I've been taking many different substances for almost a year and a half. Everything started fine but then problems started to happen after a panic attack induced by weed and ketamine, and since then I've not had the same fun with substances and things have become progressively worse:
- With weed now I become really anxious and paranoid. This has gotten significantly worse with stupid continued use. This is what I think is causing the damage
- With LSD I feel the same type of stress with minor paranoia, but it feels like I can still make intelligent judgements on situations and still partially enjoy my time
- With Mushrooms I either feel ill or as if I have a fever, but I still love the headspace, but the bad feeling almost ruins it
- With MDMA then there is strong anxiety but hardly any changes to thought, sometimes goes away but the rolls a lot feel shorter. My tolerance is much higher too
- With cocaine it is nothing but anxiety and physical stress, cocaine used to feel a lot different
- Ketamine feels quite normal in low doses, but K hole doses are very confusing and it feels as if I'm losing it
I wondered whether this may be a dopamine receptor issue from my substance misuse. The panic attack I had was from huge amounts of weed and ketamine at the same time and I was also seizuring and having major symptoms of psychosis; I believe that the issues i'm having now may be down to receptor issues (damage to dopamine receptors, excess dopamine/glutamate activity and inhibited GABA activity, can anyone give any more info?) I tried phenibut before and that so far has been a great help in terms of controlling some of the issues which I experienced, although I kind of felt the highs were dulled slightly.
What can I do to help my situation? Is the damage done reversible? And will time away + healthy eating/exercise/meditation do enough to make things normal again?
- With weed now I become really anxious and paranoid. This has gotten significantly worse with stupid continued use. This is what I think is causing the damage
- With LSD I feel the same type of stress with minor paranoia, but it feels like I can still make intelligent judgements on situations and still partially enjoy my time
- With Mushrooms I either feel ill or as if I have a fever, but I still love the headspace, but the bad feeling almost ruins it
- With MDMA then there is strong anxiety but hardly any changes to thought, sometimes goes away but the rolls a lot feel shorter. My tolerance is much higher too
- With cocaine it is nothing but anxiety and physical stress, cocaine used to feel a lot different
- Ketamine feels quite normal in low doses, but K hole doses are very confusing and it feels as if I'm losing it
I wondered whether this may be a dopamine receptor issue from my substance misuse. The panic attack I had was from huge amounts of weed and ketamine at the same time and I was also seizuring and having major symptoms of psychosis; I believe that the issues i'm having now may be down to receptor issues (damage to dopamine receptors, excess dopamine/glutamate activity and inhibited GABA activity, can anyone give any more info?) I tried phenibut before and that so far has been a great help in terms of controlling some of the issues which I experienced, although I kind of felt the highs were dulled slightly.
What can I do to help my situation? Is the damage done reversible? And will time away + healthy eating/exercise/meditation do enough to make things normal again?