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Why are drugs no longer doing anything?

its.euphoric

its.euphoric

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Ok... I don't really abuse drugs, I mean, I drink sometimes, I smoked occasionally, I tried ecstasy a few times... and of course weed but just rarely.
And some other stuff but not very often.

Anyways... I noticed that alcohol doesn't even make me feel euphoric anymore.
And I noticed too that the last time I drank cough syrup was way less strong... I also felt like my whole self wasn't there... like dancing to the music was just like, my mind was out of it.

It use to be that life was just boring and drugs were there to make it fun.... but recently it's like drugs don't even do anything. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with me and my dad is gonna be taking me to a doctor but I'm just wondering what people might be thinking could be going wrong.

I'm thinking like something is wrong with my dopamine levels or something. Because I don't get pleasure in hardly anything... and idk
 
It sounds like your problem could be a combination of tolerance, becoming disillusioned with drugs, and depression. There's probably nothing wrong with you; if anything your problem is more psychological than anything. You may be suffering from depression and it is probably a good idea to see a doctor about that, but the issue with the drugs is probably nothing. I'd suggest you take a break from drugs and focus on being happy in sober life, first.
Good luck, man.
 
so how did that conversation go?

"dad i think there is something wrong with me, drugs arent working anymore"

"oh no son that is not good we better get you checked by a doctor so taht you can enjoy drugs again"
 
umm no I just said I'm really not feeling okay.
Life has become hard to just get through.

and it's not just that, it's the fact that I don't feel like my old self
 
Moral Decay said:
so how did that conversation go?

"dad i think there is something wrong with me, drugs arent working anymore"

"oh no son that is not good we better get you checked by a doctor so taht you can enjoy drugs again"
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LOL! I literally did...
 
I like the its.euphoric post followed by Dysphoric.

You basically just said that you weren't depressed, you were [description of being depressed], OP.
 
Hi its.euphoric. I think Moral Decay was just poking fun at you in an amicable way. Step back and laugh at yourself a bit: it's cathartic.

I disagree, however, that answering your question falls out of the scope of harm-reduction. I think many addicts at some point feel the way you say you feel, especially in response to mercurial substances like DXM and ethanol. I know that for me, similar feelings led me to start snorting heroin, then shooting it, then combining it with coke, then crack, then heroin + crack + alprazolam + ethanol. This is debatable, but I think you're speaking like someone standing on the threshold of a gateway.

Look over the dozens of "loss of magic" and "dopamine upregulation" threads in the archives. I think it's pointless, though. You're looking for a physiological explanation to a phenomenological issue. Even if we could biopsy your brain, I'm not sure we'd know what to look for. The psychiatrist you're planning to see won't do anything of the sort, so he'd have even less insight to offer you.

Unfortunately, you're going to have to choose whether to try more powerful intoxicants or give up drugs altogether. Either of these choices might either ruin your life or vastly improve your life (I met my wife because we were both heroin addicts, and now neither of our heroin addictions are active). But these are gross banalities, and any remedy anyone proposes is likely to be, in the long term, a panacea.
 
its.euphoric said:
Ok... I don't really abuse drugs, I mean, I drink sometimes, I smoked occasionally, I tried ecstasy a few times... and of course weed but just rarely.
And some other stuff but not very often.

Anyways... I noticed that alcohol doesn't even make me feel euphoric anymore.
And I noticed too that the last time I drank cough syrup was way less strong... I also felt like my whole self wasn't there... like dancing to the music was just like, my mind was out of it.

It use to be that life was just boring and drugs were there to make it fun.... but recently it's like drugs don't even do anything. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with me and my dad is gonna be taking me to a doctor but I'm just wondering what people might be thinking could be going wrong.

I'm thinking like something is wrong with my dopamine levels or something. Because I don't get pleasure in hardly anything... and idk
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Want to enjoy life again? Drop the drugs. You obviously are building a tolerance to possibly more than you would like to admit here, but it's still building.

There's nothing wrong with you. It's the drugs (including alcohol). Lay off that shit, do something healthy (i.e. workout and eat well) and let your mind get back to itself.

No offense to the OP because no offending is intended, but I love how people claim, especially on this website, that there's "something wrong with them".

Um, maybe the drugs?
 
some of you fools have some nasty ass tastes, but I heard magnesium loss happens from drug use and magnesium makes nearly everything more efficent.

hell I heard magnesium loss can make cannabis neurotoxic.
 
omg i lol'd so hard. it was just such a good line.


but i hope you feel better soon, i'd be so depressed if drugs stopped working for me.

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it was so funny i made it the qoute on my "Buddy Info" on aim.

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Moral Decay said:
so how did that conversation go?

"dad i think there is something wrong with me, drugs arent working anymore"

"oh no son that is not good we better get you checked by a doctor so taht you can enjoy drugs again"
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Man this fucking cracked me up:) Smiles all round.

To the op sounds like you're realising drugs arent he be all and end all.

I went through this, drugs were alot more fun when i was younger, but now the carefree days are gone, and i only really enjoy strong stimulants and opiates.
 
i'd recommend going to a psychotherapist. a psychiatrist only gives medication, which doesn't solve the problem im most cases. (but can still help especially in the beginning, so why not go to both?)

btw: ethanol has never been euphoric in any way to me and dxm making one feel disconnected is normal.
 
oh gosh, I'm so sick of posting stuff on here, cuz it always leads me to thinking the same thing. That my brain really is leaving me.... You guys can just stop posting, it's useless.


Ok, I know that people always think there's something wrong with them, but for reals, I've never thought for this long that I have something seriously wrong. I never thought that I might have a serious brain problem until I noticed unexplainable twitches, no reason of depression, and what I know now to be called the blunted affect.
Which lead me to what I always was scared of. It's called huntington's disease.... and just everything that's happening makes sense. My mom had it, and it's 50% chance that kids will inherit it. Everyday I feel worse and worse whether I take drugs or not. If I sleep for an actual good amount of time (9 - 10 hours) I feel less myself than the day before.

I look back even less than a year ago and think how much my mind as changed and how fucked over I am. But this is it... I'm not posting anymore of why drugs affect me so weirdly or why this is happening cuz I know the reason, and I'm sick of feeling like an idiot when I get more into it.
 
and... another thing, I'm glad for at least now, that someone got some sort of pleasure from reading this, even if it was making fun of me. I love making others happy.
 
its.euphoric said:
oh gosh, I'm so sick of posting stuff on here, cuz it always leads me to thinking the same thing. That my brain really is leaving me.... You guys can just stop posting, it's useless.


Ok, I know that people always think there's something wrong with them, but for reals, I've never thought for this long that I have something seriously wrong. I never thought that I might have a serious brain problem until I noticed unexplainable twitches, no reason of depression, and what I know now to be called the blunted affect.
Which lead me to what I always was scared of. It's called huntington's disease.... and just everything that's happening makes sense. My mom had it, and it's 50% chance that kids will inherit it. Everyday I feel worse and worse whether I take drugs or not. If I sleep for an actual good amount of time (9 - 10 hours) I feel less myself than the day before.

I look back even less than a year ago and think how much my mind as changed and how fucked over I am. But this is it... I'm not posting anymore of why drugs affect me so weirdly or why this is happening cuz I know the reason, and I'm sick of feeling like an idiot when I get more into it.
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Dude you just need to chill out, I doubt you have some disease. What your experiencing sounds to me like the effect of drugs on the developing teen mind. I experienced the same feelings and confusion when I was a teen using drugs. You need to quit drugs for longer then a few days or a few weeks to get rid of those feelings. Especially if you are using drugs like pot, mdma and LSD. Before going to seek mental help or medical help, try just quitting drugs, because if you seek professional help and are honest with them the firs thing they are gonna tell you is to get off the drugs.

its.euphoric said:
and... another thing, I'm glad for at least now, that someone got some sort of pleasure from reading this, even if it was making fun of me. I love making others happy.
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No one is making fun of you, was just a bit of light ribbing, you're being overly sensitive and need to thicken up your skin a bit if your gonna be posting personal information on a public message board on the internet.
 
Moral Decay said:
Dude you just need to chill out, I doubt you have some disease. What your experiencing sounds to me like the effect of drugs on the developing teen mind. I experienced the same feelings and confusion when I was a teen using drugs. You need to quit drugs for longer then a few days or a few weeks to get rid of those feelings. Especially if you are using drugs like pot, mdma and LSD. Before going to seek mental help or medical help, try just quitting drugs, because if you seek professional help and are honest with them the firs thing they are gonna tell you is to get off the drugs.
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well, if his mother had huntington's his chances are 50% (as he said), and the disease can cause psychiatric symptoms. i don't know how old the op is, but i think he's well below the usual age of onset for the disease which is 40 years. depending on when his mother got HD an earlier age of onset is a possibility. curiously though depressive symptoms are not usually the first signs of HD (and not even the first psychiatric symtpoms to appear).

good luck to the threadstarter and i hope that you're wrong and it's not in fact HD. neurodegenerative diseases are far from nice.
 
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