Mental Health coming off stimulants, starting anti-depressants but smoking H

[44antman]

Hey everyone, I have been prescribed Sertraline (50mg/daily) and have began the trial period. I used to sniff meow (mephedrone) excessively, and over a lenghty period of over 5 years (it's been over 6 years since i started sniffing meow, but in the last year or so I have weened off it dramatically, to the point where I have only done it maybe 3-5 times in the last 6 months) I did MDMA on new years eve, but was in bed later the next evening.

I have taken my first anti depressant this morning, but am wondering if now's the right time for me. Should I let my brain chemistry heal for another 3 months or so before I start this script? I suffer from anxiety to the point where I can't go out and meet people, talk to people, without drugs.

Also, as my replacement to mephedrone it would appear, I've started smoking heroin and I do this whenever I have money pretty much. Will this counter the effects of the anti depressants, or can I do both? I would like to do both, unless the time comes where the AD's (SSRI's) start to take affect, that I won't need any other recreational drugs. Basically, the only thing I enjoy is doing drugs.

To summarise: Should I wait for my brain to heal due to my abuse of stimulants before I begin this script, and should I stop smoking heroin if i continue this script?
Answers would be greatly appreciated, thankyou

 

[sliceofcake]

You should stop smoking heroin

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

For starters, if your antidepressant isn't working, please tell your doctor instead of resorting to abusing highly addictive, damaging, and expensive street drugs.

If you want the medication to work fully, there can be no drug abuse involved during treatment.

Addiction is addiction is addiction. Trading stimulant addictions for opiate addictions is well-documented, and doesn't get at the source of your illness, but puts you in the same place as before or worse.

Nothing will feel as good as easily as abusing drugs. Recovery takes time and a lot of faith in oneself, but it's possible. Good Luck.

 

[Burnt Offerings]

I relate to that. Let me ask, though: is your desire to do drugs motivated by "depression"? I ask because I don't think that mine is sometimes, honestly. Yes I will often do more drugs when I feel depressed about life, but even in happy periods of my life when I feel somewhat satisfied how things are going, I will still feel the urge to do drugs. It's strange.

Smoking heroin is highly addictive for certain people. in the community I live in it's predominantly young women in their early 20s-early 30s who are really into tar (guys love to smoke tar too of course, but the people I've known who've been really obsessed with tar have been girls around my age). Anyway you're in the UK so you aren't smoking tar probably anyway, just #3 heroin right? Lol. I wish I had some of that hehe.

From my experience, smoking heroin is not really a good thing, and if you have any desire to stop you should take those thought seriously. I still use opiates on a fairly regular basis to this day so I can't say "don't do those opiates, they're evil!" I think opiates are awesome sometimes, so I'd be a hypocrite...I've seen some people's lives get effected in a really negative because of opiate addiction, though, and I'd say my own life has been, overall, negatively impacted by opiate use, and many times I view it in a similar way to an addiction to cigarettes....just a taxation on your quality of life overall with way more negatives than positives.

But, AFAIK, it is safe pharmacologically to combine an SSRI with an opiate