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So carnal it's spiritual
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Thank you for posting this, I was looking for it because I knew I'd seen it before!!! I will outline my drugs of choice in my hayday, though I will once again repeat that in the last 8 years I have maybe had 2 sips of someone else's wine at most.. and for the 4 years before that, even, my drug use was extremely limited.Oh, and.
Folks keep posting this link, but here's the excerpt where it's convenient:
Type 1 The Reformer
Excessive use of diets, vitamins, and cleansing techniques (fasts, diet pills, enemas). Under-eating for self-control: in extreme cases anorexia and bulimia. Alcohol to relieve tension.
Type 2 The Helper
Abusing food and over-the-counter medications. Bingeing, especially on sweets and carbohydrates. Over-eating from feeling "love-starved;" in extreme cases bulimia. Hypochondria to look for sympathy.
Type 3 The Achiever
Over-stressing the body for recognition. Working out to exhaustion. Starvation diets. Workaholism. Excessive intake of coffee, stimulants, amphetamines, cocaine, steroids or excessive surgery for cosmetic improvement.
Type 4 The Individualist
Over-indulgence in rich foods, sweets, alcohol to alter mood, to socialize, and for emotional consolation. Lack of physical activity. Bulimia. Depressants. Tobacco, prescription drugs, or heroin for social anxiety. Cosmetic surgery to erase rejected features.
Type 5 The Investigator
Poor eating and sleeping habits due to minimizing needs. Neglecting hygiene and nutrition. Lack of physical activity. Psychotropic drugs for mental stimulation and escape, narcotics for anxiety.
Type 6 The Loyalist
Rigidity in diet causes nutritional imbalances ("I don't like vegetables.") Working excessively. Caffeine and amphetamines for stamina, but also alcohol and depressants to deaden anxiety. Higher susceptibility to alcoholism than many types.
Type 7 The Enthusiast
The type most prone to addictions: stimulants (caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamines), Ecstasy, psychotropics, narcotics, and alcohol but tend to avoid other depressants. Wear body out with effort to stay "up." Excessive cosmetic surgery, pain killers.
Type 8 The Challenger
Ignore physical needs and problems: avoid medical visits and check-ups. Indulging in rich foods, alcohol, tobacco while pushing self too hard leads to high stress, strokes, and heart conditions. Control issues central, although alcoholism and narcotic addictions are possible.
Type 9 The Peacemaker
Over-eating or under-eating due to lack of self-awareness and repressed anger. Lack of physical activity. Depressants and psychotropics, alcohol, marijuana, narcotics to deaden loneliness and anxiety.
The bolded is where I stood in my hayday; my tritype is 4-8-7.
I tried ecstasy & cocaine a few times and did not like them. Stimulants don't do it for me except coffee to get my mind going in the morning. I loved LSD the most and downers & opium were a close second. After I gave that stuff up, I started drinking alcohol for the first time when I was 23, but I was never interested in it before that, and haven't been since I was 25. I've also been a coffee lover my whole life - that's the one thing I still do. I did a lot of experimentation with under-eating, exercising and taking drugs & doing experiments on myself to try to gain control.
Anyway, point being, when a person is a drug user, traumatized, etc, I am not sure how closely this would apply. After losing my faculties & all of my dreams going down the drain because of a chronic illness, having been a singer all my life and then losing my voice at 16 through no fault of my own when I was on my way to broadway, and had worked so hard for it all my life.... .and having all my hair fall out, losing the ability to walk or think, etc... it would make sense that once I could walk again (but had lost my voice and career forever) I would go out of my way to try to get control. Being that my illness ruins my ability to sleep, it would make sense I'd be attracted to downers. As for LSD, it's in my blood... I wanted to do LSD ever since it was introduced to me in the Drug Awareness program in 4th grade, and I read a bunch of literature about it when I was about 11 or 12.
For reasons like this, I hesitate to relate someone's drug use to typology, though I am certain that my masochism contributed to the style in which I approached it. Ie, torturing myself for experimental reasons.