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Originally Posted by Mac Murphy
Never saw this thread before today. I hope it can help. Many of you probably saw my post about Facebook and that sick addiction. I have been "clean" from that for 3 weeks now and don't want to go back to that again. But I can't seem to live without some form of addiction in my life. Now I'm back to drinking and smoking again when I travel for business...like now for instance. I really hate this cycle of moving from one addiction to another. Any suggestions on breaking free from all addictions?
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first off found this informative study. a section-
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"The Additive Personality-Common Traits are Found"
.....Dr. O'Brien said that people in all these addictions progressively needed greater quantities of stimulation to satisfy their needs and developed symptoms of withdrawal when deprived of the addictive activity. He also noted that addicts to one activity would often switch to another when deprived of opportunity to participate in the original addiction.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/18/sc...pagewanted=all
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Treatment-Another form of treatment, which can be overlooked, is self-soothing. People with addictive personality disorders use their addictions to self-soothe in stressful situations. However, since their addictions do not actually soothe them, they feel the need to do their addiction more often.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addicti...lity#Treatment
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while reading i found a common thread. the addictive personality is participating in compulsive behavior trying to fix an emotional need with another addiction rather than dealing with it. instead an off-shoot is replacing the emotional need with the comp.behavior.
gosh i'm glad you asked. i am a 'puter junkie. guess i need to take a look at why i am not fulfilling a need i'm ignoring.
hope this helps. think i'll bring this up with my T. CBT therapy is one approach to identify the need they say.
my thoughts are writing down the "payoff" of the new addiction and the negatives that accompany them. that gives us a better picture like when abusing alcohol, etc. if the negatives are winning it's time for me to change. a little self discipline helps too.
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