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Uppers and Downers, Up People and Down People

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Honestly, I'm not so surprised that the community has gone the way it has, a clear majority in favor of downers. There's nothing that really shocks and awe's me because the tendancy to use a depressant is for relief from life's stresses, something that is at a high point in today's society. Stimulant use is more relevant as a get up and go type of fufillment in users. Compared to depressants, stimulant users tend to be the laid back few who are seeking the energy to perform where they normally could not. The seeking of energy and this escape from physical limitations is seen in more than just the social anxiety group out there, there are people who simply want to be at the next level of euphoria. Euphoria's a metaphysical state of emotion and chemical interaction within each of us, the way we interpret that state is what sways us to one or the other, up or down. People often talk about in the business world your either alive or dead, for some stimulants offer that feeling of being alive that they would otherwise not. For others, however, that feeling of life and energy, organization and conformity to perform tasks requires a down time to relax and decompress emotionally and physically.

The belief of escape isn't a realistic ideal in the drug scene, people claim they break free from their live's in some form but in reality they are simply completing their circle of psychological needs which range from the up to the down points of life's daily grind. Ofcourse addiction and habitual use is always a factor, simply granting a person the ability to sway themselves the way they're body would not otherwise perform at is what makes people both chemically and psychologically unique in their drug of choice, or rather drug type.

I'm forever a stimulant man, getting up and out is what thrills me and the fact that I do not otherwise have the successive and decesive motivation to go after the tough tasks of organized breakthroughs in my life's evolution both socially and metaphysically. I'm a laid back personality with focus on the intellectual and overall scape of things, disorganization and lacking concentration on my goals is what keeps me off target on many fronts, stimulants are a way for me simply balance the scales at times when things become swayed toward a depressive, lethargic time period when I need to be moving forward at a more stable pace while still keeping my creative nature that drives my successes at the heart of my personal being.

Its all a matter of personal choice, though I find its decided for us through our growth and development mentally. Our cognition through the early years and deficiencies in one technicality that exists in life, or not, can be the judgement that decides what we move forward in succession with. It could also be geneticly influenced through brain chemistry and either under or over stimulation of certain natural chemicals (ie: hormones, neurotransmitters, etc).
 
Very interesting responses. 'Down' person here, and I prefer uppers. Downers worry me a bit, cuz if I were any more chill I'd probably be a dead body :D.

LOL... actually I do like downers on occasion, but not the way I like uppers. I don't care much for benzos tho, they do little or nothing for me.

P.S. as far as the crash... all I can say is you get used to it (or learn to cope with it), at least some of us do. I find that a lot of it is mental, and it's possible to dramatically reduce the symptoms just by changing the way you think during a crash or comedown.
 
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I guess once I jump into the conversation the whole psychoanalytical side of things comes out and then, shit, conversation's over for most people. I guess shocking understandings of life spare no exceptions, be it the young or the old, time and experience hold back no brutality in their sucessive and ultimate demise of barriers people place both physically and mentally against what is out there. I guess being young in America, modern America, leads to new experiences, new environmental changes, and new factual findings of who each of us will become and will beat in the race for the truth that haunts each and everyone of us, which do we choose, the upside or the downside.

I guess for many its a simple question without much question or second guessing, but dig deeper, ask the question 'why?', you'll find more haunts the question than just the simple initial answer. I guess I may be high, though I tend to be less and less these days. I said 'fuck no' to the hardest ones out there, but yes to the simplest, yes to the dextro-amphetamine and no to every drug since. I guess why I did it was because of my need to branch forth, but its not always about the holding back on each and everyone's personalities, its about opening new doors to personal change and personal gain though ultimately that gain may become a loss. I guess if you dig deep into which drug genre each of our live's fits into you find that the drugs we pick are really the drugs that become the complete opposite of the lifestyle choices that came before it. You choose weed and alcohol to relax for so long and suddenly you find stimulants and its like 'holy shit' why bother with the depressive physicality that exists within nervous system depressants, enjoy the upside with stimulants. Feel the dopamine, the norepinephrine surging from their vesicles in your brain as minor amounts of serotonin envelope your synapses along with the party of transmitters, the endorphins, the highlife inside the fastlane of stimulants.

Take a look at that opinion, I guess its all about who each of us are, and who we see us all becoming that decides where we lie inside the drug culture's and how binding the contract is, that we signed when we took that first hit of whatever. Just think about it.
 
I used to be a uppers person, but after many a harsh comedown I changed my prefference to downers, though I ain't a downers person either, I'm a psychedelics person, which isn't listed.
 
ok like they both are good as fuck. well i think i already said something in this thread topic but whatever. uppers are good i like that feeling the best cause like your up and with everything. downers are good too cause like nothing matters but i hate being tired and shit. but uppers = crash and i fucking hate to crash. so yeah id rather do a downer. but i like the upp high better. nam sayin nuckaaa
 
I change alot, usually I am a down person because my education takes up time and makes me very tired. Then when I get home id love some downers, or if i could get something to make me up in the morning so i dont become down in the first place.

But on weekends I like to be up, the whole weekend.
 
GenericMind said:
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I like to relax. Downers make me like to relax even more.
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Werd to your mother.

Though i used to be an up person who would prefer to be on uppers. But they tend to fuck with your head alot more, and i dont like feeling sketchy for the few days following.
 
DarkCode said:
I guess its all about who each of us are, and who we see us all becoming that decides where we lie inside the drug culture's and how binding the contract is, that we signed when we took that first hit of whatever. Just think about it.
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You hit the nail right on the head bro.
 
ClubbinGuido said:
You hit the nail right on the head bro.
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Its funny how I come from a very different perspective than a lot of people out here, yet fundamentally we are all following a very similiar system of action, reaction, and so forth. Heh, the drug culture kind of pulls you in even when your not using a drug, being around the scene and its members in the different niche groups of drugs of choice is fufilling to some extent. People tend to congregate in groups with similiar use. Not too often to find a guy smoking meth as everyone else is passing around a blunt talking about dosing acid.

Still, I'm an up person and don't like weed, yet I'm roling around blunt driving sometimes with friends. Gotta love going down the highway stoned off your ass jacked up on dexedrine as your buddy's are all like "dude, take this exit" like 5 mins after you've already turned off and taken it while proceding to cut people off across 4 lanes of traffic with precision. Someone on oxy just couldn't do that, well, maybe, but stimulants allow a greater sense of your surroundings without dulling things out.

Heh, stated a bit of the obvious, my bad, I'm a bit high :D
 
Ultimately, I prefer downers, because I am naturally very mentall-stimulted. I am also a "down" person by your definition, ie. relaxed, mellow, and not too active physically.
 
I don't really know if I'm an up or down person, and I don't really have a preference between uppers and downers, but I absolutely love downers after some stims.
So...no preference, really, I like both equally, especially taken one after the other.
 
i'm in the majority with "D".
uppers make you think too much, downers let you relax.
IMO, uppers are only good for work/school, and i always need some downers for the comedown. uppers arent worth it to me usually because they require having so many other downers on hand just to come down...
 
I honestly don't know how to answer on this poll. Really, I mean sometimes I'm up sometimes I'm down. I like both uppers and downers, sometimes just one or the other or both together...
 
See this is an awful wierd question for me. Cause first and foremost I love psychedelics more than any other drug, them and pot, but I'm an up kind of guy, and I do take adderall and MDMA way more often than I do any downers (except for ambien which I take semi-nightly for sleep). But honestly, opiods beat every upper except Ecstasy in my opinion. Since I really, really like ecstasy though, I put up person avec uppers.
 
this is an interesting question because I am a very energetic person who finds uppers highly euphoric, but the comedown has become unbearable and I now need downers to come off them - even if it has to be 10 beers

over time ive come to just prefer downers, particularly because pain pills have gotten so easy to find round these parts
 
I don't think I'm cut out for uppers...I just don't like having my heart racing, loads of sweat, a buzzing head...if I want that I can just wait for the next time I'm worried about something. I'm a down person and I love downers...I'd much rather chillout than get hyper. Hmmm...maybe I negatively associate the uppers feelings with anxiety?
 
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