Posted by g_g_g_unit on February 15, 2010, at 23:15:44
In reply to Addiction/Anhedonia-- is it meds working or nothin, posted by inanimate peanut on February 15, 2010, at 20:02:44
i've been curious about the underpinnings of addictive behaviours as well. i flit between total despair/emptiness, and only seeming capable of performing tasks with an addictive component (video games, internet, craving junk food). it's not like these things generate huge waves of pleasure; they're just the only things i feel normal doing. the problem is when i look back to when i wasn't gravely depressed, most of the things i did which i thought made me happy had an addictive edge as well, so i wonder if i've just been self-medicating this whole time. but what? dysthymia? ADD? what's 'broken' in addictive pathologies? i tried to get at this with the last psych i met, but it didn't seem to register, and i feel like it's an important part of me recovering because i need to feel capable of doing normal stuff (like uh working, socializing).
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