Is it possible to get addicted to music?

Trey22

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Maybe it depends on your mood and mental state, how you're feeling, and what is going on in your life. People turn to different things to ease the pain and/or forget. Booze & music seem to be the perfect combination for me.

There are times where a song that makes the hair on my neck rise has to be played over and over until I am sick of it. Unless that happens I have this hungering for that music and nothing else seems to satisfy that craving.

A friend's preferred method of therapy is music over anything else. She says the satisfaction she gains from it cannot be topped. It's her safe haven, her refuge.

Once I start listening, I can't stop. Help?

Feel free to share your "I need a drink playlist"... I'll throw one up shortly.

Cheers,

Trey

Edit: How much does music affect your mood?
 

nakedfrog

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So it must be pretty awesome for your friend to listen to music while she's having sex, huh?
 

SagaLore

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I'm not a big music person, but I do get a little obsessive compulsive with some songs. When I first heard Crazy by Gnarls Barkley, I'd stop what I was doing when it came on the radio. Then I went and got the soundtrack, and played it over and over and over for weeks.

I stopped listening to it for a few weeks... then I popped it back in last night, and it just didn't have the same affect it did. I guess I'm over that addiction. :p
 

Platypus

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If so then I'm guilty, I rarely do anything without music on. In my car, at work, on the computer, playing guitar myself, etc. Everything in life is enhanced with music in my opinion.

I have a lot of OCD tendencies that I can pretty much kill off with the right music, I think it totally has an effect on your mood if you choose it to.
 

potato28

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Originally posted by: Platypus
If so then I'm guilty, I rarely do anything without music on. In my car, at work, on the computer, playing guitar myself, etc. Everything in life is enhanced with music in my opinion.

I have a lot of OCD tendencies that I can pretty much kill off with the right music, I think it totally has an effect on your mood if you choose it to.

QTF. If I didn't have music, I probably would be in jail right now...
 

jumpr

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There's a live version of U2's "One" floating around on the Internet performed with a full string symphony. That always makes the hair on my neck stand up. And it might be a cheesy song, but Something Corporate's "Konstantine" has the same effect on me.
 

OVerLoRDI

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I used to absolutely love music, mostly when I first started using my computer a lot. Now listening to music is something that just kind of fills silence. Although every once in a while I will find something like the OP is talking about, something that is just jaw dropping and makes me want to listen to it over and over again.
 

IronWing

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There is a cure. Set her radio to a country station and pull the knobs off.