Thoughts on prevalent use of behavior modifying drugs?

@OggggO You can find someone else to argue with. I will not waste my time debating with you. I am a healthcare professional with decades of experience. I stand by my words. Have a good day.

@PoetryNEmotion I don’t get this fear and hatred of medications. Yes there are side effects but overall humanity has been helped more by pharma than by roots and berries. Just because people make money from something doesn’t automatically mean it’s bad.

@PoetryNEmotion Bullshit. You're either lying or horrendous at your job.

@Magenta Believe what you want, but the facts are very different.

@OggggO The facts for how I've lived my life and gotten through things, speaks for itself. And others I know.
People are free to live as they wish.

@Magenta Meanwhile, people are living longer, healthier lives now than before we had modern medicines, by a huge amount.

@NoahB is too!

@BlueVeins i just worry

@NoahB that's valid.

@NoahB to cure the problem, one needs to understand the cause. Don't you agree?

@Unlearn but of course

@Unlearn Mhm, and how do you propose "curing"?

@Iwillwait It's eyebrow raising for me

@NoahB it depends what you are doing in life. It’s hard for me to describe. It’s like the difference between linear thinking and the randomness of inspirational creativity. But that may just be for me. Every brain has a different chemistry. @OggggO

@2cool4school Like any medication, different people react differently, and some people have problems with specific ones. There was one that made me intensely paranoid. But that's not a general effect, and doesn't happen to most people, and none of the others I've been on have done so. It's very likely that if you tried a different one from the one you had been on, you'd get a different result.

@OggggO oh I definitely agree. I had to take Prozac after too many head injuries in a short period of time left me without my sense of taste and smell. It made me feel sorta robotic. I just wasn’t myself. I read books newspaper and magazines from cover I felt like I was just robotic and not in a good way. I can see why it works to keep people from having big swings from high to low moods and in my case it was actually to get my weight back up. I dropped to 110 lbs from 145 and in such a short period of time I was told that I couldn’t let it happen again because of the health issues that can arise. But it did happened again at one my lowest points in my life ever. I was just so depressed about my chronic pain syndrome and my anxiety was out of control because my spinal fusion surgery was termed a failure because it helped regain the structural integrity of my lower lumbar but the pain never went away from post op to today. I’m now a little less than a month away from finding out if my newest doctor wants me to get surgery again because he’s seen an area on my latest MRI where I broke my fusion. I’m so pissed at myself for breaking myself again.

@WhisperingAngel What "help" do you suggest for a neurotransmitter imbalance?

@canusernamebemyusername I thought just 90% of SW was lol

@Spoiledbrat very cool

@2cool4school I'd like to know what it's like using coke, but only because it's been romanticised so much. I don't think I would take it given the opportunity.

@MartinTheFirst the best way I could describe coke is a feeling like it’s a very good time like you just accomplished something good. Promotion birthday Christmas lottery winning feeling all at once but it’s synthetic and the fact that it’s not real doesn’t matter but when it start to wear off you don’t want it to and you want to keep it going. I don’t do it but I’ve been around lots of people that do and one thing I see often is that nobody feels like they bought enough and often they return to buy more without planning on it when they started. I’ve been around people that end up buying 3 times what they originally said they wanted over the course of a night. I have had friends that have had to move away from places that had easy access to it just to stop there habit. It’s very hard for some people to stop. It comes with a a high and the next day a low that is usually what people try to fend off with more coke only to get caught in a cycle. I’ve basically told people that I don’t want anything to do with it so they know not to even bring it up around me or hopefully not to even have it on them around me. And it’s often done in secrecy so I don’t know how often I have been around people that do it regularly. I’ve had a lot of experiences where people I’ve never suspected of being into it do it openly in public and don’t even think of it as a big deal. I’ve been to parties in the past few years where people have had hundreds of dollars worth on a plate and just passed it around. I’ve had friends that date dealers just so they can get access to it for cheap or free. The worst case scenario’s I’ve seen are people who get into habits with it and when they can’t get it either because they can’t afford it or they can’t find it they turn to other hard drugs like crystal meth which I have had zero experience with and I’ve never even been curious about. At 17 I had an older more experienced coworker explain almost every substance to me and advise me what not to do when I was going off to college as I had been hanging out with my college coworkers and they were just into drinking and smoking pot. I ended up getting into a dorm that had the worst gpa on campus and kids were kicked out on a regular basis for partying too much. As soon as they were off campus they got into harder drugs and coke and heroin were not uncommon to be seen at their parties. I had a bf that I was joined at the hip with and we decided not to touch anything hard drug related but we did a lot of mushrooms and did them on Sunday nights almost weekly and they started to lose their affects and potency and we decided to stop. We drank a lot and smoked a lot of pot so much so that all the money I had saved for the year was gone in half the time I expected. When we split after a year so we could have a more authentic college experience he got a job at a restaurant and got into coke and heroin almost immediately. When I saw him a few months later he wanted to catch up. He decided to show me how much he had changed by smoking heroin off of foil and snorting coke as well as mixing them into speedballing and was actually disappointed with me for not wanting to try. I didn’t see him again but I heard that he had gotten in trouble legally for the fake IDs that a roommate of his had made us both and was forced to go to alcohol anonymous with his mom weekly for a year to avoid a tougher sentence and that was actually one of the best things for him because he wasn’t able to get into hard drugs as well. I think he actually never left the college town and works for the university currently and is married with a family. I’d say that curiosity is about as far as I would recommend going with coke. It’s expensive and it’s not worth it as well as being fatally toxic to 1/10,000 people and legally has the ability to really screw up successful lives. But I totally understand why you would be curious because it’s got a stigma and a powerful relationship with many people. Personally I don’t see a reason to go past cannabis or even to use cannabis but I also feel alcohol is not as safe as many people make it out to be.

@Bang5luts oh yeah? how so?

@NoahB just put into question by those who would have my undoing

@Bang5luts hmmmm a vague yet foreboding answer.