Hobby or mental illness ?

[happyface888]

Definetly a mental disorder, I spend more time thinking about my fish tank than any other thing. Thinking of how to improve this or that, worried that something bad might happen. sometime I think my world revolves around the fish tank and this site. x.x

 

[mrme]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10909969#post10909969 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SSalty
Honestly, the reason I started this hobby was to help with my alcohol/drug addiction.Yes I went to treatment, but I needed to fill the time that I spent drinking. So I started doing some research on the reef keeping hobby, and I decided it was perfect for me. One, I could afford it, I just took the money that I would have spent on alcohol and drugs and I invested half of that for retirement, and the rest into my tank. Needless to say, that was a good amount of coin. Second, I needed to find something that kept me happy and something that I found interest in. Needless to say, this hobby was perfect. It is so relaxing and rewarding at the same time. I concider it as part of my "support" group, it keeps me sane.

I have no regrets starting this hobby, it has helped me in more than one way.

Thats awesome man !
At least you replaced that addiction with somthing thats just as fulfilling.

Rusty- hahaha :lol: :rollface: That made me laugh so hard.."boy am i gonna miss her"

 

[Chibils]

So far, my girlfriend has been very understanding. That makes me happy.

@ACB: What's your secret? I have chronic depression and my girlfriend is the only thing that makes it go away, my tank just keeps my mind off it.

 

[kysard1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10951561#post10951561 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Chibils
So far, my girlfriend has been very understanding. That makes me happy.

@ACB: I have chronic depression and my girlfriend is the only thing that makes it go away

You are playing with fire, you must find something else to ease the blues.

 

[Mental1]

You know the first year that my tank and I had together was tough. Scary you know -- how close you feel and then all of a sudden something happens and ... you think it's all over. You get scared of the time commitment, and the money it demands but the beauty, my gosh -- so beautiful. It twinkles under the lights and I think, maybe we can work things out and keep going. It's not addiction, it's true love.

 

[[17]shawn[17]]

For me this hobby is hopefully going to be more of a way of life

Im 16 some of my friends waste there money on drugs and alcohol witch are very easy to come buy here. I save my money to buy frags and coral instead

I think about my tanks when I wakeup, on the bus to school, at school, on the bus home, when im home, when I should be doing home work ,at work...you get the idea there

The reason I say it’s a way of life is
I plan everything around my tanks
• What I do daily weather its not going out with friends cuz I gotta make a trip to the lfs or do a water change
• work I gotta work of I cant keep my tank running
• vacations and trips I can only travel for as long as it takes my tank to evap5or10gal
• school im so interested in my tanks and the ocean (witch i have yet to see)I plan on going to school for marine boi (not sure where or what type) in Australia where I can be close to the ocean and the hot chicks
• my future I plan to live buy the ocean and hopefully work in a public aquarium or do something where im involved with creatures from the ocean

 

[Cody Ray]

I'm considering dropping out of college to go back and work at the lfs. If that aint crazy I don't know what is

 

[Sheol]

Well, since I have a reef tank, I certainly cannot afford drugs!
LOL.

Matthew

 

[dwd5813]

Re: Hobby or mental illness ?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10891669#post10891669 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mrme
hehe i was pondering today about wether or not i think about my tank to much.

that alone should tell you everything you need to know right there.