(02-03-2011, 09:30 AM)Meerie Wrote: Haha, Blatz, I like your stream-of consciousness posting! Nice.
I seem to be lucky, since drugs do not really work for me... never experienced any effects to pot and if I drink too much alcohol I usually get really depressed, so that does not work either.
I smoke but then if I spend a weekend at a non-smokers house I just skip it. No problem.
I saw a movie about some guy who had been heavily drug-addicted (heroin) to the point it almost killed him. He substituted the drugs by running. He is now a marathon runner.
it seems addiction is a personality trait and if you want to lose drug addiction you have to substitute it with something else. Maybe it is just an extreme approach to life, like seeing how far you can go with your body. Testing your limits.
Cool story about the marathon runner!
About the last part, I think you may be on to something... Though I don't think that addictions can't be cured, that is, completely removed instead of just fought. I've had a tendency to be a very extreme person: Countless hours watching specific tv series, reading 100 chapters at a time in a manga series or watching episodes all day long into the night for several days, drugs, reading the Harry Potter series 3 times in a row or the Twilight series 5 times in a row without coming out of my room except for food water and the bathroom, being an exercise and health freak... I wouldn't exactly say I've been addicted to any of these things, but I have noticed before that I tend to do things I like very much to extremes.
That's just my experience though, does anyone know other addicts - did/do they do extremes like that?
Sorry, not much to add for the OP, and if this starts derailing the thread then please stop responding to this. I didn't think this question worthy of its own thread so it's here!
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