Lamelegs said:
I'm kind of curious; to anyone who's tried it, does this stuff actually make the "pull" go away? I know how it feels to lust after something I know my body doesn't need, even when my brain is telling me I need it so much. Does it make the urge go away...
It's hard to explain, and again, this is coming from a stimulant addict. In another thread, I mentioned the symptoms of stimulant withdrawal for me consisted mainly of depression and hypersomnia.
The depression took the form of anhedonia. I couldn't become enthused about anything, couldn't feel motivated to
do anything.
The hypersomnia was a way to avoid the depression, basically by trying to "sleep through it." Waking up without cocaine was depressing in itself, and the desire to just go back to sleep to avoid facing the day without the drug was often overpowering. It was easy to sleep 24-36 hours straight and wake up feeling miserable. Yuck.
After ibogaine, the depression is not there. I can wake up, acknowledge that I won't have cocaine to get through the day, and the thought of this is nothing terrible at all. Instead I make cups of Darjeeling tea, and I'm getting back to enjoying the little pleasures in life all by themselves.
I can't imagine this "change" in the way I feel as being attributed solely to an "attitude adjustment" as what might come with a powerful LSD experience. I strongly suspect that there was a subtle "rewiring" of my brain in a sense that it is now a bit closer to the "normal" preaddiction state.
While at first I didn't think that much of a physical change had occurred at all, I'm starting to think now that something pretty significant
did happen as more time passes from the night of the experience. There isn't really much pull, either; I saw a pile of coke on the table at work the other night and just smiled at it while others enjoyed it. Pretty weird after 24 years of the shit. :D
chicpoena said:
Wow you're so lucky to have such easy access to such a powerful sacrament.
Luck!? It requires cunning, stealth, conniving, a near-genius IQ, courage, great physical strength, inner humility, and most of all--oh yeah, you're right!--the luck of a lowdown dirty scoundrel. :D
A year ago I never even imagined having access to this beautiful thing. It's a crime that certain sick individuals in the USA conspire to keep it out the hands of those who truly need it.