Whats been the toughest addiction to beat for you?
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No, it really isn't.
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Doom scrolling. The thing is though when I take time off work I don't touch the internet at all for days on end. I work on my hobbies instead. It's when I only have a day or two of free time (even less when you account for having to do chores) and not enough time to finish whatever I'm working on along with whatever I have to come back to next Monday weighing on my mind that I just turn to my phone instead. That's only working 40 hours a week too. There are people in far worse situations than me.
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Alcohol. I never drank until I got an IT internship and the boss was big into craft beers. I started drinking craft beer every night just to have something to bond with him through to try to turn the internship into a full-time job. I did get the job, but then struggled for years with alcohol dependence.
After my dad died I nearly drank myself to death and managed to quit for an entire year. Then I got cheated on, and home was no longer a safe space, so I hung out at the bar every day instead. It's been 6 months and I've gone from ~75 beers / week to ~24. Just tapering myself off slowly. Wegovy helps - I can't have more than a few drinks without feeling super bloated now.
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Born in 80, so a similar vintage to you; and yeah, we have connections and information now, but I feel like we should have stopped some time around 05, before smartphones really took hold.
I'm absolutely willing to accept that I'm wearing the highest grade rose tinted goggles, but not having to do everything online certainly felt better than whatever all this is. gestures broadly
I remember what it was like before I could stave off boredom at any time, but even then I don't think the convenience outweighs the problems. Though in fairness it's not really the phones, but the companies who make billions from us using them. But those companies had nowhere near the same amount of power, and I can't help thinking that was a good thing.
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I quit heroin and other heavy opioids just before fentanyl really hit the streets. Quit cold turkey after losing a few friends and realizing that I could get a bag cut with fent and die, and I couldn't do that to my siblings; they're a lot younger than me and really idolized me at the time.
When I was well enough to get to a store without shitting myself or throwing up bile everywhere, I went and bought a handle of the cheapest vodka I could. I continued that every day until 4 years ago.
I have cirrhosis, and my liver could shit the bed at any time, but I'm alive and I'm clean (for the most part) and sober. I work in recovery and am working to become a Drug and Alcohol Counselor now.
I quit smoking about 6 months ago. I went to the store, didn't have quite enough for a pack, and just haven't bought another. Tobacco has been the hardest for me by far. Alcohol withdrawal almost killed me - I had to be hospitalized for near a month - but I was on high doses of benzodiazepines so I don't remember much of it. The cravings for a cigarette are intense. They've gotten better zand they will continue to do so, but damn, it's rough.
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240mg oxycodone, unknown amount of fentanyl towards the end there
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Weed was easy. Don't even think I was addicted. For me, I've been struggling for with sleeping pills lately. Might go back to the weed but just do oils before bed for sleep. I'm a shift worker in a high stress job so I need something at night to calm the nerves sometimes.
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When I was assessed for (and diagnosed with) ADHD when I was 39, 5 years ago, I asked the psych whether my obesity was perhaps linked to it. He replied that, "no, probably not. Most of the people I see are thin".
This had the double whammy of making me doubt my diagnosis and consider that I'm just an irredeemable fat cunt.
Which was nice.
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Ozzy Osbourne called it the hardest drug to quit and that man has done many drugs
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Fiction. Written. Scifi mainly.
When I can't get the good stuff I use the bad stuff. But I'm always using.
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Being too damn nice.
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I am confronting the fact that I have lost the ability to just be bored. I need to get that back.
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He said most, not all. If my parents had been more regimented about me eating every meal I probably would have had weight issues earlier on.
To spin it positively, being exception to the general trend makes you exceptional!
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I'm luckily sensitive to most medications, and find good success with herbal stuff like valerian and passionflower, any of the GABA ones really. They don't make me sleepy as much as they get rid of that little burning anxiety stress that keeps me awake.
It's worth a shot for some people.
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Yep! Embracing boredom is likely the path back. Because it’s not a dead space. It’s a canvas.
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watching Corner Gas!
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Old school rune scape
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That amount of oxy alone is a LOT, good thing you were able to stop. Must've been hard.
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Tried that kinda stuff lol I'm unfortunately a horrible sleeper
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Yeah it was gnarly. That was my once every ~24 hours dose, with about 1/3 of the time not being able to afford it and having the equivalent of a severe flu from withdrawal. It was like that for years. Everyone that I ever hear about being prescribed any painkillers, I give them a very serious warning.
