dangerous special intrests...

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I feel like I am prone to these, maybe thats part of my problem.

The only thing that's dangerous is not thinking.

How are they dangerous? Do they cause physical harm for yourself and others? Is there a real threat they may cause harm? Lastly, are they illegal?

Well i don't know exactly......lets just put it this way I enjoy certain illegal substances, because they intrest me. I can't get rid of that intrest. So that could be potentially dangerous may have even effected me i can't be sure. or sometimes I get suicidal but then it will really get my instrest and I wont be able to stop thinking about it.

Follow your heart and wear all the proper protective equipment you can find, helmet, eye protection, and oven mitts!

I try to completely avoid things that can be too dangerous, like drugs and such, because I know that I am prone to be obsessive.

I've been there. It's rough. It has taken me many years, much soul searching, and a lot of therapy to get past it. Sorry, I don't have any advice to give, other than, yeah, I know what you are talking about, and it is tough to overcome.

I had a dangerous special interest. That special interest was energy drinks. I was trying out each brand to see which one tasted the most like Lime Crush. After going from Punk back to Mod, I sarted trying all the orange energy drinks to see which one tastes the most like Orange Crush. I'm paying for it with some health complications right now. If you don't want kidney, heart or lung problems, stay away from energy drinks.

I am fascinated by endurance, mortification etcetera. I often deprive myself of sleep and perform art pieces lasting hours and hours consisting of intense repetition. I can't see this doing me any good, but I don't do it because I enjoy suffering, I do it because I am DEEPLY interested in it.

I'm very much interested in parkour. It looks like an amazing sport but it is extremely dangerous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

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Don't try this at home.

Yeah, I have been there. For quite a while all my interests revolved around 'illegal substances' and all my friends, time, and resources as well. Then I started meeting more 'drug culture' type of folks and many of them had both much more knowledge about our shared substances of interest as well as knowledge and wisdom about far-reaching subjects as well.

This is when I realized my narrow interest in drugs was getting me nowhere in the broad scheme of understanding the world. Additionally, my metaphors (as well as my brain, so it feels) were full of holes.

I empathize on the suicide thing too. There were many days when my routine went: wake up, make coffee, go sit on back stoop smoking a cigarette and visualizing myself jumping off a bridge from a variety of different angles.

You could turn this suicide interest into an interest in existentialism or some morbid curiosity about the temporal, fleeting nature of life. For me I have always been into plants/herbs (overlaps well with the substance interest as well ) and so spent a lot of time researching plants that could be poisonous. My lowest moment came in a suicide attempt w/ castor beans, which contain the cytotoxin ricin. I am now trying to apply this very narrow interest into a fascination with healing herbs and plants.

Whatever interest you perceive to be harmful to yourself may very well have the opposite effect if you turn it on its head and remove yourself from the situation. Suicide is a part of life, but you don't have to kill yourself or dwell on killing yourself in order to find self-destruction fascinating. Take it to a broader picture!

EDIT: Apologies if I am getting preachy

I play tuba, which has already wrecked havoc on my knees, back, and shoulders.

I feel you, one of my special interests is also illegal substances.

I've been feeling better since laying off the energy drinks.