Okay, let's be honest: what are you addicted to?

I’m not overly addicted to anything, just go on binges of energy drinks, booze, exercise in various forms, thankfully the healthy binges last longer than the bad ones.

I wish I was getting enough anonymous, degrading sex to say I’m addicted but I’m not, to busy doing other things (including nothing, should hire a hookerbot)

Chocolate, chocolate, sugar and chocolate

At the top of my list would be something you left out completely: Food.

Has anyone mentioned salt?

Tobacco. Although I can go years without using there are days or weeks that just cry out for a good cigar or a pack of Mailpouch. The internet in general. And “green” or “tree-hugging” or whatever you want to call it. I’ve been interested and active in the environment for so long that not to pre-cycle (and other stuff like that) is unthinkable to me.

I think everyone is addicted to food. I mean, we must be. If we stop eating it, we die.

I checked the boxes for caffeine and Internet.

You left off gambling. I am not an addicted gambler although I was in the casino trade.

I had a bad 8 year addiction with crack cocaine. I have not touched the drug in over nine years. The reason I haven’t is that I left the USA to take a job in a country with strict drug laws. “Geographic cures” do not work, but it did to me.

When I drink alcohol, I tend to get drunk. I do not get drunk everynight because of the hangovers. I get drunk about once per week, but lately my behavior has been hostile and loud, so I am cutting out the public boozing for the mean time. I am rather enjoying not being hungover, but about once a week, I want to get fucked up. That’s my nature and I am not going to break it.

I smoke marijuana everyday. It calms and relaxes me. I enjoy the feelings of ease and comfort. I am very resentful of the fact that this is illegal and I have to hide in a dark corner to use it while Uncle Drunkie is dancing on the tables naked. My wife doesn’t know I smoke, but I think she suspects it. I used to drink mostly everyday, since I switched from the bottle to the bong, my mood is much happier and friendlier. Even when I am not “high”.

I have done meth two times, once back in 1993, and the other time in 2007 or so. I didn’t like that shit. Made me paranoid. The rush was fun for a few minutes but then I realized that I am not going to come down and here I am bouncing all over the house for 12 hours, with panicky paranoia, looking through my peephole outside and afraid people were going to come into the windows. No, thanks, I’ll pass.

I rarely smoke cigarettes sober. Maybe once a day or less. I don’t smoke tobacco after I eat, nor do I do it after sex, or when I wake up in the morning, or really anytime. However, if I am on the booze, I smoke like a chimney. It’s a cross addiction. Doing one thing makes you want to do another. I lot of cocaine freaks do Xanax to get them back to normal. Drunks smoke.

I have done AA and 12 step groups which I found after careful study to be mostly nonsense. I also hate the part that one must admit to “powerlessness”. They believe that one needs to find a “God of their own understanding,” a Seinfeldian theology of “a faith about nothing.” Even though you can choose a God, eventually they will tell you that there is one God. I found the experience “cultic” in nature. I am also annoyed by the fact that drug treatment centers mostly all fall back to 12 steps instead of exploring deeper in the psychology of an addict and possible medications to ease cravings for the addictive drug.

Eating for survival is very different than eating and not being able to stop.

Sugar.

Give me a cake and I will eat the whole thing, possibly in one sitting.

I try not to bring cake in the house.

Reading. Anything. If I don’t have a book, I’ll reread my credit card agreements. Just . . . can’t . . . stop.

I’m addicted to love.

I might as well face it.

mmm

Caffeine - I get withdrawal migraine if I don’t have at least one caff. beverage in the AM. And the internet. In absence of internet, reading anything else.

I’m not addicted to anything. I’m a destructive binger type rather than a long term addict type, for better or worse. No commitment, that’s my problem. Or does bingeing count as addiction? If so, my answer is “most things, save Fox News and food”. I’ll overdo just about anything else, if I’m in the mood.

If not, I like the internet, caffeine, exercise and kicking jerks in the nads just fine, but should I find myself without either for whatever reason, I find something else to do (and this something isn’t "lying on the the floor in the foetal position going “WHY GOD WHY”, I should note. Except for that one time).

I had no internet access last week and discovered I can go approximately four days without Internet before I start twitching. Obviously I am addicted to the Internet.

And coffee.

No shame here; I’ll admit to a caffeine addiction and a cannabis dependence.

Caffeine (in the form of coffee in cooler months, and Diet Coke/Coke Zero year-round). And World of Warcraft.

I will play Transformers: War for Cybertron in lieu of eating, despite knowing that I really should eat something today. This is why I won’t play WoW and the like.

Afrin nasal spray. Yeah I live on the edge.

I gave up caffeine a while back. Where do you get the caffeine-free stuff? I’m trying to get my local Walgreen’s to carry it.

And I only picked the Dope and the Internet in general.

I have a honking addiction to the Straight Dope. And not in a good way. I mean it in exactly the way people mean when they say ‘‘addiction’’ - it fucks with my life. It makes me unhappy and often exacerbates my depression and is probably holding me back from developing a robust social life but I can’t fucking stop.

I’ve thought about seeking help for internet addiction, but the only place I really feel comfortable looking is… the internet. :smack: