ok.. I wondered if other drugs make you feel very open and unashamed like mdma does.
Like, on meth or heroin/ coke, do you feel very unashamed too? Like, when you see yourself do you see yourself as beautiful? Like you'd see yourself as "adam"
What exactly is it that makes you feel like that on mdma?
I guess that depends on what you mean by 'feeling unashamed'. Do you mean drugs that lower your inhibitions and self consciousness, or do you mean drugs that allow you to think about subjects that are normally difficult in an unimpassioned manner?
I would say that inhibitions are indeed lowered by the drugs you mentioned (coke, meth, heroin). But, none of those do so as strongly as MDMA in my opinion.
Stimulants (including meth and coke) tend to make me more opinionated, socially outgoing and willing to take social risks and say things I might not normally. But, this is tempered by the tendency to feel sorta self conscious on stims, like everyone knows you're high and judging you (this is usually just paranoia, but it's a hard feeling to shake).
Opiates do lower inhibitions in that you don't really care what other people may think about you while under the influence. But on opiates, I probably don't really care enough about anything to leave the couch and actually be in social situations anyway, so this is kinda a moot point.
I think alcohol is great for lowering inhibitions. I don't care what others may think of me, I have the urge to socialize and I don't sweat the social faux pas I may make. I suppose benzos also can lower social inhibitions, but they usually make me feel too apathetic to even bother.
If you want a drug that allows you to view yourself from a state removed from the normal emotional responses linked to difficult subjects, then I would recommend dissociatives (i.e. ketamine, DXM etc.). I would recommend ketamine if you can get it, it's considered by most to be the best dissociative. Of course, MDMA's analogs share this property to varying degrees as well. Typical psychedelics sometimes can do this, but they can just as likely cause the opposite effect too.
Meth, coke, heroin etc. do simply make you feel good (euphoria) regardless of what your typical emotional response may be to a given situation (and therefore feel no shame). But I think what these types of drugs offer is simple escapism, I usually avoid introspection on such substances.
Hope that helped.
