Comments on: Thrill Seeking: What’s Wrong With It?

By: gabe wallace

gabe wallace — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:53:33 +0000

risk taking is fun

By: jose@learnwindsurfing

jose@learnwindsurfing — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:01:13 +0000

xtreme sports is good but not to addict it… so balance to be able not to commit accident.. like me i balance my windusrfing in my life.

By: adriel pryor

adriel pryor — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:31:46 +0000

wow risk taking is fun not bad yeah its dangerous but if it wasn’t everyone would do it and all us people who do it now would all be like them getting hurt is 1/2 the fun

By: michele

michele — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:20:44 +0000

Thanks for posting his. I came into recovery @ the age of 25 over 20 yrs ago. To keep me busy & away from old acquaintances my sponsor suggested I try to exercise or take up a sport. I quickly got into skiing and in a years time went from beginner to advanced. At 3yrs clean I was skiing double black diamond trails. On my 6th yr I pushed the excitement envelope so far I had near fatal accident. when I was air lifted off the mountain I could not feel my legs.

I was blessed in that I received top medical care right away & though one leg is now shorter, I am able 2 walk on my own 2 feet. but it taught me and others about adrenaline or danger addiction. Today I teach my sponsees about balance right from day 1. I’m grateful I lived to share that lesson.

By: oliver wakefield

oliver wakefield — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:28:36 +0000

I cannot believe that you are implying that risk taking is an unhealthy activity – just as Freud did!

Without an inbuilt tendancy to take risk, most present in adolescent juveniles, society wouldn’t have got fed back in our caveman days!

It’s there for a reason, some people just need to know how to use it CONSTRUCTIVELY.

Where would we be today without the great risk takers of the past? And you want to see if you can ‘cure’ the world of adventurers, extreme sports participant and other general risk takers?

We need more healthy opportunities for a ‘rush’ in this molly-cuddled, airbag-fitted-as-standard day and age, not people arguing that risk taking’s evidence of a deseased mind.

Where I work, we help youths with unhealthy risk taking tendancies such as shop lifting, fighting, substance abuse etc and find skills that they can learn, feel positive about, but still get a rush out of, gain respect for, and live for. And yes, they may get injured wake-boarding, sailing, windsurfing, skate-boarding etc.

That is life, because it’s the way we’ve evolved to seek and conquer challenges, it’s just that society has become so safe that it can be hard to find somewhere positive for a risk taker to direct his attention.

You want to eat crocodile? You buy it. You certainly don’t chase it with a stick anymore…..but we used to. So What do you think happened to that part of peoples brains which enabled them to get on with the task in hand?

Back in the day the risk taker would be the hero who fed everyone, now people like you make them feel like they’re all messed up, and need corrective therapy.

I feel disgusted. Read up on risk takers, you’ll see that they are extremely valuable members of society where they are involved in non-destructive activities.

Oli.

By: Paul Maurice Martin

Paul Maurice Martin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:18:51 +0000

It must be that risk takers don’t give a lot of thought to the downside, because there’s nothing less thrilling than life as a paraplegic or quadraplegic. Maybe the naive thought is “I’d die doing what I love,” but risk takers risk not just death but disability and a life that’s the total opposite of an adrenalin rush.