Please excuse my tardiness but that was a good read. Obv it would have been sad and depressing if u werent here now but i dont think u need anyone to tell u u should take comfort in your acquired fear. if nothing else u have a good icebreaker for parties
The taboo factor only encourages further taboo-age which is unfortunate. The issue here is a lot of people don't have the same kind of support that you received, ie lots of broken families -maybe due to drugs- which in turn leads to more escapism/addiction generations down. vicious cycle blabla.
I understand where ur coming from with the drug geek thing. I started 'properly' experimenting when i got to university. I think that was fortunate as the people i assosciated with were relatively well informed, heroin and all the nasties being completely out of the question. That said I think an element of self righteous-ness comes into play here as while my circle wouldn't consider crack etc they then label the rest of the soft ones as good -ultimately creating the same problem.
my story isn't that exciting. i became a(n) (ir)responsible alcoholic upon arrival at uni -like most students- this being fuelled by relationship problems. eventually i started hanging around with the stoners and became interested in hallucinogens. went through a small-big phase of doing nothing but stoning or stoning + something(-that didnt require a train of thought
). the next phase was THIZZ or just pills they're called here. tried various others along the way like ur mentioned perscription add stuff. i found it was good but too shamelessly good, not much of an experience just a bit of a buzz. same goes for coke (admittedly a little nicer) however for the same reasons i never got into it.
My notable experience has been with Ecstacy(/pills). Myself and some friends went through a 'pillhead' phase which has without doubt been
positively lifechanging. We'd go clubbing regularly with pills, be insanely happy idiots and would have
the best time. Pills like everything got a bit boring, i mean im not into drugs anymore besides a few drinks when out. However, they made me realise i can be myself - act like an insanely happy idiot whenever i want and i have
the best time. It's a bit silly to attribute my serenity to ecstacy, that said this is a drug experiences thread and im telling u pills are amazing.
responsible drug use is the way forward. or sorry cough, dont do drugs
btw warpus if u think otherwise then you're only cheating yourself!
Some addictions are more unhealthy than others. For example, there's no problem with being addicted to food or reading or something like that.
I think that's a matter of perspective, an appropriate example being computer games. There's nothing directly harmful from playing them, however the question i asked myself was 'is there something better i can be doing with my time'. I went through a mega phase of self improvement still intermingled with slightly less gaming, however now that i'm at what I feel to be an acceptable level i'm able to do other more pro-active things. This applies to reading... for food a healthy balanced diet is very important, at least i feel a lot better now i'm eating properly. x
) but I think the hard drugs -ie cause-ers of physical withdrawal- are not necessarily any worse than the soft ones. I'd say an addict is an addict irrespective of the doses u take. What does seem to matter is the level of social acceptability of ur drug, alcohol, weed, computer games blabla. escapism is evil
, its interesting how typing that was fun for me, yet typing essays for English isn't. I guess its because that paragraph is actually interesting to me and its something I just like doing.
