Why can't I enjoy drugs lately?

[sweetsweetcyanide]

I have struggled with depression all my life. For years drugs have been a positive way to relax and explore my mind and have never really provided negative experiences for me. Recently, though, when I get high I just can't enjoy myself completely the way I normally do. My depression has been masking the euphoric effects that I enjoy so much.

 

[Toz]

Or the drugs have been causing the depression and therefore no longer give you effects. It happened to me, it has probably happened to almost everyone here I think. It takes time to see it, at first you will refuse to believe it. But try to take a break, and I don't mean a week or two. Depends on what substance you have used of course, but I recommend trying half a year sober at least if you can stand it. Which I don't see could be too hard, if the drugs are no longer fun. Then it's just a waste of health, time and money.

I wish you good luck finding the path we all seek, to true peace and happiness, artificial feelings caused by chemicals tend to have the opposite effect as time passes.

Drugs might often make you feel like you are numb emotionally, you may misstake numb for happy when anxiety etc fades, but soon you will notice that the things you once enjoyed, they feel numb too. At this point it's not that great anymore. Life becomes nothing, at which point I got depressed.

 

[neversickanymore]

phenylalanine is a necessary precursor to dopamine. It is not naturally produced by the body.. It is found in different foods or can be found as a supplement. You may try to introduce this into your daily routine. A little over ten minutes of aerobic exercise causes the very positive things to happen in a persons brain chemistry, stimulating the synthesis and release of different transmitters associated with drug use and depression, so that would be something i would try and work in. Lastly (as well as unfortunately!), due to inevitable limbic system processes like tolerance the pleasure of drugs get smaller and smaller until they may disappear completely; the steady loss of pleasure is paired with a steady increase desire, often taking the form of compulsion, to use the substances. That of course is the evil curse of addiction. " We played a game you couldn't win... to the utmost," Bob, Drugstore Cowboy.

 

[Pagey]

Yep...that always happens in the end. It's like your first high - you're never able to get it again. And every time you use, it's less good. Try to use this as an incentive to quit? I know lots of people continue to use even when they don't feel anything anymore just to avoid the sickness but it's maybe best to get it over with once and for all if the drugs aren't bringing you anything anymore, no ?