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Misc Have I Permanently Damaged Myself?

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notaphantom

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Hi everyone,

At the rip old age of 16 I began smoking marijuana. In my 17th year, began experimenting with psychedelics. About a month before my 18th, I began using hard drugs more regularly, namely MXE.

I'm presently 20. From then on, I've used a wide variety of drugs. Mainly just experimented with each chemical up to a dozen times, but the drugs I namely abused, at least over last year were ketamine, heroin and klonipin. I also stayed strong with my daily weed smoking and still do. However, I've stopped using everything else.


Do you think that these drugs have permanently damaged my brain?
 
It all depends we can't say yes your brain damaged or no your not because we can't do a brain scan on you. What I will say is you most likely have some damage from these drugs but pot for the most part doesn't cause very much permanent damage its the other drugs that do. I mean I started smoking pot, doing cocaine, shrooms, MDMA, oxycodone, heroin, and acid all to the extreme every weekend at age 15 which then turned into an addiction to opiates which I still struggle with at age 22. But for the most part my brain is intact I haven't done any tests but I'm going to school studying biology and hope one day to work in the medical profession. So who knows how much damage I did but I don't think about it I just make smarter choices, these days I only stick to my prescribed drugs and don't do anything to the extreme anynore.

Do you feel like you have memory problems or anything like that? I think your probably fine your still young just make smarter choices I bet you could do anything you set your mind to. But everybody is different I know someone who did MDMA a few days in a row(something I've done many times) and after he just was never the same person he got some minor brain damage from the experience that I belive is permanent. So its hard to say since we all react to drugs in a different way, some are more sensitive than others.
 
It's highly doubtful. If you retain the capacity to be concerned for your behaviour and are able to evaluate risks, and there are no sudden changes in your mental state from recently... you're mentally well.

I've had my fair share of substance consumption (smoke weed daily, caffeine daily, MDMA/psychedelics/dissociatives - i've abused my share of ketamine/MXE and my bladder's fine too!, occasionally opioids and kratom, the occasional RC stimulant) and a few recent CT scans came up totally and entirely normal. So you needn't be concerned about serious brain damage unless you exhibit seriously bad signs, all the time. (e.g. constant headaches, numbness/immobility on one side of the body or face, continued inability to speak, listen, or read, memory loss or dysfunction, fainting/seizures, etc).

Generally the propaganda of drugs destroying brain cells/leaving holes in your brain/causing severe damage is, well, propaganda. There are exceptions (in the club, overheating while dehydrated and on 500mg of MDMA is a good way to fry your brain or at least encourage a stroke to happen) but the average use case of most drugs doesn't lend to brain destruction. It doesn't make financial sense to kill or incapacitate your clients anyway.

Most "damage" - i.e. feeling bad after continued drug use - comes from needing to recalibrate your pleasure circuits to not be on 100% Feel Great Mode all the time. Humans are natural pleasure seekers and when you take away our cocaine or sugar cookies or whatever, we feel bad, ostensibly as an encouragement to go get it again...
 
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If you have to ask, then obviously not. I have serious brain damage from my drug abuse and it is quite obvious, effecting me day to day, hour to hour. I laugh when people who don't notice obvious signs of brain damage, worry about their brain from drug use.
 
You may have slowed the development of your brain, but it doesn't fully mature till the age of 25 - so you still got some real good years in front of you.
 
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