Are Tattoos Addictive?
By popciclecold
@popciclecold (35103)
United States
January 15, 2021 9:34pm CST
A few years ago, I worked as a cook, at a fastfood restaurant. Well, I would see a lot of young people covered with tattoos, and one of my younger workers would come in with a new one kind of regular. I asked why she kept getting them, she said they're addictive. Now help me if I am wrong, I saw on tv one night this tattoo artist was giving her a tattoo, and she was hollering so much until he stopped. But she let him finish it. So, do you think they're addictive. I'll never know.
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@FourWalls (62133)
• United States
16 Jan 21
An expensive addiction, if they are. The only tattoos I have are surgical scars. 
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@kaylachan (57647)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Jan 21
They can be. Some people sometimes get a bit of pleasure from pain, or knowing they are permentally marking up their body. They enjoy it hurts, they enjoy knowing they are giving pain for a little pleasure.
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
Well, they can have that, I'm not one of them.
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@kaylachan (57647)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Jan 21
Same here. Only needle that goes close to my skin is the one I use to test my blood sugar.@popciclecold
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
I think so too, they were everywhere.
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@Shavkat (137215)
• Philippines
17 Jan 21
@popciclecold I have some friends who had them. They cannot force me to have one or two.
@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
I think so, the lady I saw hollering kept on going.
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@1creekgirl (40515)
• United States
16 Jan 21
Tattoos are like bumper stickers. No one ever stops with just one.
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
Never heard quite like that, but he it fits.
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@snowy22315 (169967)
• United States
16 Jan 21
I think for some people they are. I can't see paying to inflict pain on yourself personally.
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
I'm with you. I just couldn't fo it.
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@ShyBear88 (59282)
• Sterling, Virginia
16 Jan 21
That depends on the person. Some people just want one and never get more some people get them because they want them as reminders of things and others just love pain and ink so they get them all of the time.
I have one tattoo since I was 22 and yes I’d love two more just two more. My only one I have right now is from when I had a miscarriage and I wanted it as a remind of the pain I felt and to carry in some physical for a reminder of that could be child. My husband got the same tattoo. He also has a few other ones. One of our oldest hand, our middle ones foot and he wants our youngest hand. He also has a music notes colored in with our birthstone colors and the first letter to our names. He also has a tattoo of a song on his back that is sang at our family reunion every year. He wants two more tattoos. One for his grandpa that passed this year and the miss hand of son and possibly none that would be a lock and I have the key tattoo. He doesn’t like needles or pain but he doesn’t like ink that is meaningful.
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
Wow. That is amazing. Sorry for your loss, and his grand paw
@ShyBear88 (59282)
• Sterling, Virginia
16 Jan 21
@popciclecold thanks don’t worry about people dye it’s part of life it does hurt but we are all okay.
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@RebeccasFarm (86755)
• United States
16 Jan 21
@popciclecold Altho I do have a few small ones
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
Some people are covered with them. I was in Walmart, and saw a girl look like the whites of her eyes, were blood red. I got so scared.
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
17 Jan 21
Hmmm... how do I answer this... tattoos aren't addictive... the pain/relief of getting a tattoo can be addictive.
Some people, don't ask me why since I can't answer that, like pain. They will tell you that isn't true, but it is.
"Being tattooed can lead to an adrenaline rush of sorts. It's the body tolerating annoyance and pain coupled with excitement and change." Excerpt taken from
https://www.healthline.com/health/are-tattoos-addictive
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
17 Jan 21
Thank you, my friend said they are. I like the article.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
17 Jan 21
@popciclecold You're very welcome.
Many times the people who get/have tattoos will tell others that getting tattoos can be addictive... I think those people don't realize it isn't getting the tattoo that is addictive. It is the pain relief hormones their body produces that are addictive.
@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
16 Jan 21
I don't have any so not for me are they addictive
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
I don't have any either, after I saw the lady getting one and hollering I got turned off. Just like the tongue ring, it looks like it would hurt like the devil.
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
@JimBo452020 That sucks, I hear they can get them removed.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
16 Jan 21
@popciclecold
I know a guy who got his wife's name on his arm in huge letters.
She left him
How funny is that?
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
16 Jan 21
I have always been traumatic when it comes to needles, I never wanted one.
