Posted by linkadge on April 15, 2006, at 19:05:47
In reply to Re: Nardil Euphoria MalcolmS, posted by MARTY on April 15, 2006, at 18:40:33
I think the problem is that its pandora's box. People may not even know they are fitting into the category of wanting to feel better through medication. The problem is that our hedonic systems are set to associate good feelings and good experiences with certain choices.
So if somebody takes nardil and they feel euphoric, then that experience is going to be *permanantly* stored in some part of their brain. They will remember exactly how they felt. And perhaps they may even after they come down they may be feeling the way a normal person feels, but that will always pail in comparison to how they felt at their peak.
These are powerful drugs.
Its pandoras box, because after you have been exposed to a chemical shortcut, then it reframes your whole way of thinking. Thats why I'm here. My brain has a very hard time registering what is normal and abnormal, and so my thinking is always in terms of, how can this feeling be curtailed with a drug.
No I know, not everybody on this board fits this category, but I do.
I think it is very easy to get caught up in the cycle of associations.
I think while we try to make clear distinctions between legal drugs and illegal drugs there are similarities.
Many of the people who initially discovered the TCA's likened their actions in many ways to the amphetamines.
Granted, they don't fail the mouse lever press tests because they're not "fast acting", but it has been known that an undetermined subset of users report feeling better than well.
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