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We have used "addiction" like that in the past, but should we? Here's what my Psychology book has to say:

"Myth 3. We can extend the concept of addiction to cover not just drugs dependencies, but a whole spectrum of repetitive, please-seeking behaviors.
We can and we have, but should we? The addiction-as-disease-needing-treatment idea as been suggested for a host of driven behaviors, including too much eating, shopping, exercising, sex, gambling, and work. Initially, we may use the term metaphorically ("I'm a science fiction addict"), but it we begin taking the metaphor as reality, addiction can become an all-purpose excuse. Those who embezzle to feed their "gambling addiction," surf the Web half the night to satisfy their "Internet addiction," or abuse or betray to indulge their "sex addiction" can then explain away their behavior as illness.

Sometimes, though, behaviors such as gambling, playing video games, or surfing the Internet do become compulsive and dysfunctional, much like abusive drug taking (Griffiths, 2001; Hoeft et al., 2008). Some Internet users, for example, do display an apparent inability to resist logging on, and staying on, even when exessive use impairs their work and relationships (Ko et al., 2005). So, there may be justification for stretching the addiction concept to cover certain social behaviors. Debates over the addiction-as-disease model continue."
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My main point, though, is that it could classify as addiction if the Internet addiction impairs with your way of life, but this "addiction" you're speaking of, is probably not significantly getting in the way with your school work, your social life, your relationships, and taking care of yourself.
 
No, I don't think I'm attacking anybody. I'm just pointing out that you shouldn't just throw the term "addiction" around loosely just as how people shouldn't throw around "ADHD" and "OCD" loosely either. If they continue doing that, they may get muddled between a self-labeling term and a real problem.
 
Well now. If we put it that way, I do have a bad addiction to vidya gaemz and the intranetz.

Been like that since middle school.

Perhaps my OCD is really the cause to this. Who the hell knows.
 
Huh, sometimes I'm feeling good, but now I'm feeling terrible. It must be my biploar disorder. Oh, and I must be anti-social here too. And I don't have a lot of friends, I must have a phobia for humans. Since I'm feeling bad, I must have depression.

And you can't sit through that movie because of this ADHD society.
 
Mario Party X said:
Huh, sometimes I'm feeling good, but now I'm feeling terrible. It must be my biploar disorder. Oh, and I must be anti-social here too. And I don't have a lot of friends, I must have a phobia for humans. Since I'm feeling bad, I must have depression.

And you can't sit through that movie because of this ADHD society.
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Umm...wtf?
 
Mario Party X said:
No, I don't think I'm attacking anybody. I'm just pointing out that you shouldn't just throw the term "addiction" around loosely just as how people shouldn't throw around "ADHD" and "OCD" loosely either. If they continue doing that, they may get muddled between a self-labeling term and a real problem.
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so... you are attacking them for "throwing the term around loosely".
 
I don't understand in any way how Lefty is attacking anyone, unless you count pointing things out attacking people. She hasn't insulted anyone, she hasn't been offensive, hell, she even backed her points up with an AP Psychology book source...please elaborate
 
There's a difference between attacking people and pointing things out via FYI-like posts
 
smoking is pretty stupid to me, not to mention it makes me cough and all that jazz

it'd be nice if it was just as simple as making a no smoking campaign, but i doubt that's going to work anyway.

Many people are addicted, and others see nothing wrong with it, or it may be they dont care about the negatives of smoking.

Not to mention there are people out there that believe the whole smoking bit is actually good for my countrie's economy.
 
Demidevimon said:
I do hate those people who are willingly selling something that they know can kill
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To be fair, they put the Surgeon General's Warning on the box. And if someone still wants a pack, it's their choice. It's like fast food.
 
well fast food is only bad for you if you dont exercise or eat too much of it.

I mean its not like home cooked meals are always good for you either.
 
Tree Fiddy said:
Demidevimon said:
I do hate those people who are willingly selling something that they know can kill
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To be fair, they put the Surgeon General's Warning on the box. And if someone still wants a pack, it's their choice. It's like fast food.
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even if you don't care about people killing themselves, what about second-hand smoking, litter, and pollution?
 
Mario Party X said:
Huh, sometimes I'm feeling good, but now I'm feeling terrible. It must be my biploar disorder. Oh, and I must be anti-social here too. And I don't have a lot of friends, I must have a phobia for humans. Since I'm feeling bad, I must have depression.
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you're fine, people tend to overreact to shit on the Internet so that people will think they're cool so that they'll be loved

never works
 
While I think that the Truth campaign is a good idea in theory (informing the public of the dangers of smoking, the problems with business practices, the extent of damage, etc.) I feel that they've been going more down the route of PETA and just making really stupid commercials and shit entirely for attention and advertising funding purposes. Like, there's one commercial that's telling people that cigarettes have methane, and dog shit has methane, so therefore cigarettes are filled with dog shit. That is a horrid way to get people to stop smoking because it's an abuse of the truth. It's horribly misleading and creates a precedent for other people and organizations to use tangential half-truths to trick people to support their cause.
 
I don't see why smoking is still so common. Peer pressure isn't that bad is it?

Radagast the Brown said:
Mario Party X said:
Huh, sometimes I'm feeling good, but now I'm feeling terrible. It must be my biploar disorder. Oh, and I must be anti-social here too. And I don't have a lot of friends, I must have a phobia for humans. Since I'm feeling bad, I must have depression.
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you're fine, people tend to overreact to shit on the Internet so that people will think they're cool so that they'll be loved

never works
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attention-seekers are as common on the internet as they are outside of it.
 
Radagast the Brown said:
Mario Party X said:
Huh, sometimes I'm feeling good, but now I'm feeling terrible. It must be my biploar disorder. Oh, and I must be anti-social here too. And I don't have a lot of friends, I must have a phobia for humans. Since I'm feeling bad, I must have depression.
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you're fine, people tend to overreact to shit on the Internet so that people will think they're cool so that they'll be loved

never works
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or maybe people really hate themselves or their lives.

Of course thats not important to you.
 
Zae said:
or maybe people really hate themselves or their lives.
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I can't deny this...

I don't feel I'm an attention whore, I just say what comes to mind. But if people see me that way, I really couldn't care less.
 
Politoed said:
Like, there's one commercial that's telling people that cigarettes have methane, and dog *bleep* has methane, so therefore cigarettes are filled with dog *bleep*.
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lol, fart has methane, so therefore whenever you smoke, you fart.

That's almost like the media saying margarine is bad for you because there's only one molecule difference between it and plastic.
 
Crackin355 said:
I don't see why smoking is still so common. Peer pressure isn't that bad is it?

Radagast the Brown said:
Mario Party X said:
Huh, sometimes I'm feeling good, but now I'm feeling terrible. It must be my biploar disorder. Oh, and I must be anti-social here too. And I don't have a lot of friends, I must have a phobia for humans. Since I'm feeling bad, I must have depression.
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you're fine, people tend to overreact to *bleep* on the Internet so that people will think they're cool so that they'll be loved

never works
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attention-seekers are as common on the internet as they are outside of it.
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I'm not an attention-seeker. I have none of these things. BUT, somebody replies to my response by mindlessly throwing terms around as if the person is mocking me, so what do I do? I show my disapproval by throwing terms around, too.

I really don't appreciate people saying, "We OCD gamers must 100% blah blah blah". It just bothers me how words can be warped from a serious problem to something "everyone" has. Besides, these labels being thrown around is like stereotyping those with these disorders, focusing on just a few attributes.

Anyway, these commercials do a terrible job. They're naggy scare tactics.

Margarine is bad for you, but the claim about the molecule difference is so full of BS. Salt is one molecule/atom away from being a super-reactive explosive (sodium), so what's the media's point?
 
Mario Party X said:
Crackin355 said:
I don't see why smoking is still so common. Peer pressure isn't that bad is it?

Radagast the Brown said:
Mario Party X said:
Huh, sometimes I'm feeling good, but now I'm feeling terrible. It must be my biploar disorder. Oh, and I must be anti-social here too. And I don't have a lot of friends, I must have a phobia for humans. Since I'm feeling bad, I must have depression.
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you're fine, people tend to overreact to *bleep* on the Internet so that people will think they're cool so that they'll be loved

never works
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attention-seekers are as common on the internet as they are outside of it.
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I'm not an attention-seeker. I have none of these things. BUT, somebody replies to my response by mindlessly throwing terms around as if the person is mocking me, so what do I do? I show my disapproval by throwing terms around, too.
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Ah, sorry if you took that the wrong way. My post was meant for the part where it said 'on the Internet'.

I don't really think you're an attention-seeker, but I don't really think doing the thing you disapprove of is a good way of showing you disapprove of it or getting your point across. But this isn't something I know much about so I'll just stay out of it.

Also, when I said I don't see why it's still common, I was referring to the people that choose to smoke for the first time, not those that are addicted to it to begin with. 'Smoking is bad for you' is drilled into you as a kid with all the no smoking signs and ads on tv. I guess I was basing 'peer pressure' on my experiences with peer pressure, which isn't something I should do since I don't really care what people think of me while others probably spend a lot of time worried or stressed about it. My comment was pretty insensitive in hindsight.
 
Yeah, my method is probably immature and vague. I'm not a psychologist. However, I did take AP Psychology and got a 5, so I'm aware of a lot of things that can go in our heads, so I know what I'm talking about.

Smoking is bad for you, but those messages can become naggy if you hear it enough. Once something starts nagging you, you just start ignoring it, destroying its purpose. Also, never underestimate the power of peer pressure. I'm not the kid who'd want to join a group, and I often resist trends, so I don't know exactly how powerful it is, but kids, especially teenagers, like to conform. Teens have a trouble with their identity, so they try fitting in groups to identify themselves. And this can lead to smoking.
 
Addiction isn't just about peer pressure and marketting, tho. It can be hereditary or a mental illness in its own right, which tends to be ignored too often in favour of "they just want to do it because everyone else is doing it!"

Even if you don't have an unfortunate pre-disposition towards addiction, once you've been smoking long enough, it not only becomes a physiological and psychological crutch, it also just becomes a normal day-to-day occurrence. "Time to take my 10 minute break; I'll have a snack, text my lover, have a smoke...", for instance. And if everyone else around you is indulging the thing you're trying to quit, well uhh... it's a bit hard to stop unless you're all in it together.
 
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