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Overcoming Bad Habits
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Anyone here overcome any bad/unhelpful habits and if so how did you do it?
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I struggle to overcome bad habits Nailit. I wonder if some of us have an inbuilt tendancy toward addiction while others dont, just as some people are born with say, a sense of humour, or a temper.
So life is a permanent challenge. Just as I give up one thing its replaced with another bad habit. I did manage to quit smoking about 10 years ago and did it by going cold turkey while on holiday. I grew out of excessive drink and drugs too, but I now struggle to resist sweet food and am miserably overweight, and I am also addicted to my screen. I cannot go long without checking news, playing a computer game, tap, tap, tap, its so rude! what did I do all evening before I had an ipad?
So life is a permanent challenge. Just as I give up one thing its replaced with another bad habit. I did manage to quit smoking about 10 years ago and did it by going cold turkey while on holiday. I grew out of excessive drink and drugs too, but I now struggle to resist sweet food and am miserably overweight, and I am also addicted to my screen. I cannot go long without checking news, playing a computer game, tap, tap, tap, its so rude! what did I do all evening before I had an ipad?
//I stopped bingeing on food by 'allowing' myself to eat what I wanted and not try to starve or deprive myself//
Clover, I think I know what you mean there, I'm always trying different diets but 'deprivation' diets always seem to backfire.
Baldric, well done on the smoking but what is WP?
Maydup, you have put my OP better than me ;-)
Clover, I think I know what you mean there, I'm always trying different diets but 'deprivation' diets always seem to backfire.
Baldric, well done on the smoking but what is WP?
Maydup, you have put my OP better than me ;-)
I am still struggling not to bite my nails, so not doing well with that, but recently I had too much to drink (I've always had alcohol in moderation only) and it made me feel awful, not in a hung over sense, but I felt totally paranoid, anxious, powerless and weak so I've decided to give alcohol a total miss ( barring maybe the odd glass of something with food at some point). I'm seriously scared of ever feeling that way again as it seemed like my life came into really sharp focus in the most destructive way, so I guess scare yourself enough and you won't do something :/
My mother saw what booze did to my grandfather and it didn't stop her drinking, she scared herself several times and nearly lost her life on more than one occasion and it still didn't stop her drinking - she died of it in the end at 59 years old.
You would have thought that seeing all this my brother would not drink - but hey ho guess what - another person addicted to booze
You would have thought that seeing all this my brother would not drink - but hey ho guess what - another person addicted to booze
Yeah my father had a massive drink, violence and hard drug habit when he as younger, and nothing stopped it until he dealt with the root cause of it when he met my mother ( which in his case was his father physically abusing him, then he said his desire to damage himself just fell away- he viewed it as an extension to his father's abuse, he wasn't there to do it anymore so he did it to himself. I'm not sure how valid that is tbh, but that's his theory. I certainly think there are addictive personalities, and I think he has one, he exercises a lot, and is very driven in everything he does, so I'm more inclined to think he replaced one addiction with another tbh.
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