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Former E users are you on Anti depressants now?

Do you think Mdma usage is a factor that led to you being prescribed antidepressants?

  • Yes, I think it's a factor

    Votes: 6 9.4%

  • No, I don't think it's a factor

    Votes: 12 18.8%

  • I'm not sure

    Votes: 8 12.5%

  • I'm not on anti-depressants

    Votes: 38 59.4%
  • Total voters
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akuma4u

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For those who use to drop a lot back in the day, after you guys stopped, like after 2-4 years or more, did you have to go on anti depressants because of issues with depression or anxiety or pains and aches and insomnia etc.??

I used maybe 200-300 pills in the span of 3-4 years and have not used any E for about 4 years but am now having issues which docs are telling me are serotonin related and that I should go on anti depressants. I dont know if they are right or not, but I was wondering if anyone else here had problems years after they quit?

I did find some info from some people saying that they and their friends who use to abuse MDMA all had to go on anti depressants years later because their serotonin levels and receptors were fucked from the abuse.

if anyone can share their personal stories that would be cool.

Thanks,
-B-
 
nope...been almost 10 years since I took my last pill and no problems here.

I did have lasting effects from taking E that lasted 2-3 years after but they are all gone now for the most part.
 
matt2012 said:
nope...been almost 10 years since I took my last pill and no problems here.

I did have lasting effects from taking E that lasted 2-3 years after but they are all gone now for the most part.
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how many years after you dropped your last pill did those lasting effects happen?
how many pills did you drop in total and for how many years did you do drop?
finally, what were these "lasting effects" ??

thanks
 
lets make it clear first that E was not the only drug I abused during this time. I did just about anything I could get my hands on but the bulk of my usage was MDMA and weed.

I quit smoking weed after I relized that it was making me paranoid and well before I quit taking E. First my short term memory was almost nonexistant. this has gotten better but is still not gone almost ten years after I stopped. I would say I am about 70%-80% what I was before I started using.

Clouded mind....this was another long lasting effect. I had trouble thinking straight and paying attention. This got better but I don't think I felt fully recovered for about 2 years after stopping. there were "milestones" where one day my head would feel much clearer that previously and just stay that way but that was around for about 2 years before I felt back to normal.

I had what I discribe as emotional deadness. this faded in about a year was almost unnoticable.

paranoiai presisted for about a year but it was easy to dismiss as something caused by drug abuse so when it happened to me I would just say to myself that I was being stupid and that it would pass. I would rutinely think that people I knew all my life were in someway out to get me or take advantage of me.

The TV talked directly to me for a while. watching TV or reading would cause me to think that there were subliminal or direct messages for me and me alone. this was another one that was easily to dismiss for the same reason as the paranoiai and was reallatively short lived. maybe 6-8 months of the TV talking to me.

I can't say that I was depressed but for a long time after I didn't like the life I had. it felt like I was missing out on all the fun and things that I did in the past really bugged me to the point where I would get overly emotional over things that happened many years ago. this sumtimes still happens today.

Auditory halusenation presist to this day but are getting less and less as time goes on.

the filter between my mouth and my brain still has a big hole in it. random thoughts will enter my head and fly straight to my mouth. I get one or 2 words out before I realize and stop myself. this normally results in strange looks from my wife and the ocassional "what?"

I am sure there are more but these that I listed were the worst of the worst IMO with respect to quality of life. I don't know if this helps you but I have gone through alot of shit with koping with the bad effects of abuse so if there is any way I can help....I am here.
 
"the filter between my mouth and my brain still has a big hole in it. random thoughts will enter my head and fly straight to my mouth. I get one or 2 words out before I realize and stop myself."
I have that.

"Auditory hallucination persist to this day but are getting less and less as time goes on."
I have that except it's more of talking to myself.

I would routinely think that people I knew all my life were in someway out to get me or take advantage of me.
Yep. I also have strange thoughts.

E does have its thorn.
 
I'm sure you went ahead and told your doctor that you were an ex pill head and he took the easy way out by saying your issues were serotonin related.

Doctors love to rub Shit like that in your face.
 
I dont think i could ever take SSRIs....

i know that i would never be able to get much of anything out of any of my favorite drugs, and would probably end up just doing a lot of prescription pills...
 
matt2012 said:
paranoiai presisted for about a year but it was easy to dismiss as something caused by drug abuse so when it happened to me I would just say to myself that I was being stupid and that it would pass. I would rutinely think that people I knew all my life were in someway out to get me or take advantage of me.

The TV talked directly to me for a while. watching TV or reading would cause me to think that there were subliminal or direct messages for me and me alone. this was another one that was easily to dismiss for the same reason as the paranoiai and was relatively short lived. maybe 6-8 months of the TV talking to me.

I can't say that I was depressed but for a long time after I didn't like the life I had. it felt like I was missing out on all the fun and things that I did in the past really bugged me to the point where I would get overly emotional over things that happened many years ago. this sometimes still happens today.

Auditory halusenation presist to this day but are getting less and less as time goes on.

the filter between my mouth and my brain still has a big hole in it. random thoughts will enter my head and fly straight to my mouth. I get one or 2 words out before I realize and stop myself. this normally results in strange looks from my wife and the ocassional "what?"
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sounds like you prob had some kind of bipolar or other related mental disorder during your younger years which were never diagnosed before hand. IMHO, my friends who abuse marijuana, E and sometimes cocaine are all bipolar, depressive or a combination of the two (with parents who also abuse or some genetic history) and they are usually are self-medicating to feel normal. For a while the E and marijuana, which both effect the serotonin systems makes them feel more normal or in control of their mental state so they take it more often until it stops working and has the reverse effect. This is similar to those ADHD people who abuse cocaine because it makes them feel normal. Then they have problems for years afterwords dealing with their bipolar personality coming back with a vengeance. instead they just should have gotten help in the first place.

If E abuse is effecting you years and years after with those pronounced effects (hallucinations and shit like that) I would definitely say its not the E talking... and prob your bipolar or some other type of mental unbalance which is cropping up again. It sounds like you are definitely learning to control it, or at least accepting that its a part of you, without going on SSRIs.

SSRIs are favored by shrinks because its easy and they can pat them selves on the back for helping you. In some cases they are but in most studies they have about the same success rate as placebos and cause a lot of problems like muting of emotions and sexual dysfunction and they are hard to get off of. Unless you are totally debilitated. I would never recommend anyone go on them because they had a drug problem. It's totally ridiculous.
 
I used very heavily for about two years (1 to 7 rolls a week). Now, I do have depression problems, but anti-depressants fuck with me worse than my depression, so I go without. Then again, I'm now addicted to heroin, so I guess I'm kinda self medicating.
 
a100unitSHOT said:
I used very heavily for about two years (1 to 7 rolls a week). Now, I do have depression problems, but anti-depressants fuck with me worse than my depression, so I go without. Then again, I'm now addicted to heroin, so I guess I'm kinda self medicating.
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after the 2 years of heavy use, how many years went by until you started noticing the depression symptoms?
 
yea dude I fucked myself up doing it like every other day for like a month and have scince had real bad depression problems and high high anxity im not going to say that xtc doesnt fuck you up like everyone else I have long term problems cause of it and acid got but the problems I have from coming of xtc doesnt even compare to the anxity problems I have scince I binged on xanex and klonopen
 
Been using mdma for 10 years now and don't notice any depression. Not even periods of heavy use. I'm not saying it doesn't happen cause I'm thinking my case may be the exception not the rule and depression from e does not seem all that uncommon. Just try and limit your use, maybe once a month at most and you should be able to at least limit any effects it may have on you.
 
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