nano
banano |
Sound familiar? PUNDING!
I SEE THIS BEHAVIOR IN MY
ADDICT...Does this mean it might go away if the meth goes away?
I thought it was permanent brain damage that caused this.....and
I just found out there's a word for it...It's called PUNDING!!!
Interesting!
Methamphetamine also stimulates locomotor activity, and produces
stereotypic behaviors. Stereotypic behaviors are the random,
meaningless, repetitive, and compulsive actions that "tweakers"
display: twitches, jerks, patterned actions, picking at
themselves, etc. Stereotypic behaviors have been related to the
norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin systems. Stereotypic
behaviors may also be called punding.
PUNDING is performing a useless task compulsively again and
again. Users report being aware of their punding behavior, but
they say they are unable to stop it.
More harmless punding or tweaker habits include coloring,
writing, playing cards, or taking apart and putting back
together items in a prolonged and bizarre manner.
www.intheknowzone.com/met...ebrain.htm |
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| Sfj |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
Yes,
most of us are familiar with the behaviors. The term has been
"tweaking" and that word seemed to be satisfactory.
I don't know who invented the word "PUNDING" or even why?
I looked in a number of dictionaries and found nothing in
reference to the new word. But then again, that's how
dictionaries get changed, by someone inventing a new word.
But dictionaries are often the last to know.
There medical references. Here's one example:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entr...t=Abstract
and another:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punding
(good ol' Wiki)
Most of us have a slight resistance to change. Me included.
I prefer to remain with "TWEAKING."
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| LoveMet |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
Yeah my addit did this too he
combined the sexual and this sh@@ together. He would cut out
porn and pics of women he liked for hours and would put collages
together. We are still finding the cut outs all over the house. |
nano
banano |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
Sfj!
Couldn't find it in my big dictionary either.....Isn't even in
Taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary! Hmmmmm!
So punding and tweaking are the same thing!??
Okay, Sfj! Please give me some hope!
Does this "senseless, compulsive rearranging of useless objects"
stop when meth use stops? Or do you know people who keep up this
behavior indefinitely? |
| Sfj |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
Yes,
Tweaking (or punding) stops.
WE become something just the opposite, laid back, lazy,
uninspired, relaxed etc. Take away the meth and you take away
the meth induced behavior.
That is one of the changes that takes place rather quickly.
Within a few days. A week or so at most. |
nano
banano |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
Thank goodness!!!
I'd rather put up with a lazy, uninpired slug on my sofa anyday,
than someone who takes apart every working mechanical device in
the house and rearranges all the things in the house and the
yard from the places I put them.
Geeez! It can take a week to undo what a tweaker can mess up in
24 hours!!! Their creed (when you leave the house)must be: Leave
no thing untouched!!! |
| LoveMet |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
I would have loved if my addict
did even productive sh@@ he NEVER did no cleaning nothing like
that....all pointless crap...now his sis's ex whom was living
with us would clean the whole house. |
nano
banano |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
Geeking is also a slang term for
methamphetamine-induced behaviour of being fascinated with one
thing for hours on end, such as repeatedly disassembling and
reassembling radios or watches, or lining stones up in order of
size.
[1] This behaviour is more formally known as punding.
So the more formal term is punding!!!!!!
Well anyway....I AM SO SICK OF SEEING PEOPLE PUNDING! GOING TO
TELL MY SON NEXT TIME......STOP THAT DAMNED PUNDING! LOL
I guess if they did useful stuff it wouldn't be called punding! |
| lax2 |
Re: Sound familiar? PUNDING!
MAYBE... PUttering + fieNDING =
PUNDING
It sounds like some tweaker tried to put a good face/label on a
rather ludicris activity...
that said... I used to do alot of rearranging of the furniture
and such... i kinda miss that...when I try to clean now I find
it impossible to sort or throw anything out...where as when I
was tweaking I would often throw the dollar bills that were in
my pocket away as if it was useless junk... often I would
remember an hoiur later...only to look in the trash and find
money wadded up like used tissues... I can only wonder how many
times I didn't catch myself doin this... I wonder if their was
some psychological reason IE> "Ill only throw it away on killing
myself"? |
