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Why did you start using drugs?

Why did you start using drugs?

  • Stress

    Votes: 69 19.1%

  • Peer Pressure/Influence

    Votes: 61 16.9%

  • Curiosity

    Votes: 303 83.7%

  • Mental Health Problems

    Votes: 86 23.8%

  • Physical Health Problems

    Votes: 21 5.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 46 12.7%
  • Total voters
    362
Curiosity combined with peer influence, hearing of adventures that seemed so "wild," I just had to try weed. And then almost everything else. :\
 
curiosity made me want to try drugs, smoked weed at age of 10, few years later after seeing my uncle addicted to amphetamine that always made me curious after seeing him speeding and hearing some of his stories while he has been high just wanted me to try them even more, tried all my drugs i have done is because i wanted to try them all...

its been a lifestyle for me all my teenage/adult life, and not planning to quit anytime soon.
 
well I first smoked weed freshmen year of highschool. I did it mostly because my best friend had tried it once before and asked if I wanted to and it sounded really cool and I wanted to be cool/badass because most of my friends didn't smoke yet haha. I guess I started drinking because everyone drinks. I didn't think about it to muc I just did it. It took me until freshmen year of college to start trying other drugs. I did coke and mdma because i was just really curious about them (and really drunk). Then I found bluelight and I'm constantly researching different drugs and stuff, so I guess I didn't exactly start because I was curious (although that was part of it), but i'm definitly curious/interested in trying a lot of different drugs. Try everything once I guess...i'm down to experiment.
 
Drugs escaping reality?

This is somewhat a stupid question but this is bothering me a little.some people say things like you use drugs to escape reality or something Idk what they say something of that sort but I don't understand it someone please explain that to me.
 
I don't think that if its just a euphoria or sedation I'm still here I'm not going anywhere.I believe you can use drugs and still be in reality which the thought of what reality is changes from person to person their own perception and views.
 
^What?

Say you are disappointed with life and start taking opiates to feel better, or break up from a long relationship and drown your sorrows in booze, you are escaping the pain of reality. The other meaning could be in regards to hallucinogens where you feel you are in a different world.

This is not a proper topic for BDD either way.
 
The perception of reality can be different for everyone but the answer to you question is like the mod above posted. Example: If you're depressed with how life is treating you at the moment & take a drug to make you happy & make you forget the problems that made you depressed, you are now not living in reality & are using drugs to escape the depression/bad thoughts.
 
^ Same here. Reality sucks sometimes...most the time. I smoke weed to make me feel better about my reality. I take uppers to try to change my reality into something better. Works lol. Just sold my truck for 2300 bucks:)
 
Like others said its more of a way to relax and forget about all the bad, negative, sad, almost anything in a bad mood. It's a way to get it off their mind.
 
I have never thought about it like that before I use drugs to relax thats mostly it. I mean I have severe anxiety and sometimes I use drugs to get rid of anxiety .what else can I do its a terrible feeling some people have even said a panic attack feels like a heart attack that's pretty bad.
 
lordreven333 said:
I have never thought about it like that before I use drugs to relax thats mostly it. I mean I have severe anxiety and sometimes I use drugs to get rid of anxiety .what else can I do its a terrible feeling some people have even said a panic attack feels like a heart attack that's pretty bad.
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Ive never had a panic attack but from what I hear, yes.....it feels like a heart attack & why not self medicate yourself once in a while when you get severe anxiety to the point where you do feel like you're about to check out, screw that!
 
it's like when you have all sorts of shit on your mind, anxiety, stuff to worry about in real life... so you go and down half a quart of jack daniels and BLAm-O! problem solved,
you've escape the troubling ailments of reality, albeit temporarily.

I try not to use drugs in this context, because this leads to abuse.
 
I also don't think this belongs here...some good discussion though, so it belongs somewhere for sure. Drugs for many people can help them "escape reality" in different ways, if you define reality differently. If reality is your everyday problems and such, then any mind altering substance which induces euphoria is getting away from it for a little bit, and enjoying yourself. The other interpretation seems like yours OP (correct me if I'm wrong) where reality is what we literally are experiencing around us, and yeah on most substances we are still aware that is there. This notion seems common with the psychedelic class of drugs, but on lower doses for some people they are still aware of their reality as well...in larger doses seems to be where any real reality loss can happen. As long as you more or less know where you are under this definition, then you are in reality.
/end very high possibly not making too much sense opinion
 
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Well I would definitely say that I do try to escape reality, but that is more with drugs like alcohol and marijuana. Opiates just help me enjoy things more, but don't really alter my reality.
 
I suppose if I knew the 'correct' answer, it might be easier to back myself out of this situation I'm in. I'd like to think that at the time, I'd achieved every goal I'd set out to do, and that was pretty scary stuff. However, my meth use coincided with a series of closures; deaths, farewells, endings....so the timing of it all remains a total mystery; perhaps the one mystery about myself and 'how I work' that I really don't care to know. Thank you.
 
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