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Buckomcdoogle
Atypical obsessive.


Registered: 11/27/19
Posts: 932
Last seen: 7 months, 21 days
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Addiction and lonliness....................
#26360230 - 12/04/19 12:14 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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loneliness is a key component to any addiction
Most addicts are very very lonely people. and that could be for a number of reasons...
Maybe at some point the people in your life neglected you, turned you away, made you feel unimportant or worthless..
The society we live in can be very isolating
("Alcoholism + isolation = suicide") I laughed when I first read that, but honestly that is very true...
Someone who is truly an addict will isolate and withdraw, If anything, its a coping mechanism.
The substance says you dont need anyone....... But its a lie, humans are social creatures....
I think alaskan natives are a great example of that. Alaska IS # 1 in suicides What part of America is more isolated than Alaska??
You become so lonely and isolated that you stop caring.....
"Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't."
With alcohol or opiates, they make you okay with being alone, maybe only temporarily... But someone whos an addict... will keep going and going..
I always noticed when I would take painkillers as a teen, I would get the urge to binge on them for days on end.
I think the psychology behind tobacco users is pretty interesting.... Its a habit that kills millions of people every year.... people continue to smoke.. And its because.... someone who is lonely Doesn't care.
Dying doesn't scare me..
Being trapped where I don't belong does..
-------------------- "Nothing is more dangerous to your creativity than comfort and familiarity" "Nihilism is the most basic truth in existence, the only consistency throughout the world, and the universe is chaos and decay" "Logic leads to nihilism"
Edited by Buckomcdoogle (12/04/19 01:13 AM)
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Jokeshopbeard
Humble Student

Registered: 11/30/11
Posts: 26,088
Loc: Deep in the system
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Re: Addiction and lonliness.................... [Re: Buckomcdoogle]
#26360910 - 12/04/19 11:31 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Buckomcdoogle said: Dying doesn't scare me..
Being trapped where I don't belong does..
Fuckin' Amen to that brother.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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JustABoxOfRain

Registered: 07/20/17
Posts: 197
Loc: Under my LSD bedsheets
Last seen: 4 months, 14 days
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Re: Addiction and lonliness.................... [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26361803 - 12/04/19 08:26 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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They really have gone hand in hand with me in the past. And what you said about the substance making you isolate further is also true and just creates a feedback loop where you use because you are lonely and are lonely because you use.
At my worst it was hard to look people in the eye.
I love "Dying doesn't scare me.. Being trapped where I don't belong does.." so true.
I'm finally making friends again
-------------------- Brotherhood of Eternal Love I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit
Edited by JustABoxOfRain (12/04/19 08:33 PM)
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