GBL Megathread 6: Germans do it better
that said, as much as ghb and analogues enhance certain things, i do notice that it seems to make these things even more boring when you are not on the substance..i think ghb does provide great pleasure but in return gives its users mild and in some cases severe anhedonia even after abstaining from long periods...has anyone been able to correct this 'pleasure deficit' problem??
I don't think this is so much a GHB specific problem as it is a "drug you take every day during every day activities" problem. Look at people who smoke weed all day every day, who take opiates all day every day, who take benzos all day every day, who take Ketamine all day every day, *or* who take G all day every day. Everything seems less fun afterwards because you're used to experiencing "Fun + 500% extra euphoria", so "Fun" alone doesn't cut it anymore.
It's the same as if you spent an entire year just going on rollercoasters and base-jumping and doing other huge adrenaline rush based activities all day long and then tried to go back to sitting at a desk in an office typing up boring papers afterwards - you'd just be mind numbingly bored - when if you'd never spent the year doing that in the first place, you could have easily handled that desk job.
We sense everything in relatives to what we expect to sense and what we actually sense, and the same goes for experiencing things in general - if we're taught to expect unparalleled highs soaring through the sky then we'll drive ourselves nuts if we don't get them, it can take a long time to get used to a normal level of pleasure again when you've been treated to extreme pleasure daily for so long.
The only reason you see it more often with certain drugs than others, i.e. you don't hear many people talking about having it with LSD, while you hear a lot about it with GHB, or Weed, or Heroin - is because those latter drugs where you hear about it happening are those drugs that are comfortable to take every day all day. Most people don't take LSD all day every day, but it's not unusual to do that with GHB or Weed or Heroin.
The trick is just to avoid taking anything all day every day if you don't want it to have such an effect, and if you must take something all day every day then you better hope you're not going to run out any time soon..
That said as for a direct relation with G, I've heard of a lot of very long term abusers talking about not even getting proper euphoria/pleasure from other drugs after they abused G so much - so it's possible the dopaminergic interaction with the GHB receptor means that too much interaction with that receptor can have some nasty long term effects like that - but in terms of someone who's used for a few months daily or whatever you have nothing to worry about, I used the stuff daily for several months and I didn't even have a hangover when I stopped, most of it is just about expecting the high at that point and not actually any physiological changes that have occurred. (and any that have are minor at worst)
So yeah a little abstinence will work a charm, just combine it with doing other things to spice up your life if you don't want to be bored and lacking pleasure and such - i.e. go on a holiday, spend some more time with family you haven't seen in a while, go to a random town you've never been to and party there instead of your usual haunts, just do something to break your normal cycle and you'll find it a lot more fun because you're not spending the whole time thinking "Well this was always 10x more fun on GHB"
!
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")