Do you think drugs and alcohol helps?

[eternalmelancholy]

Sometimes it is really hard just to get through a single day. I know people use drugs and alcohol to escape. How common do you think it is for people to self medicate against depression? Do you think it helps or hurts?

 

[souljah222]

well it depends on many factors, the drug youre using, the frequency and also how it affects your day to day life and social connections. i mostly use weed and its kinda hard to deny that im somewhat addicted, but it really helps me to get through the days and i dont feel like the negative effects make huge impact on my life. this can be very different for other people. nobody can deny that drugs of all sorts have positive effects, otherwise people wouldnt use them so much. i would just say be careful, a drug addiction can definitely make your life much worse than it is now but taking something once in a while can give you good experiences and maybe even another point of view to look at things. just stay safe my friend and feel free to message me if you need someone to talk to

 

[Snake of Eden]

Not forever not for always

 

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Sometimes it is really hard just to get through a single day. I know people use drugs and alcohol to escape. How common do you think it is for people to self medicate against depression? Do you think it helps or hurts?

I think it's like duct tape. It's ok for a short while, then it builds up and gets worst and ur in a worse position than u started.

Drinking is prob a slippery slope and I don't recommend doing drugs.
Sending hugs my dude!!

 

[motel rooms]

i mostly use weed and its kinda hard to deny that im somewhat addicted, but it really helps me to get through the days and i dont feel like the negative effects make huge impact on my life.

Giving pot a shot is the least bad idea, I guess

 

[Dreamlike Reality]

I think it's like duct tape. It's ok for a short while, then it builds up and gets worst and ur in a worse position than u started.

Drinking is prob a slippery slope and I don't recommend doing drugs.
Sending hugs my dude!!

This is true... I began drinking my sophomore year of high school and I haven't been able to stop, I've gotten too used to having it as a cushion that I can't get by without being drunk or at the very least "under the influence" the majority of the time I'm awake. It's a slippery slope indeed. Only touched drugs once, had an edible and combined with the alcohol I just had a horrible time. In moderation, it can help to ease the pain . . . But like most everything else, too much can get you hooked in the worst way.

 

[Deleted member 10090]

Self-medicating short term can help, in the long run though, i'd say it's detrimental and very well can make your situation worse.

 

[eternalmelancholy]

well it depends on many factors, the drug youre using, the frequency and also how it affects your day to day life and social connections. i mostly use weed and its kinda hard to deny that im somewhat addicted, but it really helps me to get through the days and i dont feel like the negative effects make huge impact on my life.

I occasionally eat edibles and drink alcohol. In the moment it feels nice to be numb to everything. But afterwards I am not sure if that actually helped. So far it has been harmless but I plan on ctb very soon anyway.

I think it's like duct tape. It's ok for a short while, then it builds up and gets worst and ur in a worse position than u started.

Drinking is prob a slippery slope and I don't recommend doing drugs.
Sending hugs my dude!!

That's a good analogy. I just wanted to know what people's experiences with it were.

This is true... I began drinking my sophomore year of high school and I haven't been able to stop, I've gotten too used to having it as a cushion that I can't get by without being drunk or at the very least "under the influence" the majority of the time I'm awake. It's a slippery slope indeed. Only touched drugs once, had an edible and combined with the alcohol I just had a horrible time. In moderation, it can help to ease the pain . . . But like most everything else, too much can get you hooked in the worst way.

Man that sounds rough. I guess the trick is to find the right balance but it sounds pretty hard. So far I think my complete apathy is the only reason why I am not getting wasted everyday. I am simply too tired to even get drunk and I am not sure if it even helps.

Self-medicating short term can help, in the long run though, i'd say it's detrimental and very well can make your situation worse.

I think it used to help but it these days it does very little for me. I think my depression is coming to the point where even drugs and alcohol cannot help me cope with living.

 

[BornBrief]

The times I'm not drinking I am the happiest. Then I fall back and everything feels hopeless. Alcohol is absolute poison and a slow painful death.

 

[intheweeds]

Alcohol isn't good for much of anything at all. Physically or mentally.
Ive found some comfort and relief in using marijuana edibles and benzodiazepines a couple times a week.

As with most things it's all about moderation, and using these a few times a week at least gives me SOMETHING to look forward to.

 

[Quiet Desperation]

If you have an addictive personality like me, don't do it.

 

[Grumpy Bear]

It helps until it doesn't and your life unravels.

 

[lex]

Not really any more than all the other coping mechanisms from my experience

 

[charlottewilts]

out of all the drugs i tried, only H never gets boring. as long as you have the money to support a massive habit or do a tolerance break every now and then.

i try not to drink more than a few days in a row, gets you deeply depressed. weed never did much for me, maybe making things a little bit funnier or getting sleepy. speed binges make you psychotic, same with cocaine but worse and more expensive. and i don't fuck with psychedelics, not even shrooms, because i know they'd throw me off the deep end.

i really feel for the people who got addicted to opiates through big pharma. they chew you up and leave you a soulless husk. i've been like that since 12, so it doesn't matter for me personally, but if you have anything left to live for, don't do opiates. You'll end up doing H eventually. And very few come back from that.

 

[Sleepdrifter]

NO. Drugs and alcohol do NOT help. They bring a temporary relieve which may be necessary in a one off emergency but they have the potential to become more important than living itself. You live in a false reality and the real world still knocks sometimes. Anyone can fall into these things so it is not a judge of character. But living in a bottle is beyond horrible. I have been trying to get sober all year and have finally pinned down a month, and plan to be sober going forward. Becoming a drunk was an extremely unfortunate and destructive thing. I don't understand fully how it even happened. And quitting is not easy especially when you have genuinely little to nothing to live for anyway.

 

[eternalmelancholy]

out of all the drugs i tried, only H never gets boring. as long as you have the money to support a massive habit or do a tolerance break every now and then.

I know it is not the same but I got prescribed pain meds in the past post surgery. It really was the only thing that made me okay with life if that makes sense. Nothing else compared. I am sure H is even better. I am clueless about stuff like this so I just drink alcohol or go to a dispensary for edibles (don't like smoking). But it is definitely not the same. Probably the reason why I never got addicted since it barely takes the edge off.

 

[nameeater]

i used to smoke a lot of weed but it honestly never helped me not even slightly

 

[Insomniac]

In my experience, they take my will to crb away. I tried mixing bunch of benzo once with wine and I ended up feeling so good that I didn't want to ctb. It backfires.

 

[thefoodispoison]

Depression and anxiety are really common hangover symptoms that people don't know or talk about. I never vomited from hangovers, and rarely had a headache, but the next day I always always always hated myself more than I usually do.

Also, when you are drunk people can and will harm you. I had enough trauma as it is before experiencing two instances of assault when I was blackout drunk.