Addictions, great and small

I've always been able to keep my drugs in as strong a check as I've wanted, and while I occasionally let alcohol get the best of me, I usually keep control. I've never been the type to gorge myself on sweets or ice cream. But I just can't seem to keep control of my TV-watching habits.

It should be easy, considering that I don't have cable, or even get any local stations. But the internet, oh the internet! I've been downloading entire seasons of things, and then bingeing on them. In the last month, the only time I've left my apartment to be social has been at the behest of Lacuna Diving Bunny. I've become bad about returning phone calls again. I will spend days sitting in my bedroom, leaving only to use the bathroom.

When I binge, when anyone binges, it is because they are depressed. So I've been trying to focus on where that might come from. ( Read more... )