it hit me while masturbating in the shower, i’m never going to be completely sober. i need drugs to function as a member of society. and that’s alright with me.
i also know, more importantly, that there are millions of other people like me all over the planet. most of us just hide to survive.
personally i have periods of fluctuation. there are some months where i smoke weed every day, others of complete sobriety where im ‘addicted’ to yoga and cycling every day, and inbetween where i just use substances socially with friends or at gatherings like raves.
Ngl I still smoke weed most days but since dabbling with shrooms all the other stuff doesn’t appeal to me anymore. Shrooms have also changed my perspective on what drugs truly are. You probably don’t really need them. But it’s not the end of the world if you keep taking them. You’re sacrificing time, money, physical health and the ability to overcome boredom creatively for the option of controlling your feelings to a degree. If that’s a fair trade to you then by all means. Just be sure it’s not only the drugs speaking.
I used to think I’d be addicted to nicotine forever and I’ve not smoked for over a year now, after 20 years on the stuff. Maybe you will change who knows?
I used to think like this… still do.
Well, my close friends and I felt similar when we were young. Now we’re middle aged and realised we had a mix of undiagnosed neurodiversity, and are now are now on doctor-prescribed cannabis and/or stimulants.
I know that if my adhd meds were stopped, I’d have to go back to self-medicating with booze, weed and street drugs. But having access to reliable clean stimulants that help me do the stuff I want to do, have hobbies and keep a steady job and long-term relationships, has been life transforming. I’ve had a jar of weed in my drawer for over a year, because I’ve gone from smoking weed everyday to once every few months. And it’s not because I think weed is bad, or not fun, but just because my life is so much more rich and satisfying and busy (in a good way) that I don’t need to get baked to make it manageable.
Edit: didn’t mean for that sound preachy. There’s no problem with not being ‘sober’ of it works for you. But if there’s some underlying issue that the intoxicants help you deal with, I just wanted to share that it can be amazing if you can sort the issue out rather than mask it. But there’s always space for a delicious cocktail, some fragrant bud or taking some mushrooms at a rave in the deep forest.
If you count coffee, tea and energy drinks as a drug, then there are a lot of people like this.
Which drugs?
Yep
I too used to think certain things in my life would never change - until they did.
It’s an interesting realization when you’ve been telling yourself for decades that you need something, only to quit it and discover that not only did you not need it, but you’re actually better off without.
and discover that not only did you not need it, but you’re actually better off without.
IMO it’s a bit like going to parties/events. When you’re young you might feel as if you have to go, and if you’re older you stop doing that, and you’re fine and don’t feel as if you would need that at all.
But at the same time, if you had never gone to these parties, you would spend the rest of your life wondering what you missed …
So the reason why you don’t need it is because you got enough of it in the past; had you never had it in the first place, you would miss it.
Until you relapse. There’s a reason people fall into bad habits and if those reasons are not addressed, the change is only temporary. Speaking from experience.
Few things are so normal and natural as a human consuming substances that change their conscious perception and mind.
Caffeine, often forgotten is by far the most consumed drug in the world being used by roughly 85% of people globally. “First coffee, then work” is a testimonial to how benign this fact is.
But what if you don’t like caffeine, what if you simply prefer the effects of something else? It’s your body, no one should be able to tell an adult what they can do with their own body and mind.
Just be conscious about it.
Know what you are taking.
Understand why you take it.
Study, learn what it actually does and how different doses/methods affect you.
Find how it does not affect you, what it can’t fix.
Look for help when you need it and don’t feel shameful for asking such. You are human after all.
This! Skilful use of substances is the key. Understand why you take it, how it works in your body and what you can do to get closer to the desired state or effect without using.
That is also why I believe the differentiation between legal and illegal substances is not helpful, as it often leads to a more careless (ab)use of legal substances like alcohol.
How hard are we talking? Like you need some thc in your system to deal with life? Popping percs? Functioning crackhead? There are levels
Personally I like to have a little weed buzz when I’m going about my day
That’s almost acceptable these days, as long as you’re not operating heavy machinery, responsible for taking care of others, or using it to escape a problem that could and should be addressed. And also not wrecking your lungs.
That could be.
Also, are you relatively young? I think younger people tend to make more sweeping statements like this.
Enjoy :-)
it hit me while masturbating in the shower,
What hit u ?
The acid
What’re we hitting?
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Caffeine is a drug.
humans have a long history of enjoying intoxicants that goes back before we were humans.
cars ruined this.
but i think that getting intoxicated is fine, too. but i do have to stop regularly. i gave up on the thought of quitting, though. i prefer to think of it as stopping for months at a time with accepting the fact that society calls me a drug addict because society and i know that i will want to start again at some point.
well honestly it’s the creation of high attention / judgment tasks with high risk to human health and safety then making many of them either a part of daily life (driving) or making them jobs you have to do 8-12h straight 3-5 days a week (health, public safety, public transportation, etc). Train companies in particular are basically famous for making their conductors functionally unable to use sick hours, and medical residency is famous for 48h+ straight shifts. Personally I’m finding I have to do about 4-5x12h shifts (48-60h weeks) to stay solidly in the black, but me and hubs are considering how we want to cut back for a little more wiggle room. If we really valued human health and safety we’d keep those tasks much more specialized and make sure the people who do them have way more downtime to decompress but alas the capitalist wheel must keep turning.
I’ve been on an extended tolerance break from substances myself. In January I’ll have two years off alcohol and I’m August I’ll also have two years off THC (I used it to quit the alcohol but wound up with CHS). Supposedly at the two year mark a bunch of your neurochemistry has mostly reset itself so once I’ve done that AND have a sober-only hobby I think I’ll be safe to reapproach occasional drinking. And I’ll also know that I have the coping skills to take another tolerance break if I need to. I too find the self flagellation of addict culture to be both highly performative and ultimately counterproductive.
