Signs that a "habit" is becoming a "problem"
Share your indicators (either personal or observed in someone you know) that drug use is stepping out of the phase of "habit" and entering the valley of "problem". They can be funny or serious - I hope to get a laugh out of this thread and perhaps even some information that could be useful. So here we go,
Your drug habit might be becoming a problem:
- If you spend the first half of your month binging on amphetamine, then spend the second half of the month trying to work your mind out of an amphetamine psychosis... When you manage to get your head back on track, you are just in time for your amphetamine prescription to get refilled so you can do it all over again.
- If all 4 hours of euphoria and motivation that amphetamine gives you are spent making preparations for the agonizing 6 hour long come-down that is in the near future.. such as putting a cold washcloth in the freezer so youll have a frozen ice-brick that you can put on your forehead/neck when you need it; acquiring acetaminophen, ibuprofen, magnesium, liquor, sedatives if available, and a stack of CDs which have calming music on them (then not being able to decide whether you should arrange your survival kit by alphabetical order or from largest-to-smallest)
- If sometimes you wonder if a drug-induced seizure and/or stroke is imminent, then letting "curiosity" transform into a full blown anxiety attack as you spend hours researching the indicators of an impending stroke/seizure, only to freak out more when your mind creates placebo symptoms, and not realizing that the symptoms of an anxiety attack are identical to MANY medical emergencies(such as hyperglycemia, a stroke, an impending seizure, a heart attack, etc) and that what you are experiencing is mere anxiety.
- if you spend an entire month convincing yourself that you have irreversible brain-damage, and it turns out you are just really bored.
- If taking opiates actually makes you MORE alert and motivated to do things, and when you are off opiates you'd rather do nothing at all besides lounge around and eat junk food.
- If smoking pot triggers an episode where you freak out for hours, calling up the guy who sold it to you demanding to know if your weed had anything else in it besides weed.
- If the plastic portion of your pipe had burned a little bit while smoking, and upon noticing this you are all but certain that the smoke from the burnt plastic is going to give you a tumor and/or brain damage
- If there is a grand conspiracy to subliminally manipulate you with electromagnetic mind-control beams via micro-chip electronic devices incorporated into every computer monitor, television, and radio that was made after the year 2002.
- Due to all the vasoconstriction from stimulants accompanied by prolonged 6 hour sessions of masturbation, your genitals have shriveled up to 1/3 their original size, and the texture of them resembles that of raisins - even when you have been off of stimulants for weeks
- If when posting a thread on bluelight, you consider adding a paragraph long disclaimer to forum moderators to prevent them from closing/deleting your thread and it seems like a good idea to add such a disclaimer. I think I'll post it below.
Note to Mods: Please leave this thread open. I have been noticing more and more frequently that mods are closing topics and deleting posts for no particular reason at all - and if the mod does provide a reason it usually doesnt extend to anything more than a vague exploitation of a "rule" that was at one time a good rule, but has been stretched to accommodate for a mod's superiority complex, carried out with exercising their authority by closing any thread they see fit. From 10 years of internet experience, and being an active member at a wide variety of forums over those past 10 years, let me assure you that when mods develop a bad habit of constantly closing threads it does nothing but impede enjoyable communication and kill the forum... If there is some other reason, such as a shortage of bandwith (which I doubt) or some overwhelming and unanimous consensus that there is too many "spam" threads (and not just a consensus from the elitist members who feel as if they are defending their e-territory), then please notify me of this and I will be more than subordinate. However, if "spam" were truly the issue at hand here, then I would argue that this does not qualify as a "spam" thread, and violates no terms of service, and as far as I can tell there is not a similar thread. However, it seems to me that there is no other logical reason for you to close this thread, other than soothing your narcissism (which is not a bad thing, soothing your narcissism is a healthy practice, but there certainly must be more beneficial places to soothe it than right here and right now). If you truly wish to develop such strict rules and guidelines for posting at this forum, and only allowing a handful of threads to stay open that serve as a database for posts which never get responded to, then what is the point of conversing at all? Would it not be better to just design a bunch of automated programs that talk to each other and are designed to follow any and all forum rules, and replace the human involvement on forums altogether?
If your concern is the health and maintenance of bluelight, please, stop closing threads. I know far too many forums that end up rolling over and dying due to over-moderation, and bluelight appears to be heading down that path.
I know it can be an exhilarating and satisfying rush to execute the whole of your narcissistic persona in one clean swing of your authoritative executioner's axe, and I wholeheartedly promote such behavior! But to get the best kick out of such an endeavor, I wish to help you out with a tip - if you constantly follow through with such displays of power, then people cease to take your seriously as a figure of authority - the best way to figuratively 'grab them by the balls' is to reserve your "power", and display it only at the most opportune moment. This way, your display will be fine-touched with a silver lining of clarity when people observe your performance. Practicing moderation of your desire to display power is a key aspect in earning the respect of those in your jurisdiction; It's all good buddy
you have earned my respect, and I simply wish to help you earn the respect of other peers.
-Thanks