How to regenerate seretonin ASAP?

[Butternut_Squash]

I will admit that I haven't done obsessive amounts of research on MDMA, but have read no studies that suggested anything but a modest reduction in certain brain functions (verbal memory, not that I know what that is) in MDMA users. I think that personal brain chemistry/personality plays a HUGE role in the percieved negative effects of MDMA.

Over the last 5 years I have taken it probably 30 times, with friends and at raves. Not once have I felt anything negative other than feeling a little low for a day about 36 hours after use.
At a rave I will take around 100mg then another 50mg 2 hours later. In a more social setting I will take 100mg at most. I don't drink and no longer smoke cannabis during the peak (it is a waste of weed and does nothing but contribute to paranoia and anxiety - save if for tomorrow!) I find that I don't desire any more than that - any more just makes it harder to sleep and doesn't get you higher. 4-6 hours of rolling is easily enough to get you through a party.
It is also important to note that (until maybe the last year or so) I have always been a little low on serotonin. Chronically depressed until I was maybe 20 and years of (disgusting) self harm. My entire family is plagued by paranoid schizophrenia and depression. One would think that maybe I would be one to suffer more from use of the drug.

My point being that I don't believe the after effects of MDMA are a purely chemical problem. Well, they are , but if you are willing to accept that you will feel low for a day, then that "low-ness" is somehow reduced in it's severity. Learning to deal with a low mood is such an important life skill, and is one that I think very few people have.
A combination of 2 days low serotonin and the thought that you have permanently damaged your brain can no doubt send people spiraling into week long-hypochondria.

I remember contracting very serious flu the day after a rave (fucking intense combination ) and I became extremely worried that I had somehow damaged myself with MDMA. When it turned out to be flu I looked back and saw how easy it is to get into the anxious patterns of circular thinking where you constantly read papers on neurotoxicity and perform psychological tests to convince yourself you are OK.

I am not talking about megadosers who deserve what is coming to them. I believe that nobody needs to take more than 200mg -in total over a session- to have a good time. If you want to chase a high for days on end, you need amphetamines or cocaine.

Sometimes I get the feeling that there is a lot of hypochondria on this board. Come to think of it, all drug discussion forums give me the impression that they are packed with nothing but highly anxious shut-ins!

 

[Thomas29]

Well OP is going to shave a decade off his life give or take nice knowing ya!!

 

[The King of Beans]

Well OP is going to shave a decade off his life give or take nice knowing ya!!

Total Bs...The OP honestly has not even tested the waters yet. He/she claims they have rolled like 6 times only. That is nothing. I know you people here try to give safe advice and that's good. I fried my brain from doing way too much, but it was a combo which made it far more neurotoxic.

MDMA on it's own is not really that toxic. It does release a ton of brain chemicals though, so you do need some time to recover, but it's a very hard drug to abuse, because you won't even get high from it if you do it everyday. So, virtually nobody in the world takes MDMA daily. I was close...I was up to about 20x per month, taking MDMA at least 40 times per month (I would always redose each session) and I did not fry my brain at all from that. Sure I got ate up, but I recovered pretty well. Maybe I lost about 5% serotonin, but that's it. All this shit is exagerated about permanent severe depression. If you have a problem with depression, it was caused from OTHER underlying factors, and NOT from mdma abuse. Short term depression is common with MDMA, but long term is due to other factors, as one member even admitted he was already depressed, but MDMA made him worse. Sure, that is possible. But for MDMA to be the CAUSE...I call Bullshit. If it was, I would be severely depressed. If anything, MDMA will CURE DEPRESSION. Yes I said it, because I used to be depressed a lot before I ever did MDMA. After doing MDMA, I hardly ever, if rarely get truly depressed anymore.

I did infact lose a lot of my serotonin and sleep schedules have never been normal. They always change. Eating habits are wacked, and I never experience true emotion unless I'm rolling. This is because of the dullness you get from frying your brain. However, remember that took a COMBO of uppers(Speed or MDPV like substance) along with mdma in order to do that permanently. MDMA alone is too weak to really do any serious damage. No one in their right mind will ever need to worry about taking TOO much MDMA. Only absolute freaks will over do it to the point of permanent substantial damage. I recovered from rolling almost everyday for about 2 years. And I've rolled on and off for about 15 years.

So, from a real user, with real experience (I rolled more than anyone I knew personally) with abusing the drug, I can tell you the OP has nothing to worry about. MDMA serotonin depletion in the long term is very minimal in humans and this has been proven.

Check out the documentary Peter Jennings Ecstasy Rising. This will debunk a lot of the BS prop. the gov put out about this substance.