psood0nym
Bluelighter
Heh, yeah, I do appreciate our policy against SWIMing. I can just imagine an old-school cognitive psychologist reading the thumb-typed, auto-corrected, meme-speak characteristic of those sorts of posts and publishing "Acute Methoxetamine Intoxication Mimics Dissociative Identity Disorder and Broca's Aphasia." (There's a little psyche vocab humor for ya -- you're welcome.)I think the anti-SWIM rule helps things a lot, it makes people take more responsibility for what they're writing if they actually have to say "I" did what they were doing instead of their second cousin's pet chinchilla's reading of the Confucian Analects or whatever...
I'm currently on an MXE tolerance break. I've noticed major reductions in tolerance after as little as two weeks of abstinence, though it only takes three or four days of successive use to increase it back to where it was pre-break. I've read other's posting it took them two months to return to normal. I know there's significant natural variance in how tolerance develops and abates between users, though it may be relevant that I've made a point to almost never exceed 100 mg in a single day.
I take regular breaks, but I've never used any drug as frequently for as long as MXE other than alcohol (and that was for sleep). The "addiction" aspect of it is so unusual compared to pretty much any other recreational substance except for maybe ketamine and 3-MeO-PCP/PCE. There's no real craving that I've noticed, it's more just the idea to do it once I've basically decided to do nothing but veg for the rest of the night and an insistent "why not? -- it would be way more fun than dicking around online or watching a film/TV sober, and it's not like you're missing out anything important by being impaired at this point."limov said:I put money on volume 27 being moved to the Dark Side as it slowly morphs into a support group for people falsely accused of methoxetamine addiction.
It doesn't cause withdrawals, it doesn't have a hangover, it doesn't seem to impair my memory or thinking after it's over, and it's pretty much a guaranteed pleasant way to round off an evening. I can't even say all of that about pot. There's no immediate subjectively felt drawbacks, which pretty much leaves the recognition that chronic ketamine abuse causes cognitive impairment/ gray matter reductions/bladder damage and abstract considerations about subliminal drawbacks, how I might otherwise be using my time, and how I don't want to be a person who spends this much time fucked up no matter how inconsequential it seems to do all the convincing (and then there's the "better buy more now because it could be made explicitly illegal and it's not going to be this cheap or easy to come by then" factor). And I'm not one of those people that gets ideas on it like to dress up as a samurai and walk the streets with a sword, either (actual BL post). It's the easiest drug ever to rationalize overusing.Probably the most reliable way I've found to not do it outside of planned breaks is to keep myself busy for as long as possible then take sleeping pills to minimize the time between winding down for the night and sleep.
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