i used to take drugs to feel high/euphoric/crazy/etc.; now i take drugs to feel normal

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― lurkernomore, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

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― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.unf.edu/classes/freshmancore/coreabroad/pictures/Greece/discus.jpg

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://wings.avkids.com/Book/Sports/Images/discus_02.gif

shit. it's never a successful snarky spelling post when you link incorrectly.

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

but anyway, are these the same drugs as in the past?

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

"In the 60s when everything was normal, people took acid to make it weird. Now, everything is weird, so people take prozac to make it normal again."

(No idea who that quote is by but it sticks in the mind.)

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

no, different drugs, i meant drugs in general. yr typical late teens/early 20s experimentation phase in the first case, vs. now, when anti anxiety meds are a godsend because they make me feel absolutely normal (yes, i know, "normal"), ie, precisely the mental state i was trying to escape in the 1st case.

xpost: yes, that says it more succinctly...

― lurkernomore, Monday, 28 November 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

In the 60s when everything was normal

Said by someone who either wasn't there or wasn't paying attention.

The 60s was The Decade of Political Assassinations and Riots. John Kennedy, Medgar Evers, dozens of civil rights workers, ML King Jr, Robert Kennedy. By the time George Wallace copped one it seemed like old hat. I can't even begin to name all the riots. Plus, the endless wonders of the Vietnam War, 500,000 troops in 1968, the draft.

Yup, the 60s were SNAFU all right.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

But if you always feel high/euphoric/crazy/etc, then that has become your normal state. Hence taking drugs to make you stop feeling this way is still making you feel abnormal.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

i no longer feel high/euphoric/etc, as i no logner take drugs for that reason. i was just noting teh ironing. maybe the first round of drugs brought about the anxiety & depression that now call for the second round of drugs. probably, it's a bit more complicated than that. whatever.

― nomorelurkers, Monday, 28 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

You are learning Hard Life Lesson #1: Nancy Reagan was right.

― Frogm@n Henry, Monday, 28 November 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

You are learning Hard Life Lesson #1: Nancy Reagan was right wing.

― Boom Bye Bye (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

this thread went downhill after the discus thrower. i am including this post in that assessment. we need to stop phoning it in, people.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

This was a good thing to see when I couldn't get to sleep because I wasn't high.

― Mattattack (matt attack), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

When you're a kid, everything is strange.

When you're young, everything seems to be normal, so drugs make it as strange again.

When you're older, supposedly wiser, you realise you don't know even the half of it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

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