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[Se] Drug abuse and Se

Azseroffs

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Mj is a trip for me. I cannot stop thinking. I become uber focused on figuring things out. It's cool if I'm just chilling, but it's crippling if I'm trying to do something. I can't focus on anything outside of my head for a length of time.

psychedelics are pretty crazy, but I've only tried salvia which from what I hear is actually one of the strongest hallucinogens. After about 15 minutes of being in another dimension, I was wondering what the actual reality was for a bit.

edit: thought i'd mention I don't do any drugs anymore.. aside from an occasional mj session.
 

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To paraphrase what my drug-counselor psychotherapist with multiple degrees (who still goes to college to receive continuing education and stay up-to-date on his practices), with over 35 years experience counseling with addicts, says:

Addiction is a nameless faceless selfish disease. The ingredients to become an addict are essentially a bad childhood, and genetics. Sometimes only One is needed. People from all walks of life, all kinds of people of all different temperaments suffer from the disease.

So, I'm going to go with what he says. All personality types are likely to get involved with drugs.
 

alexx

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me too, an istj. i had to be the one to tell him to chill out.


Me too.

The only two SJ's (ISTJ) I know (that have taken the test several times) both had SERIOUS drug problems as well.
 

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Eh, that's not true. Neither is needed.

There are exceptions to every rule. Those guidelines are a rule of thumb.
And, a bad childhood can be as simple as neglect, so it's a broad category.
 

ajblaise

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There are exceptions to every rule. Those guidelines are a rule of thumb.
And, a bad childhood can be as simple as neglect, so it's a broad category.

I wouldn't even call it a rule of thumb. Most drug users I know had perfectly fine childhoods, and don't have parents that use.
 

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I can't relate the propensity to take drugs with specific personality types. I think every type experiments, and has the capacity for addiction.
IMHO
 

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My ISTP ex was a terrible drug addict.

Then again, I was slapping booze and pills away from several ENTPs I knew/know.

*shrugs*
 

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+ you naked on the carburetor and you can count me in :)
 
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Personally, I would have to say this applies to me in a way. Although, abuse is the wrong word because it implies that I misused those substances.

I love to indulge in sensory experiences. Those experiences on psychedelics are out of this world, like a dream. Perceptions are so incredibly altered things no longer seem real as I knew them before, but I know they're real because I can interact with them in the here-and-now with my senses. It provides an opportunity for me to learn again about things I always thought I "knew". Like temporarily having the mind of a child, and discovering something for the first time. It's not a feeling I can recall from the past, but it's something I can observe in a young child when they're exposed to something completely new.

In my opinion, there's certainly a reason entheogens have been used for thousands of years.

I enjoy these experiences the most either by myself, or with a few VERY close friends.

Things like opiates, barbiturates, and stimulants do not appeal to me as they do nothing for altering or intensifying sensory perceptions. Instead, they just make me feel nothing at all. Those are the physiologically dangerous substances anyway.

Well, it's clear that you enjoy the sensory experiences brought about by psychedelics. However, is it really worth the risk of getting caught with that stuff? I mean, it could wreck your life if that happened... jail wouldn't be fun. :sad:
 
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