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Finally Joining the Community

Paddy2413

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Hello friends!
I've ended up on this site more times than I can count via google searches to many drug related questions. It's helped me and saved me many, many times. So I finally made the plunge and signed up!

A little about me, I'm 19 and from Washington (the state, not the capital). I spend most of my time nowadays with my girlfriend of 10 months and working full time. My biggest passion would be hockey, followed closely by coffee (so similar to marijuana in terms of the vast differences between flavor notes, beans, roasts, etc.).

I was diagnosed with BPD (borderline personality disorder), ADHD, and severe anxiety at 13, but had been dealing with the effects for a couple years prior to actually being diagnosed. It grew increasingly worse through high school, with multiple failed suicide attempts and inpatient clinic stays along the way. I'm happy to say that I've gotten a lot stronger and have hopefully made it through the worst of it. It still affects me every day, but I've gained a more positive attitude and am able to make it through my days without being completely crippled by my mind.

Prescription drugs were what originally got me started using recreationally when I started abusing my prescribed benzos and muscle relaxants and the occasional opiates. Thankfully I realized what was happening with the benzos so I started using marijuana, and that has been one of the best decisions of my life. It not only saved me from a harmful benzo addiction, but has also aided in many other aspects of my life both physically and mentally. And being someone who thought of suicide on a regular basis, it has definitely saved my life multiple times. MDMA and opiates are my "once in a little while" favorites. I tend to avoid benzos because of my past dependence, and the bad nausea that came with them. Also not much of a fan of more potent psychedelics as I've yet to have a positive experience with them as they tend to exaggerate my pre-existing conditions. Over the past two years, studying and lightly using recreationally has become a passion of mine. I've tried to gain as much knowledge as I can for both harm reduction and potentiation of experiences. I've learned a lot not only from personal experience, but also research into others experiences as well as medical and scientific research. The world of drugs recreational, or purely medicinal, is very fascinating with much to learn, explore, and experience. So I'm very excited to learn even more, and to also share any knowledge I've acquired that may be useful to others in this wonderful community! :)
 
Hello Paddy!
I too was diagnosed with BPD and clinical depression, it was very hard to get out of that state of mind by myself. I see human mind as a map and thoughts are it's roads, so the mind is lazy and always rides those roads, that are familiar, most "ridden" which in a lot of cases are negative self-image, self-doubt, etc. By exploring your mind and "walking" the roads less traveled, people can change their mind, or at least as I see it..
For me, nootropics and regimen played a huge part in recovery and accepting myself and others as it is. Ive gone through quite extensive list of different nootropics and herbal supplements and found that in the right combinations they could be as effective as prescription meds but without a nasty side effects and/or addiction. I'd recommend you to check out Noopept (especially if you are a coffee lover), Aniracetam along with some high quality choline source such as CDP-Choline, also Kratom is quite nice for reducing opiates craving, altough the quality of it is going down lately with the potential ban hanging. Phenibut is also nice, especially for public situations and public induced depression but I'd stay away from taking it daily.
And of course, love and artistic expression are the biggest helpers.. After all, being depressed could be used to create inspiring works of art imo!
Much Love!
 
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