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Why did you stop using drugs...

Chaos Butterfly

Chaos Butterfly

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just curious... i have made a commitment to myself as of last week to stop using drugs completely. i have taken steps to ensure this action, namely flushing my stash.
i decided that i would stop for a few reasons, the most important was that i just don't have the time to be sketchy and depressed and unmotivated for a monday and a tuesday with the amount of uni work that i have to do, and everything that i have going in my life at the moment... mostly uni work though... damn engineering degrees... damn 7 subjects... damn assignments... but i love it none the less.
the other reason that i stopped was intimately linked with my last drug experience, which was an interesting acid trip. it got to the point where i needed the trip to stop, and anyone who has been there will know that when you take acid, you strap yourself in for the ride for about 12 hours. you really can't get off. the biggest problem was that i took the acid at 7am after being out all night at PVD, and i had a mothers day dinner/function that evening at 7pm, and i desperately needed sleep. so after 4 hours of acid fun, i went home and lay in bed tossing and turning for 4 hours, constantly thinking about dissapointing my mother, who had driven up from canberra especially to be there that evening...
it was an interesting experience and one that i am glad that i had. it has shown me that the drug period in my life is over, and i am happy about this, i had some amazing times that i wouldn't swap for anything, but i am now looking forward to experiencing more music while straight.
all good... oh and if you would prefer this in drug discussion, feel free to move it :)
have fun, play safe.
 
lol!
gave up drugs on the weekend? sounds like a comedown to me. come back in 6 months and let me know if you haven't taken anything.
I think we've all made half arsed attempts at "giving drugs up" because of a nasty experience or bad comedown.
pretty funny question for a drug message board if you ask me :)
horse
 
I havent exactly given up drugs...I mean, its not that i have decided I dont want to take them anymore just... I am pretty bored of them though and havent had anything for a while though.
Maybe when something changes in my life (new people so then its new experiences, not just the same old, week in week out) and they become fun again I will start it back up...
jaX*
[ 16 May 2002: Message edited by: BliSSS ]
 
I stopped using drugs at one point in my life when I asked the question "Why?" and I couldn't give an answer that satisfied me.
Now days, if drugs of any kind are involved in my schedule, there is a long period where I evaluate that the experience of taking drugs will outweigh any side effects.
Seriously, I believe that there are very rare periods where only the right person at the right time in the right mood can take the right drug and a reason for a lot of the problems with drugs is that the wrong people are taking the wrong drugs at the wrong time... and that makes me sad.
 
Well good for you, Well all come to the stage in our lives were takeing drugs wont be the apropriate thing, cause of marragies, work/study, kids, or whatever your reason may be.
Stop the drugs, BUT NEVER STOP THE MUSIC.
 
CB i know you fairly well, and i'd like to ask you the question, Why stop completely?? From what you have said above, i can't see why you can't just slow things down. You and i both know people who can handle work, uni, family, relationships etc etc and still go out and have fun and indulge every so often. I'll understand if you think you can't, but i know your a strong person, and i think you can.
If you feel that stopping drugs all together is the only way to solve your problem, then i'll back you all the way.
I partied for 6 years straight and had the time of my life. I've now found a new thing to add to my nights out, and occasionaly nights in as well. I can't see myself quiting drugs all together for a long time yet. I think a lot comes down to self control, and we need to learn when to say enough is enough, moderation.
Sorry if that seems a bit personal, but i think some of the points are relevant to everyone, and i'd like to hear others views too. :)
DJC*
 
From the regularity that I do anything, most people would think that my amount is equal to basically nothing. But I am thinking of givnign up nonetheless. As Fetish Jester said, you have to give yourself a real reason why?
Lets admit it, as much as we know about what a pill tastes like and the physiological differences between MDMA and MDEA, it does do damage.
No one really knows how much, but it is damaging us, every now and then I pull back and consider that and it sort of trips me a bit. I am sort of looking towards a job which involves drug testing, and its sort of a socially responsible drug, and I sort of think to fill the position i should be clean, its a while off yet, but im looking to quit maybe.
Also, the whole "going straight" thing, is underrated. I mean you feel like just as much shit as some comedowns, but so much of what you thought was the pills is natural high, psychologically induced as your brain related the music to a release of serotonin. Its nowhere near as good sure. But it is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to me.
I go out all the time and I dont drugs to ahve a good time, I know its cliche. But hey ask yourself, can I really have a good time without it? That was something i struggled with for a while. But seriously going straight is really cool
[ 16 May 2002: Message edited by: Smil-E ]
 
I stopped using drugs because my brain broke and I developed a disassociative disorder. w00t.
5 months, 3 weeks, 1 day and counting.
 
Because it is making me feel shit. All the comedowns, the guilt, the self-repriving, is just not worth the high. Sometimes.
 
Hey CB
I am giving myself a year off pills(i might not even pop again after that??). So far it has been 3 months. I pretty much quit for the same reasons you stated above, i had no motivation to do anything and right now i am studying something that i want to do for the rest of my life and i don't want to jeopardize that and also after 6 years of pills it was starting to get a bit repetitive.
The last time i had a pill i spent the whole night thinking about how much i wasn't enjoying myself anymore and wishing i didn't take it. Of course i still go out to clubs/parties but i just go straight. So if you are serious about this and you want someone else to go out straight with then i'm always up for a fun night out :)
 
my girlfriend told me she hated it when i smoked weed so I stoped even though she does gas.
anyhow i got dumped on wed
so I imediatly called DD and got a foil and pulled out the bong
BTW I should stop for uni till after exams
well maybe after the weekend
[ 20 May 2002: Message edited by: IWoody ]
 
i havnt taken anything for about 1 1/2 months.
Im in a seriouse relationshp atm, and am working alot.
I found that while i was single i was always going out with friends, and getting wrecked.
I never really had an excuse to sop, as much as i waned to slow down.
After slowing down, it was really easy to stop completely.
i think the next time i have somethign will be for my b.day, then at mt. dissapointment for ec !!!
but its gonna be very safe, well, SAFERRR - preload, post loading etc,, the whole lot.
make sure minimal come down.
im sick of being scat on sundays :
 
Originally posted by DJC*:
[QB]I think a lot comes down to self control, and we need to learn when to say enough is enough, moderation.
[QB]
*amen*
I lost myself control, then had a period of self-reflection, and realised I *could* have been heading for an addiction!... So I stopped, looked and listened... ;) And now I can say I have my self-control back!.. I was lucky, I looked at myself before it became to serious I relised were I was heading and stopped!...
It's up to you to listen to yourself, no-one else.. Sure other people can look out for you... in the end its about yourself...
Click to expand...
 
heya DJC*, yeah i know that a lot of people can slow down and keep up evreything, but i have decided that it's the best thing for me to do at the moment. i just can't afford to have fucked up mondays and tuesdays anymore, i have so much stuff going on with uni and work and life and everything, that i just had to draw the line.
this doesn't mean that i will stop going out at all, i intend to go out just as much as i did, but not break myself like i had been doing.
this is a firm commitment that i have made to myself, and as far as i'm concerned, my life with drugs is over. it's been great, and i had some amazing times, and i will continue to go out, go off, and have an amazing time, without them.
see ya tomorrow at passion... i'll chat to ya more then.
thanks for the replies everyone...
 
q: why did i stop taking drugs regularly?
a: because it got boring.
drugs can be extremely boring, just like anything else you do too often. now it's a special occasions thing, like a nice bottle of champagne.
 
^^^ well said JB!!!! :D
Im over it - my feeling towards drugs at the moment - especially MD - is meh - they are sooo passe.........
Ive had my big-binge-drug-whoring-honeymoon and im over it....... i fucked myself up one too many times and im really paying the concequences now........
Not completely mind you - but certainly gonna save most for special occations........
MD i have stopped - Meth on occations, K when i feel i can handle it and 1,4....... well....... theres no stopping that.......
My reasons for stopping MD are quite personal - when you lose the enjoyment and spend more time recovering and feeling crap - its over.........
 
werd JB, again :D
i've been of the attitude thats drugs are only for special occasions now for a while, and i appreciate it when i do have em, its not just an expected thing when i go out. they do get boring after a while, and that can be one reason to stop em, the other is that they're fucking your up. i've stopped taking meth cos it was fucking me up and i was taking far too much for the wrong reasons, and i've slowed down on most other drugs cos i was appreciating them as being special, i was just taking experiences for granted...
 
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