Drug Abuse

Question by woman: I think I might have a “divination addiction”?
Hi. I don’t know if any of you can relate with this or not. As you can tell I’m into divination.

The problem is, it’s come to a point that I think it’s consuming me…

I have tarot cards (but I don’t use them anymore, now I do it online at facade.com), I even bought an annual book on my sign, I love the stichomancy thing on facade.com, I check my horoscopes at MSN and Yahoo and I used to check them on bridgettwalther.com too. All of these I did DAILY.

and then there were the weekly and monthly horoscopes that i’d check every once in a while when i feel “lost”. the fact that some of what i read matches what happens in real life (it’s happens too often for it to be a coincidence) isn’t helping either. i think i’ve become obsessed. especially when i am at home. i can’t stop checking them.

i run a busines at home. and i need to get things done. but i often waste time in front of my computer (which i am supposed to be working on) checking my horoscopes or asking questions to divination machines. i feel like i’m stuck in a rut.

i have too many problems (this isn’t an exageration): i have problems at work (despite working at home) because i never get work done. i do have people evaluating my performance and i’m not doing well at all.

then there’s my family. they live near me and they are constantly abusing me (mentally, verbally–when i was younger they’d hit me too).

and then i feel lonely all the time. i want to go back to being healthy and not obssessed anymore. there’s nothing wrong with it to a certain extent. but i spend more than half a day and nearly half of my resources on this. i feel like i’m missing out on life a lot. i would like to go out and get some sun and meet my friends, but i don’t even have money for that anymore…

Best answer:

Answer by 123
its all fake you know? its never been proven that any of that stuff is actually real. they just generalize things that everybody goes through, like when someone points out the color blue to you in a crowd, you notice all the blue things because that’s what the person said

Answer by 2Shy
Yeah, that sounds like an addiction.
Maybe you are afraid of losing control, so you try to find things which could “predict” the future, i.e. so you could still be in control so nothing unexpected could happen.

First you need to realize why you do it.
Then write on a piece of paper all your problems. After that sit down and write what you think you can do to eliminate this problem. Like: “nasty neighbors” – possible solution: “move” etc…

You don’t need any money to just go for a walk with your friends.

You computer addiction is harder to deal with, because your job requires for you to sit on it. But it’s doable too. I used to have this addiction too. I beat it by choosing one day of the week when I didn’t sit on it at all. And by joining some clubs like Yoga and dancing.

Start with small steps and don’t give up

Hope I helped.

 

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