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[–] 62 points 8 months ago (15 children)
  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (11 children)

    "But it's impossible to be addicted to weed."

    - People who don't realize you can be addicted to literally anything.

    I knew a guy who was addicted to ibuprofen. He wasn't even taking it for pain.

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  • [+] 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Not with over the counter NSAIDs

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Half the girls in my high school were addicted to Tylenol

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Are you sure it wasn't Tylenol with codeine?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    If half the girls in my school were addicted to codeine, that would have been a major scandal, lives would have been ruined. This was treated more like a minor inconvenience, they all had low grade migraines they treated by popping tylenols all day long. To be honest I'd be surprised if some of them didn't fuck up their livers a bit.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    I don't smoke anymore, but back when I was working as a line cook I used to smoke like a chimney. I'm real happy I stopped, my sleep took a while to get better but now it's way more restful then when I smoked. Weed is chill in moderation, not if it's your only way to relax after a long day of too many hours under high pressure.

    Still get a bit of a craving every now and then, but I think it's just when I'm bored.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    My addiction ed for new techs that were hired with few to no actual psych qualifications is that they're almost definitely addicted to something and just happen to be lucky enough that it's legal. Common legal addictions:

    • nicotine
    • caffeine
    • gambling including microtransaction phone games
    • social media
    • pornography
    • processed sugar
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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I dunno if might help - but I had a problem with reddit (before switching to Lemmy). I ended up putting an app timer on it for an hour every weekday and 2 on weekends. Honestly, it helped a lot for me.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Internet...

    But also constantly thinking about past memories... nostalgia?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Have you considered writing a memoir

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yes...

    Unfortunately I've been just been binge watching a bunch of random stuff and been procrastinating on it...

    Don't worry... I'll get that done some day...

    5 decades later...

    "Eh, I'll work on it tomorrow..."

    (My most recent binge-watch is Frieren... lots of flashbacks... just like I go through a lot of "flashbacks" everyday lol... it's so poetic, so rhymey)

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Porn, Video Games and Youtube Shorts. The Holy Trifecta of Loneliness .

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Damn dude... You really have to quit those YouTube shorts.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    But what else should I jerk off to then?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    Going out to eat. I try to limit myself to 3 times a week.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What's your favorite to go to?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    On Saturdays for lunch we let the kids pick. Me and my wife work from home, on Tuesdays she gets to pick where we go for our lunch date and Thursdays I get to pick.

    The wife likes to pick sushi, panera, taco bell, and a good local burger joint.

    I like to pick Qdoba, Firehouse, Burger King, local Indian place, chick-fil-a, and random new places around town.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.

    They always complained about how broke they were and how expensive life is..

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    True. One thing that helps is I hate delivery apps. I only use them when work gives out gift cards. The food is always cold and garbage when I finally get it. And not using those helps save money a lot too.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    What about when you hang out outside on a weekend, then that is easily two meals outside.

    Do you not hang out outside that long or do you go home for lunch and go back out?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago* (10 children)

    Soda for me.
    I love it.
    I hate it.

    I just wish so much that there were half sugar sodas out there. All the synthetic sugars of the diet or 0 calorie ones taste like garbage.

    I've been cutting the ones I drink by pouring a can of eltzer water in with the regular can of soda, but I think even that tastes a little strange compared to just watering things down.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    Make your own. It's pretty easy. It's just water and flavorings and sugar and you boil it down slowly.

    Syrup in the fridge made this way will store for weeks and you can customize how strong/weak you want your soda to taste.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I drink a lot of plain carbonated water. I mean carbonated water with powerful bubbles like most sodas. Some carbonated waters are awfully bad with weak ass bubbles indistinguishable from something that was left open the day before and went flat.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Same... I drink an embarrassing amount of diet soda. I'm like a chain-drinker, to be honest, and I'm almost never without one. When one runs out I get another.

    I like to add a splash of regular when I use a fountain soda machine, which is the best way to drink soda anyway, imo.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Liquid Death has some great low-sugar sodas. I’ve been a strong fan of their Doctor Death. Their tea is also super low in sugar.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Only tried Liquid Death once, and it was Arnold Palmer I believe. Just tasted like watered down iced tea...

    I think the flavor was called "dead billionaire" though which gave me a chuckle.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    There are some lower sugar sodas, or hybrid sodas that use fruit juice along with Stevia or monkfruit in order to cut the weird taste. Olipop is my favorite, and Spindrift has some good flavors.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Thinking.

    I'm not good at it, but I do it often.

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    That's the real insidious substance in the US. Unlike other vices, food is actually necessary to live so every time one has to eat they run the risk of a relapse. Imagine nicotine addicts still needing to use it as a means of breathing, even if it's with a vape pen at a really small dose it can cause huge cravings.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    My computer, in full working order, with Internet access.

    If any of that goes wrong, I'm in a very bad place.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Blue cheese. Specifically double cream blue cheese spread on triscuits.

    I used to think blue cheese tasted like play-doh...

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Hobbies, I can't get enough of them, gotta collect 'em all. Every couple months it's a new fixation.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Weed got me through the hell that was last year, and it sure as shit looks like it's gonna be just as useful this year.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Nicotine, and to a very mild degree alcohol

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Food

    It might be an eating disorder

    I avoid talking to my therapist about it because I don't want to confront the truth.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Music, I NEED it on nearly all the time or I’ll drive myself insane repeating parts of songs in my head. Only turn it off to sleep

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    How do you find enough stuff to listen to ?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I have a lot of artists I like so there’s usually new music even without checking out new playlists, although that works great too. Honestly the biggest part is probably just that if I really love a song I don’t mind hearing it super often, so I’m usually perfectly happy just hitting shuffle on my library and vibing with whatever’s on

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I have a lot of artists I like

    Damn that must be great. I have like 1-2 songs I like from ~10 artists

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oh wow, have you tried listening to other artists and not found anything you like?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    I’d say coffee, because I have a low level dependency on morning caffeine and high level emotional dependence. I’d say alcohol, because I tend to binge drink weekends.

    But really, it’s my smartphone. I can cut alcohol and caffeine out easily, but I can’t lose the smartphone, which means it’s always there ready for me to dissociate.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Caffeine, I love it.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place and get me labeled as a pretentious douche.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Opening outlook, checking my email, closing outlook. Repeat.

    Also weed and lemmy

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Video games

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Doomscrolling

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    computer/internet

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  • Caffeine. It's perhaps a boring answer but I have a physical dependence on caffeine.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Nicotine/vapes and eating way too much

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Crisps. Think you guys call them chips. I love 'em.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Benadryl. I have always struggled to sleep.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Just one?

    Caffeine.

    Former addict of nicotine, alcohol

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