Re:Origins of the myth of dopamine as the ‘pleasure chemical’
by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday April 15, 2018 @05:42AM
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I used and abused meth-amphetamine for the better part of a decade.
Five years clean and I’ll say the same thing with regard to lifting and running and doing strenuous short (<5hr) hikes.
I’ve also sound Vitamin D and magnesium aminoacid chelate to be beneficial.
But, I want to add: given what I’ve read here, and heard elsewhere, from people who never used drugs: it would seem my experience of life with regard to lacking energy and motivation, and a history of depression and suicidal ideation, isn’t too dissimilar to the non-drug users experience. So I’m not sure how much weight to place on the drugs as a cause or a misguided attempt to self-mediate. Probably both. I don’t think the drugs help anyway.
Five years clean and I’ll say the same thing with regard to lifting and running and doing strenuous short (<5hr) hikes.
I’ve also sound Vitamin D and magnesium aminoacid chelate to be beneficial.
But, I want to add: given what I’ve read here, and heard elsewhere, from people who never used drugs: it would seem my experience of life with regard to lacking energy and motivation, and a history of depression and suicidal ideation, isn’t too dissimilar to the non-drug users experience. So I’m not sure how much weight to place on the drugs as a cause or a misguided attempt to self-mediate. Probably both. I don’t think the drugs help anyway.