“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.
16 year old me was addicted to one part of my own body. Escapism is a helluva drug.
Painkiller addictions are common
Not with over the counter NSAIDs
Half the girls in my high school were addicted to Tylenol
Are you sure it wasn’t Tylenol with codeine?
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.
Huh. Maybe there was some kind of environmental hazard in the school like mold
Blood clotting’s mini-boss
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.
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
MJ is my longest lasting friendship outside of my own sister
Inside this person’s sister it’s too wet to smoke
Dopamine
Coffee
More espresso, less depresso.
Sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth.
I’m right here with you in this boat. I’m just really glad I hate baking or else I’m sure I’d weigh far far too much.
Lmao I love baking, so you see my issue here. Nothing like making a beautiful pan of cinnamon rolls and eating half.
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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.
Yeah, I used the LeechBlock browser addon for that. Worked ok, though I was often tempted to override it. 😅
I use an app called Lock Me Out to ensure that I don’t get into bad habits of scrolling too long.
I recommend getting into some other hobbies that require your attention.
Do what I did and get perma-banned from Reddit. Then you’ll just be addicted to Lemmy. 😤
Then you’ll just be lurking all the time lol
(I don’t have an account but still lurk on reddit with adblockers)
God, me too.
I use a self hosted front end for reddit so at least im not logging in there but sweet jesus.
Internet…
But also constantly thinking about past memories… nostalgia?
Have you considered writing a memoir
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)
Porn, Video Games and Youtube Shorts. The Holy Trifecta of Loneliness .
Damn dude… You really have to quit those YouTube shorts.
But what else should I jerk off to then?
YouTube Nudes
Video games
Going out to eat. I try to limit myself to 3 times a week.
What’s your favorite to go to?
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.
I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.
They always complained about how broke they were and how expensive life is…
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.
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?
Nah, we tend to either stay home or when we go out to do things on the weekends they’re quick errands and we’re right back home.
Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place and get me labeled as a pretentious douche.
got any recommendations?
Yeah. The Identity Trap.
Great book on how/why our universities and politics are so fucked up the past 10 years.
cum
Thinking.
I’m not good at it, but I do it often.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Agreed with the second part 100%. On the rare occasion I get fast food or something, getting the good stuff straight from the great soda teat is probably the best part.
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.
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.
Oh really?? I didn’t know they did anything besides overpriced water at concerts, lol. I’ll check it out, hell yeah.
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.
I mean, that’s their model, yeah. That’s exactly what it is.
Yeah I mean I knew that… It was still weird to open a can of something and have it taste so watered down.
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.
2025 made me an alcoholic
Understandable
Hobbies, I can’t get enough of them, gotta collect 'em all. Every couple months it’s a new fixation.
Fucking neurotypicals…
Food
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.
