Poll Substance Abuse - Did Illegal Drugs Help You?

[rat]

Yes!!! Also, I think opiates are really the only substance that will stop a flashback.

 

[Lisa]

I've taken skunk more to help me to cope in the past. But at times I have also used solvents, magic mushrooms, speed, and cocaine. On the whole, I don't think drug use is really the answer though.

 

[LostInTheFog]

Yes, I still think I get the best results as far as anxiety and positive mood from weed, and actually trust the safety of it more than all the chemicals as well. It's natural, and there is just nothing else that makes me feel as much 'myself' - creative, expressive - with no side or lasting effects [for me]. When it goes away it is gone, unlike all these things that must always be 'in your system'. Instead of simply escaping bad feelings, it seems to help me escape back to who I really am. Just my opinion.

 

[Lisa]

When it goes away it is gone, unlike all these things that must always be 'in your system'. Instead of simply escaping bad feelings, it seems to help me escape back to who I really am. Just my opinion.

That's interesting... I have often felt that 'sobering up' after some skunk is better than getting stoned... a sort of 'clarity' arising is somehow quite nice and makes me feel that it helps me to get back to me...

 

[veiled_misery]

pot habitually.. adderall to get school work done.. ambien & trazodone to sleep.. Drinking to stop anxiety on the weekends, along with coke (rarely) to help me talk better with people.. shrooms & acid to go to another universe.. hydros and oxys to come down from the adderall & control anxiety during the week. i gobble up valium any chance i get for the same reason.

pot, acid, and shrooms help me most with putting things in perspective, and to escape this reality and go to a more spiritual place (that part is mostly the acid & shrooms).

the only ones i really, deep down, enjoy, would be weed, acid and shrooms. everything else just keeps me seeming like a functioning and normal citizen to others, as funny as that might sound.

im a piece of fiendish crap i know

 

[weldergirl]

I think they should allow medicinal marijuana for PTSD. I would be dead by now if it weren't for my bad habit. Really which is worse, drugs or dead?

 

[sallyb98178]

Used to do both drugs and alcohol, then quit, but was hit with crazy suicidal depression, finally got on prozac, recenly quit nicotine and diet soda and refined sugar which may be why all my s**t is up right now.

 

[sallyb98178]

I have been clean and sober for 29+ years, but just recently quit nicotine and sugar. My anxiety is sky-high right now, but I am clinging to the hope that I can tackle the ptsd finally. Thinking back, it was likely the earliest cause of my drinking and using. I now have nothing to control it. Work is really pretty difficult with waves of adrenaline all day. But you guys are giving me hope. Last week I thought I would lose my job, my home, all the most dire predictions. Thusday I start with a new therapist who does EMDR. Keeping my fingers crossed,

 

[nightowl52]

I also know of 5 ptsd with doctors perscriptions who use Medical Marijuana & are doing well in therapy too & no side effects

 

[harrywgtn]

smoke

Ive smoked pot now for over 15 years to help me. works get sme out of my head space. im such a better person with it

 

[rallynut78]

I think they should allow medicinal marijuana for PTSD. I would be dead by now if it weren't for my bad habit. Really which is worse, drugs or dead?

X 2 on this! I have not smoked pot habitually since high school (pun not intended but still accurate). I started a few months ago to help with the anxiety because I just needed a brake form it. it has helped but there are probably better prescription drugs out there but so far my psychiatrist has yet to prescribe them. It's funny that I was honest with the VA because I asked and they try to blame much of my problems on pot. smoking pot for 2 months suffering from PTSD for 3+ years seems like simple math to me!

 

[Gravastorm]

One more time to kill the pain...

Don't know if anyone has noticed my post titles are usually musically referenced. This is because every thought, feeling, random outburst that strolls thru my head has it's own theme song. Even the rare moments of lucid silence have musical accompaniment.

As for this thread subject, I am a yes. And like many others my med of choice is MJ, although I have not been able to acquire it except rarely since leaving the south.

I was on a 2-3 doob a day regimen and it kept my demon (rage) manageable. I could be angry without losing control. It did not deaden my emotions as I still felt overwhelmed at times of turmoil and would have hours long sob fests on occasion.

What it is for me is "The Great Cohesive", it brings all of the me's together, united against external and internal assualt. It quiets the malestrom of my brain activity and allows me to pluck ideas and thoughts as a whole instead of in shreds. My writing has been complimented and much as I appreciate the notice if you knew how long it actually takes..like listening to a song played warped, at high speed and trying to write down the lyrics..so I replay my thought again and again until I can get it all down. Wouldn't you know my mind has a sadistic twist to it and will sometimes change the thought or replay at a faster speed or lose it altogether.. o_O yeesh

I have recently reconsidered professional therapy but it raises such a clamor of dissention within my head that I quickly dismiss the notion. Seems this forum is the closest thing my psyche will accept. So on I go, sans meds.