I'm not saying this study has any validity, but your comment is quite incorrect. Think of a jogger's "high", sex, falling in love, eating spicy food... all these things release chemicals. Granted, they are chemicals within us already, but given stories about jogger's who will still run after being told not to a doctor because of an injury, unsafe sex, serial marriages and my personal favorite, eating jalapenos until I my eyes are watering and my nose running (and then the subsequent sh!tting fire)... well, all these would suggest that there is a very fine line between "outside" chemical dependency and "inside" chemical dependency.
FWIW, I think these kind of illnesses are probably just undiagnosed OCD. Obsessive anxiety produces thoughts to contact so-and-so or the person might "miss" something, and then the compulsion is carried out by texting/emailing.
No, I am not a shrink, but I am an OCD'er who stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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hypereric @ Mar 17th 2008 9:23PM
@Kamokazi:
I'm not saying this study has any validity, but your comment is quite incorrect.
Think of a jogger's "high", sex, falling in love, eating spicy food... all these things release chemicals. Granted, they are chemicals within us already, but given stories about jogger's who will still run after being told not to a doctor because of an injury, unsafe sex, serial marriages and my personal favorite, eating jalapenos until I my eyes are watering and my nose running (and then the subsequent sh!tting fire)... well, all these would suggest that there is a very fine line between "outside" chemical dependency and "inside" chemical dependency.
FWIW, I think these kind of illnesses are probably just undiagnosed OCD. Obsessive anxiety produces thoughts to contact so-and-so or the person might "miss" something, and then the compulsion is carried out by texting/emailing.
No, I am not a shrink, but I am an OCD'er who stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.