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Crazy Addictions of Ateneo Students

Addiction is an obsession, an excessive psychological dependency. People become addicted to drugs. To alcohol. To food. These addictions harm not just the person’s body but his mind, his social and spiritual life, his work and finances and his very soul.

Some students adhere to the generally accepted definition of addiction. To Noel Torralba, an education student, addiction is a habitual practice that goes beyond the norms and what is expected of you. Legal Management student Paulo Caperig describes addiction as “being attached to something you can’t get off”.

But not all addictions are harmful. Some are just plain crazy with the object of their addictions anything but traditional.

Jobee Barredo, a third year mass communications student, collects Kerokerokeropi items. These are frog cartoon characters from Japan. The Keropi, as it is usually shortened, can be found on anything from mugs to weighing scales. Barredo continues to collect them even if they are more popularly associated with very young children.

A third year economics student who prefers to remain anonymous has such an addiction. He collects branded clothes and accessories. He can be considered a male shopaholic as he finds pleasure with shopping and buying. At present, he already has Gucci, Omega, Salvador Ferragamo, and Escada. Most were bought in Manila but some are from Hong Kong and Singapore.

According to research, the expensive habit of buying expensive clothes and accessories is a way of coping with stress. This can be brought to an extreme, shopping excessively even when it is cleary having a negative impact on other areas of their life. Shopping addicts used it as a way of escaping negative feeling such as depression, anxiety, boredom, self-critical thoughts and anger.

Another student, ______, collects barong tagalogs. ________________

Addicts have a hard time admitting to themselves even to others that they are already addicted to something. The pleasure and the gratification they enjoy from their addiction makes it difficult to detached themselves from what they are addicted to.
It’s natural for humans to cling on to what gives them enjoyment but what makes it less desirable, addicts don’t have that much knowledge or idea on how they should control their addictions. They are not thinking of the result of their addiction, so long as they get that pleasure and satisfaction, they would repeat the same thing over and over again.