"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."Anne Frank
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Iím Addicted to the Internet: The Addiction Discussion
When you feel a certain need or strong desire to replicate a particular behavior notwithstanding its end results and upshots, the condition can be attributed or classified as addiction. In reality, there are many factors that precipitate an addiction. ...
Sex, Drugs and 'Rock':
Driving That Train"The area that is now known as Turkey played a major role in the Mystery Religions. The use of drugs to create "religious" experiences was developed to a fine art by various occult fraternal mystery religion groups in the Turkey area. ...
The Porn Addiction Supplement, Chapter II
As you may know, there are many genres of porn that may seem a little too extreme to the average porn consumer but I won't go into them right now. Suffice it to say we can't put that genie back into the bottle: those genres have acquired their own ...
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As a kid, one of my greatest treats was to visit WHSmith in town. Way back in the days before tragedies like little Jamie Bulger being snatched, my Dad would leave me in WHS, under the watchful eye of the friendly security guard while Dad went off and stood in the endless queue in the nearby bank on a Saturday morning. The racks and rows of stationery supplies enchanted me - maybe an early symptom of the writing career I'd try to forge as a so-called grown up.
Even as I got older, I'd spend as much of my allowance on postcards, pens, notepaper and stickers as my girlfriends would on lipstick or nail varnish! My first paid job was a junior administrator; unsurprisingly I earned brownie points by staying late and meticulously organising the stationery cupboard, then maintaining near-perfect levels of products required! This led, eventually, to my being involved with the truly serious business of overseeing the layout and design of wonderful items like business cards, compliment slips and letterheads.
Adulthood has taken me far beyond the shelves of WHSmith (although I still can never pass them by without a quick jaunt around the stationery department!). The ongoing development of internet services such as Goodprint; mean my desk at home is as neatly stocked as the supply store in my workplace - with personalised return labels, correspondence cards, letterheads, postcards and a rainbow stack of post-it notes. I even have 'personal' business cards with my home details on - perfect for giving to strange men in loud bars at those times when I am to drunk to recall my name, much less my phone numbers!
I'm in the middle of moving house, so I get to indulge in a completely new set of personal correspondence provisions, in my eyes that task will certainly be the most interesting part of the grim process of moving.
I find my inexplicable stationery habit weirdly fulfilling, it's harmless, relatively cheap and has none of the health risks (bar the odd paper cut) associated with some of my other vices (like loud bars and strange men!!). Some of my friends find it a little disturbing; nonetheless, the same friends have equally odd habits that I choose to politely ignore, so like a true buddy I only ask the same in return!
About the Author
Written for Goodprint Ltd, providors of instant online business cards and matching stationery via their website http://www.goodprint.co.uk.
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Judy Collins: Singer and book addictBoston GlobeI'm an addict, a complete addict. Some of the most exciting reading I do I have to do in the morning. I have to do it just a couple of pages at a time so I can really concentrate and I underline as I go. That's one reason why I prefer a book. |
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Are We Addicted to Facebook? It's Complicated.New York Times (blog)But does the research suggest that we are addicted to it? Is our obsession with the social network bordering on unhealthy? Can we resist the siren call of the glowing blue icon? Dr. Rosen said the average person was not addicted to Facebook.and more » |
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Definition of addiction changingHerald and NewsThat — in its simplest terms — is at the heart of a change in a psychiatric manual that could have a major effect on diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism and other addictions. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. |
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