Harm Reduction Can someone tell me why drugs don't have a good effect on me anymore?

[cgdon]

have been using cannabis since I was a teenager and have always expanded to hard drugs.
but for several years now, not one drug has displeased me.
cannabis makes me tired and sleepy, cocaine gives me a high heart rate and the feeling that I'm going to have a heart attack, research chemicals make me sick...

I've used a few drugs over the last few years and nothing makes me feel good anymore.

Lately I took another HHc edible of 25mg and after 1 hour I was asleep... I don't get high anymore.

could I have autonomic nerve dysfunction like dysautonomia / pots ?

 

[BadBoy377]

You could, but probably not.

Sounds like you've just had enough. Or at least your body has.

Listen to your body. Fuck drugs man. There's a whole world of other stuff to do out there. Go outside and play.

Why would you keep doing something that made you feel bad?

You'll be fine, dude.

BB

 

[4DQSAR]

I took the unprescidented decision not to smoke cannabis while living in The Netherlands.

There is a Dutch saying concerning the consumption of cannabis which is something like:

'Alleen studenten en verliezers roken cannabis.'

It's never meant in a nasty way but most Dutch people feel that while it's fine to try cannabis, but eventually, it stops you doing things.

The only person within my group of friends was Case, who was a bit older than the rest of us and had only stopped smoking cannabis in his 30s. He just said he felt that it isolated him from his friends. He was just sitting at home, smoking, rather than taking advantage of the fact that he had a lot of friends who deeply respected him. In fact it was I who referred to him as 'uncle Case' and soon everyone was doing it. He was fine with it. He realized that being thatbit older, a lot of people looked to him for guidance and I suspect he felt he wasn't being the best friend he could be.

In fact, even before moving to The Netherlands, I would only touch Thai or gold-seal. Because I would do a bong and go out and do things. That crazy 'can't think let alone walk' skunk was not for me.

 

[Itzmaher]

Honestly , you might just be growing out of it. There's more to life with or without chemicals. I know when I was in my teens I loved MDMA, Oxycodone, Oxymorphone, Heroin, Xanax, Cocaine.. basically everything. I loved being high and the general experience. I've dealt with really bad chronic pain since about 15, so I'm sure that played a HUGE part of it as when I was High, I wasn't thinking of feeling my pain. But now being 30, almost 31 I don't feel such desire as I used to. I still consume cannabis daily via Legal Live Resin Vapes albeit I consume less. But I've been offered coke and psychs a few times and turned them down. Everybody is different but it just thinks about it a lot more before doing a drug. Also since I've lived longer and experienced more, I always worry about not being able to "Control" myself on psychs and having stuff I haven't dealt with come up. Have you thought about maybe expanding into some hobbies? Education , Video Games, Music, Art, Cars, Sports etc?

 

[Keif' Richards]

Hey all! I believe the prime takeaway here is that Hard Drugs are not something you want to be a part of you for your entire life. As most addicts on the street will tell you, they're just trying to feel normal. For most of them, the relief of tension and feeling of safety following administration become the "high" that the person is searching out.

There are substances that are safe for most people who want to use Chronically. I use Cannabis on a daily basis despite the fact that I have no ability to use hard drugs without immediately screwing everything up.

At the end of the day, these drugs can often extreme highs, though we all know that the most extreme and pure highs come through living life though they are often more difficult to obtain, require discipline and the existential paranoia we all have can easily make a person feel reaching for the Crack Pipe is there only "chance" at happiness and so they grab it.

The potency of these experiences with said "hard" drugs just fucks with the homeostasis of life to such a great extent that there is often little opportunity for a middle ground. A person is generally either going to be using to excess or not using at all. The sad thing is, they aren't even getting that high that they were originally chasing. They are just struggling to feel okay as some of us do every day upon waking. This all sounds like a good opportunity to do some mindfulness queries.

Are you actually having fun anymore? Do you have anything else in your life that gives you happiness? A lot of us have been through what you're going through now. If you need to chat or want some advice we are here for you.

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

As most addicts on the street will tell you, they're just trying to feel normal. For most of them, the relief of tension and feeling of safety following administration become the "high" that the person is searching out.

QFT

 

[Halif2]

Keif, that whole post is excellent and feels like the condensed wisdom that comes from many years of learning through bitter experience.

The potency of these experiences with said "hard" drugs just fucks with the homeostasis of life to such a great extent that there is often little opportunity for a middle ground.

This is profound. Sometimes I wish there was a way to share this sentiment with younger people so that it actually got through. "Choose life" and all that.

 

[blankboybastard777]

have been using cannabis since I was a teenager and have always expanded to hard drugs.
but for several years now, not one drug has displeased me.
cannabis makes me tired and sleepy, cocaine gives me a high heart rate and the feeling that I'm going to have a heart attack, research chemicals make me sick...

I've used a few drugs over the last few years and nothing makes me feel good anymore.

Lately I took another HHc edible of 25mg and after 1 hour I was asleep... I don't get high anymore.

could I have autonomic nerve dysfunction like dysautonomia / pots ?

Are you autistic perchance? What I noticed myself is when I was unable to feel any substances, I was in autistic burnouts. I had no emotions for anyone or anything, not even myself. That emotional piece was very important for me to feel the effects of drugs. If I don’t have any emotions or rather the ability to feel any emotions then I wouldn’t be able to feel drugs. What was crazy was I was very sensitive to psychedelics, like 3 grams of shrooms would get me to seeing fully open eyes visuals. My face turning into skulls or animals. Patterns in other peoples skin. Etc… but then I could take 5 gs and not even get trails. I would take 14 grams of active of aya and barely get any trip, eat two feet of cactus and just a very mild stimulation. I also noticed nicotine blocks my emotions, which is crazy but it’s very harmful to my emotional awareness. So I would look into autism or borderline personality disorder, as both there is a condition called alexithymia where a person may not have any awareness of emotions. If someone can’t feel drugs IMO it’s either due to tolerance and their brains processing and remembering how to process drugs quickly or it’s due to underlying mental health issues.