Hmm, I've never posted in this particular thread, but I find some of this paranoia interesting.
The reason why I'm classifying it as one is because a lot of symptoms that the posters in here are discussing seem to be psychosomatic. This works both ways; your mind can make you feel better or worse, literally. It's actually not even debatable. I can elaborate later on if someone wants it, but this is the main point.
A lot of people here in this very thread have admitted that their ltc includes other factors unrelated to their mdma use; that ultimately means that mdma isn't the sole cause. People need to go to the doctor, run tests and seek outside help (such as counseling for depression, anger management, anxiety, etc.) as well as evaluating themselves rationally. In other words, do not include your emotions/personal bias as much as possible and examine/judge yourself like you would to someone else (if that's how you do it). You will be surprised to find many answers that were within you the whole time, or at least that's what should happen if it's done properly and if you haven't really done that as much as you should have. It's not easy, but mental health is an extremely important factor that consistently gets overlooked, even in this day and age. We ALL suffer from it, at least here and there, just like we'll all get the cold or fever here and there too.
Another important thing is to NOT put this off! For example, going to the dentist is like going to hell (imo), but I'm at the point where it's necessary because I think I only went once within the last 5 years, besides teeth cleaning which isn't a biggie. Even something like teeth and gum issues can lead to all kinds of detrimental effects on the body. Good health isn't something that just happens while talking about it and doing nothing; it requires a lot of effort and action to maintain it. Which honestly, I don't see much of here. I mean, you have to be a very special case and have a super weak ass immune system if this doesn't work, and tbh I highly doubt that. Especially because if you actually run some tests, they can detect that and much more. It's just that there's too much talking and not enough doing. I've fallen victim to that before; the whole worrying and then sitting on my ass and doing nothing about it for myself. Nothing but shitty results, that's for sure.
I think most of the problems here come down to this. The whole placebo/psychosomatic factor in our physical health is not only underestimated, it's sometimes completely ignored. This is foolish, especially when I look at the problems in this thread specifically. I don't even see one post having a strong and actual positive outlook on their health when they talk about it, when in reality that can make a big ass difference.
Even a couple months of complete mdma abstinence is a long time and should be enough to recover from most of the detrimental effects that I see here. When you roll and then basically stop suddenly for that long, it feels like much longer than that. When I didn't drop mdma even once for two years, it felt like I was in a whole new phase in my life. And this is coming from someone who never had an ltc or really any negative effect; but you WILL feel healthier and much better than before, even if everything else remains the same. So, if you become proactive with your health on top of that, in reality you WILL be better than before. Again, mostly everyone here simply seems to be suffering something mental in nature, or it at least has a hand in all of the negative effects described here.
Like I said, the power of positive thinking is real and it's kind of dumb to ignore it. Not only is it good for your mental health, which in turn influences your physical health, it leads to positive actions eg. getting up and doing something about it. Don't just give up or give in. Suffering is a part of the human experience (and if you don't think I've massively suffered in my life, that's your delusion, yet here I am standing with a consistent, positive outlook based a little bit on defiance, and a lot of it based on learning from my experiences) and the challenge is to fight back and will yourself to better days even if all you did was change the way you look at it (like becoming optimistic).
Inevitably, that will lead you to doing something about it.
