Addiction

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  1. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Junky of course

    The first chapter to Zeno's Confessions "Smoking" is really good. Short chapter though

  2. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Big Book

  3. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bukowski's oeuvre (the burden of analysis/insight is on you though)
    Sadly, Porn
    anything by Gabor Mate

  4. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Become addicted to something

  5. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some people simply can’t get addicted. I’ve tried meth, crack, opium, and pills and never once felt the need to try it again and quickly forgot the experience the next day.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Addiction is built up over prolonged and consistent use, not from doing it once and never touching it again. Are you that moronic that you believed the primary school teachers who told you if you do heroin once you'll be a complete skaghead for the rest of your life??

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >do crack once
        >you know what I need to try it again
        >try it again
        >you know what I need to try it again
        If you do it more than once, you are a loser addict

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          You are a loser who likely has never been to a party. If I was you I'd have killed myself. Maybe smoking crack would make you a more interesting person??

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I have tried it. Just once. simply not a loser addict like you who is so mentally weak that they can’t stop doing something

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >thinks "starting" and "doing something once" are the same thing
            maybe you are a crackhead

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Addict cope. I bet you tell yourself you can stop any time, huh, bub?

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            The only cope I see is the person who smokes crack being a homosexual because they refuse to understand not everyone who does drugs is an addict unlike them. Stop self-depricating, go smoke a bowl and relax

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I have never smoked crack. But your loser mindset is some bullshit that was packaged up by the government and regurgitated by normies. I know people who smoke crack once in a blue moon, the same way i know people who do cocaine on special occassions. These people are nothing alike an actual addict, who, due to prolonged and consistent substance abuse, need to keep a regular dose in order to fight off life-threatening withdrawals. Someone who enjoys a drink before bed isn't an alcoholic. moron.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            And what was their reasoning for doing it again after the first time, huh? I think the word begins with an a.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Because people enjoy things that make them feel good and aren't inherently healthy for them? Are you addicted to McDonald's because you sometimes eat a Big Mac? Are you on the same level as some obsese American who needs to eat a Big Mac or else will want to kill themself? You clearly never were invited to parties if you think people who do something for fun = being a serious addict. moron

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I have tried most of drugs multiple times each without getting addicted to any of them. If I did them multiple times it's because I enjoyed the experience and wanted to repeat it. For example i've tripped a dozen times on LSD, dozen mdma rolls, taken 2 fma to play tf2 and study, listened to a few of my favorite albums under my blankets on ketamine... I have never have felt the need or push to do a single drug. I just do them very sporadically because I enjoy them. Educating yourself on harm reduction, recommended dosages and drug adverse effects on health goes a long way. Just like reading the indications for medicine, you check the psychonautwiki article.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            "I keep using drugs... Im not addicted."

            What youve used is also pretty shitty in terms of use.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Wrong, I have not used a single drug other than alcohol in 2 years

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Addictions form because people try to manage their own anxieties. If they find no other way of coping over a prolonged period of time, addiction will manifest. Hardcore drug addicts have been severely mistfreated since childhood and are riddled with trauma. Your lack of empathy makes you look like a total homosexual with a huge lack of real world experience.

  6. 8 months ago
    Anonymousn

    I would recommend Addiction by Design, by Natasha Schull, which is a deep and well-researched study of video slot machines and the people who play them, and many of her conclusions build directly on how gambling addicts theorise their own addiction. A very grim but compelling book.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Thanks for the genuinely great recommendation. I wonder if there are books in this style but for social media, video games and the like. Why some of the psychologists engineering these soul traps for faceless companies haven't gone rogue is a question I always have. The pay can't be enough, even for a neofreudian...

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >social media, video games and the like.
        For Tv check out "amusing ourselves to death"
        For internet check out "the shallows"

  7. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    IJ is all you need

  8. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
    Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

  9. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jesus' son by Dennis Cooper
    Some Burroughs.
    Sing Backwards and Weep, Mark Lannegans Memoir is good look into mind of an addict.

  10. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    White Out by Michael Clune.

  11. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    In the realm of hungry ghosts by gabor mate

  12. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Henri Bergson - Time And Free Will

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