Posted by utopizen on October 24, 2002, at 11:44:05
In reply to Re: MDMA HOW YOU THINK I GOT THIS WAY!!!!!!!!, posted by Mr Cushing on October 24, 2002, at 10:37:43
While your doctor is correct in saying drugs can trigger psychotic tendancies, she is incorrect in assuming the tendances must exist to any extent before taking the drug.
I've never heard of cocaine-induced psychosis, but amphetamine psychosis is its own mental disorder, and treated differently than a general psychosis.
If you take enough amphetamine, without enough sleep, I believe an amphetamine psychosis will find you, no matter how mentally stable you were before you took the amphetamine... unless it just so happens a lot of the people who binge the amphetamines happen to be psychotic, which I doubt as statistically realistic.
Also, Ectasy is pretty well-documented on the whole chronic use of it being linked to depression. Likadge is totally right. There is a guy trying to get the FDA to put it as a schedule III (wtf? You'd think Schedule II would be asking a lot!) for PTSD. This guy is pretty out there, and this will probably do more harm than good.
For some reason interviewers never seem to ask Shulgin about this... who knows, maybe it's incorrect. But I have read message posts on the web of ectasy users linking their depression to chronic ectasy abuse.
Then again, it's also simply possible than your depression comes for biochemical reasons unrelated to your drug use. The world will never know, and it's all that greedy owl's fault for eating the tootsie roll pop... greedy owl. I really wanted to know how many licks it took to finish the pop!
> Damn, bummer... I sent you this answer on your MSN and your Mom responded... bad Mike.......
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> Anyways, my Doctor said when I asked her the same question whether all the stuff I did as a teen could have triggered of my Bi-Polar disorder and this is what she told me.
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> That the only instances where she found that "street drugs" did anything for a person's mental health is IF the person had a tendency towards psychotic episodes. For example, I have a good friend who's skitzophrenic and whenever he smoked weed, it was bad, he would change, whenever he did anything else... It was best to just stay FAR away from him. Using those drugs could have been what triggered off his situation in the first place.
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> But for depression, anxiety disorders, and Bi-Polar, she didn't think that any of the drugs that "I" did in the past, and God knows there were LOTS of them, has anything to do with the way I am now. She does think that when you're going through an episode though, or when you're first starting your treatment on a new medication, that you should remain as sober as possible because then they could have adverse reactions.
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> I'm always VERY open with my Doctor about my Party Lifestyle so I hope that helps.
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