Bad Habit of popping pills?

[Nattefrost]

Quick question but Ive been taking L-tyrosine for about a week and a vitamin b suppliment and My fiancee who I live with is a little nervous. She absolutely knows that Im not looking for a high and its only vitamins for energy, but she thinks I have a bad habit of simply popping something into my mouth to try and feel better. No arguing or anything of the sort but Im actually thinking she could be right. Just like I used to wake up in the morning and take oxys, then subs, now vitamins (obviously ALL for different reasons), This could be a mental thing as Ive I honestly had the most energy this morning in a long time. And I didnt even sleep great last night. Could this be a mental thing? As I stated before that Im unsure if its the vitamins or just the natural days passing by? Could I Have some kind of addiction even if its healthy vitamins of just wanting to put something in my mouth? And she's not the first person I heard this from, either. Thanks. Other than that feeling great and this forum has been a gift from Heaven.

[liscamdave]

I don't personally think that its the act of popping a pill. But I do think that when the desire to stop is there, you just would give anything in the world to feel normal again. And wake up every day without having to take a pill. So if the vitamins help speed that process along, why not....

You will get through it....trust me.

[HR_PuffnStuff]

This topic is so interesting to me because after I was off pills I found that I would pop too many Excedrin. I would actually look forward to taking one and there came a time when I had to try and wean off of those. It's ridiculous, really....I can't believe that simply putting a pill in my mouth and swallowing it would make me somehow feel better. It seemed like it was simply the act of taking a pill that comforted me. Definitely addictive behavior for me, I think.

[Nattefrost]

Very true.

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

I think the amino's in particular helped me dodge another round of terrible antidepressants that they always wanted to give me. I would agree that one could take the whole vitamin supplement ritual too far and use it as a semi - or sub - conscious method of filling that pill anticipation - but its certainly a more healthy route than a handful of oxies while you get your ship in order...............

[Nattefrost]

I agree.

[Mercedes175]

I just posted about similar analogy to the Thomas Recipee..outside of the prescribed meds of sleep aids and anxiety..I wonder if the vitamins have any effect or its the "going to the health food store/drug store..buying them, exercise in itself to give us the expectation something is going to be better..alittle control to the "uncontrolled" state we feel we are in through the "unknown"..withdrawal.

I think it is mostly mental - for me. I have never, never done well on vitamins, minerals..that became an addiction in itself..buying tremendous amounts of these horse pills, comparing brands to get the most "pure"..when at the end of the day I felt worse, not better.  It was the "expectation" that was the positive.  Its nice to read those bottles promising nothing but health and beauty.

I am a realist..so maybe my "negative" attitude does the same job to me..I dont expect anything to work so it doesnt..lol.

Narcotics have been the only thing that works.. I am an avid excerciser..have been all my life..eat good, sleep good..now don't take any "vices" accept for more recently tramadol (don't ask..) but aside from that I should be in picture perfect health..but still struggle with bouts of "laziness and depression"...hense where the trams came in..my doctor prescribed them ..

I think it is accepting life on life's terms..that was doing fine for the alchohol addiction I had once I got throught that (work in progress)..God, AA really helped me.  I think I just got bored with everything fine...hense why I went to the trams..if exercise and eating right were where it is at I would never have been tempted to take these..but I did anyway..it is keeping your head right to life and not expecting a high..just dealing with it.

that's my 2 cents..  I do believe the act of taking pills has a subliminal effect on us.  We need to learn to just "be"...:)

[Nattefrost]

Im not anticipating a "feeling" but I know what youre saying. Im just looking for energy, which I guess IS a feeling of some sort. I don't know. But definately not a "high".

[rue10]

You know that's funny.  Sometimes (well amost all the time) when I take my vitamins, after I swallow them I anticipate that feeling.....that doesn't come.  It's sick to say the least.  I had to chuckle about it the other day.  But I've been seriously thinking of laying off taking any kind of pill for a while.  It's too much of a trigger for me.  

Bless ya.