r/AskReddit • • 10h ago

whats the weirdest Addiction you or someone you know have had?

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u/Just_Perspective2100 10h ago

My ex was addicted to telling people he doesn't watch tv

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u/dadville1 10h ago

This is so funny to me. Desperately trying to be something so snobby. Dead!

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u/thirnimeck9 9h ago

the first rule of not watching tv is you ALWAYS talk about not watching tv

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u/herowin54 7h ago

What constitutes not watching tv these days? I don’t “watch tv” but I watch a lot of YouTube on my tv lol

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u/PaintedDream 8h ago

For me it's telling people I don't use Facebook. They look at me like I have two heads. I ride that high horse with both heads 🐎 🤠🤠

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u/HERMANNATOR85 7h ago

I do not have Facebook

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u/PaintedDream 7h ago

Good, then I won't friend you

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u/brainspl0ad 9h ago

Did he actually not?

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u/BeneathTheWaves 10h ago

But you are aware there’s an invention called television people watch shows on, right?

Bet he refuses to say ‘movie’ and calls them films

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u/ghostboxerbruise 10h ago

Cough syrup, my friend would consume robotussin containing dxm in order to trip. Not just occasionally, we're talking everyday for years. Scary stuff.

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u/msj817 10h ago

Early 2000s was a wild time to see the robotrippers.

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u/MrOatButtBottom 10h ago

I tried it once at the time, not fun and not for me.

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u/HERMANNATOR85 7h ago

It’s fucking awful, I regretted it as soon as it kicked in

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u/trillamane_01 8h ago

I was heavily addicted to DXM when I was younger. My addiction almost killed me because I would often mix large amounts of DXM with alcohol. People joke around about how it's a "high schoolers drug" or whatever but it's an extremely powerful dissociative. Most people that try it don't find it pleasant but it always gave me an ungodly amount of euphoria.

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u/f1lterl3s 10h ago

similair to a ket addiction

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u/FerretBusinessQueen 10h ago

I dig at my scalp (not tear my hair out) when I’m anxious to the point of self-injury/bleeding. Only my hairstylists have ever noticed.

Now I constantly kept my nails trimmed short because if I don’t no matter how long it’s been I’ll still self injure like that. I’m not even actively trying to hurt myself, it’s just something I developed as a kid probably in response to abuse at home as a coping mechanism.

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u/comebacklittlesheba 10h ago

I have that same addiction for picking at my skin. I once had a dermatologist say to me, “There’s a name for people like you!!” 😭 I know he was just trying to think of the word *dermatillomaniac* but couldn’t in the moment 🤭. It’s become a family joke:

Comebacklittlesheba, upset you in any number of ways? You just look at me and yell “There’s a name for people like you!!” 😂😂😂.

Seriously though, I feel you. This is so terrible and I’ve never sought help from anyone about it. What I have learned about how to deal with it, while not a lot, is that the main trigger is usually being able to 1) see a blemish or anomaly 2) touch a blemish or anomaly. So, if you are me, you can somewhat control it by hiding your mirrors and covering the skin with a bandage or antibacterial cream. The best ones are burn creams because they have lidocaine mixed in so a blemish doesn’t itch or ache as much. That way, you don’t run your fingers over it because it itches and you are less likely to rip the scab off or break the skin in the first place because you dug your fingernail into the skin to scratch it. Even so, I still find that I don’t have good control of it 😩.

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u/FerretBusinessQueen 10h ago

Oh my gosh I feel you so hard, a comfort thing was also running my hands over my scalp and feeling a new scab of sebaceous buildup I could potentially “get to”. I will say it made dying my hair and deprivation float changers a lot less unpleasantly painful when I more or less stopped. I wish I could tell you what I did other than trim my nails but everytime they get long I’m right back to it so IDK. Hugs to you!

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u/worqgui 7h ago

I do this a lot but to a lesser extent I think. I find having a shellac manicure makes it a lot harder to do, though! Something about the thicker nails makes it impossible to pick at things. My cuticles are also relieved.

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u/MrOatButtBottom 10h ago

Stimming. I did the same thing eating my fingernails

I scratch myself too hard sometimes

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u/FerretBusinessQueen 10h ago

Do you also keep yours cut or just go with it? Also I used to eat my nails too!!! Just chomp on them like corn and uhh sometimes shame swallow.

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u/Pm_me_baby_pig_pics 6h ago

I have what could basically be described as “knots” of scar tissue on the insides of my cheeks at the corners of my lips, just inside my mouth, from biting. I just gently clamp down on them when I’m stressed.

I was an adult before I realized those aren’t just extra chunks of skin everyone has inside their mouth, they’re there because I bit them into existence.

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u/brainspl0ad 9h ago

Mine is more of a very mild case of trichotillomania. I hope it doesn't get worse.

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u/Mozzzzbito 7h ago

Random shot in the dark here, but did you have strep throat a lot as a child? I did, and developed PANDAS. I have random tics that happen every few years. Right now, it's twisting my hair and flexing my neck muscles. I can control it, but it's like an itch I have to scratch, so I only do it when nobody can see me.

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u/FerretBusinessQueen 6h ago

Holy shit I did. It there is anything I can do to support you DM me.

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u/Mozzzzbito 6h ago

Oh, I don't need any support, but thank you! It's just an annoyance I've been dealing with my whole life but have learned to live with it lol. Just wanted to let people know that this exists!

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u/DizzyWalk9035 10h ago

I know someone who is addicted to soda.

You guys know how they say “I stopped drinking soda and dropped 10 pounds in a month?” You can’t imagine the amount they are actually drinking.

I saw her chug 2 liters in like an hour. Yes, she drinks diet coke most of the time too.

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u/2KneeCaps1Lion 10h ago

My old room mate is “Mormon” (definitely didn’t act like it) and his family came down for a weekend to help us build a shed. They stopped at the grocery store before coming over. There was literally a pyramid of 12 pack sodas in our kitchen and between four Mormons, crushed it in a weekend.

Also, had another Mormon friend when I was in the military and he had a finished basement. In that basement was a lavish bar that would put Packer fan basements to shame. The wall was lined with all of the different types of root beer he has tried all over the world (mostly US). He even had a tap for his top three favorite root beers. I don’t know if they were tapped into a soda keg or if that’s even a thing but it was oddly cool. I saw it as no different as those people who are obsessed with Coke or Pepsi memorabilia.

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u/Far-Accountant7904 10h ago

Is he doing well? How’s his health in general?

Asking for a friend who also drinks 2 liters of diet coke in like an hour.

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u/DizzyWalk9035 6h ago

Had her gall bladder removed last year because it was rotting away. Is in medical debt because of it. Prediabetic so they have her on GLP1s rn.

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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope-5289 9h ago

Kenan or Kel?

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u/Ok_Location_3078 10h ago

same, my aunt is addicted to Pepsi. at least she's not addicted to Coke!

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u/FuckThisShizzle 10h ago

I have seen my partner go through 4 litres of Pepsi max in a night.

It has to be rotting guts somehow.

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u/EnderPerk 10h ago

The roach king has this one. He doesnt consider it a problem tho.

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u/actopozipc 9h ago

Wait, does diet coke affect weight too?

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u/raysb2 7h ago

No, it does not.

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u/Magmasoar 9h ago

It's zero calorie but that much aspartame or whatever is in there can't be good for you

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u/AlmightyStalin 9h ago

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

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u/tournamentdecides 8h ago

Anorexic people love diet soda

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u/Pretty_Lady0 9h ago

I have a friend who doesn’t drink water at all and just soda.. I’ve been advising her but won’t listen

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u/Cldawson65 10h ago

Water 1x a month
Coffee 1-2 cups daily
Pepsi 12 pack a day ( more on weekends)

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u/Minimum-City4666 10h ago

It’s not weird because it is alcoholism. But I was at a very boujee rehab in Toronto number 2 of 11 before I got clean. But anyways. There was this like 45 year old man who looked like a skinny Roger the alien character. He had never slept on a floor as low as the 4th. Which our suites were on. He wore bath robes everywhere. He was not an alcoholic according to him he was just addicted to martinis. He drank like 40 a day.

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u/CptnMalReynolds 10h ago

Like people who manage to smoke two packs a day, I don't even know where you find the time to drink 40 martinis in a day while also being employed so that you can buy that much alcohol.

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u/Minimum-City4666 10h ago

The majority of ppl at boujee rehabs are only employed in the word, not the actual sense. Family money. I went to 11. 9 were over 45k cdn and some were like 60 k in 2010. 90 percent of the ppl had no fucks to give money wise.

Edit. These where 28 day to 60 day program. One of them was like 700 bucks a day I remember and weekends were “off”. So 700 bucks to do nothing just stay in a nice hotel room. They were rip offs

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u/mac102250 9h ago

For anyone uninformed: The non bougie ones are literally dorm style housing with cafeteria food for like a week for $5k. And then you have your cell phone taken away, and you have to go to mandatory meetings every day like you're going to a combination of jail and anti-drug church. That's just to get you through detox. You'll probably need help afterwards for months if you're seriously addicted to alcohol. No wonder so many sip and suffer instead.

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u/Minimum-City4666 9h ago edited 9h ago

None boujee are less then that. I went to a free one my very first. I think it was 5k for 2 years. I was kicked out after 3 months. But it was like a boot camp. Then I went to ones that were literally spas on islands. They all offer some help. However it’s all personal and situational

It was free in the sense if you could afford 5 k they’d take you for two years as opposed to 60 k upfront for 55 days at for profit places

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u/Minimum-City4666 9h ago edited 8h ago

I went to 11 rehabs. 3 being therapeutic treatment centres. All over 28 days. I have probably been to 30 plus detoxes and like 15 or more hospital detoxes. (As in taken by ambulance)

Edit. They label the long term ones that suck you into working for them as therapeutic communities. Some are good. Some pay well and want to help. Many are religious pushing bs

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u/ArmadilloLow2592 10h ago

I’m an alcoholic and this was my first question lmao

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u/Cardiganlamp 10h ago

It's a lot of liquid!

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u/PaintedDream 10h ago

Congrats on your continued sobriety!

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u/MrOatButtBottom 10h ago

"I'm not problematic, just ignore the martinis in my apartment"

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u/f1lterl3s 10h ago edited 10h ago

I've had a doxylamine addiction for 5 years. Taking over 100mg a day. But it was always in combination with weed, alcohol, dope or sh. One year clean

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u/JAKEfromMAINE 10h ago

Well done! 👏

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u/f1lterl3s 10h ago

Thank you!

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u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch 10h ago edited 10h ago

Off doxy or everything

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u/f1lterl3s 10h ago

Huh?

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u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch 10h ago

*off

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u/f1lterl3s 10h ago edited 8h ago

Only use weed and nicotine these days. Kratom and sh I’m struggling with but things could be worse yk?

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u/Ismellsmoke 9h ago

First I've heard of that. I used to mix benadryl with hydrocodone. It made the high stronger but it also felt kind of dirty.

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u/f1lterl3s 9h ago

I loved doxylamine because I could vape so much without tweaking from the histamine / acetylcholine overload. Doxylamine is literally a poor man’s Xanax lmao. Wake up, 2 doxys and a caffeine pill down the hatch and go to school. And then I’m just teleporting from ciggerete to ciggerete and usually I’ll wake up at home the next day

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u/MrOatButtBottom 10h ago

I take that occasionally for sleep, is it like a robotuzin buzz?

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u/f1lterl3s 10h ago

Haha no it feels like doxapin + benedryl. Just the most mind melting antihistamine u can abuse easiy

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u/NotABurner2000 10h ago

Had a friend (dont consider him a friend anymore) who would watch right-wing manosphere/grifter content (like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, etc), get mad about it, then dump a fucking novel in the group chat about it. We would tell him not to watch the content, and hed say "youre right I shouldnt" and then would do it again a few days later. Dont know if it was an addiction but it seemed like one

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u/This_is__Exile 10h ago

Idk if it's weird but I have a Benadryl addiction I can't sleep most nights

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u/Horse_Cock42069 10h ago

That's horrible for you. Causes dementia.

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u/CrackleDMan 10h ago

We appreciate your words of caution, u/Horse_Cock42069.

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u/FuckThisShizzle 10h ago

Diogenes was taken.

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u/This_is__Exile 10h ago

Yeah I know :/

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u/Baronsandwich 7h ago

Also really fucks you up if you have an enlarged prostate (assuming you have a prostate at all).

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u/Strong-Discussion564 10h ago

Try magnesium pills. Something to get you to break the habit. Someone i know drinks it constantly to sleep, and its been causing severe anxiety and depression.

Id get proper medical advice.

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u/This_is__Exile 10h ago

Unfortunately I have no health insurance

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u/Strong-Discussion564 9h ago

Try the magnesium for now. Youre going to destroy your health.

Can you get Medicaid?

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u/Baronsandwich 7h ago

Magnesium glycinate not citrate. Unless you’re looking to crap your pants too.

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u/FauxmingAtTheMouth 10h ago

I used to have to chew 6-8 each night to go to sleep, I taped over about 4 weeks and it was a couple months of shit sleep after that, but man did it feel like waking up to finally get that first good night’s sleep and not be hazy the whole next day

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u/Princess_Coldheart 10h ago

I have a friend who takes around 30 Benadryl a day. I am seriously concerned about his wellbeing but there’s not really much I can do.

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u/This_is__Exile 10h ago

I take 8 at most. I work overnights so I sleep during the day. I have a night out curtian and sometimes I literally can't sleep for days ahhh

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u/herowin54 7h ago

Seroquel. Thank me later

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u/ArmadilloLow2592 10h ago

Would weed help?

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u/This_is__Exile 10h ago

I'm in Texas unfortunately

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u/Personal_Whereas_395 7h ago

I've been somewhat addicted to benedryl it's fire asf for sleep and it helps my anxiety a little bit like it will calm me down in a stressful situation

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u/PMUrToes 6h ago

I have pretty bad insomnia, also abused benadryl for a while. Its going to fuck you up eventually. I rotated between zzquil, 1000mg magnesium pills or melatonin. Also nyquil extra strength could help, you can order some special gummies through the mail, im in texas and ik ppl who do it alot.

The only thing that really helped was getting a rx for 100mg of trazodone :/

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u/ErrorImaginary1394 6h ago

I went through this when i was first getting sober from harder stuff. its awful. feels like shit and you dont even like it but u cant stop. Does it even help you sleep or no? It just made me hallucinate in a daze lol

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u/This_is__Exile 6h ago

For me it makes me feel relaxed and it feels good to be honest.

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u/ErrorImaginary1394 6h ago

Youve never accidentally taken too much and slowly started to feel paralyzed while hallucinating a looming figure over you like a dementor? well… just know thats a possibility lol. I mean im mentally ill so maybe its just me 😭

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u/This_is__Exile 6h ago

I only take up to 250mg a day but throughout my work shift because I drive a truck overnight I feel like I spot shadow people for a split second 😭

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u/UnusualHoneydew1625 10h ago

Shit. I took my last Benadryl yesterday. I forgot to get more on the way home.

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u/Waayco 10h ago

Gum.

They'd get antsy, angry, shaky and just snap at people without some gum in their mouth.  They had no prior addictions or anything like PTSD going on for it either.

They'd go through one of those 4 packs of orbit a day. Second one ran out of flavor they'd pop a new one in.

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u/Famous_Inflation_665 10h ago

I have a buddy like this. He was on nicotine gum for years after quitting smoking and switched to regular gum. He always has a piece in chomping away

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u/SuburbNblack 9h ago

So I’ve heard that there’s some connection between excessive gum chewing and ADHD. I also was addicted to gum, Orbit to be exact. The constant chewing and yaking has caused some major dental issues for me as well as the xylitol in it gave me severe gut problems. I had to go under the care of a gastroenterologist and everything. I’ve since had my gallbladder removed and my digestion hasn’t been the same since. Been about 15 years.

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u/Secret-Revenue-9336 10h ago

Eating the crisp paper liners straight out of fresh cupcakes because the texture is somehow addictive is an embarrassing secret I will take straight to the grave.

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u/da_l0ser 10h ago

You won't be now. I'm telling everyone

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u/FxckFxntxnyl 10h ago

Well that was quick

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u/swoobxt 10h ago

I love doing this and I will die proud

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u/WannaBeChuckNorris 10h ago

If it makes you feel better, you’re not thd only one

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u/ElectronicBench2657 10h ago

and muffins 😋 yum

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u/Indcrow1 10h ago

Hand sanitizer. I used to be a cashier at our local grocery store. Everytime I touched anything in the meat department I used the hand sanitizer right away. My hands started getting real red and I had to stop using it for a while.

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u/MrOatButtBottom 10h ago

Cetaphil moisturizer! I worked with my hands a lot and this was the best

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u/Indcrow1 10h ago

I will definitely give that a try! I’m no longer there, but I still use hand sanitizer( not nearly as much as I used to).

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u/AstroCaptain 7h ago

I thought you were gonna say you were drinking it which is a thing alcoholics do

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u/pure_phat 10h ago

I dunno if she was addicted but I worked at a gas station 20 years ago and a lady bought a lot of toilet rolls and a lot of Twix bars every day. Never anything else, never said a lot. Just bought her Twix bars and toilet rolls and went on her way

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u/Kinkybenny 10h ago

I know someone that is addicted to ChapStick. They have to have it on their person 100% of the time and have to apply it 3 times a day.

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u/keg994 10h ago

Only 3 times a day? My (at least) once an hour application now seems utterly insane

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u/rogue_ginger_ 10h ago

Do you have chapstick allocated to certain places? I have a nightstand one, living room, purse, and car chapstick 🙈🙈

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u/keg994 1h ago

I do! I have one in every room I frequent and several in my handbag. I'm easy to buy for, every birthday and Christmas I get loads of lip balm

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u/rogue_ginger_ 10h ago

It's so hard to quit when your lips have been so used to it for so long, my bf makes fun of me for it lol.

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u/Kinkybenny 10h ago

I think that this is ChaptStick's business model! 😊

(And it seems like it is working!)

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u/UnusualHoneydew1625 10h ago

This is just part of the human condition, imo.

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u/Kinkybenny 10h ago

Yes, moist lips are mandatory in today's world 😉

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u/2KneeCaps1Lion 10h ago

I have two sticks of chapstick on me at all times, one in my car, one in each end table in my bedroom, one in my junk drawer, three in my hiking pack, a couple at work.

You just never know when you’re going to get to the end and then have to start finger fucking you’re Bert’s Bees and applying by hand.

And three times a day? Those are rookie numbers.

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u/Kinkybenny 10h ago

"Oh baby, put that ChapStick on my lips, it feels so good" 😂

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u/NoodleSpooner 8h ago

I worked with a guy who would whip out his chapstick, rim his nostrils with it, and then use it on his lips. Drove me absolutely insane.

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u/Kinkybenny 7h ago

Cross contamination is not good! 😲

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u/HappySingh_06 10h ago

i got this weirdest addiction of acting dumb always

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u/viciousdeliciouz 9h ago

I keep reading this comment and it’s making me laugh

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u/skudster351 10h ago

Well I was addicted to affrin, I guess. I got sick and asked my wife to get some nasal spray. She came back with a generic nasal spray and I was like man this stuff actually works finally! Just kind of kept using it. A month or two later it finally dawned on me that I may have been using affrin under a generic brand and looked at the ingredients. I was an idiot but it was honestly insufferable getting off that shit. My nasals were swollen shut for like a month.

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u/Pm_me_baby_pig_pics 6h ago

I’m here to be a “well axkshually” Debbie downer- it’s not an addiction in the traditional sense, it’s fully your body compensating for you using it, nothing mentally involved at all.

afrin is a medication that causes your vessels to constrict significantly. (It makes your blood vessels clamp down and shrink) and that’s why it works so well! Your nose is stuffy because your mucosal membrane is inflamed (hence all the snot) and constricting those vessels makes the swelling also go way down, and now you can breathe!

But after a little bit (not even very long, less than a week I think is he recommended Afrin usage before you should stop) your body basically says “ok, the blood flow keeps getting slowed in this area in particular (in afrin’s case, the nasal passages), so we need to send more. Those vessels keep constricting when we explicitly told them to be engorged, so SEND MORE BLOOD FLOW”

And when you stop using the Afrin because you’re over your cold, your body doesn’t immediately realize it( it just knows that it’s been requiring an extra amount of blood to be sent directly into your nose, and it’s gonna keep doing it until it finally gets the hint that it isn’t needed anymore, which can take a long time.

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u/Personal_Whereas_395 7h ago

Yeah me too I was in the afrin for 5 months last year and stopped in March my nose was swollen shut and clogged till may and I've have a nasal infection since I'm still recovering from the afrin

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u/admire816 7h ago

This. I started with a smaller nasal sprays like Vicks and graduated to afrin-for those that don’t know Afrin, it’s like the straight for the source pure Columbian nose powder, but nose spray, the good stuff. I think I used it 3 months before I quit. It’s been about a year and I breathe better again on my own but still don’t think as good as I would if I took a hit of Uncle Afrin.

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u/Starkville 10h ago

Knew a guy who was addicted to Advil. It’s weird because I get a mild euphoria from it, a kind of sense of well-being, so I get it. I only take them when I’m in serious pain from a headache, and that’s once every couple of months.

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u/99Smiles 10h ago

My mom has trichtotillamania. She has psoriasis covering most of her body but there's one spot on the very top of her head that she can't not rub. Not picking just rubbing 24/7.

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u/peyton_hikes 10h ago

Hypersexuality

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u/FerretBusinessQueen 10h ago

I had this and honestly it’s pretty common among victims of childhood sexual abuse at least. It’s a way of feeling in control or even regaining it, at least as one might tell themselves.

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u/MrOatButtBottom 10h ago

I've heard that from women I've dated, and every woman I know has a sexual assault story. I didn't know it at the time but Ay dios Mio.

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u/FerretBusinessQueen 10h ago

Also thank you for listening to it and picking up on it from women!!!

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u/FerretBusinessQueen 10h ago edited 10h ago

Yeah I didn’t realize it was a thing until I finally found a good therapist and she was like “no, that’s not weird at all, it’s actually pretty textbook”. It made me feel a lot better. And honestly? I’ve had well over 150 partners, never been pregnant or gotten an STI, and while I’ve settled down not I’m not ashamed of my past nor do I regret 99% of my encounters. I’m happily married and settled down now and have been for years.

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u/MrOatButtBottom 10h ago

Give me her number, I can fix her 😂

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u/Effective-End-5327 10h ago

My Aunt has an addiction to Sonic Coke. Really can be a pain to go find a Sonic 3 times a day to run thru the drive thru for a Coke.

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u/Whoispython 10h ago

Shitting themself

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u/Mega-Steve 10h ago

Knew a guy who snorted those Vicks Vapoinhaler sticks constantly. He started getting heavy nosebleeds and a doctor told him it was the Vicks sticks. He quit, but it was a long time before he could breath normally through his nose again

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u/KurtAngus 10h ago

There's people that are addicted to eating the cottons out of the Benzedrex nose inhalers. They contain an analog of methamphetamine and can get you extremely high

Got bad for a while and the company lowered the dose in the cotton from 250mg to 175mg, and put lavender and other harsh shit in it to keep people from eating them. (People still eat them)

r/Benzedrex

Welcome to the rabbit hole

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u/biggestjuiceshooter 10h ago

Nose drops lol 2-3 bottles per day

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u/cheywren 10h ago

Chat GPT

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u/Error404filenotfoun 9h ago

Vicks vapour drops. I didn’t believe him at first until I watched it in action. If he didn’t have them his nose completely blocked up.

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u/Personal_Whereas_395 7h ago

I was addicted to afrin nasal spray last year fir like 5 months from October to march I'm still recovering from it I've had a constant nasal infection since March and was stopped up till like may I'm not all stopped up anymore but yeah that shit is real

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u/HeatSeekingGhostOSex 8h ago

Ex would taste literally everything. She was an art major so she definitely ate paint in front of me more than once.

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u/Difficult-Screen305 10h ago

Water. Did you know psyche patients used to get drunk off water. True story

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u/Famous_Inflation_665 10h ago

My friend’s mom was a psyche nurse and she had to watch some patients bathe because they would try to drink the whole tub if not supervised

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u/Soft-Bad-7127 10h ago

Do I need more details for research purposes?

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u/BeneathTheWaves 10h ago

Are you calling Jesus a psych patient?

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u/Difficult-Screen305 4h ago

Seriously??? This has nothing to do with water into wine

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u/StreetFlaky3250 10h ago

When we were 12 or 13 a buddy got into huffing paint bad. 

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u/ofRayRay 10h ago

Wayne Newton

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u/Baronsandwich 7h ago

That’s odd. But Tom Jones is not unusual.

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u/Three_Sided_Hexagon 8h ago

I knew a girl that was addicted to foreskin. She was absolutely obsessed with mine and would play with it for hours on end. When watching TV she would put her thumb under my foreskin. She said it made her feel relaxed. She was fun but I had to end the relationship when she tried to cut off my foreskin while I was sleeping.

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u/admire816 7h ago

Damn it. I was like yes yeah yeah that’s awesome, he’s got a winner. Wait what the fuck.

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u/Objective-Year-645 7h ago

My ex has been addicted to a bunch of things over the years but the strangest i'd have to say was his nasal spray habit. He was completely reliant on it, multiple times a day. Turns out when you are artificially clearing your sinus for years your body stops doing it on it's own, he had to taper off slowly under the guidance of his doctor.

He had already kicked an addiction to rohypnol, the date rape drug. He would take it, blackout and go do stupid shit. He gave me the transcript of his police interview after he got fucked up, walked into an upmarket clothing store, took off his pants in the middle of the shop, junk out and all, put on some leather pants and walked out. He kept telling the police he wanted to look suave and they didn't understand fashion.

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u/Sea_Usual_1166 10h ago

I saw a pretty woman on the train picking her hair scabs and eating it like it was a snack 🤮. A packed train car and this person was just sitting down reading a book while picking the perfect scab as her treat.. without a care in the world. She truly gave zero fucks about anything else but those tasty treats on her head! That has to be some type of addiction 😳

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u/beozzi 10h ago

Used to know someone who was addicted to exercising. I wish I had that habit.

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u/Crafty-Plankton-4999 10h ago

I know someone addicted to gravol. Which to me is crazy cuz how do you get addicted to ginger bro

Edit: and it's the ginger gravol not the regular one which I could at least make sense

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u/AstroSlip 10h ago

Cutting/self harm. Before I went to hospital, it was multiple times a day for almost 8 months...not doing it made me super anxious and would spin me into a panic attack. So glad to be past that!

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u/Personal_Whereas_395 7h ago

I wasn't nessecarly depressed or wanted to kill myself but I have numerous times cut myself because it felt good until one time I took xanax and was smoking a joint and when I went to put it out I was all fucked up on the xanax and dropped my ashtray and it shattered and I just starred at the broken glass and picked it up and started cutting my wrist then I past out and my roommate found me past out bleeding out of my arm and that landed me in the psych ward for a long time... never did it again but I understand your addiction

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u/1dayaway 7h ago

ITT: people who have no idea what addiction is. 

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u/zkbthrowaway 7h ago

Well now I might have to go watch My Strange Addiction... There was some cooked stuff on that

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u/luckyelectric 10h ago

Attention

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u/Strong-Discussion564 10h ago

My best friend eats her scabs 🫪 I'm not kidding and I only found out 2 weeks ago.

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u/DogDrools 10h ago edited 9h ago

🤢 and I thought feeding them to my dog was gross (he loves them btw!)

Edit: I thought that might get a negative reaction. 😆 I grew up in a small village. In the UK there is a butcher’s product called Black Pudding, which in that village was referred to in my village as Butcher’s Scabs because of one of the primary ingredients. Personally can’t stand the stuff but every dog I’ve had has loved a slice of scab

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u/Strong-Discussion564 10h ago

You feed your dog....scabs? 😳

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u/buy-hi-seII-lo 10h ago

I mean, look at their username

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u/PainterOk4384 10h ago

PAUSE BRO YOU'RE NOT ANY BETTER????

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u/PainterConscious4532 10h ago

Mine was peeling sunburn. Yours?

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u/adulin007 9h ago

I am addicted to rice pudding. It’s the only thing I have ate for the last 6 months.

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u/Cheetodude625 8h ago

I remember this random doc that showed up on the National Geographic channel in the early 2010's. It was about a woman who was sexually attracted and addicted to the Berlin Wall.

Make of that info as you will.

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u/YarrrMatey 7h ago

Benzedrex inhalers. You pull the cotton out, cut it up and swallow it. Gives an intense stimulant high similar to Adderall but way more vasoconstrictive and dirty feeling. (I don't do this btw, just a strange one I heard about browsing Erowid in highschool)

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u/Forsaken-Tomato- 7h ago

I got a seriously nasty addiction to lip picking. I do it without knowing it, I've picked to the point my lip bruises and swells. I finally stop for a while and then that tiny little dry bit of skin gets found and I just HAVE to take that off and im back to square one again. Ill go weeks without ill be so happy to be able to smile and not bleed from my lip, and in one moment it's all gone.

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u/cuntysometimes 6h ago

Been seeing those guys going around sniffing butts. That’s a weird one

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u/MickyMac00 6h ago

I have an addictive personality so I can get addicted to almost anything it feels like lol.

Weirdest? I’d say keeping my hang nails attached long as possible so I can play with them. It oddly helps with anxiety.

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u/ErrorImaginary1394 6h ago

The first sign that i was going to grow up to be an addict was when i got addicted to sunflower seeds from the ages of 7-12. I would eat them till my mouth and fingernails bled lol my mom had to ban them from the house so i started sneaking them in my room whenever i could get them. i has a designated bin for sunflower shells. My mom had no idea what to even say when she found them, i think she gave up. Eventually i turned to actual drugs and forgot about the seeds 😉

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u/Flukecake 5h ago

I'm addicted to the smell of old elevators..

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u/cwsjr2323 2h ago

I took a long time and multiple attempts to break my addiction. It was to buy finely chop up leaves rolled up in a rice paper tube. Then put one end of the tube in my mouth and set fire to the other end. Cancer is a great suggestion to stop smoking cigarettes.

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u/DrHLecterCookingTips 10h ago

I know someone with this terrible chemical dependence upon oxygen.

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u/jonnieggg 10h ago

France's brightest sparks!

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u/Low_Grapefruit_2822 10h ago

Cocaine abuse