# "Hello, my name is \_\_\_\_\_ and I am addicted to \_\_\_\_\_\_." Tell us about your addictions. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752 "2015-10-15T20:29:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/41 "2015-10-19T05:07:32Z")
Booze ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/42 "2015-10-19T05:10:17Z")
Sex. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/43 "2015-10-19T05:10:28Z")
Cyber Citizen is addicted to Online Forums. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/44 "2015-10-19T05:40:02Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Cyber Citizen is addicted to Online Forums. How do you know you are addicted? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/45 "2015-10-19T14:31:07Z")
…and I’m addicted to movies, Football Manager and Dana H…my SO. She calls herself unhealthy4u on the webz 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/46 "2015-10-19T14:32:18Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > How do you know you are addicted? You haven’t read his threads, have you? ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/47 "2015-10-20T15:06:44Z")
Caffeine. Usually in the form of iced tea or diet Dr. Pepper. I’m a high energy person and something has to fuel all that energy expenditure. I’ve only been without caffeine twice in my life - during my two pregnancies. And the first words out of my mouth each time once I popped those babies out was “Somebody bring me some iced tea!” ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/48 "2015-10-20T15:55:44Z")
I don’t think people in this thread know what the word “addiction” means. ---
**Author:** ![CoastalMaineiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/49 "2015-10-20T16:40:02Z")
Addictions? Definitely soda. Pepsi, Coke, Root Beer, Birch Beer, Cream Soda. Generally, if it is a sugary, carbonated beverage, I’m all over it. I especially love trying some of the “gourmet” brands, which often come out with some interesting flavors that Coke or Pepsi wouldn’t touch. Jones’ Strawberry Lime is delicious, and I just recently got into Flying Cauldron Butterscotch Beer. I would rather drink soda than eat most traditional dessert foods. I don’t care much for cakes, pies, and pastries. Since my surgery last week, though, I’ve been taking it pretty easy on both, so maybe it’s not quite the level of an addiction. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/50 "2015-10-20T18:34:39Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > I don’t think people in this thread know what the word “addiction” means. Is it possible, instead, that you don’t know the way the word is commonly used? ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/51 "2015-10-21T02:40:19Z")
Books. BOOKS. I bought a Kindle so I could stop wrecking my back hauling around dead tree format. When I moved across the country, I needed an ID in the new state to open a bank account and get a library card. No points for guessing which one I took care of first. Straight out of the RMV. 😃 Caffeine, perhaps, but that seems to be partly medical. I literally don’t work without the stuff. I quit it entirely for several months at one point, but the feeling of not being able to get it together long enough to DO anything persisted long past the point where withdrawals should have worn off. I also have issues with migraines if my blood pressure takes a nose dive for any reason. Safer just to keep that one, all things considered. > [@Trinopus](#): > > Curious too! I’d love a good source of written (text) porn. The visual stuff is easy to find, but I don’t know where to find good (at least halfway intelligent) text pr0n. I work for a company that publishes it. PM me; I don’t want to spam. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/52 "2015-10-21T02:50:54Z")
I think this thread has scared away most of the actual **addicts** that are here at the SDMB. Books?! Root beer?! I know this is a lighthearted thread but let’s not make a mockery out of a very real problem. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752/53 "2015-10-21T02:58:31Z")
I admit that I was sort of joking about my caffeine problem, but I experienced very real withdrawal pains and symptoms when I had to stop ingesting caffeine during my pregnancies. On the level of an opioid addiciton or alcoholism? No. But my body’s reaction was sobering in its own way. As was the feeling of euphoria or drunkenness I experienced when I had my first caffeine again after 9 months without. If nothing else, the experience taught me to stay away from heavy drugs and alcohol. I didn’t like that feelng of not being in control of my body. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-name-is-_____-and-i-am-addicted-to-______-tell-us-about-your-addictions/734752.md?page=2)