...but please stay healthy comrades. The revolution needs healthy people. Moderation is key. Stay hydrated. Eat well. Hit the gym. Capitalism drives down the proles, making them turn to drugs and alcohol so they do not revolt. Do not fall for it.
A fascist hit the gym today, did you?
Drugs aren't good or bad. They are just chemicals. However, many of these chemicals make you feel good because they make you're brain light up all the available serotonine and dopamine. The problem starts because you feel fine weeks before your serotinine is at regular capacity. Do it again too early and your hormone batteries won't fill up completely. Then monthly use becomes weekly use becomes daily use. Also, acid does bind on your serotonine receptors but it simulates serotonine instead of increasing serotonine concentrations. Therefore you will not have the same problems with it as you have with opioids or coke. So not so addiction problems here.
My understanding is you're still liable to downregulate your serotonin receptors from regular overstimulation. Can anyone with more knowledge expound?
I do love to trip, but the times I've done it when I shouldn't have (tired, bad location, not dealing with underlying issues etc) have made it more of an ordeal than it needed to be. It's no magic fix, but you know that I'm sure.
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Thanks! It's one of those things where I know I don't know enough.
I've definitely experienced the 'nondescript anxiety' as a general heightening of my background anxieties. I'm in a fortunate enough position where I can seek help for that unearthed trauma, so overall it's been a positive to me. I do worry for people with less support structures though...
Nice chart!
Yes, you're right. However, this also only goes for drugs like coke, opioids, meth etc. Basically, when you tell your brain to release more serotonine, it also developes more receptors. These receptors dismantle over time, but it takes way longer. When one feels craving that's the receptors screaming for hormones. The more receptors the harder they scream. Therefore it can take month, maybe years for some people, depending on their drug and dose. That's the reason i find "psychological" addiction very missleading. It's not your mind that's making up the need for the drug, it's the receptors.
Your brain will not create more serotonine receptors form one or two trips/rolls/lines/whatever. The quantity makes the poison. Except for acid. There are reports of people mixing up acid crystals with coke and snorting a line, which is about 100 - 500 doses of lsd. They all had a very bad trip but felt great afterwards. Oh, just found the article. It's in German but anyways: https://www.vice.com/de/article/pkeqd8/lsd-acid-das-passiert-bei-einer-uberdosis