Posted by BarbaraCat on April 30, 2002, at 21:00:09
In reply to Re: LSD and Antidepressants.. » IsoM, posted by jay on April 30, 2002, at 17:35:49
Opium, now there's a sweet little high. Haven't done it for many years but I have fond memories of vivid technicolor 3-D dream states and such a nice warm feeling. Thought briefly of growing my own little poppy field even. But those days are just a memory since I can't even smoke pot anymore without feeling kinda wired and weird. Which brings me to the subject of this post.
With all the meds we take for our depression, anxiety, whatever, very few of them feel good in and of themselves. They just seem to dull our senses or bring to us to an emotional ground zero. Maybe that's intentional on the drug developer's part (or DEA's) - wouldn't want the masses to go feeling too good.
Since we as a species have always sought transcendence through herbal or chemical methods it stands to reason that we always will. It would be nice if there existed a substance that really took the edge off, felt very nice, was healthy for us, wasn't addictive and didn't cause a hangover. I think the closest is exercise, but sometimes a body just wants to sink back, take the load off and feel legally blissed out. Oh yes, there are the multitudes who would save our weak willed selves from wallowing in the stuff, but that's up to us ultimately. We pay the price for abuse and it's up to us to control it. All we really have that's legal is alcohol and that's a pretty pitful state of affairs. I enjoy the www.erowid.com site because it discusses all this intelligently.
In the meantime I dutifully take my handful of antidepressants, anti-anxiety, sleep aids, etc. For all that drug power you'd think there'd at least be a pleasant buzz to be had. I used to feel pretty good and learned alot of metaphysical lessons from my forays into the more cosmic drug panoply. But now all we readily have are the dulling meds that don't do a thing for 'feeding our heads'. So what's wrong with this picture?
BarbaraCat
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