mega fucked up. wots happening to me.

[manic88]

Um so im an ex stimulant abuser who has gone fucking nuts. Anyway during a day of immense depression and fucked up shit.... ive taken this shit called 5htp? doesnt seem like much you can get it over the counter. However ive taken it and gone really fucken weird.... I can only explain it as... stimulant psychosis... but calm and weird instead of tense and agitated. Just walking around all day saying weird shit thinking weird shit just being REALLY weird laughing and giggling to myself and being... real fucked up. I already had messed up brain chemistry and i dont know what this shit has done but its no placebo effect.... i am being fucking bizzarre took a few people to make me realise it. any ideas why the fuck this would happen? its meant to make me sleepy but i was the opposite... talking about the most bizzare weird shit constantly.

 

[Legerity]

I'm not sure why you would react that way to 5-HTP. I used to abuse stimulants years ago, and over the past year took 5-HTP do help with anxiety/depression. I'm not sure if it worked or not, my anxiety did decrease although it may have been placebo.

Have you considered therapy for your depression?

 

[paranoid android]

5-htp is a precursor to serotonin and thus some people use it to help depression or use it as a sleep aid and such and such. It can interact with other meds and combing it with amphetamines could possibly trigger some type of manic reaction i guess. But that is only a guess on my part so don't quote me on that. Are you on any other meds at all? I know 5-htp can interact really negatively with certain medications such as SSRI's and other serotonic anti-depressants. It also interacts really badly with MAOI's. Mixing it with SSRI's or MAOI's can cause serotonin syndrome which is not fun to put it mildly

It's not a placebo that is for sure. Just because it is a OTC supplement does not mean it can't cause negative reactions. I use L-tyrosine sometimes which is a OTC suppliment that is a precursor to dopamine. If i use it for too long i get manic and it most likely interacts with the wellbutrin im on. So just because something is OTC does not mean it has no effects.

Stop taking the 5-htp and if the condition your in continues or you get any negative thoughts such as harming yourself or whatever go see a doctor ASAP. Seing a mental health professional might not be a bad idea anyway.

 

[Georgie25]

Maybe it's stimulant psychosis and you're just thinking it's the 5hpt?

 

[Bojangles69]

Um so im an ex stimulant abuser who has gone fucking nuts. Anyway during a day of immense depression and fucked up shit.... ive taken this shit called 5htp? doesnt seem like much you can get it over the counter. However ive taken it and gone really fucken weird.... I can only explain it as... stimulant psychosis... but calm and weird instead of tense and agitated. Just walking around all day saying weird shit thinking weird shit just being REALLY weird laughing and giggling to myself and being... real fucked up. I already had messed up brain chemistry and i dont know what this shit has done but its no placebo effect.... i am being fucking bizzarre took a few people to make me realise it. any ideas why the fuck this would happen? its meant to make me sleepy but i was the opposite... talking about the most bizzare weird shit constantly.

Yeh that absolutely sounds like a meth type of psychosis. Those are kind of what the "inbetween" phases were like for me.
Like the way a person with bipolar can have a "normal" day, a person with meth psychosis can have a "normal" day too. Except their day isn't ever really remotely normal. Its just not as bad as their full blown psychosis days.

I'd have days where I couldn't even look out my front window. Other days where I'd make it to my car and walk back to the house.
Other days where I made it to the parking lot of where I wanted to go, then got back in the car and turned around. I always had some fear, that wherever I was headed, once I got there, something terrible would happen. It was the most intense form of paranoia imaginable. Not to mention I also was having hallucinations for years after stopping meth (you didn't mention the drug you were taking however Im assuming its related to amphetamines).

Those kinds of days though where you're just goofy, neurotic, and talk to yourself really weren't too bad imo. I'm still somewhat like that a lot today. I talk to myself and have really elaborate conversations in front of people (people I know). If I'm around strangers occassionally I will do it too, but they tend to think its funnier than scary now. Back in the day I didn't have any real witt to it, now when I do it I try to be somewhat enertaining. But I get random bursts of excitement where I tackle our dog and start flicking his weiner screaming "RAPE!!!" I don't know why I do weird things like that but I notice sometimes the neuroticism is just funny for other people. So I've managed to somewhat turn around most of that older super weird stuff.

I wouldn't be too concerned about it, stimulants fuck with the brain more than any drug I know, so just expect to be like that and don't be so surpised. It does get more stable over time, and can wind up integrating somewhat into your personality so you can AT LEAST appear normal. But I don't know a lot of friends who like to pretend rape animals lol... I just think amphetamines kinda buried a lot of my boundaries really.

 

[PaulyPointz]

I had the same experience the one time I took 2 5htp caps before bed after an evening of substituted cathinones and K2. When I woke up I scared my girlfriend because I couldn't stop laughing this maniacal laugh and I was telling all these harsh sarcastic jokes about members of my family. At the time I wrote it off to my fuct up stim abusing brain, too. Maybe it only effects people who do uppers? It went away after a few hours, though. Oh snap, I'm at 51 posts! I'll be having a roller skating party at SouthSideSuperSkate to celebrate if anyone wants to come. There will be cake and ice cream and pin the tail on the dopefiend.