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Does being active on this this site incite your habit more than usual?

IVXLCDM

IVXLCDM

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It's just something I've been wondering for a long time. For the last year, I've been totally clean, and I stay here to help, learn, and chime in with my $.02 when I have time. But reading day in day out about people's experiences, has anyone found that this site, may be counterproductive in keeping habits at bay? Not knocking on the overall goal of this site, HR, but it was just something that always was in the back of my mind. For example: when I knew dope was on its was to the doorstep I would post here with extreme enthusiasm, reading people's exps. and remembering my own. I was just so happy, I would be feeling those feelings I was reading about real soon!!...it was nearly like a ritual: talk on BL, get dope, do the 'bizz', fade out to music or TV or movies. That's my specific scenario. Just curious, if sometimes this site kinda motivates drug use in others.

Thanks for the time and replies!
 
lol.. being sober and being on this site just always kept it on my mind. i'd be going on bl, erowid, opiophile and just looking around about drugs. then i started smoking pot again and i'm not nearly on here as much as i was the past month.

but no i made the choice to get high, a web site didn't do it for me..
 
i used to be a full blown coke addict but have since stopped (3 yrs ago, still smoke weed, drink or pop a pill every now and then)
every single day i think about it
some days are worse then others

the posts i read on here, although one may think they would make my urges even stronger, they actually help remind me of why i stopped in the first place

i can see how certain topics could potentially drive some to want to do more drugs or try ones they havent, however i believe that if you want to do something and you do it that choice was completely your own

this site can not "make" you do anything - your choices, as stated above, are you own
 
I think that it can go both ways - it's all about learning.
Like, I knew hardly anything about the dangerous side effects of MDMA before finding BL and since then I have cut down massively because of the information I have found.
However, I have found out which drugs are 'safer' (if you wanna say that) to take and safer practises and gone and found those! So the HR element's worked in a way, but I am probably taking more (as in, a wider variety of) drugs now. And a lot of drugs I hadn't even heard of in my small safe conservative middle class town in England before BL. Now I know more than my friends that's for sure. I am the authority on that subject now! And it makes me wanna take all of them!
And of course, being on here every night makes me think about drugs a lot more! But I enjoy thinking privately to myself about drugs anyway.
 
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It definitely makes me want to use, but I also enjoy learning about drugs/pharmacology and having a better knowledge of harm reduction when it comes to doing drugs.
Honestly I think I've learned more than I've increased drug use, if there was some way to quantify that.

And 100th post! Woo! I think I'll support my habit to celebrate.
 
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

It all comes back to my decisions and my actions in the end - regardless of what has influenced those actions and decisions.

It all depends on where my mind state is at the time. Yes, there's been times where I've read stuff on this site and the next thing I know I'm grabbing what I just read about - but I know that craving was already there before I browsed through this site - whether or not I was consciously aware of that craving is irrelevant.
 
no. the opposite in fact. i've decreased my drug use since i've been a member.
 
I have also decreased my drug use since becoming a member, and when I do use I do so more safely.
 
I would never blame a website or anyone/anything else for my drug use. It's not like Bluelight is forcing me to use.

Actually this website has helped me feel, I don't know how to put it, not as alone? I read the experiences of others and it reminds me that I'm not the only person in the world like myself.
 
Excellent question! It's one I've asked myself many times since I first started reading on this board.

I think Bluelight has both potentially incredible and detrimental qualities. On the one hand, a person who's in need of accurate and honest information on the effects, administration, counter-indications etc. of a drug can find a lot of beneficial info here. There are members here who not only use but research what they use and what they don't. Often, they're truly interested in supporting harm reduction and they're the gems that this board has to offer.

On the other hand, reading some stuff here can actually teach you how and what to use in order to get high in ways you might never have learned of elsewhere. There are lots of different kinds of members here. Seems to me this board is a crucible of people who know their shit through both empirical and theoretical learning that contribute healthy, well-informed and mature posts...and a collection of drug-seekers that want to figure out the whats, wheres, hows, and possibilities of their next effort to get off on something.

For me personally, both of the above apply. I will say, though, that I think the pros of Bluelight definitely outweigh the cons.
 
It's more like I don't visit or post here as much if I've cut back on my intake or am pursuing a life that's not as heavily focussed on drugs. But I also visit BL to read and post in the Healthy Living and Dark Side forums, so it helps support me when I'm trying to maintain a healthier lifestyle.

When I was in periods of heavier use, I spent more time on BL, but it had little to do with BL and more to do with where I was at mentally. BL has never really encouraged me to go out to get faded. That motivation has always been there regardless of BL.

Another thing that I've gained from BL is information on drugs I do very infrequently: like crack, say. Or the rare RC or a new pharm. I have very little experience with crack, maybe smoked it 5- 10 times, but BL gave me the info I needed to get the most of it and avoid some dangerous practices that I would have otherwise engaged in. Like hitting the stem until I was just smoking chore. True story.

Basically, I believe that we all are responsible for our own use, even if we're using during a period in which we're pretty delusional and/or self-destructive from mental illness. (I know there are BLrs who don't fight mental illness, so I'm just speaking for a certain percentage of members.)

If we're going through a bad period of self-destruction, well, we're going to go through that. Until we're in a place where being so self-destructive no longer works for us or we've worked through the issues that compel us to engage in those "slow suicidal" behaviors. So my philosophy doesn't really allow me to blame a forum for my own behavior.

I have my own life and my own troubles and my own therapy and my own mistakes. BL is just here to help me communicate and learn. And gain inspiration from others fighting some of the same battles.
 
I find myself looking at this site going " man that sounds like a blast" but knowing I'll probably never take the time to seek out any of the RC's i read about pretty much daily. I'd like to think this sight has made me take a look at my drug habits and changed them into something that is safer and more responsible.

Example: Before becoming a bluelighter I would look at a bag of mushrooms or a strip of acid and eyeball my doses and just kinda hope for the best. I've gotten myself into the habit of weighing everything before I take it so I have somewhat of a baseline to reflect by experience on. I've also taken the time to look at some of the combinations of drugs I've taken and be like " man that was dumb, you're lucky you didn't really mess yourself up."

So thank you bluelight for making me a more responsible drug user, and for helping me maintain my mindset that life is way more fun when you realize you don't have to be sober through all of it.
 
This site would definitely be a trigger if I were trying to stay clean/sober, which is why I only come here when I'm high. More fun that way!
 
Definitely does for me, it's kind of like how drug enthusiasts sometimes enjoy chatting about the subject of drugs much more than other subjects. Reading about them here, wiki, erowid, opiophile,shroomery all of them serve to increase my over thoughts about drugs...

That is in no way any fault of these websites though, and the education and over H.R lessons that people take away, for free, from this and other websites way out weighs any increased drug thoughts influenced by reading about them, plus reading books from a library about drugs would also increase drug thoughts, so yeah, just thought i'd make it clear i don't blame the websites for anything lol.
 
I'm an addict so I crave opiates whether Im on here or not. When I first joined if I was jonesing then maybe it made it worse. Now when I get on it defanitly doesn't make me crave more I come here to socialize and help people which helps me not think about myself and my cravings.
 
^ yea i agree with this. i dunno this site is kind of a healthy outlet for my involvement with drug culture.. although some of things people talk about on here sound very enticing, somehow this site seems to help me use less.
 
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