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Stimulants Handling an Amphetamine Psychosis

SpunkySkunk347

SpunkySkunk347

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The trick to handling an amphetamine psychosis is to accept that you are hallucinating, but not to let it scare you.

You can come up with some over-thought psychoanalytical jargon as to what is going on in your mind that is causing the psychosis, but you're just adding more fuel to the fire - and you know it!

A pro relies on his techniques, not his theories, to get him through those 48 hours of Hell.
What techniques? Copious amounts of alcohol one might presume, and the old "take the pair of socks off, put them back on again" routine, but what is a person supposed to do when they're jaw goes crooked and they're biting down on their teeth the wrong way? or when your neck feels like it is coated in a layer of ear-wax? or how do you handle that incurable feeling when your back and upper chest muscles are so fried due to a combination of hyperthermia and excessive masturbation, that you can't open up your lungs enough to get a full breathe of air and it causes that cold stretchy feeling in your throat?

Well, how do you handle that, huh? More hot showers?
If you're resorting to your third hot shower in 2 hours, then it's too late, the damage is done. You might as well just beat yourself in the face with a shovel to make the next two days seem better by comparison.

What you need is preventative measures. Meditation! Self control! Mind over matter!
The difference between a night of convulsing in the basement of some building downtown and a night of only semi-agony.

But why don't I remember what I learn? Why don't I remember the lessons I learn from my mistakes with amphetamine? Is it because I tell myself "don't think about these things tomorrow" to prevent perpetuating any delusions, but in the process sacrificing all my hard-earned knowledge gained through trial and error? This is the amphetamine user's demon.
 
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I agree, when I used to do meth, I found myself many a time losing it. I learned to tell myself that I had felt this way before, and it was all in my head.

But um, in the end I learned that uppers are not my thing, and I never really had much fun... because I usually ended up with extreme anxiety/psychosis.
 
I like amphetamines as much as the next person, but using them too often/many days in a row can become unpleasant pretty fast.
 
Exercise, stretching, kundalini yoga (or whatever) and copious amounts of water?
That's my little recipe from dabblings with the minor players of the amphetamine scene.
...long ago.

And I can appreciate not wanting to be in an even worse place.
Unfortunately, calling the police (or some hotline that then calls the police) almost never ends well.
I dunno...do what you have to do.

'Forgetting the lesson' is the essense of substance addiction. Who in their right mind would repeat the horrors, some of us have been through, willfully? But the pathways of the brain naturally recall the rush and bliss easier than the horrors and the prayers and the long litany of 'illneverdothisagainillneverdothisagainillneverdothisagain...'


Anyways, good, informative post.
I totally dug it.

Be well.
 
You leave him alone Damn it. Every tweaker on bluelight knows that reading/writing amphetamine fueled rants is one of the best ways to spend a good chunk of your tweak-out time. (That period of time that's supposed to be 5 minutes then you look at a clock and realize it's two hours later. :D ) It's like universal all tweakers love to trade stories about the crazy shit they've done while high.

We can't help it, we have mental problems. You're not Jesus you don't get to judge us... OK actually we just fried so many brain cells that we can't help but turn it into a giant pissing contest but it's still fun as hell.

Hell I know one guy who thought his house was being watched so he climbed into a tree dressed in camo and stayed there all night to catch the Feds before they could catch him.

Honestly it was a pretty good idea, full Camo and face paint at night with all those leaves and they'll never see you.

The only problem is when you do it in the middle of one of the coldest winter nights the ozarks have ever seen, and the tree your hiding in lost all it's leaves 3 months ago. He got an A+++ for effort and perseverance though.
 
GHB, sleep

I've been down the road of Amphetamine Psychosis a few times. Dealing w myself and girlfriends. I tried many things.

the honest, real truth of the best thing you can do is take some seroquel about 150mg and that's it. the seroquel will sort you out.

sometimes it's hard to do b/c the Seroquel is the anti-dote and that = EOH (end of high)

if you can't bring yourself to pull the handbake just yet, then 5ml of GHB. it give you a buzz for an hour or two before you crash out.

that's my experience.
 
Yeah generally anti-psychotics are the best way to treat psychotic episodes. Some times psychosis can go far passed mind over matter.

Either them or a high dose of anxiolytics will help a bit
 
^This. Antipsychotics and then sleeping/eating/rehydrating and giving yourself (your brain) some time to recover. Sometimes that time to recover is a long time, but you can and will recover. Benzos are an option if you're having real bad problems with anxiety, but carry their own risks.
 
I always carry a notebook. I write my thoughts down, it helps a lot especially if you've crossed "that" line.
Have a conversation with your subconscious, just write down how you want or need yourself to react. It calms down A LOT.
 
i had amphetamine psychosis once. don't remember much of it. i remember hallucinating a lot, and being in a fairly good mood, but i guess i was completely off my rocker, had no idea where i was, kept talking to walls, tried to rewire the stereo system, threw money and weed all over the place rambling about how i got it all from coyote bounty, poured a big circle of salt around the living room and splashed vinegar all over the kitchen. freaked my gf right out, she didn't know what to think.
 
funny, amp. psychosis is one of my favorite trips ever. Ive hallucinated 5x more on amps than I ever have on any psychedelic. It's nuts but soo fun
 
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You leave him alone Damn it. Every tweaker on bluelight knows that reading/writing amphetamine fueled rants is one of the best ways to spend a good chunk of your tweak-out time. (That period of time that's supposed to be 5 minutes then you look at a clock and realize it's two hours later. :D ) It's like universal all tweakers love to trade stories about the crazy shit they've done while high.

We can't help it, we have mental problems. You're not Jesus you don't get to judge us... OK actually we just fried so many brain cells that we can't help but turn it into a giant pissing contest but it's still fun as hell.

Hell I know one guy who thought his house was being watched so he climbed into a tree dressed in camo and stayed there all night to catch the Feds before they could catch him.

Honestly it was a pretty good idea, full Camo and face paint at night with all those leaves and they'll never see you.

The only problem is when you do it in the middle of one of the coldest winter nights the ozarks have ever seen, and the tree your hiding in lost all it's leaves 3 months ago. He got an A+++ for effort and perseverance though.
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lol truth brotha
 
I haven't experienced amphetamine psychosis - so I'm not sure it would be an efficient way to cope with it - but I started carrying a little odd-shaped object with me when I know I'll be taking psychedelics or MDMA that day. I got the idea from the «Inception» movie. I resorted to it on two differents bad trips and it did calm me down. The point is to have a way of reminding yourself that you are in reality, to convince yourself that everything around you is normal («this object has the exact same shape, texture and weight as usual, therefore everything is OK, etc.»).

I'd be curious to know if any of you has tried it.
 
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