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Mental Health Afraid of brain damage after amphetamine abuse

Antipsychotics in your case might not be a lifetime thing if you go that route (they probably are for me), they would just speed up your recovery. Drugs which tend to treat the source of the problem also tend to not be recreational, and may be unpleasant. The anxiety you talk about sounds like something that they would greatly help, improving your fluidity of thought. No one really wants antipsychotics. Of course I'm not a doctor, but it never hurts to leave that option on the table.

Meditation is of the east. Ways of the east are hard to describe, as that is a western dynamic. Rather, they have to be experienced. Look up MBSR meditation. I did it for a long time before I realized it was isolating me and making my symptoms worse. While I was on it I didn't have to take medication for attention. Meditation is about paying attention to any sensation, however small or large, while you are in a still enough state that you can take in all the nuances of your surroundings without having the chance of missing anything--it is usually done sitting or lying down, though there are walking meditations. What develops is a greater awareness in all aspects of life.

It can be tough in the beginning, as the west is not used to tuning in to the rhythms of nature. The mental pain (not emotional) that this practice prompts is your brain growing, literally! Studies show that people who have been meditating daily for months or years have larger brains, and more activity in them.

We are alike in that we value intelligence/cognition to the utmost.'
 
I must say, I've never been much of a lover of nature; I'd rather see it as growing self-awareness :) but thanks!
 
you keep track of how many grams you've used? damn, how do you sleep at night?

motiv311 said:
just move on , quit thinking about all this stuff and don't do amphetamines anymore
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yup. you're at a month? that's primetime for torturing yourself about past mistakes and the possibility of lingering impact. soon you'll just shrug it off as your past and feel good about being clean.
 
Heh, thanks for the advice. And eh, I generally keep a track of everything, perfectionism... I also lab tested all the drugs I took, that's for example how I know that the speed I used was 73% amphetamine, 99,2% amphetamine sulphate, racemic. I'm generally in a state of hypercognition; But this sometimes works against me, I have pretty serious hypochondria.. >.>
 
No problem :D

When I say "nature" mean it in a broad, pantheistic sense. Nature is all around us, no matter if you're in an industrial refinery or in the middle of the amazon. Nature is simply our physical environment, most importantly our body. Think of it as recognizing the consequences of our senses.
 
Well yes :P in that sense, absolutely. I've just met too many hippies that are all like "Ohhh nature!!" and that dislike progress or science. Or argue for the moral desireability or about esthetical properties of a certain phenomenon with "But it's natural" - Like say, pregnancy. I sometimes heard that I should have kids because "It's natural" - my favoured response to that kind of reasoning is saying that they should consume some batrachotoxin instead of antibiotics when they get sick. Hey, it's natural! Or the kind of people who idealize primitive cultures because they're "close to nature", or environmentalists who oppose progress or GMO's because of "nature" - I kind of have an allergy against the word nature in that sense.

Of course, in the sense you mean (as in, physical properties of reality which constitute existence) - It's a great thing ^^
 
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