No one plans to be or become an addict, I know it was said already but I think it needs to be said again. I know the substances I've used and consumed I always took because to me it was better than anything prescription wise would have done to me, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, mood inhibiting, etc.
Eventually you get so isolated from making these terrible decisions that the substance becomes a social connection for you, far easier to spend time with than actual people, once that occurs and it occurs with every addict (even those that spend time getting high with other addicts) you have a serious problem.
Its a cycle of either guilt, shame, and/or depression and than using to escape those feelings, than returning to those feelings again for using.
I understand the whole "no one sets out to be an addict" thing but I think the OP meant experimenting just one time, which is what I've wondered about as well. Everyone I ask makes it out to be impossible, but I think it's a different mentality that keeps people coming back to something. As you said depression and so on - it's a different brain chemistry that affects everyone differently. If someone is at a point of their life where they can't control their mind then I understand it'd be difficult to stop, but not everyone is the same, right? I could be over simplifying but I just don't understand how it's impossible to stop oneself from physically doing something just because their mind/physiology tells them to do it. Let's say if you were locked in a room or paralyzed or something, what force would magically get more drugs into you? Sorry if it seems a dumb question but I just don't understand the idea that trying hard drugs just once automatically turns everyone a hopeless addict.
IIN that I don't understand drug addiction?
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No one plans to be or become an addict, I know it was said already but I think it needs to be said again. I know the substances I've used and consumed I always took because to me it was better than anything prescription wise would have done to me, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, mood inhibiting, etc.
Eventually you get so isolated from making these terrible decisions that the substance becomes a social connection for you, far easier to spend time with than actual people, once that occurs and it occurs with every addict (even those that spend time getting high with other addicts) you have a serious problem.
Its a cycle of either guilt, shame, and/or depression and than using to escape those feelings, than returning to those feelings again for using.
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I understand the whole "no one sets out to be an addict" thing but I think the OP meant experimenting just one time, which is what I've wondered about as well. Everyone I ask makes it out to be impossible, but I think it's a different mentality that keeps people coming back to something. As you said depression and so on - it's a different brain chemistry that affects everyone differently. If someone is at a point of their life where they can't control their mind then I understand it'd be difficult to stop, but not everyone is the same, right? I could be over simplifying but I just don't understand how it's impossible to stop oneself from physically doing something just because their mind/physiology tells them to do it. Let's say if you were locked in a room or paralyzed or something, what force would magically get more drugs into you? Sorry if it seems a dumb question but I just don't understand the idea that trying hard drugs just once automatically turns everyone a hopeless addict.