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What's Your Addiction?
Kai:
cigarettes are the most physically obvious one. Mostly American Spirits.
I have a lot of terribly compulsive habits that I really can't ever physically stop. I pick at my face. When I've had a shitty/day/week/whatever I've found myself compulsively shoplifting and as much as I know it's a terrible idea and could seriously fuck over my situation (which right now is not peachy in the first place) it's a way for me to exhume that stress on something else--albeit a very bad one.
I used to drink an obscene amount of coffee, but during the school year I drop that habit simply because I like having a functional sleep schedule and because I don't really have the time to make it anyway.
I chew on things. All the time. Always. Pens especially. or my fingers. or knives.
MrBlu:
--- Quote from: KvP on 26 Feb 2009, 17:05 ---I also exhibit compulsive behavior, although mine's a bit different. I've always run compulsively. A google of "compulsive running" turns up a link to such a behavior being observed in animals suffering from OCD, but there's nothing on it in humans.
The thing is it's not really a... normal sort of compulsion? It seems like a lot of compulsive behaviors are most exhibited when one is anxious (at least, that's been my experience) or are "ambient" compulsions that you don't even notice. I only really get the compulsion to run when my imagination is stimulated. When I'm watching a particularly twisty or good film I get pretty antsy. When I was in elementary school I would run about the playground every which way, lost in my head. I would run and it was like my mind would burst open with ideas and possibilities and narratives, and sensations became incredibly, almost unbearably vivid. That, along with a couple of other things, namely a bad stutter I developed in 1st grade that mysteriously and abruptly vanished in 2nd, led my doctors to identify me as an Aspie kid, although at this point I don't know if that's an accurate diagnosis.
It's become easier to control as I get older, but I still feel that pull on a daily basis. I've used it to channel energy into my cardio workouts, when I'm on the treadmill I'm not usually focusing on anything around me or the run itself, I'm just running and thinking. But I can't utilize it without a treadmill because I only really feel the effect of this compulsion intermittently. It sort of works like a lawnmower that's low on gas. It speeds up and stalls randomly, it sputters out and revs up. So if I try and regulate my running according to what's going on in my head I look fairly foolish, at least according to some of the people I know. I'll run for 20 seconds, then walk for 10, then run for 30, then walk for 60, and so on. It's quite odd. And so I need moving ground under me (as with a treadmill) to keep a brisk pace but the way this process works makes cardio fairly enjoyable for me.
Oh, and I've also bitten my nails for as long as I can remember. When I get really nervous I'll chew them down to the bleeding skin under them. Some of my fingers seem permanently swollen.
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I have relatively bad OCD. I do everything in 4s, and it makes brushing my teeth unbearable, because when rinsing, I have a "routine" (in 4s, of course), and if I mess up somehow (like splash water on myself) I have to do the routine over.
It sucks, and it takes up way too much of my time.
SirJuggles:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 26 Feb 2009, 18:20 ---I guess I might as well face it.
I'm a dickhead to love
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öde:
--- Quote from: tania on 25 Feb 2009, 20:09 ---trichotillomania
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This sucks. I had a ladyfriend that has this and she had stick-on eyebrows. It just made me feel bad because I can't understand it at all.
onewheelwizzard:
I used to have bald spots in my beard for the same reason. I still do it every now and then but I'm better about it than I used to be (mainly because my beard is shorter nowadays I think).
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