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Functioning with Addiction?

amberdam

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To what extent does the habit/addiction affect one, their life, and their outlook/perspective?

This may have some to do with the cause for use, whatever that may be. The question is particularly how do you identify the habit and how does it fit into one's life? How does it affect day-to-day function? How has it affected one's view of their life as a whole from start (to finish?) and how does it affect the outlook on the future for one's life?
 
That's so relative it's not even funny.

U need to know everything about the drug you choose to habitually do or... err.. "become addicted to".
Now depending on that drug it can be easy to separate it from reality or it can be really hard.
What happens is drugs turn people into hedonists. They become only concerned with pleasure and do various things to achieve it.

It's a little thing i like to call, "dopamine". The lovely dopamine. I love dopamine. I like drugs that produce dopamine in my brain. Butt what I also realized is that they're many other things that produce this dopamine. Like eating. bla bla.

Now how a person deals with their dopamine cravings is what defines them as the drug user they are. You see I've realized that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. There's lots of things that make me feel good. So I never allowed my perception to see that drugs were the only way. It's all about knowledge now can't you see? A person without this understanding may only believe that his shot of heroin is what makes him happy and escape. But what that person doesn't realize is that it's all artificial.

Now leme stop rambling and pretending like I know shit and tell you what drugs did to me.
I was 15 when I first did pot. I fell in love bla bla went thru struggles with parents and family and eventually tried MDMA at 16 and did a plethora of pharms aka (soul-less) drugs for about a year like a crazy maniac. From codeine to xanax to possible overdoses these drugs made me cold, apathetic, irritable, introverted. I became more unhappy and drifted from emotional capabilities as I poured my cup filled with codeine each weekend and poured my emotions out. I abandoned "god" and religion entirely and became an atheist and said I'll be ready to die when I lost my virginity.

As you can see that's some fucked up shit right? Pharms man. They're the devil. They're nothing but a quick fix to natural feelings that we claim we understand.

But things changed man. I discovered Hallucinogens. All the emotions I lost I had found. Of course it didn't just happen overnight. DXM made me feel a sense of purpose, a sense of "him" who is he? I. I am him. I am me. I lost myself on this first trip. And found someone else. That was me. i then tried LSD and after several trips came back to "god" and created my own morality and what I live by. My own religion so to speak.

Now I just have fun in life, i've discovered a purpose that I don't want people losing themselves on this journey we call life and the pharms are what's that eerie figure in the darkness telling you to come over, it's nice here but it's not. It's fucking dark n cold. The real light is when you discover yourself.


Im 18 now and I would like to become a psychologist to approach impulse control and natural emotion coping abilities without pharms as I do NOT believe in the therapeutic use of those drugs. I want to change how my country feels about drugs and their own feelings because pharms were literally put here by Big Pharma to distract us from the light. Hallucinogens are the tool I used. Pharms are broken tools trying to fix broken people.


I hope this has given you and understanding on how drugs have affected me.

I personally smoke weed, self prescribe Valium, trip on Hallucinogens and occasionally do cocaine cuz I've tamed the beast. I drink as well.

before discovering hallucinogens I would be a raging animal popping pills and drinking like a fish with no light in sight. Just darkness. Thanks to bluelight I am not dead and I am part of the HR movement and the psychedelic awakening. I owe it to the users here now on their own journey with drugs to provide them the insight they need so that they stay safe. The lovely people here on BL took care of me. Im here for anyone else. Love.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE THIS IS.
 
The concept of Harm Reduction exists because of the pursuit of the 'Enhanced Psychedelic State.'

You see I've realized that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. There's lots of things that make me feel good. So I never allowed my perception to see that drugs were the only way. It's all about knowledge now can't you see? A person without this understanding may only believe that his shot of heroin is what makes him happy and escape. But what that person doesn't realize is that it's all artificial.

What are you achieving, then, if not the "high" from a substance? Is there a purpose that you use for? Be it self-medication, recreation, escapisim, etc.. (This is still a general question aimed at the thread.)


EDIT: The idea of "chasing the dragon" completely contradicts Harm Reduction practices in most cases, on some psychological, if not physical level. How does this affect our decision making?

On a longer timeline, how is the choice to habitually use a substance/become addicted to a substance ever a good idea? Isn't it??
 
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I'll keep it short. I was a kickass functioning guy while on opiates. Always on the go and a good mood etc. Little did i know long term opiate use fries or effs up your nuerotransmitters etc and you quit giving a damn about EVERYTHING. No motivation. Depressed. Just a zombie because your dopamine and serotonin receptors are fugged. It is so horrible. The stuff I couldnt live without at one time....dont give two shits about it now, and havent for a long time.
 
I forgot to add. I use drugs for recreation. Never really a high. Because IMO benzos dont get you high but I still do them cuz they're fun.

Obv cuz I'm defining high differently. My idea of high is euphoria. And euphoria to me is that warm content state a fatty bong rip gives me.

HR doesn't mix with hedonists.

The choice of doing drugs is not ever a good one. It's like climbing a mountain. We do it cuz it gets us high but we can fall off and get hurt or die. How educated you are on climbing the mountain justifies your safety.

I've been safe climbing the mountain every time but twice. And those 2 times were when I was deep in a downer binge and upper binge. Binges are fun AF. Climbing a mountain is fun AF. But we must always be careful. It is the person's risk. Never the drug to blame.

HR is where it all ends. this is why this forum exists. We need HR in this world.
 
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