eat them. HOT DOGS! I mean the hot dogs! OK. Here you go: There is still much about you humans that I have to learn.