Cocaine Could cocaine help me get my confidence back?

[CalmG]

I have lost my confidence after a fall out with someone who I think is borderline. I feel at the moment that everything I say sucks and is lame and that no-one would really want to know me. This is irrational just the borderline has made me feel like this.

On friday it's my leaving drinks for work, saying bye to old colleagues. They know me as a big character but don't feel it at the moment. Would cocaine help me get my mojo back? And remember what it feels like?

Also is it like MDMA where it can stay with you for a few days and give you an afterglow or is it like 'shit i hate myself again' afterward.

Thanks for advice.

 

[Moredopamine]

Will it give you some mojo back? Yes
Is it a good way of getting back to where you were or of any longterm benefit? No

 

[Albion]

Cocaine is nothing like MDMA. It will give you a very self-centred, pushy high that often will make you appear very arrogant around others. Many people will laugh at the thought of a cocaine 'afterglow' as well, unfortunately. All it will leave you feeling is wanting more cocaine. It will not increase your confidence in any constructive way, and for anything more than an hour at best.

The best way out of this is through no drug, but a psychiatrist, through psychological gain. However if you insist on going down the drugs route, benzodiazepines will provide a much longer lasting, natural feeling confidence boost due to elimination of anxiety and angst. This is still purely artificial though. I don't know how much experience you have with benzos but they have a lot of potential for harm, so use them sparingly and sporadically. Etizolam is an easy benzo-esque drug to get hold of in the UK if you're interested.

 

[ilovecrystal]

Will it give you some mojo back? Yes
Is it a good way of getting back to where you were or of any longterm benefit? No

I must agree

Don't turn to it for help. that's when you reach the dark side. I did it with MDPV as I felt the same. The best thing to do is to take some time to get over it and try not to over think. Do what you normally do and spend some time with you friends Try not to feel the pressure to be your old self, you seem to be having a tough time so there is nothing wrong with you not feeling good

Once you feel relaxed again then take some coke

 

[Venrak]

No. No. No.

If you think the "shit I hate myself again" comes back quickly after MDMA, cocaine is going to leave you in a world of hurt.

It will boost your confidence while you are under the influence, but this is a very slippery slope. Do not fall down the hole of self-medicating for depression/anxiety issues with stimulants, as it is one of the best known roads to dependence with this class of drugs.

Surround yourself with positive people, exercise, eat well and spend time meditating on why you lost your confidence and how you can keep up the positivity. Eventually you will get your groove back, man.

If you think it may be necessary, go seek professional help to get to the root of things.

There is an internal conflict, that much is for sure. Find it and resolve it.

 

[ilovecrystal]

Couldn't have put it better myself Venrak

 

[hematocritter]

As others said, when you are high on it, it will solve your problem. That is how so many people succumb to addiction.... they want to feel that way all the time.
It happened to me with Oxycontin. It fixed all my problems- lack of confidence, low social functioning, anxiety, lack of motivation, etc.
I reached a point after 5 years where it just stopped working, and now I am back to the old fashioned way of trying to gain confidence. Its hard, but its the only way
to do it.
I highly recommend pramipexole for your situation..... it is prescribed for restless leg syndrome, but also lowers prolactin and increases dopamine. There has been some
research suggesting it helps alleviate cocaine craving too. I currently take it for excess prolactin, but I like the mental effects from the dopamine.... I definitely feel
more confidence from it. Sleep is improved too. It will make you an animal in the sack, your woman will love you.

 

[DonStatus]

It might fix your issues with confidence but its just temporary then you'll feel worst then you did before doing it. Best to pop a benzo and chill out about things, less harm.

Best of luck bro

 

[CalmG]

I must agree

Don't turn to it for help. that's when you reach the dark side. I did it with MDPV as I felt the same. The best thing to do is to take some time to get over it and try not to over think. Do what you normally do and spend some time with you friends Try not to feel the pressure to be your old self, you seem to be having a tough time so there is nothing wrong with you not feeling good

Once you feel relaxed again then take some coke

I think that's the main problem feeling under pressure to behave a certain way, what a cool way of putting it i'll remember that, has kinda perfectly captured the issue I have at the moment, thanks! :D

People are strange.


Thank you for all the replies everybody. I think I will probably do a little bit just for the one night, have done it before, but not become reliant on it, an upper can't solve bigger issues! Would be drinking anyway!

It's gonna be such an awesome night going to a psytrance thing afterward :D:D:D:D

 

[LOGan1314]

maybe while you are under the influence...when you comedown...HELL NO!

note: if you are REALLY high you may THINK you are being confident/cool but you are being a self-centered ass....I've never done coke but on MDMA amphetamines or A-pvp i have done this multiple times...:/

 

[Beachcat]

I agree with everyone above regarding finding your own self without the drug, etc, etc...but as someone who has experienced this scenario many times, I have found that popping some adderall much kinder than coke, easier to carry on meaningful conversations, much less harsh comedown. I am not advocating that you do this, just wanted you to consider another option if you were dead set on dosing something...

 

[LOGan1314]

I agree with everyone above regarding finding your own self without the drug, etc, etc...but as someone who has experienced this scenario many times, I have found that popping some adderall much kinder than coke, easier to carry on meaningful conversations, much less harsh comedown. I am not advocating that you do this, just wanted you to consider another option if you were dead set on dosing something...

QFT....however, it's not quite as euphoric as hard street drugs especially since the ROA is oral usually...but definately true

 

[CalmG]

Coke is pretty much the only thing I can get at the moment though. I could get MDMA too but I don't think it's a good idea whilst I currently feel how I do (been doing it since I was 16, 23 now, so know it pretty well). Don't want to have to deal with the comedown. And I also find that unless I'm happy before taking it it's actually kind of lame, it's a bit like 'oh so here we are'. Might be the magic has worn off though.

I basically just need to relax and not feel social pressure. Normallly I can do this just fine. Coke would help with that I guess? Not that experienced with coke. I have done it once though where I went to a nighclub and looked in the mirror and thought ''I could pull anyone here!' hahaha, which is the opposite to how I normally feel. Hmm. I don't think it would make me arrogant just confident and sharper. :/

 

[kokaino]

Cocaine gives me confidence when I do it, especially when I snort it. It's not as intense as the ultra-arrogant type of confidence that you get with methamphetamine but it does produce confidence and feelings of superiority.

 

[pkt]

If you are having problems with your self confidence then you should seek other forms of help than drugs but if you want, get your hands on some benzo's, they will make you feel less "lame" (for a while). Whilst cocaine does make you feel more sociable and confident it is not a long term solution, it will leave you with less "mojo" as you call it, trust me, as much as you have access to unlimited ammounts of good coke, the shit will lose most of the positive effects with time plus the damage you will suffer physically and psychologically. If you want some shitty advice then get some good coke and have some drinks and if you are an outgoing person then you will most likely become the life of the party.

 

[Tryptamino]

Cocaine makes you very confident, but this isn't a permanent solution for your issues with confidence, and it's not worth getting addicted to cocaine for a lack of confidence, when there are other, safer methods. Self medicating with drugs for a psychological problem is not healthy, as it does more damage than it does any good, both physically and psychologically. You will hate yourself much worse after the cocaine wears off. Which will lead to you redosing, using daily, and becoming addicted. Avoid these things as much as possible.

 

[MarDen]

I'd add one thing... You have a low self esteem and low confidence? Well, how will you feel about yourself if you get popped with a possession felony and have to go to jail? Man! I'd surly look for other ways to boost my Self Confidence if I were you but I'm not. I'd just hate to think about someone getting into that crap, needing more so they start selling it and then, the next thing they are looking at a 5 year stint in prison. Not fun! Happened to someone I knew but he got 10 years in a Fed Joint.

 

[THC2LSD]

To loosen up at a party, the club, a rave or the bedroom coke is good occasionally. As a crutch or lifestyle drug it's horrible.

I sort of agree with Beachcat, except I'd recommend a therapeutic to moderate recreational dose of Dexedrine. However I don't think it's as easy to get in the UK as it is in the US, the same with Adderall. I doubt the impure racemic speed in the UK can substitute, could be wrong. Probably too much of an edge, plus it'll be harder to moderate your dose with powder than pills.

 

[Fortunia]

Like the other posters here said, seek therapy, NOT cocaine.

I do like cocaine and I used it regularly for a year. While high I felt energy, focus and confidence. I felt like superwoman. It also made me impatient with others and it detached me from my emotions. It was a cool, crisp sense of absolute clarity and a feeling that everything I was doing was great.

Unfortunately the effects only last about 30 minutes and are followed by an unpleasant feeling of sadness or even deep depression that can only be immediately cured by a another bump of cocaine. This is the problem with cocaine.

After a year of regular use I quit, but I felt listless, lethargic and miserably depressed for many, many months afterward.

I have never taken Adderall (that the other poster mentioned), but I have taken pharmaceutical Dexedrine and I really liked it. I felt I was buzzing with energy, sparkle and confidence, but people close to me told me I was simply obnoxious. Fortunately I did not take it on a regular or frequent basis. From what I understand, regular amphetamine use results in the same listlessness and depression as cocaine when you go off of it.

The body makes its own amphetamine like chemicals from the amino acids Tyrosine and Phenylalanine. If your diet is lacking in amino acids or if you have a health issue that interferes with their absorption or synthesis within the body, you can feel "down" and lacking in energy and confidence. For more on this, google L-Tyrosine and L-Phenylalanine.

Other things may be involved in your loss of mojo as well, like hormone status, lack of sleep and psychological problems.

Anyway I hope you soon get your mojo back without negative or dangerous complications.

 

[tricomb]

Cocaine for confidence is an absolutely horrible idea, don't go down that road. For gods sake, the drug lasts 20 minutes! To be confident, what are you going to do? Bust rails every 20 minutes the rest of your life??

It's not logical, if you ask me. Confidence derived from drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine is a pleasant side effect of the drugs, however if you take the drugs for the sole purpose of that induced confidence, I don't think you'll find it especially since you'll have expectations going in.