News of Addictions

Hi cynic,

You are absolutely right. Too much internet surfing may affect on your health. May be it can disturb your mental health. Today's generation spend their most of time on this thing. You should stay away from internet. Walk with your friends, talk to your family members. Just divert your mind, day by day decrease surfing. Put control on your mind when you go for surfing. Just don't do any things in your life, ...

So I've realized I have a problem with Alcohol. I only drink once a month or once every couple of months but when I do I tend to binge with my girlfriends and have at least 10-20 drinks. One time I blacked out so bad in Vegas I left my friend at a club and can't remember the next 4 hours or so until we re-united.

This past saturday was the ultimate worst alcohol experience ...

The dictionary defines addiction as a means "to devote or surrender oneself to something habitually or obsessively; behavior that impairs the performance of a vital function(s), a harmful development." Addiction causes you to lose your sense of balance and rationality. Beneath all addictions is a longing for immediate gratification--to feel good, powerful, worthy of admiration, and problem-free--and an insistence on ignoring the long-range, self-destructive implications of the behavior.

If you suffer from spending addiction, one ...

Yes, I'm serious. I have a TERRIBLE addiction to the internet and I fear this will put a huge dent in my plans for, hell, EVERYTHING. I log in and go to each forum compulsively, fearing I "might miss something cool or big" that I'll want to be in on. My hygiene, responsibilities and even my enjoyment of video games is marred by this. I mean, come on! I freakin' love video games and can't ...