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May 17, 2018 at 04:58 PM
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What's your take on addiction ? I view it as a portion of your brain , possibly in your sub conscious ... which continually try's to undermine the rest of your brain ( assuming you have made the conscious desicion that you wish to give up the substance in question ) . Your conscious thought is " I will no longer take/use this for all these reasons which are rational " . That addictive portion of your brain is always looking for an opportunity to convince the rest of the brain it's a good idea to take it .
For me , rationalising it in this way gave me a target to beat . Anytime that thought entered my thinking in a moment of weakness I saw it as the diseased section of my mind trying to take over . It Became easier to see it as a section of brain that needed to either be re trained or destroyed if it refused to surrender. |
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May 17, 2018 at 10:25 PM
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I have an addicted personality.
I eat too much, drink too much (day 5 of my diet and no drinking.) and am on the internet too much. and am bipolar! So extremes are my MO. bizi __________________ 150mg of lamictal 2x a day haldol 5mg 2x a day 1mg of cogentin 2x a day klonipin , 1mg at night, 4-5 peri-colace for chronic constipation multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine at noon PRN Remeron 15mg at night, zyprexa10mg under tongue, requip2mg. |
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May 17, 2018 at 11:13 PM
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I am right there with you, bizi. Always on the first day of my diet.
Lately I've been feeling just addicted with no object. Like I have this uncomfortable hankering but I don't even know what for. I will try to satisfy it with food or drink or weed but none of that is what it/I want. I quit smoking after 15 years of heavy addiction 22 years ago and I wonder if that's what I'm craving. I tried to describe this to my therapist ladt week thinking that she'd say, oh yeah, that's blah blah, but she just looked at me blankly. lol. So maybe I'm the only one. |
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May 20, 2018 at 04:34 PM
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I have heard this for numerous MIs, but it is definitely true for addiction...
"You know how the brain is largely responsible for the rise of man because it is geared toward our survival? Well, mine is trying to kill me." Also bipolar. __________________ | |Up and down |And in the end it's only round and round |Pink Floyd - Us and Them | |bipolar II, substance use disorder, ADD |lamictal, straterra | |
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May 21, 2018 at 04:14 AM
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I have addictive personality too. First I was addicted to dieting to the point of nearly starving myself , then it was the gym , for a while I had a sex addiction , then it was drugs and alcohol then food ( overeating ) currently I'm on a diet . I guess I am addicted to using my phone to play online internet games where I spend real money and I also spend alot of time on forums / apps like this one .
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May 21, 2018 at 07:32 AM
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I identify with this addictive personality reference . I think it manifests itself in normal life by being obsessive about things . It's why I have a reputation at work of getting things done as I just can't let anything go until I know it's complete and on time , also I guess why after leaving school at 15 without honours I developed an interest in military history , so studied it for 20 years till I was of professor level for knowledge ( but with no qualification of course ) . I always swapped one addiction for another . I'm trying to obsess about good things now . Saving money , staying healthy . No doubt I'll overdo it and take it a step too far . I'm still finding singling out the addiction portion of my brain and targeting it a great help . It's like Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes stories . It's in the shadows and hard to pin down , but I know it's there so focus on starving it ... I guess I am obsessing over it ? Using my addictive personality to defeat addiction
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May 21, 2018 at 09:02 PM
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I obsess and also try to channel it in a good direction. I have lost 64 pounds and I have continued tracking every single thing I eat while maintaining the last couple of months. I started walking for exercise and now it's near or above 10000 steps nearly every day. I have taken up SUP (Stand Up Paddleboard) and I spend a lot of time paddling, planning to paddle, discussing SUPs, browsing for new SUPs, etc. These are all good, healthy things except for the part where I am all about these things and not much else.
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