Posted by rjlockhart37 on April 3, 2013, at 12:43:01
In reply to Re: Does this get better? » rjlockhart37, posted by AMD on April 3, 2013, at 10:11:49
one thing that may make you feel better is that meth has to be repeatedly taken over weeks or more to cause brain damage, what may of happened you may have used a lot of it and it caused the brain to feel drained from low dopamine. Repeated/months use will burn out the dopamine receptors, like pressing on the accelerator In the car all the time....eventually the engine will wear down. It will restore itself back to normal if this just used a couple times..., the people that have Parkinson's disease from meth are hard core users for days of staying awake with no sleep...and then repeating it over again... Just let your mind stabilize for a couple days. Fish oil, go to the store and get supplements that say brain restore...amino acids, all that you need to recoope.
but people on the street who do all this stuff...more like junkies... I've seen it they lie, they look dirty in general, cheat, have nasty boney face from excessive use, and bad breath and rotted mouth, not all of them, but there just looking for anything for the next high. You don't have to see yourself as that, I've used meth repeatedly and know that it will suck all life to where your thinking about using it over and over, getting that next high..... cocaine in my opinion is, a bit less dirty than meth, it doesn't cause damage that meth causes, the high is shorter....like 30-45min, and it has to be repeatedly used to keep it. It wears you down, presses all the go buttons in the brain and then it leaves it with no juice left.
I used to go to NA, theres some people that used to talk about being clean for 20 years and then after that they went right back to their habit 20 years earlier....it goes into remission like cancer, its not a curable condition. It's that thing where use anything to change the way feel to feel better, because feel so crappy all the time.
Medications will help.....but what causes/triggers the need to use? like stress? bad things happening? or just want to feel better?
just hang in there.....the more info you have I can help a bit more.....
not a scholar but understand distress
Med:
Prozac 60mg
Lamictal 200mg
Zyprexa 20mg
Nuvigil 250mg
encourage you to avoid false beliefs
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