My greatest addiction… well, It’s either cherry vicks coughdrops or Manderin oranges.
Since I’m of a limited age, I really haven’t had much time(or resources) to explore… A lot of poeple here seem to be addicted to Lysol and Listerine… Apparently, there’s alcohol in them…
I’m another hand washer, like Shirley. It got better after some really icky, intensive therapy (put your hand in this bowl of assorted yucky stuff (peanut butter, dirt, syrup, etc) and don’t wash them for X amount of time). It was seriously painful, but it’s mostly better now, unless I get angry or upset.
“Don’t piss me off! I’ll… I’ll WASH MY HANDS!!!” Oh yeah, I’m bad… :rolleyes:
Drugs That I am Now Completely Over
Cocaine
Vicodin
Oxy Contin
Percoset
Demerol
Morphine
PILLS, PILLS, PILLS
Alcohol (particularily tequila (cheap, icky tequila if you ask Joey Hemlock))
Crank
I did a dance with acid for a short time…
Mountain Dew which I could almost say was the hardest habit to break, being that it’s legal and so much easier to get one’s hands on when compared to, say, crack.
Drugs That I’m Still Working On
Nicotine, which totally sucks, but I really am working on it. I got a few patches and a die hard will that screams, “I WILL QUIT”.
Other than that… I’m not really addicted to a whole lot these days. There’s still the hand washing thing, and the cigarette thing, and the fact that I am incredibly lazy. I wish I were addicted to cleaning. 
Yup.
Caffeine. I had my last coke one month ago, and it took me two weeks to get over the withdrawal symptoms. I still get a little bit from iced tea and chocolate, and I suspect I’ll have to give them up as well, since the only thing worse than not getting caffeine is the heart palpitations it causes.
Thank goodness, I’ve never had to deal with a booze or tobacco habit. Considering that alcoholism and other unfortunate addictions run in my extended family, that in and of itself is a minor miracle.
However, I do have problems with food and work - I tend to use both to fill empty places in life. I’m working on the first, the second is MUCH harder when one is expected to work hard and be productive. But are continuous 70 and 80 hour weeks healthy? Is thinking of yourself AS your profession healthy?
Whew. This is something I have struggled with a lot in considering posting a similar question here. I am in the mental health field and have to be extremely careful about talking about these kinds of things (in reference to my own habits, anyway). Here goes.
I am addicted to nicotine. Big whoop.
I have, and do, engage in sexual behaviors that might be seen as addiction, or the beginnings of one. Certainly they would be seen as at least “freaky” by most people. However, it’s not something that controls my life, and not something that causes problems for me. It IS something that I have to be careful to hide from most of my family.
My major addiction, though, is opiates. I have been addicted to pain pills for over 12 years, only stopping before I conceived each of my children, and beginning again in the hospital with the scripts they sent me home with after childbirth. I have sought treatment, and I was on methadone maintenance for six months with a private “doctor” :rolleyes: who made it clear that I was going to have to be a lot friendlier to keep getting my 40 mg. a day, so immediately I was back on the Tabs, Percs, O.C.'s, dilaudid, and morphine. The only methadone clinic in my area is over an hour and a half away, and they “dose up” at the same time I must begin work each day. So I come home from work, snort my lines, and go to bed. It is my hope that the closed-minded bigots who are my neighbors will eventually see the need for a clinic here and allow one to open closer to home.
For the record, I don’t do it in front of my kids, I am never buzzed in front of them (I only do enough these days to keep from getting sick, not enough to get “high”). The only person in my family who has any inkling is my husband, who has been supportive but not co-ey.
Good luck to all the rest of you who are still fighting.
Let me see:
Nail biting
Not really an addiction per se, but since many people have mentioned it, so will I. Like a lemming. Hmm…
Computer games
It would still be an addiction if a had the time. I would also need the money to upgrade my shitty computer.
Porn
I am a man after all.
Alcohol
Not much of an addiction actually, but sort a slight yearn when it gets to the weekends.
Marijuana
I get bored.
Cigarettes
I dunno.
Marijuana
I’m still bored.
Over-sleeping
For some reason, if I can afford it, I need 12+ hours of sleep. Due to my ungodly snoring and ability to hold my breath for an unsually long period of time despite my smoking, friends have suggested I have sleep apnea.
Meat
No, I don’t mean penis. I mean bovine flesh. My meal is usually over 50% meat, and that can’t be healthy. But since i’m not overweight (i’m slightly underweight for my height, actually) I’ll blindly assume I don’t have a cholestral problem.
Due to my apathic nature, I haven’t really wrestled with any of these except computer games which sort of solved itself. All these addictions are still with me, and still going strong.
Damn Jane, that’s quite a bit of baggage to keep hauling around. I know all about maintenance replacing the high. Been there, done it.
Yeah, EJsGirl, it is. And if you’ve been through it, you know it. Give me a shout when you get a chance, if you want. My email’s on my profile and my life’s an open book. 