Addiction

What are the things you can get addicted to, how can you get addicted to them, and how do you stop an addiction?

 

You can get addicted to runescape
An easy way to break the addiction-

-Remove your video card
-get a life?
that's about it XD

 

I could never get addicted to RuneScape. Just play when I can't hang out with my friends or do anything else fun. RuneScape isn't easy to get addicted to. Only geeks who don't have a life are addicted to RuneScape. But the thing most people get addicted to without even realizing is drugs.

 

You can get addicted to anything you like a lot. An addiction is just putting something above everything else in order to continue doing that something.

 

As dpunk said, you can literally get addicted to anything. It usually happens when a certain behavior activates the reward center in the brain. The brain makes the connection between the activity and the behavior, and begins to demand it more and more.

To break it? Willpower, and often, medical help/counseling.

 

i am not addicted to runescape...i only play in my free time....people who r addicted r weird.

 

i'm not addicted to runescape... was a few years ago, now i play it only when all of these apply-
-Nobody to hang out with
-Nobody online to talk to on AIM or MSN
-Weather is dead
-sythe is down
-IRC IS INACTIVE

yeah. at least one of those has NOT applied. i haven't been on rs for weeks

Only thing i am addicted to is...
My girlfriend D':
I'm going through withdrawal right now
I haven't seen her in 2 days

 

You can get addicted to anything you really like.
Food, games, drugs, activities, people, etc.
Your addicted when you put that something above everything.

 

You can get addicted to drugs/cigs.

Chew Nicoderm.
Rehab.
Eat the cigarette. (That's gonna make you hate 'em)

 

I'm addicted to Iced Tea.

Rehab for me.

 

I'm addicted too the computer. I could stop the addiction if I had other things to do other than the computer and surfing the interw3b and pwn1ng others with my 1337 5P34|<

 

>.< Don't fuck around with me about this..

But i used to be addicted to cutting. I've had some serious depression problems, with what shredderbeam i think it was that said, willpower, medical treatment/counseling.

But. I'm better now =D

 

LoL I am to, but iv proved to myself i can stop i went a year without drinking it now im back (its not a relapse I chose to come back as its not unhealthy except the first week or two of drinking 1-4 quarts a day (I add 60% more mix then I'm supposed to each batch) can give you insomnia for a while)

To break an addiction one must replace it with another thing and i never drink more then 2 quarts of iced tea a day because im very lazy and hate making it.


To the guy above me thats brave of you to post that as peopel below will flame you like crazy I have been severely depressed before but i could never cut my wrist (its not the pain i hate even getting small cuts on my wrist but I don't mind these gashing scars on my legs from skateboarding/cat scratching me.

 

Wrong. Getting addicted to something does not mean putting it above everything else. Normally It's when someone uses a coping skill and become dependent on that something they use.

Example: A mom becomes a workaholic.
Reason: To keep her mind off things she cannot control or other unresolved issues. Does not mean she doesn't love her kids and she almost without a doubt puts her kids above it. Its just s distraction to keep your mind off reality.

 

And I'm startin to think this whole "addiction" thing all over again.

 

there a lot of things to get addicted to, the answer is to simply force urself not to do it or not to do it in the first place. Im never going to do drugs for instance, our school has scary health class vids =p

 

you can get addicted to anything that you like to do, you kno you are addicted when you can't stop doing it, or you cant admit you are.

 

You can get addicted to anything you like... Generally addiction is when you let something you really like to do on your spare time take over every else... This mostly hapen on video games. To break oout from it I would consider putting it out from your sight.

 

If you want to escape from an addiction, man up and go cold turkey

 

I, for one, am addicted to my computer. i seriously couldn't live without it, i would die.

to stop, pull out the power cord and tell someone to hide it for you xD