8 Replies to “This Running Addiction of Mine: When the term addict is meant to be used as a positive”
Absolutely 🙂 I agree with your thoughts here – I don’t think it has to be a bad thing. I think it can be problematic if it gets out of control, but there is a big difference between being addicted to something that has positive benefits and being addicted to something that doesn’t!
Addiction, by DSM definition, has to impair your life, and you have to have behavior that keeps going back to it even though you know it’s causing pretty devastating circumstances. As a recovering addict from substances turned running freak, there are major differences.
I like how you responded to constantly hearing the word ‘addict’ or addiction related to running. I also hear it a lot. But, getting grumpy or withdrawing from something that hurts you isn’t enough to be an addiction.
Or, if it is, I will see you at the next “runner’s anonymous” 12 step group. Keep coming back.
Everyone at the trials are amazing for sure!! I have even been watching the swimming trials and am amazed at all of it. And I will admit I am a running addicted for sure. But I am addicted to working out in general. I need my fix daily for sure. I am also addicted to bread but I think I should stop my list there!
Absolutely 🙂 I agree with your thoughts here – I don’t think it has to be a bad thing. I think it can be problematic if it gets out of control, but there is a big difference between being addicted to something that has positive benefits and being addicted to something that doesn’t!
glad u agree!! 🙂
Wow, Cait, thanks so much for the shout out. *(I best go back and actually proof read that post, huh.) Here’s the post that begins my running as addiction discussion where i eventually compare it to Glasser’s theory of positive addiction. http://markmatthewsauthor.blogspot.com/2012/05/runner-addict-or-behavioral-addiction.html
Addiction, by DSM definition, has to impair your life, and you have to have behavior that keeps going back to it even though you know it’s causing pretty devastating circumstances. As a recovering addict from substances turned running freak, there are major differences.
I like how you responded to constantly hearing the word ‘addict’ or addiction related to running. I also hear it a lot. But, getting grumpy or withdrawing from something that hurts you isn’t enough to be an addiction.
Or, if it is, I will see you at the next “runner’s anonymous” 12 step group. Keep coming back.
Great post.
hahaha…don’t worry i never spotted any errors when i read it. 😉 thanks for the link, i particularly enjoyed that post…well, obviously…lol.
Glad you liked reading my perspectives too! 🙂
Everyone at the trials are amazing for sure!! I have even been watching the swimming trials and am amazed at all of it. And I will admit I am a running addicted for sure. But I am addicted to working out in general. I need my fix daily for sure. I am also addicted to bread but I think I should stop my list there!
yea…i need my daily fix…i’m jones’in for some sweatin! 😉
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