You just dont feel “it” without the substance anymore..perma depressed
Substance is priority in ur life. U have most likely have it 24/7 with you or close to youl. U gotta hide ur consumption cause people could realize that u drink way too much(mostly alcoholics). Alcoholics switch beetwen supermarkets cause they try to hide their addiction although everyone alrdy knows that they are addicted. Alcoholics wont realize that everyone can see it cause they are always drunk/out of space.
Alcohol+illegal substances,-
People will start making excuses up to consume their substance (completly ALONE) of preference. Things like meeting friends, doing the dishes, washing clothes slowly but surely vanish.
# U most likely have it 24/7 with you or close to youl
++ if u continue Using drug although u alrdy feel ur body/mental degrading/getting worse
It is causing your life to fall apart around you because you are too busy focuing on that rather than all the relationships and obligations in your life.
When what you’re doing used to flood your brain with dopamine and no longer does so you have to move onto something that’s a bit of a more intense version of it.
My husband and I live by the phrase “It’s only a problem if I can’t pay my bills” so in terms of addiction, if you can’t afford your bills because you spent all your money on something then that’s and addiction and a problem.
You know you have to stop but the sadness and the feeling of “my life will suck without this” is bigger than the common sense of not destroying your body and wasting money.
You always tell yourself… it’s the last time, but every time the urge to do it comes, you simply say it’s the last time I will do it, but right after you finish doing it you begin to feel disgusted about yourself and that you shouldn’t have done it at all.
When you would rather do the thing you really wanna do than do something with family or friends. Like people dropping friends because they don’t like it when you smoke around them instead of understanding it and not doing it when they’re there anymore
I feel like I can get pretty much addicted to anything probably due to addictive personality traits (definitely alcoholism in my family) so I try to keep to things that add value in my life. Im currently addicted to reading which adds a lot of value to my life, however, I know I have to back off when I am blowing off correcting students work or blowing off lesson planning to read during my prep time (I’m a teacher). Another seemingly harmless one is that pretty much every other week or so (I’ve got this one slightly reigned in) I hide a couple of pints of Ben and Jerries in my outside studio and devour it while I work on my art. Going without this for a few weeks is not easy for me and inhibits my ability to work. Addiction sux.
I mean, most people are addicts, whether that be to their phone, sugar, coffee. It’s just constantly upping your dose and being dysfunctional without something.
You can’t go more than three days without it. You should be able to go a day without anything except for air, water, and (actually necessary) food. A lot of people can white knuckle if it’s just for 24 hours.
Not foolproof because it doesn’t account for binges, but it’s a good indication.
Justifying the behavior to yourself and making compromises. “Well if things weren’t so bad right now, I wouldn’t need ___. I can just do it once today. I can afford to do it today if I cancel my plans, or if I don’t order takeout.”
I heard the exchange of “You have a problem.” And “It only becomes a problem if I can’t afford it.”
That isn’t always financially but that is a strong tell tale sign. It doesn’t have to be drugs, betting or alcohol. It can be any interest or vice that consumes you.
Gaming, phone use and horses can also be addictions. People let their world fall apart around them as long as they can get their fix.
When trying to abstain from the thing causing unbearable mild discomfort.
I really don’t know how else to put it. I used to be hooked on sodas. This is far from some illicit drug, but sugar doesn’t have too dissimilar an effect to the pleasure centers of the brain. I tried to ween myself off of the stuff for years, but it was only under the most perfect of conditions that I could go without. But then I’d almost… itch for the stuff. I’d feel better once I had more.
I’ve thankfully shaken my mild addiction by way of changing my taste and pallet. Now soda is excessively sweet. I just about can’t stand it. But I genuinely believe that for a bunch of years there I was addicted to the stuff. Now I’m on the look out for things I can’t stop doing when faced with unbearable mild discomfort.
If you’re not doing it, you’re counting down the minutes until you can. The thought of your addiction will interfere with your daily life because it’s taking up all your headspace.
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When you constantly crave it/ are thinking about it
You’ve gone broke financially and morally to keep doing it.
When whatever you’re doing can only be done in hiding :/
When you ask this question.
When you prioritize it over family and friends
When you keep doing that’s feel so illegal
When you question yourself if you’re addicted and then your life does on the same way it was earlier, you’re addicted and you’re continuing..
You constantly do it and rarely find time for other things. That activity or habit consumes you.
It has control over you.
When you abuse it
When it becomes our priority number.1
When your woman tries to tell you to stop playing video games and you don’t 🙏🙏😂😂
When you waste your time on it.
You just dont feel “it” without the substance anymore..perma depressed
Substance is priority in ur life. U have most likely have it 24/7 with you or close to youl. U gotta hide ur consumption cause people could realize that u drink way too much(mostly alcoholics). Alcoholics switch beetwen supermarkets cause they try to hide their addiction although everyone alrdy knows that they are addicted. Alcoholics wont realize that everyone can see it cause they are always drunk/out of space.
Alcohol+illegal substances,-
People will start making excuses up to consume their substance (completly ALONE) of preference. Things like meeting friends, doing the dishes, washing clothes slowly but surely vanish.
# U most likely have it 24/7 with you or close to youl
++ if u continue Using drug although u alrdy feel ur body/mental degrading/getting worse
It is causing your life to fall apart around you because you are too busy focuing on that rather than all the relationships and obligations in your life.
When you minimize the hold it has on you
If you miss it when you don’t get it.
When you no longer want, but need it, you likely have an addiction.
When you feel anxious when you don’t have it and relief after getting more.
You’re using it even when it’s clearly hurting you
You feel withdrawal symptoms when you can’t access it
You tell yourself you’re stopping, but always find an excuse not to
When it is all you look forward to
When you’re like “i couldddd stop, buttt” lolll
When you know that thing is hurting you but you can’t stop, you can’t stop yourself from taking that thing.
when u forsake other objectively more important things to do it
Wake up and go right to it.
Literally shaking
You always find yourself indulging in it before you think about what you’re doing.
when i lose money
You find yourself doing it in situations where you fully realize how inapropriate it is.
When you do it without thinking about it
When you loose it and see how desperate you are to get it back even through disgusting or bad ways
When it consumes you
When It alters who you are!
Others can see the signs of addiction, but only you know the true damage.
When you dont get hard anymore. Hit the gym not the hub 😉
Probably the fact that you can’t stop thinking about it even though you’re not consuming it atm
“I can quit whenever I want, I just don’t feel like it.” My friends would always say this with smoking
No dependability. Lack of communication. Highly irritable.
Having to ask “what is a sign you’re heavily addicted to something?”
You do it even when you don’t really want to.
When what you’re doing used to flood your brain with dopamine and no longer does so you have to move onto something that’s a bit of a more intense version of it.
My husband and I live by the phrase “It’s only a problem if I can’t pay my bills” so in terms of addiction, if you can’t afford your bills because you spent all your money on something then that’s and addiction and a problem.
when you lie about how much time or money you spend on it
When you just do it without even thinking, before you can even process what’s happening.
More than half of your spending goes to that addiction, even in this economy.
You can’t stop thinking of it
People who have a [substance/behaviour] addiction don’t worry that they have a [substance/behaviour] addiction.
Constantly having a desire to consume or have what causes addiction.
It comes before anything else
You stop doing other things that are important so you can do that.
Your browser history is 90% porn
When you can’t get to sleep without it
You’re in AA
It’s all you think about 247
If you stop doing _____ you get a headache/ irritable
When the notion of the addiction does a “pop over” in your awareness
I collect action figures I already know I have a plastic addiction
If your asking this question because you think your addicted to something you are I did this as well
It becomes a part of your daily routine and if it’s not executed then your whole routine collapse
When you say, “I can stop whenever I want.”
You know you have to stop but the sadness and the feeling of “my life will suck without this” is bigger than the common sense of not destroying your body and wasting money.
Cravings and withdrawal symptoms (physical or psychological) are a pretty good sign.
You’re thinking about it “all the time” and that too, at the back of your mind. Food addiction is real, people!
Even you don’t have enough money you will buy it and this is your priority over your family.
You assert you can do without it, *but (insert excuse)
Wear a red cap
You always tell yourself… it’s the last time, but every time the urge to do it comes, you simply say it’s the last time I will do it, but right after you finish doing it you begin to feel disgusted about yourself and that you shouldn’t have done it at all.
When you try to stop doing it, do you feel an undying sense of anxiety?
Can you stop if you wanted to? And do you want to deep down?
Constantly smoking cigarettes every time you go outside quitting smoking and relapsing after 9 months honestly this makes me feel shitty
When you tell yourself you’re not doing it anymore and you can’t stop yourself from doing it.
All these comments describing how I feel about social media and phone usage 🥲
When you would rather do the thing you really wanna do than do something with family or friends. Like people dropping friends because they don’t like it when you smoke around them instead of understanding it and not doing it when they’re there anymore
I feel like I can get pretty much addicted to anything probably due to addictive personality traits (definitely alcoholism in my family) so I try to keep to things that add value in my life. Im currently addicted to reading which adds a lot of value to my life, however, I know I have to back off when I am blowing off correcting students work or blowing off lesson planning to read during my prep time (I’m a teacher). Another seemingly harmless one is that pretty much every other week or so (I’ve got this one slightly reigned in) I hide a couple of pints of Ben and Jerries in my outside studio and devour it while I work on my art. Going without this for a few weeks is not easy for me and inhibits my ability to work. Addiction sux.
You Miss work & affects your performance at work. You avoid family & loved ones to do it.
Why are all the comments sounding like my mobile phone?
You’re in debt for it, or exchange sexual favours, or you inject it in your body.
wanting without liking
I mean, most people are addicts, whether that be to their phone, sugar, coffee. It’s just constantly upping your dose and being dysfunctional without something.
I used to be addicted to soap… But I’m clean now.
You can’t go more than three days without it. You should be able to go a day without anything except for air, water, and (actually necessary) food. A lot of people can white knuckle if it’s just for 24 hours.
Not foolproof because it doesn’t account for binges, but it’s a good indication.
Justifying the behavior to yourself and making compromises. “Well if things weren’t so bad right now, I wouldn’t need ___. I can just do it once today. I can afford to do it today if I cancel my plans, or if I don’t order takeout.”
When it literally becomes your life.
I’m not addicted. I can stop anytime I want. I just don’t want to stop.
You keep coming back for some more
People around you regularly mention it, joke about it, confront you about it. Double if you deny and feel defensive.
When “just one more” turns into “where did the last couple of months go?”…every time
Mentally calculating the way to get it.
I used to head straight to get cigarettes as soon as I had spending money.
No hesitation.
Addiction is so fatal because the chemicals re-wire how the brain works.
It’s a tragedy.
When you want two of something before you’ve had one.
When it starts ruining things around you, friendships, friends, family, work. You will ignore Daily housework activities over a longer period of time.
Planning your day around it
When it’s the first thing you do after getting out of bed, except maybe going to the bathroom.
Some addictions, people don’t even always get out of bed for before imbibing.
When everything else falters around you but you’re truckin’ along in your own world.
You put it before everything.
I might be addicted to food. Or im . Its a toxic relationship. How can i get rid of this bf of mine 😭
You can’t stop thinking about doing it.
I keep doing it even though I know it’s bad for me.
It’s affecting your sleep
I heard the exchange of “You have a problem.” And “It only becomes a problem if I can’t afford it.”
That isn’t always financially but that is a strong tell tale sign. It doesn’t have to be drugs, betting or alcohol. It can be any interest or vice that consumes you.
Gaming, phone use and horses can also be addictions. People let their world fall apart around them as long as they can get their fix.
You tell yourself you’re only doing it for the kids.
Continued use despite negative consequences
When trying to abstain from the thing causing unbearable mild discomfort.
I really don’t know how else to put it. I used to be hooked on sodas. This is far from some illicit drug, but sugar doesn’t have too dissimilar an effect to the pleasure centers of the brain. I tried to ween myself off of the stuff for years, but it was only under the most perfect of conditions that I could go without. But then I’d almost… itch for the stuff. I’d feel better once I had more.
I’ve thankfully shaken my mild addiction by way of changing my taste and pallet. Now soda is excessively sweet. I just about can’t stand it. But I genuinely believe that for a bunch of years there I was addicted to the stuff. Now I’m on the look out for things I can’t stop doing when faced with unbearable mild discomfort.
Asking questions like this
When you really don’t give a shit about who you’re hurting to get your fix.
It negativly affects other parts of your life
When your desperately sobbing telling yourself to stop while activity doing it.
When you lie about doing it.
It becomes your every thought… when you don’t have it, all you can think about is when you can do or have it again.
when you say everyone you can stop it at any given time but doesn’t
If you’re not doing it, you’re counting down the minutes until you can. The thought of your addiction will interfere with your daily life because it’s taking up all your headspace.
When I cant stop thinking about it. There is this one person, I cant stop thinking about no matter how much I try to get them off my mind or life.