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So that's what's going on with my laundry
I'd never experienced an addiction until about a year and half ago. Talk about a rollercoaster. I am not sure I'll ever overcome this addiction but I have found a way of living peacefully with it most of the time.
posted by
Azur
on May 13, 2008 at 9:22 AM
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Re: Re: FineYoungSinger
~ Yeppers luv, it sure is the truth and many thanks for your congrats luv, I'm in my 41st year now since Jan 7, 1968
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 9, 2008 at 9:35 AM
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Re: FineYoungSinger
Wiley---Isn't that the truth!? Nicotine addiction is a terrible addiction! Congrats on your sobriety, by the way, Wiley---40 years--wow, that's beyond an inspiration!
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FineYoungSinger
on April 9, 2008 at 9:32 AM
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FineYoungSinger
Great post luv and as a recovered alcoholic I can tell you I'd rather quit drinking again than quit smoking. After 40 years I don't want a drink but after 11 years of not smoking I started again and now quit again for nearly a year but I still want one. But I don't want a drink, so the nicotine really takes over the brain for life.
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WileyJohn
on April 9, 2008 at 9:23 AM
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Re: Ah, addiction
Hey Sira...thanks for reading! Yes, it's very important to note the twofold nature of addiction. Also, there are a myriad of causes that need to be examined. As they say, though, admitting that there is a problem is half the battle.
I used to smoke--according to recovering alcoholics and addicts, it's a harder habit to quit than alcohol and drugs. It was really tough. I still get the urge to have a cigarette once in a blue moon, and it's been over 6 years.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM
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Ah, addiction
A topic very near, and not-so-dear, to my heart.
I think, though, that it's important to note that addiction is a two-fold monster; there's physical addiction, and emotional or mental addiction.
I'm agoraphobic--an aversion addiction, that has nothing at all to do with chemicals or substances. As a few people have said, "it's all in my head".
I'm also a smoker (yes, I know I should quit!). Technically, I am addicted to cigarettes, but I don't refer to myself as an addict--idiot would be much more appropriate. I'm addicted to them because I was stupid enough to start using something that is, by it's very nature, an addictive substance. If I hadn't lit that first smoke, I never would have become the addict that I am today.
Oh brother...I can feel a post coming on!
posted by
Sira890
on April 4, 2008 at 12:42 PM
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Re: Nobody's perfect.
got that right, whacky!!! HI BO!!!
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 4, 2008 at 10:46 AM
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Nobody's perfect.
A rose
from =^. .^= and me!
posted by
Whacky
on April 3, 2008 at 8:40 PM
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Re: The Bible calls us "sons of god"
Hi Xeno-X, thanks for reading. What you state here regarding "sons of god" may be true depending upon the translation. I hesitate to read anything into the statement.
As far as Paul putting us on equal standing with anyone, Paul is just a man. I care more what Jesus Himself says.
I have a question for you: how did my post on addiction prompt this line of thought?
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM
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The Bible calls us "sons of god"
and gods sometimes.
Jesus did.
Paul put us on an equal standing with Jesus.
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM
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Re: Very illuminating and helpful..Thank you for sharing, FYS
you're very welcome, katray, and thanks for reading!
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 3, 2008 at 10:22 AM
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thank you sam....It's a draft for the most part, but definitely something upon which I plan to expand.
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FineYoungSinger
on April 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM
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Very illuminating and helpful..Thank you for sharing, FYS
posted by
Katray2
on April 3, 2008 at 9:22 AM
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A most excellent commentary. Some addictions aren't recognized. I have been enlightened and will now seek to better identify what I misconstrue as ignored addiction or passion. I suspect I will find more addiction than passion! This is a wonderful thought inducing composition. sam
posted by
sam444
on April 3, 2008 at 7:58 AM
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vogue, it's awful, isn't it? when I'm washing a load at 2 am because I'm out of skivvies, there's a serious problem!
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 3, 2008 at 6:47 AM
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Re: Great post
Greenfields...its very scary--what makes this a spiritual addiction is how the freedom deteriorates. All an addict will focus on is how to satisfy their addiction. For me, avoiding laundry at all costs becomes my priority. The aversion is becoming more severe, in that I'm starting to hate going into the basement, so it's definitely getting worse.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 3, 2008 at 6:45 AM
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Re: Not so long ago, I realized that
teddy, congrats on breaking that addiction. That is exactly what happened...the habituation-adaptation process was visibly at work in a physical sense. Perscriptions are really dangerous-a professional perscribes a drug and we assume that it's safe, but then before we know it we're hooked. You might not have developed a psychological need, but the physical was defenitely there.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 3, 2008 at 6:35 AM
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Hi Mermaid---
gonna have to face it you're addicted to love! hahaha couldn't resist! anyway yes, it's alarming how we can become addicted to just about anything. My husband is addicted to lip balm, alka-seltzer, tea, aversion addiction to bleach; I'm also addicted to coffee, snacking, sleep...both of our lists can go on and on. Both of us are addicted to being "liked", feeling helpful... When it comes to non-tangibles, we have to constantly weigh our emotions...are we putting being loved or liked ahead of everything else, to the point that we're chaining ourselves?
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 3, 2008 at 5:56 AM
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Very interesting post. By the way I share your addiction to not doing the laundry. I just HATE it! So, shall we do the whites now?
posted by
vogue
on April 3, 2008 at 1:12 AM
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Great post
A few months I did an article on addiction for a monthly spitirual magaznine I write for. My research was quite revealing. Years ago, I woman who I shared a house with did an entire PhD on Love as Addiction. It's true. We can be addicted to anything. And to think that we only associate addiction with drugs, alochol, smoking as major vices. It is useful to exapnd this list to our many obsessive behaviours. I like the laundry analogy!
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Greenfields
on April 3, 2008 at 12:26 AM
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Not so long ago, I realized that
I was no longer reaping the benefits of two medications which I had been taking for decades...(sounds rather of the no-brainer)...physicians told me that essentially I was injesting a 'placebo'...what had happened was my system had become immune to the affects of the medication yet to stop taking the meds at once would bring about that which I had been taking the meds to deter from occurring...in that sense, had I become addicted to medication? Last summer I was weaned from the two medications and now am free of the physicological 'need' for the drugs.
Great post, Young!
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on April 2, 2008 at 11:13 PM
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my dear FYI, it's very recent i believe i've read something similar about this piece and line of questioning...must be from our beloved lustorlove (not sure). but addiction is really something for everyone with tons of tendencies and variations t get addicted from...everyone just cant get away from something...or cant seem to have enough of it...Me, i dont know love...i can never seem to want more and more of love...
posted by
__Purple_Mermaid11__
on April 2, 2008 at 11:12 PM
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