Mental Health Desensitization From Rolling at Huge Shows

[ParappaTheRapper]

So i wanted to make a thread about desensitization. I don't roll too often anymore. Plus, bassnectar, i.e., 's music isn't really my sort of thing. But people seem to be always getting more, more, bigger, flashier, more intense.

But, the thing about a lot of RC's, molly, and to a lesser extent LSD, down regulation happens.

So were talking two different things working in a negative direction. Getting off less from our own neurotransmitters, and, needing larger and more overstimulating environments for fun.

Wondering if anyone has experienced this first hand? Or if people have a buddy who anything less than a full crowd heavily faced is boring mundande and pointless?

Any tips or things to cope with all of this?

 

[aq.]

Although it doesn't involve shows, I feel as if I was desensitized to life which is why I started using drugs- to feel something, the euphoria.

 

[tundradesert523]

Im 1 year clean off of suboxone and at the time i quit i had been into alot of molly and other psychedelics and stimulants. A little of everything.

I can honestly say that it took me a few months being completely clean to enjoy the little things again. i would do my old favorite hobbies like hockey and skateboarding to try to have some kind of fun and it just wasnt there. Ive slowly started to have enjoyment for things again but its been a long boring road. But you will get it back. You have to have enough time go by where you start to forget how good drugs were to even have any thing be enjoyable or worth doing.

Ive had to force myself to try new things even though i didnt think id have any fun at all. And most of the time i didnt. Id move on and do what i had to do and just wait for another idea to come by that i thought could be some fun. Ive learned how to really motivate myself. It got to the point where everything i did was something that i didnt really want to do. But now i enjoy little things like just a good conversation, playing guitar, some xbox. Its nice to just have that back. And i can always find new things to do, now that i dont get these artificial highs from a substance.

I hope this helps a bit. I know the feeling.

 

[herbavore]

Rather than limiting yourself to going back to old hobbies/activities, you can also challenge yourself with new ones. I find that adrenaline-raising activities, the ones that really push me out of my physical or mental comfort zones are all I need to counteract boredom.

 

[malakaix]

Wondering if anyone has experienced this first hand? Or if people have a buddy who anything less than a full crowd heavily faced is boring mundande and pointless?

This may not be the answer your looking for, but in my experience i find that over time you simply become desensitized to what was once a thrilling, stimulating experience.. irrespective of the substances involved. I feel like this is the progression of life, you'll eventually experience diminishing returns on what was once very gratifying.. but like many things in life the end of one way of being is an opportunity for a new way..

Instead of seeking out sensory stimulating experiences you may begin to find joy and fulfilment through trivial activities.. one's that engage your whole being rather then just your sense's.

I burnt out from the drug/party scene some years ago.. even when i've indulged recently once or twice a year at a festival, i've found it to be a very isolating experience in the sense that the awe and wonder of the moment has been reduced to a couple of hours of chemical intoxication that provides little to no closure to a deeper yearning within me.