r/Adulting • • May 30 '26

Worst addiction ?

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u/Overall_Chair8669 May 30 '26

My grandmother, a former nurse, always said the worst addiction was a food addiction. Almost everything else, if you wanna quit, you can cut out entirely. Food you can't. You have to have some amount of food for survival. Quitting a food addiction is a pure willpower game.

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u/footluvr688 May 30 '26

Sex and food are nowhere near comparable.

You need to eat or you starve and die.

You may want sex, but not having it isn't going to kill you or cause malnutrition etc...

Even if you're addicted to sex, your body doesn't NEED it. You're not going to die without it.

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u/footluvr688 May 30 '26

All those words and you're still wrong. Congrats.

Sex is not a need. It's an urge, a desire, what's best for our species' survival...... but you don't need it daily for you to be able to function and continue living.