Social vs. Solitary Drug Use

[edarrin]

Actually, I'm the 21st century schizoid man

So there is more than one %)

 

[hebb22]

I smoke squares socially. Weed is done socially and at times by myself. If I smoke by myself, I get as high as possible. If I smoke by myself I do everything I had always thought about doing, like eating the things I love, or listening to my choice of music. I take adderall with my good friend during school, or just by myself to help me with school. Drinking is only done socially. I find doing things alone allows you to make the most of any experience. You can't go wrong doing the things you enjoy doing.

 

[edarrin]

You can't go wrong doing the things you enjoy doing.

Now there are some famous last words

 

[I Liquor All Night]

i masterbate by myself, does that mean i have more problems than thsoe who do it in a social enviroment?

i dont liek weed moochers anywayz so for my non friends~>
if u aint got 5 on it, u aint gettin high on it

 

[Amebix]

^ ha!

this study is st00pid if you ask me.. of course noone ever does

 

[DemonSeed]

I am mostly a solitary user. At first, I started smoking pot socially. By the time, I was already a mild social phobic, drugs didn't turn me into a silent person - it was rather a rough welcome from older teenagers when I entered high school. I would smoke weed between classes often and it just gave me more stress. A few years later, I did Ecstasy and amphetamines 'socially', at clubs with friends. That was great, during the comedown, we would just hang out together and I would feel better. Alone, the comedown was hard and depressive.

Oh yeah... is it really solitary if a person's posting on forums/chatting via IM etc. while doing it? Good question, huh... they're still socializing at least to the extent that talking on the phone would be. Hard to know where to draw the line when it comes to that kinda thing. IMO it's NOT solitary if there's socializing going on, even if it's not 'in person'. Maybe not as rewarding, but it's not isolating either.

You have a point there. Two years ago, I started using amps 'alone', to play a multiplayer video game, which was so fun, both because my skills were awesome and of the socialization with other players. I felt linked to others. At the time, I was still smoking pot with at least one friend and my brother. Summer 2005, I became interested by psychedelics and didn't try to hide it. That messed my social life quite a bit, lost mostly all of friends, at least for months - I am back hanging with them from time to time now. Alcohol is okay, cigarettes are okay, pot is okay, but psychedelics, uh oh, common people around here rejected me for using those. I can't say I became a solitary user even then, because I made friend with a girl in the game I was playing. It went to a point we were both in love with each other, we were the best friends of the online social world. My brother is also a solitary user of pot and find a lot of pleasure to play online games. In the end, this study is a bit misleading because it has a confined definition of socialization.

This last year, I started hanging out with real life friends again. Psychedelics has taught me one good thing and it is that the sole presence of people, these masses of bacteria if I can say it like that, has beneficial effects on people, just like when you feel the sun on your skin, it's feels so good! That is why now, even if I am often silent, I like to be around some people. I try to say interesting things, even if I don't care, just to feel linked.

 

[Xildo]

I smoked base in solitude when I was 15.

Fixed

 

[comaTOES]

..I've been drinking, smoking weed, doing morphine, shrooms, and everything else all by lonesome (as well as "socially") since I was 12, and I've still got the highest marks in my school...

(j/k no offense)

reminds me of Better off Dead :
"Lane, I've been at this high school for
SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS...
I'm no dummy."

 

[Rated E]

This obviously all has to do with personality differences..

I was thinking the same thing.

Introverts:
- Draw energy from within.
- They are focused internally.
- Dealing with people "drains" their energy.
- They 'live in their heads more'.
- More likely to think before they act (form thoughts, then speak).

Extroverts:
- Draw energy from outside.
- They are focused externally.
- Dealing with people "recharges" their energy.
- More likely to act before they think (form thoughts, as speaking).

Neither is 'healthier' in my opinion, they are simply different.

 

[Rated E]

i also heard that if you smoke the maryganja whilst alone, you will become introverted (antisocial). but if you smoke the doja with friends more so than less, you become more social......

I found this theory interesting.

Maybe if you can deal with people while experiencing increased anxiety brought on by weed, then you will have less trouble overcoming social anxieties whilst sober.