I believe it is the case. In my case, when I joined Alcoholics Anonymous and started recovery for alcoholism, I took up food in its place. Now I'm being advised to go to Overeaters Anonymous.
I starting to wonder if I'll ever get any better too.
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In forgiving others, we are not exonerating them. They may not deserve exoneration. Rather, in forgiving others we are giving up our anger over the fact that what happened is not what "should" have happened or that our life is not the way it "should" have been.
I definitely agree with this. I tend to swap addictions or compulsive behaviours, for example if I stop myself from cutting I tend to go further into my eating disorder and vice versa.
~"To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure."~
I definitely agree with this. I tend to swap addictions or compulsive behaviours, for example if I stop myself from cutting I tend to go further into my eating disorder and vice versa.
'Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.'
['There is only one thing we say to death. Not today'.']
'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.’ – Oscar Wilde
‘It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back.’ Sydney Carter
this is true
before i think i was a sex addict now im drinking too much way before that it was drugs
i eat too much too
im substituting sex for drinking
better off with the sex really causes less harm
I'm constantly substituting cutting and smoking for each other. If I've quit smoking, it usually means that my cutting's got worse but if I've quit cutting, it means that I'm probably poisoning my lungs again...
*sigh*
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I drink or I take drugs or I cut or I throw up or I do all of them or some new destructive thing. I do them obsessively. I suppose I have an addictive personality if such a thing exists. I have paranoid schiz and OCD so guess that'll be why but it kinda makes me think what's the point in giving up one thing just to have another thing to battle.
I definitely agree with this through my life I have continuously swapped addictions without even realizing it; alcohol, food, s/h, cocaine, sex, marijuana. I think some people do have an addictive personality, and as my therapist says it's about getting addicted to positive things.
"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else." - Angelina Jolie
I was once told that: I go from one crisis to another
I have an addictive personality and I am extremely impulsive, I do and then think, its always been like that I gues.
I've had many addictions. Internet has always been a problem (strange one) but I truly believe my compulision to be on msn etc and chat roms hindered me when I was in school, and later university - it still does, not a serious addiction but there anyway.
I have a problem with alcohol, I don't hae vodka with my branflakes but I depend heavily on alcohol.
I am addicted to gambling. It has bankrupted me, and now means I will not join the polic for another 6 years at least. I stll aint been to a meeting or put a block on my pc. I still think I am due a final win.
Food, been on weightwachers the last year but my weight loss has only been a stone and a half, could do more and must I guess, I just cant cut out the habits of comfort eating, as well as the drinking.
Addiction is a problem for me. Lucky I have never smoked or done drugs, but sometimes I honestly do think they are next, one addiction and then another it is a cycle. I put it down to my bpd and impulsive nature, but I just want to be free from it all.
Something has changed within me, something is not the same, I'm through with playing by the rules of someone elses game. Too late for second guessing, too late to go back to sleep, its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap....
Somethings I cannot change, but till I try I'll never know...
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I also agree with this. Throughout the years I have on many occassions gone from one addiction to the other... if I was eating ok, sh was way out of control... if I was able to not sh then I was restricting food intake greatly... when I was going well both ED and SH wise... drinking and taking O/D's came into play.
It is a very very nastly cycle.
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I definitely agree with this. I tend to swap addictions or compulsive behaviours, for example if I stop myself from cutting I tend to go further into my eating disorder and vice versa.
^yep
"They say time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessons, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy
And do you think this cycle will ever break?
Im 17 and when I look into the future I see myself still struggling with my addictions, I don't want this to happen but I fear I may always be an 'addict'.
I agree with everyone else, usually until the problem is delt with the cycle continues, supressing one addiction with another.
You're still so young, you have you whole life ahead of you and can change it for the better, you just have to stay strong and possitive, to many addctions it's just a matter of weening yourself off and then just simply saying no.
In my opinion anyway.
Absolutely.
I think it most probably can break, yes, with the right help. At the moment it seems you're not necessarily dealing with the underlying causes of your addictions? But once you start dealing with those causes it can help and you find other coping strategies...
The only time you will find real light is when you're searching in the dark..
My CPN does't think I am ready to stop gambling as I wont put a block on my pc, I norm say I dont have money but she knew I had won some last month, she asked me today how it went, i told her i blew it up, think she is ready to give up on me.
She asked how I would feel if I put on my latop and the block was on, I said I would feel violated, I want to do it, but putting the block on, is a lack of control is it not, it costs £60....but I gamble my wages away most months, god knows what to do.
Something has changed within me, something is not the same, I'm through with playing by the rules of someone elses game. Too late for second guessing, too late to go back to sleep, its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap....
Somethings I cannot change, but till I try I'll never know...
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Same thing happened with me. Binge-eating when I was younger, stopped doing that and started cutting, then stopped cutting for a while and started to purge and stuff... if I stop one thing, another one always comes along. I don't think I'll get better, it's how I cope.
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