So I reads that we are sup`posed to have highly addictive personalities, that having ADD-ADHD or whatever subheading we can label ourselves with means that we will spend a good percentage of our time chasing various highs, lows and escapisms.

Hopwever, speaking as someone who has exoperienced their fair share of what most people would consider as `addictions´, there is something that doesn´t quite suit the typical behaviour of a common addict. (and I mean anything from drugs, to cigarettes, to chocolate, to the internet to whatever you might consider something worth being addicted to)

The difference is I find that being ADD-I or wehatever it is that is causing all this, actually stops me from being addicted in the same way that it pushes me towards addiction. If I am around something or have access to a particular form of escape I will hit it harder and heavier than anyone. But in the very same way, if that ´escape´is not around, its just not on my mind as i will find something else to fill the void.

I literally cannot become addicted to things in the traditional sense as if my surroundings change and i am not around that`it´ then it stops being part of my thoughts.

Obviously we know how frustating it is to be so inconsistant, but figuring this out has given me some slight relief in understanding how i will act around certain people. And also not to give myself so much grief if i decide to cut loose with a little self destructive behaviour as i know that i can just as easily slide back in to being a good boy.

consistancy would be nice, but so would world peace.

hey, good observation.

pretty much we have a void that's gonna be filled.

if one thing is around to fill it, it's an 'addiction'.

if it's not, then we just find something else.

Yeah, I've noticed the same thing! I get addicted to certain things to do ... but only for a month or two at a time. The more frustrating thing is that I never get good at anything because I tire of it so quickly.

Yeah, I've noticed the same thing! I get addicted to certain things to do ... but only for a month or two at a time. The more frustrating thing is that I never get good at anything because I tire of it so quickly.
That sounds about right... Very frustrating when you really want to try something new. No more shiny

its easy to think like a king, but its hard to work as a farmer

I wish I could stop addictions as easily as removing myself from it. I don't do substance addictions, but I do others. Video games being the worst. At its peak, the addiction is so bad that I can think of nothing else but getting the next fix. Much to the detriment of anything else I should actually BE doing... but am not because I'm so preoccupied with wanting to feed my addiction.

On the flip side, there are times when the addiction completely dies. Like right now I have zero desire to play games. Yet I miss the high. I WANT that high I used to feel when I played. Even when I do play now it's not the same. I'm bored. It's not what it used to be.

Currently I have no addiction. I find that I'm floating aimlessly in that void rather than filling it. It's not a good feeling. Instead I feel like I have too much to do and not enough time... and I have yet to start checking some things off that list.

What I would prefer is that there is no void and that I can focus on the things I should be doing rather than wondering what I can do to chase the next "high."

We're not addicted, the world is just boring :D :p

Yes, yes, yes. I certainly am capable and even prone to addictive type behaviors. But my need for novelty and newness might play a big role in preventing me from staying in one rut for too long.

I know exactly what you mean Gonga. For instance, I can fritter away hours at the computer, because it stimulates me. In that moment I can be said to have an internet addiction. But if I'm in the country, say, where there's no internet, it doesn't even cross my mind.
It's like having an addictive personality but the addiction is mobile or flexible - it changes to fit the circumstance & available resources.

(as a side note, I crave being in the country/forest/seaside...something about it promotes a silence in my mind...a good silence).

Wow, I feel slighted. Somewhere along the way my adhd missed the memo re: addiction that said "out of sight, out of mind". :o I never let "out of sight" stand between me and my addictions. Seems I always found ways around that. (ten years clean/sober and counting....) :)

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It's like having an addictive personality but the addiction is mobile or flexible - it changes to fit the circumstance & available resources....

yeah.

when I am at home I can spend all day long on the internet. but then I go and visit family and they have a computer but I will check my email once and nothing else. I move around between things a lot. sometimes I want to eat nothing but chocolate. and then I get bored with it and move on... but I can also go for months eating ice cream every single day. I guess the one thing that I HAVE to have every day is sugar in some form. I can never get away from that.

(ten years clean/sober and counting....) :)

That's a lot to be proud of. Congratulations!

addictive behavior HHHMMMM THAT TERM HAS BEEN ABUSED!!LOL

some people are addicted to the net(like me)
Alcoholics are addicted to the meetings and stuff
i hate that phrase really...?:eek:

hey, good observation.

pretty much we have a void that's gonna be filled.

if one thing is around to fill it, it's an 'addiction'.

if it's not, then we just find something else.


This really explains my "addictive" personality that led me to abuse pot for a bit. Drugs peaked my interest like 4 years ago and I read a lot about different ones.. I just found it fascinating that the mind could be altered to such extreme degrees. It was 2 years until my first drug. Last year pot was easy to get so I indulged and then overindulged
I've honestly lost interest in pot these days. It did help fill that void a bit... in that it made things more interesting. But I ran out of things to make more interesting while 'high'. I know I smoked for the same reasons I watched TV shows, played video games... its filling this void as you guys say.
And like you guys said, If its not around I have no problem switching up my addictions. When I moved into a new apartment it took me a while to even start masturbating again... once I was comfortable with my privacy. (probably my biggest/strongest addiction).

Now I feel that absolutely should not prevent me from getting stimulant medication if its what I require... but some !%#@in websites say otherwise. I want a stimulant... I feel I need a stimulant, I'm just plane unstimulated/unmotivated/bored/tired/somewhat alienated and it sucks
I haven't really read about the non-stimulant medications (maybe I should... eh maybe later:p), but I read the adderall success stories and it made me cry with hope.

So I hope my doc interpreted my mention of marijuana abuse properly. I grouped it all together with my other addictions so I think they all point to this "unstimulated, boredom, laziness." that comes with ADD-I


i hate that phrase really...?:eek:
Really...? :cool: