Something about addiction:
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| The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simply addiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as "uncontrolled, compulsive use"; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as "addiction". In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components. There is also a lesser known situation called pseudo-addiction. A patient will exhibit fountain-pen-seeking behavior reminiscent of psychological addiction, but they tend to have genuine pain or other symptoms that have been undertreated. Unlike true psychological addiction, these behaviors tend to stop temporarily when the pain is adequately treated by buying another fountain pen. |
Then, like ADHD means Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, there must also be a good abbreviation for what we suffer from.
I might suffer from SUFID (Spending Uncontrolled in Fountainpen and Ink Disorder)
Any other suggestions?
The Legend
Dude, you must have WAY too much time on your hands.
How about PPAID - Pen, Paper and Ink Disorder.
How about PPAID - Pen, Paper and Ink Disorder.
So now we know. If it has a name it can be cured.........for the willing. I for one will remain a Budgetarily Challenged Pen Disorder patient. 
The problem :SUFID / PPAID
The answer: IRS
The answer: IRS
Be careful or these might be added to the other weird "diseases" in the ever-expanding “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder”.
There are all sorts of behaviors that might fit there "fear of ink", FOI, "ink creep paranoia", ICP, "pen brand fixation" PBH, ”unqualified hate of ballpoint pens” UHOBP, and alike.
You can look at all of the DSMH disorders in Wikipedia. I personally love the ones labeled "Mathematics Disorder" and "Malingering".
God knows what drugs might be prescribed until we are no longer obviously “ill”.
While this is on the surface funny the tragedy is that normal childhood behavior is also so labeled and the kids put on dangerous pills much to the profit margin of the large pharmaceutical companies.
For more information of how this came to be visit: New Yorker Magazine article on how the manual is created.
Or for an alternative view on psychiatry this web page.
There are all sorts of behaviors that might fit there "fear of ink", FOI, "ink creep paranoia", ICP, "pen brand fixation" PBH, ”unqualified hate of ballpoint pens” UHOBP, and alike.
You can look at all of the DSMH disorders in Wikipedia. I personally love the ones labeled "Mathematics Disorder" and "Malingering".
God knows what drugs might be prescribed until we are no longer obviously “ill”.
While this is on the surface funny the tragedy is that normal childhood behavior is also so labeled and the kids put on dangerous pills much to the profit margin of the large pharmaceutical companies.
For more information of how this came to be visit: New Yorker Magazine article on how the manual is created.
Or for an alternative view on psychiatry this web page.
. . . Probably better skip the paraphilias 
! I for one am SURE I have a true-blue attachment disorder with regard to certain pens, I don't care if I AM over 3 years old 
! I for one am SURE I have a true-blue attachment disorder with regard to certain pens, I don't care if I AM over 3 years old
FETISH would be the appropriate designation, based on what goes on around here!!!
Petra
Petra
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