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It's something ive been wondering since my first roll..how can you determine the difference between just liking ecstasy a lot and Being addicted to the drug? I'm talking about early signs of addiction because you could obviously tell the later stages...
 
I define psychological addiction as irresistible compulsion or inability to moderate one's use to spite bad consequences or serious diminishing of important areas of one's life. There is no physiological addiction to E, so I don't need to go into the special definitions of physical dependence & withdrawal.

If you have to have it-will be miserable without it than it is a psychological addiction. If you merely prefer to be doing it but can be happy and content without it than you are likely not psychologically addicted.

But if your use is causing you a lot of grief (socially, financially, mentally, or emotionally) and you keep doing at the same level anyways. Then it is a good argument for it being an addiction, weather you feel you are operating out of preference or necessity.
 
You need to know that you can't become physically addicted to MDMA. It will not cause dependency, it will not cause withdraw symptoms. But some do exhibit psychological addiction to MDMA as EoTorv said above.

Sounds like the OP thinks MDMA is addictive the same way heroin or coke is and that is just not the case.
 
I would add that mdma is the only drug I've ever really liked which after a while has had the effect of making me feel disinclined to take it again.
In other words my experience of mdma has been anti-addictive if anything.
 
augustaB said:
I would add that mdma is the only drug I've ever really liked which after a while has had the effect of making me feel disinclined to take it again.
In other words my experience of mdma has been anti-addictive if anything.
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Why did that make you feel disinclined to do it? Surely if it's the ONLY drug you've ever enjoyed, you'd want to keep doing it?
 
True. But addiction is addiction, whether it's psychological or physiological.

Sure, you can't have withdrawals from MDMA, but are withdrawals required for something to be considered an addiction?

I have a friend that takes MDMA at least twice a week. The depression is awful, and her tolerance is ridiculously high... but the slight euphoria she is still getting from it is enough for her to keep doing it. However, she is also addicted to the fact that it has made her lose a ton of weight.

It's totally normal to think about ecstasy and be excited to do it again, but when you're breaking promises to yourself.. such as "I'm going to wait ___ amount of time before I roll again" that is definitely a sign.
 
xxmrgn said:
True. But addiction is addiction, whether it's psychological or physiological.

Sure, you can't have withdrawals from MDMA, but are withdrawals required for something to be considered an addiction?

I have a friend that takes MDMA at least twice a week. The depression is awful, and her tolerance is ridiculously high... but the slight euphoria she is still getting from it is enough for her to keep doing it. However, she is also addicted to the fact that it has made her lose a ton of weight.

It's totally normal to think about ecstasy and be excited to do it again, but when you're breaking promises to yourself.. such as "I'm going to wait ___ amount of time before I roll again" that is definitely a sign.
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Nah.. people make excuses to drugs they love often. Losing weight, feeling happier, etc. My excuse is i told myself that before i killed myself I would do MDMA. I would do MDMA, get suicide tuesday symptoms and do more per my agreement. Eventually I was doing it daily. Ecstasy is self-moderating for most, but it wasn't for me. I had a serious issue. Most people will "lose the magic" after a certain number of times and no longer have an addiction to it. It's discussed here:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?postid=912511#post912511

I really don't think you have much to worry about, but some people can have a serious addiction to it like I have. I can do it responsibly now, but when I was a young teen I was going nuts with the stuff.
 
the word addiction is offten thrown around way to loosely, but sure it is possible to develop a psycholgical addiction

have you ever cried becasue you wanted it and you didn't end up getting it,

i got to the beer store 1 minute to late, and when i got back to my ex's house, i was crying, cuz i couldnt drink, i was fucked in that point of my life
 
NationOfThizzlam said:
It's something ive been wondering since my first roll..how can you determine the difference between just liking ecstasy a lot and Being addicted to the drug? I'm talking about early signs of addiction because you could obviously tell the later stages...
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i was just in aww with this drug. its a gift from god, this tiny pill makes me feel like im in heaven. after visiting heaven id go to sleep wake up and all i can think about is the night befor how amazing it was. at first i could wait at least a month but every single day its all i thought about, 24/7 even dreams about rolling. slowly my spacing got shorter, next thing you know my last roll was a week ago. caught in a trap..i would say from there your crossing the line from my experience. oh and as i got caught my reason for rolling changed from because its fucking amazing and i want to visit heaven too any excuse i could think of to justify why i should roll.
 
Like others have said, you can't become physically dependent, but you might want to use multiple times a week. DO NOT DO THIS. You will become a full blown etard. I have a pretty addictive personality, and e around here is pretty good and cheap, so I tend to abuse it if I don't have anything else to get high on. I am glad I got it under control. I honestly feel better about abusing heroin on a daily basis than doing mdma 2-3 times a week, because I can at least come out of an opiate habit without brain damage.
 
Mr_Fluffykins said:
theres no concrete evidence of brain damage though, i think the biggest problem with E are the psychological reactions like derealization, and depersonalization
so choosing between E and heroin is like choosing between your body and your mind,
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perhaps, I value mental health much more than physical health. I have known a lot of heavy mdma users, and its very obvious that they are not all there in the head. Maybe they were idiots before using mdma, I am not sure. I think its a great drug, but it can be pretty unforgiving if its abused a lot. Even if you don't think it causes brain damage, there's no doubt it can make you an absolutely miserable piece of shit after heavy regular use.
 
yes, i learned that the hard way, but i wuldnt call it an addiction, a true addiction takes awhile to actually form, this was more a dependence, sure it was a steping stone towards addiction,

but my last few e rolls, had some prettyemotional drama shit and i hate when that happens when i roll,

its been like 3 years now, and im still not the same
 
Do you find yourself thinking "I'll only do it one more time," and then end up doing it more than 1 more time?

And then after that you keep telling yourself "I'll only do it one more time."
 
Stop doing it for a month, if you can, and see how you feel. Generally speaking, you're addicted to something if it is causing problems and you keep on doing it anyway. The mere act of wondering about it is a danger signal.
 
One thing about MDMA that makes it hard to be addicted to is that IME after a while of abuse it's just not fun anymore. MDMA tends to have decreasing returns. The more you abuse it, the shittier the high, while the come down gets worse. Although, that hasn't stopped a few people I've met from using it daily!!!!!
 
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