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Alcohol.















 

[MrBlu]

I've always wondered about these sorts of cases ... what happens if you don't? I imagine that's not really an option but can you imagine the consequences of not completing a routine?

I've never attempted not to, but I assume I'll go crazy/never stop thinking about it and not be able to do or focus on anything all day.

[tania]

yep, kind of like all impulse control disorders basically.

[J-cob9000]

I have dermotillomania.
I pick at scabs and things. It kind of hurts.
But it hurts so good.

[Eli]

I really don't mean to be an asshat, but please think before saying you have it. While picking at my skin relieves stress, I feel horrible doing it. I'm ashamed of it. Only one person in real life knows this about me and he hasn't been very supportive in helping me possibly overcome this.

Picking at scabs and acne and not making lasting damage is normal. I pick at normal, healthy skin until it bleeds/is raw. I have calluses on my hands and my feet from damaging the skin.

Since it's part of the OCD spectrum, it's possible that one can have tendencies to dermatillomania, just like almost everyone has tendencies of OCD. And as someone said, it is comforting to know other people have it, but to me at least, it's frustrating to have people automatically say they have it without researching it a bit.

[BeoPuppy]

I've always wondered about these sorts of cases ... what happens if you don't? I imagine that's not really an option but can you imagine the consequences of not completing a routine?

I've never attempted not to, but I assume I'll go crazy/never stop thinking about it and not be able to do or focus on anything all day.

And the idea of that means that you don't try to do it?

... man. Are OCD patients buggered. You have my sympathies.

[ledhendrix]

I do that quite often with a guitar pick, but I usually make it flutter between my teeth. I've always thought it would be such a good idea to make flavoured plectrums.

[snalin]

A thing I do: whenever I sit by my computer and I'm not eating, I put a guitar pick in my mouth. Don't ask me why. I usually flip it with my tongue.

I always use headphones when I'm at the computer, and I used to put the wire in my mouth, and suck/chew on it. I would notice and spit it out, but two minutes later it would just be there again. I ruined some good headphones that way. I stopped doing it as much when I started putting the wire under my clothes.

[pulpfiction21]

i chew on the strings on all my hoodies. They are the perfect distance from my mouth.

[nobo]

one every morning, and maybe 1 more in the afternoon. try to limit it to 1 a day though.

these take me from super groggy to just sleepy, if i don't have one i'll be a zombie all day. i've been drinking these 4-5 years now.

[MrBlu]

Gross, Lo-Carb.

I used to drink one of the regulars every day, but I broke myself out of it, because it was more than half of my lunch money.

[nobo]

regular is too sweet for me. plus 400 calories vs. 20, its a no brainer

[Scrambled Egg Machine]

Regular Monster
Chewing ice
The Internet
Science fiction
books
hanging out with hippies
shitty industrial music (think Rammstein)
writing
Spore, Command and Conquer
RTS games in general
Fallout 3

When I drink a monster before I go to bed, I always have really bizarre dreams, almost on the order of hallucinations.

[öde]

One of my friends keeps telling me I have OCD. I don't, I just like things to be reasonably clean and ordered whereas she is a messy, filthy whore.

[tania]

that term gets misused a lot too. there's a difference between simply having certain habits or likes and then having an impulse control disorder what mrblu described, where you basically have no choice but to do it because the alternative is to never stop thinking about it and throw off your whole day and drive yourself insane. though it varies from person to person and you can have it in different degrees, the symptoms of ocd generally are recurrent and persistent thoughts which don't go away even when you try not to think about them (obsessions), and/or repetitive behaviors the person feels like they need to perform, usually according to a set of rules, or else they'll experience incredible distress (compulsions). i like things to be really orderly, but i can survive pretty okay if they're not - that's organization, but definitely not ocd.

[MrBlu]

Chewing ice

Uhh, dude, are you anemic?

EDIT::
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/erika/dar/series.php?view=archive&chapter=13090

I do that.

[FourNineFoxtrot]

Black & Mild Cigarillos: Killing me slow and easy, one day at a time.


Pointy things.  I just spent too much money on a vintage Buck Akonua from eBay, because it was just... so beautiful.  That's it, in the picture (not mine, it hasn't arrived yet, and anyway mine has the old style hilt).  The lines, that gently upswept blade, that lovely, archaic-looking brass guard (mine has a brass guard, anyway).  It called out to me.

Guns.  Won't link pictures, don't know the lay of the land here well enough to take the risk.  But I'm a gun owner being inexorably drawn to collecting.  I don't own anything particularly fancy or valuable, it's all pretty functional-only now.  That may change.

Good whiskey... although I won't say I'm addicted, because I've been fortunate enough to escape that.  For the sake of my recovering brethren, I won't go into detail.

And finally, the crack cocaine of the energy drink world:

I can't get enough of this stuff.  For years, the only good tasting energy drink I could find was Rock Star Cola, and then they stopped making it.  I was subsisting on BooKoo, or eschewing the stuff altogether, when Monster broke my mind  by putting this stuff out.  I... I think I need one now.  Getting a little shaky.  I'd inject it into my arm if my arm had tastebuds.

[BeoPuppy]

So, what you're saying is that you are a cafeine addicted, alcohol consuming gun and knife collector?

You are, like, in America, right? far the hell away from me?

[Aztex]

Coffee and internet
Also whenever i get my hands on Pretz Salad Flavour, I can't stop eating them, even when I get to the stage where i'm just full of MSG.

[FourNineFoxtrot]

So, what you're saying is that you are a cafeine addicted, alcohol consuming gun and knife collector?

You are, like, in America, right? far the hell away from me?

Yes, that is what I am.

Yes, I am in America.

Yes, being a caffeine addicted, alcohol consuming gun and knife collector is exactly as awesome as it sounds, which is very goddamn awesome.

[squawk]

Tomato Pretz > Salad Pretz

[KickThatBathProf]

I need to know what you guys are talking about

[Swordfish]

I forgot to mention I am absolutely addicted to Odwalla Superfood.  I crave it and I experience withdrawals.  I drink a 32oz bottle over a day or two.

And it's EXPENSIVE AS HELL, which sucks.  I don't even care if spirulina is as good for you as they claim it is, this is fucking delicious.  Even though it looks like baby poop.

[Synorthion]

I have trichotillomania, too. I didn't know what it was called until I saw this comic. this one offers some strategies to combat it but it's really hard!

I've had a lot of negative responses to the few people that I've told as well. it makes me feel really messed up and I start hating my body a lot.

it sucks that a lot of us suffered alone.

I've had it since I was probably like 13. I used to go for my eyelashes a lot, but as I've gotten older it's definitely gotten better. Although it's considered an impulse control disorder they've linked it to a gene, so it's not that people with tricho are weird or messed up. Don't beat yourself up over it, I know that it's tough, but you just need to do the best you can.

[MrBlu]

Well I'm caffeine-addicted, collect knives, but not guns, and I hate cigar/ettes.



Welcome to Jamrock!

[muteKi]

JRPGs. Older JRPGs, in fact, like Lunar: Silver Star and Phantasy Star II. Oh you have no idea how bad it is.



I'm just as predictable as ever, but it's often for the sake of the mazes and planning/strategy (I'm considering getting Shining Force in the near future).

[SirJuggles]

JPEGs

It is late and this is what I saw. I was thinking you must have an awfully strange fixation with image files.

[TheViscount]

Lunar: Silver Star

... Yes. Wow I haven't heard that name in 7 years. I need to play it again.

[Vern LaVey]

I don't even care if spirulina is as good for you as they claim it is, this is fucking delicious.  Even though it looks like baby poop.

I too have a love for spirulina, but ive found that if u get canned "Fruit Salad" (a decent brand), dump it into a bowl, eat the fruit, and drink the juice. Same thing.

[Darkbluerabbit]

See, I'm not the only one who likes juice in unappetizing colors.  The stuff that makes it green doesn't have much of a taste at all, really.

[Ozymandias]

I had a bottle of Superfood with lunch today because it was an epic midterm day.

So tasty.

[Lummer]

Oh, yeah. Microwave popcorn, totally.

[J-cob9000]

Oh, I forgot to say.
The internet and music.

[Avec]

 

[altered_carbon]

I'm addicted to guitar feedback, booze, tea, pot, and literature...And I've been known to go on the occasional ecstasy binge, but that's in the past.

Haha, "tea, pot" teapot. Sorry.

[Liz]

The internet.

Withdrawal symptoms set in this morning. Ugh. It is terrible.

[Liz]

Yeah, there was supposedly wireless at the Salvation Army we worked at this morning but I couldn't connect. So I have to get my fill tonight since I have no idea when I will get it again. I wish there were more people in meebo!

[Ceiling Cat]

Oh man. Pretzel sticks, olives, chocolate, feta cheese, salted popcorn, chocolate, sunflower seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, strawberries dipped in chocolate sauce, chocolate, chocolate Italian ice cream, coffee, earl grey tea, noodles, chocolate, chocolate, CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.

As for non edible things, music, the internet, and stationery. I'm kind of sad.

[negative creep]

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.

This.

I pick and chew on my lips.

And that.

[Cire27]

I chew on my lips so much I end up peeling skin off.  When I get toothaches, I bite down really hard and pick at my gums where it hurts.

[Krina]

I'm addicted to pushing my limits. Every other addiction I have basically comes down to that. I have very little sense of who I actually am and I'm constantly suprised by the things that I will do or say. Ever since I was a teenager I have frequently put myself in situations that are somehow challenging to me and that force me out of my comfort zone. I guess part of that is just a part of growing up, but I push it to extremes. In that course, I've developed a substance abuse problem, I've been in relationships with people who were physically or otherwise abusive of me, I've willingly let myself be robbed, I either overeat or undereat, I've run away from home with a boy I hardly knew when I was 16, I've been a (fetish) model, I've been arrested and I've been to the asylum. Most of that stuff I've done solely for the reason because "I wanted to know what it'd be like". I'm addicted to indulging in things. I'm interested in basically anything - there are not many activities that I will not enjoy - and I like nothing better than making new experiences. 

I'm probably fairly stupid.

[Stupid Human]

the Internet
Whiskey
Caffeine (Coffee, Pepsi, and Monster)
Pretending to be Productive
World of Warcraft
Disappointment
Bad Music
Masturbation

There's probably more.

[Drill King]

shopping, it is actually a serious problem

[Christophe]

[thecabbler]

-indian tacos
-my lady
-the internet
-beer
-cigs
-manscaping
-obnoxious headphones

[snalin]

Bandit Stockholm (rock 106.3)

God damn Swedes know their music, all right.

[A Shoggoth on the Roof]

it is absolutely delicious, especially on good baguette, or inside a croissant.

[thecabbler]

also i have developed an unhealthy addiction to The OC

[axerton]

I genuinely don't feel right unless I wash and condition my hair every day

[Yunior]

Whoa, other people have trich! That is actually really comforting, I spend a lot of time really hating myself for that part of me. I've told two people (aside from my mom, who was the first person to notice), and the explanation was loaded with a lot of "Listen, I think this is gross, too" kind of hedging. I used to have really long hair and recently cut all of it off (whoo excuse awkward face) because I was sick of bald spots and putting the part on my hair in different places and wearing my hair up and hats. So I figured if the hair was short enough, I wouldn't pull it out? I dunno, terrible plan. All I know is now I am looking at my tweezers longingly and thinking, God no don't go there, Clara. I am really terrified I will totally go there.

(Don't think I am weird, I know it is weird )