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Why do you think addiction is real only if it's extreme?

DanBC 11y ago
Because "you continue to use it, even though you know it's doing you harm" is part of the modern definition of dependence.
- kristofferR 11y ago
  > "You continue to use it, even though you know it's doing you harm". Well, sure. I'm wasting time all the time on the internet, even though I know I shouldn't. Sometimes it have real negative effects on my life, it's certainly a real addiction by that definition. I've actually experimented a bit with chemical addiction to caffeine and nicotine (consuming a lot of caffeine/nicotine for a few weeks then stopping completely), and it was way easier to break than my internet addiction. Are you claiming that chemical addiction/dependence isn't really addiction/dependence if you can "override" it? To claim that my addiction to procrastination isn't really an addiction because I recognize it and doesn't feel so powerless than I would want to kill myself is absurd.
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  - DanBC 11y ago
    I said "part" of the modern definition of dependence. By snipping that you distort the meaning of what I said. > Are you claiming that chemical addiction/dependence isn't really addiction/dependence if you can "override" it? No, and you can't read that from my comment. > To claim that my addiction to procrastination isn't really an addiction because I recognize it and doesn't feel so powerless than I would want to kill myself is absurd. I didn't claim that, and to think I did form what I wrote is absurd.
    - kristofferR 11y ago
      I missed the "part" word, sorry for that. > To claim that my addiction to procrastination isn't really an addiction because I recognize it and doesn't feel so powerless than I would want to kill myself is absurd. > I didn't claim that, and to think I did form what I wrote is absurd. I wasn't referring to what you wrote, I was referring to what the poster I originally replied to (which I assumed you agreed with because you replied to my questioning of his statement with "Because ...") claimed. Sorry for the the assumption.

DanBC 11y ago

Because "you continue to use it, even though you know it's doing you harm" is part of the modern definition of dependence.

kristofferR 11y ago
> "You continue to use it, even though you know it's doing you harm". Well, sure. I'm wasting time all the time on the internet, even though I know I shouldn't. Sometimes it have real negative effects on my life, it's certainly a real addiction by that definition. I've actually experimented a bit with chemical addiction to caffeine and nicotine (consuming a lot of caffeine/nicotine for a few weeks then stopping completely), and it was way easier to break than my internet addiction. Are you claiming that chemical addiction/dependence isn't really addiction/dependence if you can "override" it? To claim that my addiction to procrastination isn't really an addiction because I recognize it and doesn't feel so powerless than I would want to kill myself is absurd.
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- DanBC 11y ago
  I said "part" of the modern definition of dependence. By snipping that you distort the meaning of what I said. > Are you claiming that chemical addiction/dependence isn't really addiction/dependence if you can "override" it? No, and you can't read that from my comment. > To claim that my addiction to procrastination isn't really an addiction because I recognize it and doesn't feel so powerless than I would want to kill myself is absurd. I didn't claim that, and to think I did form what I wrote is absurd.
  - kristofferR 11y ago
    I missed the "part" word, sorry for that. > To claim that my addiction to procrastination isn't really an addiction because I recognize it and doesn't feel so powerless than I would want to kill myself is absurd. > I didn't claim that, and to think I did form what I wrote is absurd. I wasn't referring to what you wrote, I was referring to what the poster I originally replied to (which I assumed you agreed with because you replied to my questioning of his statement with "Because ...") claimed. Sorry for the the assumption.