Question by sam: can you become addicted to narcotics anonymous?
if you are now recovery from drug addiction is it possible to replace one addiction with another, such as NA
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Answer by arielle
r u serious? You probably could!! idk.
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Perhaps it’s someone closer than you thought. I am not an expert on addictions, but I’ve been told that an addiction is behavior that is usually harmful and that controls you, rather than the other way around.
Can negative thinking be an addiction? You bet it can. Can it harm you? It sure can. How can you tell if your negative thoughts are out of control? Well, the first step is awareness.Let’s make today your Day of Awareness.
As an experiment, here is something you can try, something I often ask my seminar participants to do. Try going through one whole day, 24 hours, without thinking a single negative thought. No sarcasm, no put-downs, no belittling – of others or of yourself.
Now, most people notice quite a few negative thoughts during that day of awareness. But that is not all they do. They get upset at themselves for thinking those negative thoughts, and they end up caught in a mental double negative.
The question continues and concludes with the credit due to its originator:
So give yourself a break. Just pay attention without blaming. Notice your thought patterns for 24 hours. Once you become aware of how much control negative thinking has over your life, you may choose to change it. It may be a snap to change, it may not be so easy, but you can do it! First, though, raise your awareness of what’s happening today – your Day of Awareness.
Lou Tice
The Pacific Institute
www.thepacificinstitute.com
My addendum:
I wanted to offer this as a sincere Christmas gift to Yahoo! Answers participants, with the hopes that your answer, shared here or not, will enable you to have a truly happier New Year.
This is a question. But it is also something I wanted to ask for my own benefit, and for the benefit of those who respond. Since I have had some elements of negative thinking in my own life, I thought the responses may help me as well as you.
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ok so….this is how it goes: I’ve been taking adderall non-perscribed for almost 10 yrs now. I am also a heavy drinker, because it helps me sleep and come down from the adderall. I first started taking adderall to get through college…and when I didn’t have adderall I did meth. Then I stopped for about 2 yrs. I started taking it again about 3 yrs ago after I left my husband and was dealing with a really hard situation, adderall helps me forget and move on, deal with stuff etc..anyway it has become a huge problem again…when I don’t have adderall I resort to meth again and I know that is terrible but I crave that high and that motivation so bad!
I recently (beginning of August) told my boyfriend about my problem and that I wanted to get clean and I was clean for about a month after i told him, he was supportive and there for me when I was in tears and having a break down about my secret addiction. But now he is gone out of town off and on for the next three months for work and the day he left the first thing I thought of was getting high. I have been back on adderall for a month now and when I don’t have adderall I do meth, its the same ****** up cycle! He told me that i need to be honest with him about everything and with this addiction but he also told me that if I ever touched it again he would leave me….I don’t want to tell him because I don’t want him to leave but I do want to tell him because I want to get off of it and his support really helps me stay clean. Its not that I need him to get clean, but maybe I do, I’m not doing it for him, I AM doing it for myself but his support is what keeps me strait. I am a functioning addict I have a job and I am back in school again working on a second degree and I feel like the adderall helps keep my grades up but I can keep my grades up without it too. Also, you would never be able to tell if i am on it or if I’m not and thats scary to me, I funtion so well on these stimulants that even when my boyfriend came back on his days off he couldn’t even tell I was high. None of my family members know, none of my friends know either. I’ve only told my boyfriend.
I crave that high and when I’m high all my problems and worries and what have you disapere and I can function. But at the same time I’m drowning in addiction and I don’t know what to do…I get high to do school work, I get high to not think about my boyfriend being gone, I get high to function, I get high to mask and not think about my problems….but like I said I am functioning just on the surface, inside I’m screaming. What should I do?
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I joined Second Life (SL) almost a year ago, and from the first night I was hooked.
Now months later i am on sl on average 4-8 hours a day. I didn’t even know i HAD 4-8 disposable hours left to designate to gaming, but here i am. Hopelessly addicted.
The thing is, i’m a true misanthrope in every sense of the word and would hands down rather stay at home on any given day. Thats why SL is so great, I get all the bells & whistles of RL, but without all the bullshit and pretense.
On SL i (obvs) get to escape out of the rl for awhile, if it was possible, i would upload myself into the game forever, that’s how much i am realistically sick of living in the modern real world.
Not surpriisingly I suffer from depression + depression induced psychosis periodically, which definitely kills or seriously compromises by self-esteem and desire for social contact and simulation.
I love SL because i can control it, all aspects of it.
I can control my avatars mind. Something i can’t do for myself. And you wouldn’t believe the sense of beautiful hapiness that creates in me. Anyone with mental illness knows, the luxury of being in control of your thoughts, sights, smells, and sounds is something never to be taken for granted.
I think that i could live my whole life playing SL(or an simulation application) and be completely fine never having a RL lover. I would actually prefer that. I’m sure within the next 10 years, the technolgy of life simulations games will really excell. I can’t wait!
no more poseballs! or lag!
What are other peoples views on their addiction to Second L
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Okay, they say admitting it is the first step so here I go. I have a water problem. Its been going on a few months now, it started as an innocent little thing but now Im drinking probably up to what? 8-9 large glasses of water a day.
If I even go 1 day without water I can’t think staright, all I can think is ‘water water water need water’
Once I start I can’t stop. Even after having one glass, later on in the day I’ll think ‘just one more glass of water won’t do any harm’ next thing I know Ive had around 8 glasses.
I am thinking about getting myself to rehab. The problem needs to be sorted, I want a life without water and Im willing to change. Im also going to look into going to one of those self help group things for addicts, where you meet up and talk about others who have the same drink problem.
The worst thing is I havn’t told my family about my drink problem yet. They have SEEN me drink water before and it didn’t seem to bother them. But they don’t know that Im drinking it every single day. They don’t know Im a waterholic.
Please help, how do I tell my family? I don’t know how they’ll react and Im a bit nervous.
Its would be good if anyone else who has had a water problem in their life could answer this, but anyone who can help just answer.
Thanks.
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I have been taking this drug for years and it is becoming harder to get and i forgot what its like to be without it, I need to quit…and I am not sure if the addiction is physical or psycological, but Man- I like the feeling I get from it and its legal, but expensive. I just want to quit and dont know how….Anyone else feel me…or am I the only sailor in the boat?
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I am doing an essay on this and just trying to get allot of different procpectives on this so if you could please say your honest opotions and everything about this I would greatly appericate it.
For instance: My little nefew saw me and my friends smoking it once when I was younger and without me or our parents finding out he started doing it as well. We didnt know he was doing it till he was 16 and by then he was so addicated to it that he could not even live a normal life. He refused rehab and everything and nothing anyone tried perfosinals or other could not get him away from it. Last year he died from over dose on Pills and he is greatly missed I wish so much he would have never seen me doing it. I no longer do it and am grealy against it.
Thank you much for all your opotions and answers. Thanks
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we had him in rehab but he comes right out and gets back on them, he say’s he wants to get help but nothing we do helps. has anyone else used this drug that could give me some insight on why it’s so hard to get off of? i’m afraid i will bury my son before his next birthday. i had him arrested at one point just so i would know he would be alive for a few more days. is there any safe way for me to do this at home without having to send him off again.
please help
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Relax… your among friends now. No…keep you clothes on…don’t relax that much (that class starts at 11:00 PM). You are harboring a secret addiction you need to get off your chest. I’ve seen and heard them all from booger eaters to deep fried twinkie lovers.
POLL: George Carlin or Steve Martin?
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