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Are you introverted or extroverted, and does smoking/getting high change it?

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ForeverInTheDeep

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I'm pretty introverted and I get even more so when I smoke and even when I do a line, it just makes me wanna self focus and do my own thing. I rarely feel super outoging.
 
I'm introverted & depends on what drug you are referring to but it looks like some type of stimulant. It can make me either super extroverted or as you said more introverted just depends on the vibe & situation I'm in
 
Depends on the situation and the time of month. With good friends I'm loud Party Girl. In front of people I don't know I am usually quiet until you add alcohol = Party Girl! During PMS im a raving fucking lunatic and extremely sensitive to other people's emotions and I haven't been violent in 3 years (thank you DBT). So by definition I am an introvert however i can be quite extroverted at times! Lol
 
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That's the problem, there's really no such thing as introverts or extroverts, except in context and Myers-Briggs Company Team-Building meets, and even then only when the boss is watching.

That said, when I smoke weed I become totally non-verbal, can feel every muscle in my face, and watch as people's souls drain from their bodies leaving hollow skin-covered robots in their place.
 
I feel people put too much emphasis on these words. I know I am an introvert largely because i consider almost every action i take and how it relates to people or the room as a whole. I also get most of my social release at work so I dont feel the need to go out or see people most days. I spend most of my free time doing solo projects, advancing my knowledge on a subject, or meditating.

Having said that I am usually very confident socially as I have trained myself to get a positive response out of most types of people, so I love interacting with new people as i get the basic assumption it will go well. This is easier when I am on some types of drugs, weed makes me way less likely to be social. Generally I have a fast thought process and dont need to think about stuff to say but when i get high it slows down and i feel i cant keep a good conversation so i dont. Most other things, unless im coming down, dont effect my thoughts so im talkative on L, molly, alcohol, really just weed gives me that effect. It also doesnt help that weed lowers my over all energy level.

But I know I am an introvert I spent so long trying to define myself because i am largely undefinable (i also hold myself in really high regard ;) )
 
I'm kind of balanced, I get off spending time alone and I get off by socializing with people. Drugs can make me go either way really, sometimes I get really talkative on phet for example, but sometimes I just enjoy going for a late walk and walk around town
 
extroverted and weed makes me introvered and reflective..herion/opiods me me talk alot and clean…meth makes me quiet and just sit in place… the opposite i guess of normal..opiates i put on punk and speed clean and stay up all night
 
^^I don't know, I also feel more relaxed on meth, and don't grind or pace much. Or talk much. Also prefer more down-tempo music with it.

Actually that's the same sober. Except the relaxed part.
 
I'm introverted to the extreme as part of constellation of diagnosed mental disorders, but it's not fundamentally who I am or who I want to be.. Weed, alcohol, benzos, barbituates.. All of those actually make it worse. Ssris don't help. But coke, amphetamines, (both of which calm me down) and opiates make a HUGE difference. I get anywhere from a little extroverted to life of the party depnding on combo/dose. Also stops all the symptoms of my adhd/I, aspergers, and RDS (all of which are linked to issues in dopamine/endorphin deficiency). So I'm in the tough position of having only hard drugs letting me be a normal happy person with normal relationships. Unless I go out of my way to get fucked up, no one can even tell I'm on drugs, but when I'm not then they think I act weird and creepy, since I don't want to avoid social situations, really want to be in them actually, but can't talk in one. So despite the financial and legal trouble coke and opiates bring, I'd still rather kill myself than live without them.

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Also don't think of introversion/extraversion as binary options, but rather a spectrum.
 
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I definitely lean towards introvert but drugs do not always effect how outgoing or reserved I am in social settings now opioids make me way more extroverted and increase my want to socialize and make me more talkative now stimulants cause me to become way to focused on a subject and cause me to not engage anyone socially unless I know them already
 
i get more outgoing with almost all drugs other than weed & psychedelics. and with opiates it depends on my mood. normally i am introverted, never shy though.
 
What drugs? How much of them? For me, it just depends. Alcohol I would say overall tends to make me more sociable, but there also are times that I prefer drinking alone. I used to prefer to be sociable while drinking but nowadays I pretty much drink every night. It does make me more sociable, but not always in the best of ways. I've said and done some truly idiotic things while drunk as we all have. Drinking doesn't really affect my persona that much anymore though, but that's probably simply due to the fact that I drink often and have a pretty high tolerance nowadays.

For me, that largely has to do with my mood and the moods of those that I'm around. With weed, I'm usually somewhat introverted. I actually have pretty much quit cannabis as I felt it wasn't good for my social anxiety. Nothing major, just caused me to become too introspective but really get nowhere with it. No personal growth like I've had from psychedelics. Psychedelics completely vary based on the individual night. Some nights on them I've been quite sociable. Other nights, I've simply stayed in my room in a deeply introspective state or traveling through other dimensions and entering a state of profound wisdom and knowledge that can't even be expressed in words. As for benzos/other pills, I don't have a lot of experience but I would generally say neither more sociable or solitary. Just whatever I happened to be doing at the time.
 
People misunderstand what introvert and extrovert means. It has nothing to do with whether you like socialising or not. It's all about how much energy is used up by socialising.

I can pretty confidently say I am introverted because although I enjoy socialising and can do it all day I will be tired afterwards and will spend a few hours after locked up alone in my room watching TV to unwind.

An extrovert gets the opposite, they feel zapped when they're alone and somehow absorb energy from being around people.

As for what effects drugs have on this: none. A drug can make me more social but it won't stop me feeling tired after. Unless I just redose stims all day until I get psychosis I guess, but that doesn't found fun.
 
I hate leaving the house because I never want to interact with anyone. I have to go to work most days and my wife will drag me out for social functions from time to time. Grrrrr....

For me:

Stimulants make social situations harder and more awkward. Weed makes interacting with anyone nearly impossible.

Opiates, benzos and alcohol make social situations easier. I still dread interacting with people even when on these though.


Always been quite introverted. Spent most of my youth playing, talking and learning all on my own. Same now that I'm older. I only had a few years as a teenager where I really tried interacting with others. Was during this time I met the woman who became my wife. If I was single now I would never meet anyone...
 
Wilson Wilson said:
People misunderstand what introvert and extrovert means. It has nothing to do with whether you like socialising or not. It's all about how much energy is used up by socialising.
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Let's go to the source! Carl Jung: "The attitude of the unconscious as an effective complement to the conscious extraverted attitude has a definitely introverted character. . . .

"We call a mode of behaviour extraverted only when the mechanism of extraversion predominates. In these cases the most differentiated function is always employed in an extraverted way, where as the inferior functions are introverted; in other words, the superior function is the most conscious one and completely under conscious control, whereas the less differentiated functions are in part unconscious and far less under the control of consciousness. . . .

And, finally, just to contradict himself again, "One cannot be introverted or extraverted without being so in every respect. For example, to be “introverted” means that everything in the psyche happens as it must happen according to the law of the introvert’s nature." (Psychological Types by C G Jung, Harcourt 1923)

It was actually clearer in the original German.

Anyway, INTP!
So what do you do when your work group of bio and chem people needs corporate team-building bullshit? Yes, send them all to a Myers-Brigs camp. What do we all get as results? Yes, INTP, the "scientist". Money well spent.
 
Wilson Wilson said:
People misunderstand what introvert and extrovert means. It has nothing to do with whether you like socialising or not. It's all about how much energy is used up by socialising.
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Very true. My ability to withstand energy drainage from being around others goes up on drugs, so it's easier to socialize and for longer. My mental predilection to being alone in order to "recharge" doesn't change. This thread would have been more straightforward if it were about being social, since (as I think you are implying) drugs won't really change someone from an extrovert to an introvert and vice versa.
 
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