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By: e*star LA » Blog Archive » Crazy Girls

e*star LA » Blog Archive » Crazy Girls — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:18:42 +0000

[...] I gained a quality of reclusiveness while becoming desperate for more connections. (Don’t ask if that’s even possible.) There are different behaviors associated with both–that is, devolving into the black hole you’ve created for myself, while other times passing on the bitterness and projecting anger and fears onto others. With some, you might even become too forgiving just to have the companionship. With crazy people. It’s a way of dealing with yourself. (Cue the addiction post.) [...]

By: e*star LA » Blog Archive » To Welcome Disillusionment

e*star LA » Blog Archive » To Welcome Disillusionment — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:56:32 +0000

[...] mentally or spiritually? We just look for the next distraction. The next addiction. The next deal and the next buck all the while convincing ourselves that we have control. Where is [...]

By: *e

*e — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:59:07 +0000

Email shot to ya!!

By: F.bunch

F.bunch — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:31:01 +0000

Hey cuzin! Back from Europe? If so, can you email me your snail mail? franksabunch@hotmail.com I didn’t forget about the worship CD!

By: *e

*e — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:08:29 +0000

Lexy, I think you make an important point in terms of willful and difficult sacrifices involved. You could discern it as a point of intention and the desired result of a discipline. It’s commitment instead of an activity used to get away from something else.

In the case of my running, it was an addiction but only after it took weeks and weeks of getting off my butt (the default action, the easy one) 4 days a week and doing it regularly that I trained my body to crave it or get used to that sort of physical and mental release.

Lol, Fabergé eggs.

weisheng, indeed.

By: weisheng

weisheng — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:44:37 +0000

Well I generally regard addiction as having negative connotations, i.e. something that’s destructive and bad for you. Something like a monk and religion would be described as “dedication” I guess.

By: lexybeast

lexybeast — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:41:36 +0000

/Serious
The ‘everything is addicting’ point of view is interesting in a philosophical sense, but I think it becomes too abstracted to be of any use. You could call the monk ‘addicted’ to meditation, or the person ‘addicted’ to exercise and fitness, but that discounts the wilful and often difficult sacrifices involved. In the end you can say these sacrifices were made only to reach some ‘high,’ but isn’t that just basic universal behaviour? Every action has some motivating benefit behind it, no matter how illogical it may seem to the outside viewer or no matter how many sacrifices are behind it. Sorry to rant, but it seems like this kind of language is a part of the culture of psychological overdiagnosis persistent today, so distinctions should be made.

/Not-so-serious
However, I’m not going to lie. Half way through this entry, I couldn’t stop thinking about the SImpsons episode where Bleeding Gums Murphy describes his crippling addiction to Fabergé eggs. I suffer from a crippling addiction to random tangents!

By: *e

*e — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:14:34 +0000

@codemunky: In the sense snowboarding brings you to a “higher state” (literally), I guess you would be right.

By: codemunky

codemunky — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:55:02 +0000

addicted? snowboarding is a religion.

By: www.learnhypnosiseasily.info » Addicts Not-So-Anonymous

www.learnhypnosiseasily.info » Addicts Not-So-Anonymous — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:05:24 +0000

[...] *e put an intriguing blog post on Addicts Not-So-Anonymous.Here’s a quick excerpt:That same morning, before I left for work, I took out the first self-help book I completed this year, which at the time actually helped bring about a lot of epiphanies and self-discovery, and happened to immediately flip exactly to the … [...]