I have a serious issue with impulse control, but as of late, have been doing much better with it. Usually, however, I do whatever it is I feel the urge to do, no matter what the risks.

i used to have stacks of porn magazines, a row 3 ft deep and 20 ft long

holy cow, shawn! now i understand why you have that big band aid on your crotch.

impulse sure all the time I have lost more jobs because a customer did something that pissed me off and I told them were to go and how to get there. As far as sexual thoughts and all that even if I am in a relationship and I know that I would never act on it I think about having sex with every good looking guy around.

food addiction - chocolate hob-nobs, can eat a whole pack in 1 go easy - shopping/sex both come n go as they please, months without, then no stopping me..I too worry about driving, sometimes i just "come to" and i realise how much attention i am not paying to the road...OCDs the worst tho-cleaning of all things, but i just do the same things over n over-couldn`t run the hoover over if ma life depended on it! basically, i find it very easy to be addicted to anything...

Impulse control is I believe to be the biggest problem of bipolar disorder because it aligns itself with our inability to judge what is right or wrong or the fact that at that moment we simply don't care. I struggle with impulses every day, all day. Not so much with food, but each day brings new impulses. Be it spending money, staying up all hours of the night (knowing I have to get up the next morning), or sex. And sex is at the top of the list. I would say you are of the "normies" here in the bp world. And yes we have normies here. Our kind of normal - unfamiliar to anyone else. Boy are they missing out!!!! LOL!!

patty= it's a cast!

I have lots of probelms with food I went from being addicted to being scared of food. I was so terrified I would get addicted again that I just stopped eating

I'm also BP2 and I never knew there was a link between it and food addiction? But if so that makes total sense! I generally don't have problems shopping - I don't max out my bank accounts - I'm fairly sensible I think. However FOOD is a COMPLETELY different story. I have struggled with food and weight and self image all my life. I am the classic yo-yo dieter.

Once I gained 8 kilos (roughly 16 pounds I think) in 1 month. The following month I gained 2 more kgs.

Then I busted my arse at the gym for 8 weeks and lost 10 kgs.... only to gain 6 back a few months later.

AUGHHHHHHhhhhhHHHHHHhhhhhh

Chocolate....my best friend...my worst enemy

think a **** buddy would sort me out...then i can channel my impulses..

I have a SERIOUSLY addictive personality, I have to treat myself like my enemy some days just so I stay straight.

It's hard and it sucks because you feel like you can never have any fun or anything good.

If only I could get addicted to cleaning!!

Oh me too Fazer. And sex, what's that?..she says innocently.

I have no addictions whatsoever. I quit drinking, drugs, smoking, sex (not by choice).
My life is beyond boring.

Impulse Control??? You can control these things??? I struggle, seriously struggle.

I can be sooo good and then I'll blow $100 on chocolates and chips. Money disappears in food because it 'feels' like a necessity.

I can go to the store and see rows of DVDs I want but because I don't really 'need' them it's easier (sometimes) to talk myself out of blowing my budget. When it comes to food however, well I "NEED" food don't I. So what if it's $20 of cherry ripe I've got to eat, right?

I've always just thought I had an addictive personality. I never really connected it as a fact of BP but I guess the relationship is there. There are things I've learnt to avoid (drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling) because I know I'd have a problem with them. But food... *sighs* Can't avoid that completely.

Avoiding sex is unfortunately not by choice. I don't sleep with anything that moves so I don't see a problem being addicted to sex except that I guess I'm constantly frustrated. It's never enough. 11 orgasms? "Please sir, I want some more." lol

I might have a little impulse control, not a lot but just a little. I am an addict, drunk, exsmoker, charge addict, sex addict, non sex addict, DS poster addict and who knows what else.

So impulse control is just a wee bit out of wack.