Posted by Dog on December 9, 2003, at 9:21:30
In reply to Re: Wellbutrin for anxiety wha???, posted by DeeJay on December 9, 2003, at 8:50:41
i did drugs as a youth also. my Dad also is an alcoholic, so i grew up with it seeing it abused and then abusing it myself when i was a teenager. i quit all illegal drugs and alcohol at about 20...in my miss-spent youth, i've experimented with almost every drug you could name...i never used a needle though... i wonder also if the drugs i did as a youth affected what i am today... i think they'd had to have done something... i didn't do them everyday, only on weekends mostly, but i've done LSD, PCP, Coke, Heroin (snorted), Ecstasy (MDA) and alot of marijuana... and that probably wasn't very organic marijuana... i heard the DEA used to spray illegal marijuana fields with a strong weed-killer called "Paraquat", but that the marijuana would be harvested anyway... smoking dope sprayed with that stuff probably didn't do me any good either... probably never know for sure of the damage i've done... an argument for my doing drugs could be that i was trying to medicate myself because i didn't feel right due to my chemical imbalance...don't know for sure..
Drinking wine is good "health-nut" behavior...there are many studies that prove wine is good for you, at least in moderate amounts... i can't drink it though...my problem is that i would like it too much, i think, and couldn't control my drinking: i don't want to go my Dad's route... he and i are already too much alike!
have enjoyed writing to you... got to go now though and do my work...i have to travel in my public health job as a field worker.. write back when you can..
would appreciate hearing from you again,
Dog> See, I had concerns about the WB with the alcohol, but I don't have a history of seizure. I enjoy wine too much. I noticed I don't like to smoke much anymore on the WB, so it works there. I also don't eat like I used to, my portions are smaller. I'm a health nut anyway (minus the coffee and wine) so it's not a major change. I have to have my vice, and that's what I don't deprive myself of. I have another question, probably obvious, but I have often wondered if adolescent drug use could have contributed to any of my adult anxiety now.....hmmmm....maybe too obvious...
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> Cheers,
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> Deej
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