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Re: Dysphoria- it's your environment, not you » utopizen

Posted by Chairman_MAO on February 18, 2004, at 20:52:56

In reply to Dysphoria- it's your environment, not you » jerrympls, posted by utopizen on February 18, 2004, at 18:44:20

I cannot recall the last time I heard a more impassioned articulation of the ethos of a healthy attitude toward drug use. An extremely high (in the spiritual sense) psychologist I had told it all to me this way: "Which model makes more sense in examining your life: neurotransmitters, or feelings and reasons?" I am not sure that I'll ever know how a philosophy major like myself ever got into drug abuse, for I am acutely aware of the mind-body problem and the absurdity of hard materialism. Oh, wait, I wanted to run away from myself ... so what did it matter what I knew then, you dig?

I used to be so well-written and well-spoken. I wrote 20-page papers in 400-level philosophy classes as a sophomore! I was nominated for philosophy undergrad of the year but got disqualified because I was too young! My psychopharm. professor wanted to get me on the "fast track" to John's Hopkins! Man, I'm all about drugs now, but I used to GET OFF ON CONSCIOUSNESS ALONE! Psychopharmacology is fantastic, but only if one doesn't ignore the PSYCHE part!

I now feel that I let this precious flame at best atrophy through excessive drug use and self-isolation, and at worst lost it forever through neurotoxic experiments with psychostimulants. My only consolation is knowing that I could someday better the lives of others through my own mistakes.

And who knows, when I dive back into school, I might find that fleeting rapture again ...

To the one seeking euphoria: using drugs to ENHANCE your life is healthy. Using them to FILL your life will create hell. Be thankful you cannot recapture that euphoria; it's your soul telling you that you're on a better path. Seek euthymia, not euphoria.


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