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Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Professor Shark posted:

Good Luck Penny!

:glomp:

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Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Professor Shark posted:

Good Luck Penny!

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
you probably have AIDS

Aging Millenial
Nov 24, 2016

by zen death robot
Whenever I feel down I just curl up into a ball on my bed and listen to audiobooks about why the world/society/things etc are hosed up and it honest to god often ends up making me feel better you goons should try this instead of alcohol

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G
I live in Oregon but weed helps tremendously for me. I went from drinking daily to almost 0 cravings.

It's just substitution but it worked for me.

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Oscar Wild posted:

I live in Oregon but weed helps tremendously for me. I went from drinking daily to almost 0 cravings.

It's just substitution but it worked for me.

weed and klonopin go great together too

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

500 good dogs posted:

weed and klonopin go great together too
Please do NOT waste your high by taking benzos, this is a public service announcement

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Sintax posted:

Please do NOT waste your high by taking benzos, this is a public service announcement

no way man you can get crazy stupid high and not have to worry about paranoia, anxiety, etc.

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
hey

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

hi

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

dad gay. so what posted:

you probably have AIDS

AIDS isnt a joke, I have been led to beliece its a terrible and tragic disease

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

hth posted:

AIDS isnt a joke, I have been led to beliece its a terrible and tragic disease

mlyp

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007


Tough but fair

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Pennywise the Frown posted:

Day 1 down and am on day 2. I feel like poo poo and everything sucks.

Hang in there. If you have to, force yourself to eat. Soup was handy for me. Letting yourself get dehydrated and malnourished is not going to help anything.

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Hang in there. If you have to, force yourself to eat. Soup was handy for me. Letting yourself get dehydrated and malnourished is not going to help anything.

Yeah, force yourself to eat like you would if you were sick. Soups, Gatorade, etc.

How you doing buddy, day 2 is almost over!

polysynth
Dec 12, 2006

rock out

500 good dogs posted:

no way man you can get crazy stupid high and not have to worry about paranoia, anxiety, etc.

they should stop putting so much loving THC in the weed these days. I want high CBD strains for this reason

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

I've had high CBD pens and high CBD flowers, but it doesn't do anything for me, like I've got medical reasons to use weed (as in when I tell new doctors I smoke they nod understandingly) and CBD poo poo does nothing to help it.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
ive got a better idea: start adding benzos Into weed

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

thathonkey posted:

ive got a better idea: start adding benzos Into weed

I know I can handle opiates without ending up a junky, but holy poo poo benzos are terrifying (and awesome) even when you're coming off of them and feel terrible there's no regrets

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
i strongly believe benzos are the most dangerous drug and cause me to act like a completely reprehensible person.

also my favorite. i have bad anxiety and nothing else flips it completely off. I rarely do them i have to be extremely cautious and only get one dose or ill take them all and lose a week or two and probably almost die a few times

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

thathonkey posted:

i strongly believe benzos are the most dangerous drug and cause me to act like a completely reprehensible person.

also my favorite. i have bad anxiety and nothing else flips it completely off. I rarely do them i have to be extremely cautious and only get one dose or ill take them all and lose a week or two and probably almost die a few times

yeah when I had a bottle of klonopin I knew they weren't just going to give me another bottle right when I ran out, so i rationed them for more than a year. That worked well because I never really built up a tolerance. Also because the dose was big enough and my anxiety meant that I was terrified of dying if I took more than one, and as soon as I took one I was beyond happy enough to stop there.

something magical about a buzz like that lasting 2-3 days, too

polysynth
Dec 12, 2006

rock out
does weed set off your anxiety

only benzo I've been able to try is diazepam and it must be nothing compared to xanax/kpin because my anxiety was still pretty bad

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

polysynth posted:

does weed set off your anxiety

only benzo I've been able to try is diazepam and it must be nothing compared to xanax/kpin because my anxiety was still pretty bad

weed makes me dumber and makes thinking about anxiety poo poo all the time happen less, but if I start thinking about it like right now I can get locked in to thinking about it until something compelling distracts me (edit: like trying to finish a forum post). so for me it's like going from constant anxiety to only anxious 20% of the time but when I am it's double intensity.

also Ativan doesn't do much for me either, except with my normal fears. like I needed to fix something on the roof during a storm and I'm a baby when it comes to heights, so a random Ativan we had helped me not freak out climbing into the second story slanted roof to fix it.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
xanax alone does nothing for me


unless I also drink with it which the last (and only) time i did led to me doing doing 16 shots at a bar, convincing my ex-gf's best friend to drive me and a guy I just met who was friends with a mutual friend to his dealers place to buy yayo and then doing the yayo in the car and then going to get dropped off at a semi rival frat's house to crash their party.

but seriously every other time ive tried xanax I have not felt any difference and just wondered why people take them for fun.





I had a wise older brother from my fraternity later tell me "yeah the best way to describe drinking on xanny is you throw your wallet in the dumpster and then you wake up 12 hours later and all of your friends hate you and you dont know why" lol gently caress

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

polysynth posted:

does weed set off your anxiety

only benzo I've been able to try is diazepam and it must be nothing compared to xanax/kpin because my anxiety was still pretty bad

sometimes.

diazepam is much weaker than xanax and kpin (per mg) but it is one of the best benzos out there.

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

thathonkey posted:

sometimes.

diazepam is much weaker than xanax and kpin (per mg) but it is one of the best benzos out there.

Yeah, like with opiates there's basically a conversion chart for equivalent doses.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Oscar Wild posted:

I live in Oregon but weed helps tremendously for me. I went from drinking daily to almost 0 cravings.

It's just substitution but it worked for me.

I literally just got back from my friend's with some to help. I do have a problem with anxiety and weed though but the klonopin should help.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Hang in there. If you have to, force yourself to eat. Soup was handy for me. Letting yourself get dehydrated and malnourished is not going to help anything.

Thanks man. I had a doctor appt today so I quickly stopped on my way home to get something. I'm not hungry at all of course now and eating is going to be a big issue anyway. My therapist today even suggested I have one of those food delivery services to send at least one meal a day to make sure I get something. I drink probably over a gallon of water a day so I'm fine in that department and now that I'm actually taking my prescribed klonopin (I don't gently caress with drinking and that) I'm constantly thirsty so I should be fine in the hydration department.

500 good dogs posted:

Yeah, force yourself to eat like you would if you were sick. Soups, Gatorade, etc.

How you doing buddy, day 2 is almost over!

Thanks homie. I'm doing ok so far but I slept most of the day. It usually gets bad after I've been awake for a while. I'm getting the cold sweats though and they are really bad this time. I wake up, my clothes are soaked and I'm shivering like crazy. Then I'm hot after changing. :argh:. The 3rd day is usually the worst for me I think. Again though, the klonopin is helping since they literally use benzos to help people with withdrawals.

500 good dogs posted:

weed makes me dumber and makes thinking about anxiety poo poo all the time happen less, but if I start thinking about it like right now I can get locked in to thinking about it until something compelling distracts me (edit: like trying to finish a forum post). so for me it's like going from constant anxiety to only anxious 20% of the time but when I am it's double intensity.

also Ativan doesn't do much for me either, except with my normal fears. like I needed to fix something on the roof during a storm and I'm a baby when it comes to heights, so a random Ativan we had helped me not freak out climbing into the second story slanted roof to fix it.

I need to be doing something that engages my mind with weed too. Otherwise my mind will start racing and going into completely unnecessary places. The only time I've taken ativan is when I was in the hospital and they were worried about me detoxing.


You guys are all pretty cool in my book. I appreciate it.

King Possum III
Feb 15, 2016

PTF, do you have any hobbies you enjoy? Hobbies have been helpful for dealing with my severe depression, and provide a distraction when my moods and thoughts head into dangerously dark places. For this approach, anything that occupies the mind will work.

Anyway, it works for me. Good luck to you.

Hemingway To Go!
Nov 10, 2008

im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway

Nonviolent J posted:

How the gently caress do you do it, I'm trying to drink only on the weekend and its loving hard

Anxiety
Microwinky


frogge
Apr 7, 2006


It's overrated.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
I've never done drugs and it's eating away at me

I think I may be addicted to not doing drugs

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

King Possum III posted:

PTF, do you have any hobbies you enjoy? Hobbies have been helpful for dealing with my severe depression, and provide a distraction when my moods and thoughts head into dangerously dark places. For this approach, anything that occupies the mind will work.

Anyway, it works for me. Good luck to you.

Well I'm bipolar too so I jump from hobby to hobby all the time. But I haven't been doing anything lately. I found a box of rockets and models in my basement and might have a look at them.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Man I'm glad my only vices are beer and pornography, this drug talk sounds very unfun and life altering

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G

Professor Shark posted:

Man I'm glad my only vices are beer and pornography, this drug talk sounds very unfun and life altering

Sounds like someone isn't taking good care of their Christian Soul.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Oscar Wild posted:

Sounds like someone isn't taking good care of their Christian Soul.

...is it me?

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
What if you don't have a Christian soul? :ohdear:

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Pennywise the Frown posted:

What if you don't have a Christian soul? :ohdear:

They're pretty cheap to buy on AliExpress

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
I hope they have this in stock.

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

you still sober little buddy?

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SpaceClown
Feb 13, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
dont drink alchohol, its bad for you. its definitely no laughing matter, and im a clown so you know if im not laughing its totes serious.

*snorts 400 milligrams of amphetamines in the hopes that it will finally kill me*

STILL NOT DEAD BAy-BEE I aM AN ELePHANT :holy: BUT MY HEART IS GROWING WEAKER BY THE DAY

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