good addictions

Tell that to a heroin or crack addict. Even a smoker will tell you, it doesn't kill you not to smoke the stuff.

Addictions are bad, they are meant to be. Otherwise they'd be a hobby.

As an aside, what's with the donald's hair. You'd think a fairly well off guy could afford a good dye job. Not to mention....Who the hell is his hairdresser, none I know would recommend a combover? Seriously........

Love can become an addiction. Is that a good thing? Any addiction could be a good thing, at least for a short while. In the end it usually ends up biting you in the ass!

Isn't the feeling of happiness an addiction for everyone, technically?

Yep I would agree to that.

That would make depression, or anger and so on, every emotion a drug, an addiction? I'd say that was farfetched.

Yes, but either one of those emotions could be an adiction at one time or another even if we aren't aware of it.

I am addicted to squinney. It has kept me a faithful husband after four other unsuccessful attempts. That's a good thing, right?

Yes it is, bear.

Not all addictions are harmful. Take chocolate, for example!

A good habit is virtue; a bad habit is vice. Or so they used to teach us.

So what makes a habit an addiction? I would guess the compulsiveness. Telling the truth is a good thing, but I wouldn't want to live with someone who never told a little fib to spare my feelings.

Being addicted to love would be OK if the sexy backup band went along with it.

I am addicted to water. Can't live without the stuff....

Some addictions keep you alive.

I credit heavy narcotic use as a teenager as a reason I am alive today.

Good lord, Bear. Why is it all my musician friends have been married 4 times? I kid you not, this is common. Why???

Might as well face it, they're addicted to love.

LOL Kicky........LOL

Four piece bands...

Oh, but Craven you can drink too much water. It can actually kill you.

Noakes, a specialist in human biology at the University of Cape Town, said that much of the conventional understanding about water consumption during exercise is not based on evidence, and that drinking too much is unnecessary and can be fatal.

He cites the example last year, when a woman in the Boston marathon in the United States died from hyponatraemic encephalopathy - a severe lack of salt in the blood - because she ingested excessive volumes of a sports drink before and during the race.

But her death was not an isolated incident. Shortly after a doctrine which encouraged those in training to drink the maximum amount they can tolerate became popular, 250 reports of the hyponatraemic encephalopathy appeared in medical literature, Noakes said. The cases were occurring in athletes, army personnel and hikers, and seven were fatalities.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s904374.htm

I accidentally fell in love with an addict once and researched the hell out of it. This is the very best source I was able to find. Click here for details: "Love and Addiction"

Okay, Bill, that's two book recommendations in about ten minutes. I'm starting to wonder if you have some affiliation with Amazon. Hmmm. . .

I never said otherwise...

My comment wasn't "too much is good for you..."

I think that TV is probably the most prevalent addiction in society today, but I never heard of any "war on TV". I guess TV must be one of the good addictions then, right?