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AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014
From the ages of 24-26 I was a hardcore, half a gram a day meth addict. I've been clean for about 6 months now. I still have all my teeth.

Towards the end of the wild ride, I was borderline schizophrenic. I honestly believed in reptilians who ruled the world.

Ask away!

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The Undertoad
Feb 13, 2012

AllPraiseToAllah posted:

From the ages of 24-26 I was a hardcore, half a gram a day meth addict. I've been clean for about 6 months now. I still have all my teeth.

Towards the end of the wild ride, I was borderline schizophrenic. I honestly believed in reptilians who ruled the world.

Ask away!

I'm interested in hearing about your transition from recreational use to becoming a hardcore addict. Roughly how long did it take to creep up on you? Also, how did it impact your personal and work relationships?

Number Two Stunna
Nov 8, 2009

FUCK
What did you do while you were high?

Felix_Cat
Sep 15, 2008
What sort of quantities did you typically buy in and how much did it cost? And what general part of the world were you in? How did you fund your habit?

Trench_Rat
Sep 19, 2006
Doing my duty for king and coutry since 86
how many sores/scabs do you have on your head

Serrath
Mar 17, 2005

I have nothing of value to contribute
Ham Wrangler
I'm interested to know where your beliefs about reptiles came from. Some people who have delusions like that have no idea where they came from but others can trace the thought along a succession of previous thoughts that lead to the belief. Do you know where your belief came from?

eternalname
Nov 25, 2014

I have a strange feeling...that people are having sex...and it's not with me
Did it cause lasting psychological damage or are you back to normal?

Kidswhoneedjobs
Jan 16, 2013

Felix_Cat posted:

What sort of quantities did you typically buy in and how much did it cost? And what general part of the world were you in? How did you fund your habit?

I recommend not answering the cost question as the drug section has a no price discussion rule and that probably sorta blends to over here too.

Were you aware of how your thought pattern changed or was it too subtle to notice? What view point has changed the most as result of your former use? I assume how society looks down on addicts etc but would be interesting to hear none the less.

MY INEVITABLE DEBT
Apr 21, 2011
I am lonely and spend most of my time on 4Chan talking about the superiority of BBC porn.

Kidswhoneedjobs posted:

I recommend not answering the cost question as the drug section has a no price discussion rule and that probably sorta blends to over here too.

Were you aware of how your thought pattern changed or was it too subtle to notice? What view point has changed the most as result of your former use? I assume how society looks down on addicts etc but would be interesting to hear none the less.

TCC has a no price discussion rule because of all the dickwaving about how cheap/expensive their drugs were not because it's against the law or some dumb poo poo

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

The Undertoad posted:

I'm interested in hearing about your transition from recreational use to becoming a hardcore addict. Roughly how long did it take to creep up on you? Also, how did it impact your personal and work relationships?

I was in college and was prescribed adderall. As a child I was diagnosed with ADHD. I was in engineering courses, so the demand got more and more, and I started taking more and more pills. Eventually I started running low at the ends of the month, so I had to figure something out.

The first time I smoked meth, I was hooked. It was like adderall, just more powerful, and instant. No waiting around for the pill to kick in.

Opposite
Mar 31, 2009

Wait...what?

AllPraiseToAllah posted:

I was in college and was prescribed adderall. As a child I was diagnosed with ADHD. I was in engineering courses, so the demand got more and more, and I started taking more and more pills. Eventually I started running low at the ends of the month, so I had to figure something out.

The first time I smoked meth, I was hooked. It was like adderall, just more powerful, and instant. No waiting around for the pill to kick in.

You mean it helped you concentrate and feel more "sharp"?

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Number Two Stunna posted:

What did you do while you were high?

Research about the Illuminati/ trying to make connections with everyone I knew to said secret organization that was out to get me.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Opposite posted:

You mean it helped you concentrate and feel more "sharp"?

Right. It was the boost I always needed to get by in life.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Trench_Rat posted:

how many sores/scabs do you have on your head

None, I've never been a picker.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Kidswhoneedjobs posted:

I recommend not answering the cost question as the drug section has a no price discussion rule and that probably sorta blends to over here too.

Were you aware of how your thought pattern changed or was it too subtle to notice? What view point has changed the most as result of your former use? I assume how society looks down on addicts etc but would be interesting to hear none the less.

Was I aware I was going crazy? No. I thought the meth had "woken" me up. I thought it made me smarter than everyone else. I thought everyone else were just sheeple who were to busy sleeping to notice all the ILLUMINATI REPTILIANS everywhere.

It drastically changed my belief in how the world really works, and not in a good way. Even to this day i'm still unsure about rather we, the american people, are really told the truth, or just fed a bullshit story.

AllPraiseToAllah fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Dec 15, 2014

eternalname
Nov 25, 2014

I have a strange feeling...that people are having sex...and it's not with me

Serrath posted:

I'm interested to know where your beliefs about reptiles came from. Some people who have delusions like that have no idea where they came from but others can trace the thought along a succession of previous thoughts that lead to the belief. Do you know where your belief came from?

Ive had paranoid delusions that were sort of traceable to reality before but still didn't really make sense. But sometimes with enough time awake and enough stimulants in your body you can enter this acute psychosis where you are having full on hallucinations of sights and sounds that do not exist. So either is possible.

It is interesting though that some of these more bizzare delusions (lizard people, microchips in your teeth)seem to be common among people

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

eternalname posted:

Did it cause lasting psychological damage or are you back to normal?

I use to accuse my girlfriend of knowing the "cipher" that the "agents" really communicated in. I don't think she actually knows anything now.

I think if anything, all it really did was force me to be skeptical of everything I hear on the news. I was schizo for so long, it's not like your brain stops thinking the things it was thinking for a entire two years.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Serrath posted:

I'm interested to know where your beliefs about reptiles came from. Some people who have delusions like that have no idea where they came from but others can trace the thought along a succession of previous thoughts that lead to the belief. Do you know where your belief came from?

This site fueled a lot of my conspires theories.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_29.htm

And reading David Ickes forums didn't help either.

I never actually saw any reptile people, or shadow people. Never, not even once. It was more the "idea" that reptiles existed.

Dravinski
May 5, 2013

How did you support such a lifestyle? Did you ever find yourself in desperate situations, or did you ever do something untoward to facilitate your addiction?

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Dravinski posted:

How did you support such a lifestyle? Did you ever find yourself in desperate situations, or did you ever do something untoward to facilitate your addiction?

I'd rather not say how I funded said addiction. It was not man whoring or anything like that. I never stole. Never screwed over any family.

Meeting a tranny at 3am in the morning at a dirty hotel in the ghetto to buy drugs, is about as low as I ever sunk.

Rap Music and Dope
Dec 25, 2010
For some reason Euros really suck to
In regards to the feeling or the high what's the difference between Meth and prescription amphetamines?

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004
What was the longest you ever stayed awake? What was it like?

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Rap Music and Dope posted:

In regards to the feeling or the high what's the difference between Meth and prescription amphetamines?

Meth last longer, feels better, and comes on quicker.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

ashgromnies posted:

What was the longest you ever stayed awake? What was it like?

3 days? I've never been able to stay awake longer than that. I've hit the pipe, then immediately fallen asleep, dropping said pipe on tile, and breaking it.

On day 3, you defiantly don't feel as sharp as day 1.

Rap Music and Dope
Dec 25, 2010
For some reason Euros really suck to
When users talk about being awake 4-5 days sometimes even a week, is that true? Or do you more think it's just them having no recollection(how could you?) and maybe there days were sprinkled with 1-2 hour naps.

Like can you really be awake for 5 days in a row?

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Rap Music and Dope posted:

When users talk about being awake 4-5 days sometimes even a week, is that true? Or do you more think it's just them having no recollection(how could you?) and maybe there days were sprinkled with 1-2 hour naps.

Like can you really be awake for 5 days in a row?

I seriously doubt it.

Like I said before, on day 3, I've been so tired that I took a hit, put the pipe down, blew the hit out, and fell asleep. After a certain point, it don't matter how much meth you smoke, you're going to fall asleep.

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004
Have you experimented with other drugs? Did people in your life know about your addiction? How did it affect them/your relationships?

Pivotal Lever
Sep 9, 2003

Did you ever get into IVing? Did you get sober on your own or by going to a treatment program? Did you gain a lot of weight once you stopped using?

Scald
May 5, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 26 years!

Rap Music and Dope posted:

When users talk about being awake 4-5 days sometimes even a week, is that true? Or do you more think it's just them having no recollection(how could you?) and maybe there days were sprinkled with 1-2 hour naps.

Like can you really be awake for 5 days in a row?

Just to chime in that you can do it, 3 days is relatively easy but it gets sketchy after that. Day 4+ is when you start to have microsleeps, might come to from thinking you were partying with the shadow people to realize you're alone in a silent apartment.

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Scald posted:

Just to chime in that you can do it, 3 days is relatively easy but it gets sketchy after that. Day 4+ is when you start to have microsleeps, might come to from thinking you were partying with the shadow people to realize you're alone in a silent apartment.

This is the first thing I have ever heard or read that makes me feel like maybe meth is cool and a good idea to do.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

ashgromnies posted:

Have you experimented with other drugs? Did people in your life know about your addiction? How did it affect them/your relationships?

I've done a few others. Only my girlfriend knew

Stay Safe
Sep 1, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

AllPraiseToAllah posted:

Was I aware I was going crazy? No. I thought the meth had "woken" me up. I thought it made me smarter than everyone else. I thought everyone else were just sheeple who were to busy sleeping to notice all the ILLUMINATI REPTILIANS everywhere.

It drastically changed my belief in how the world really works, and not in a good way. Even to this day i'm still unsure about rather we, the american people, are really told the truth, or just fed a bullshit story.

PM me if you want to know the truth.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


Nathilus posted:

This is the first thing I have ever heard or read that makes me feel like maybe meth is cool and a good idea to do.

You don't need meth to start microsleeping and having hallucinations. Adrafinil and caffeine are both legal.

AllPraiseToAllah posted:

I've done a few others. Only my girlfriend knew

Did/does your girlfriend use? Are you still with her?

durk onion
Oct 25, 2010
How'd you do in your classes? What about other "real-life" commitments, like did your job performance suffer?

turbomoose
Nov 29, 2008
Playing the banjo can be a relaxing activity and create lifelong friendships!
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:backtowork:
What made you want to come clean? How hard was it? Did you do any program or just cold turkey?

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

Pivotal Lever posted:

Did you ever get into IVing? Did you get sober on your own or by going to a treatment program? Did you gain a lot of weight once you stopped using?

That's a thick line between smoking meth, and shooting meth.

most people man whoring, stealing, being scum bags, are generally those types who are shooting up.

No, I never did. Thank god.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

KillHour posted:

You don't need meth to start microsleeping and having hallucinations. Adrafinil and caffeine are both legal.


Did/does your girlfriend use? Are you still with her?

Girlfriend never used. She put up with my meth addiction for 2 years. Been together 6. so now i'm working on paying that back by getting my cdl and bringing in some money so she can relax and not have a poo poo life. You know, be normal. She deserves it. Poor girl.

AllPraiseToAllah fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Dec 17, 2014

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

durk onion posted:

How'd you do in your classes? What about other "real-life" commitments, like did your job performance suffer?

I went from C's to A's. Brought my GPA up to about a 3.8. I excelled at everything. Eventually the paranoia got to me, because I reasoned college was a waste of time, and dropped out, or something. I wouldn't have been able to actually do any of the math in engineering school, without meth.

That being said, stay away from it.

AllPraiseToAllah
Oct 30, 2014

turbomoose posted:

What made you want to come clean? How hard was it? Did you do any program or just cold turkey?

Ate mushrooms. Realized that I was a selfish, piece of poo poo drug addict who was dragging the person I loved down a hole she didn't deserve. It made me see that I COULD'NT lead a normal life and do meth. Everyone I knew who did meth was a piece of poo poo who was robbing/stealing to get another fix. I knew no one successful who was also doing meth. Mushrooms also made me realize I had become a schizophrenic piece of poo poo who babbled on about conspiracy bullshit which I couldn't control rather true or false.

The experience also humbled me, and made me realize not everyone is special and needs to become a engineer or scientist. The world needs average people, and there is nothing wrong with being one of those people.

If I hadn't of eaten those mushrooms, i'd probably still be doing meth.


I flushed the bag I had, slept about 16 hours a day for 3 months, and realized I needed to do something that would make this world a better place. I want to die a good person, who left this world a better place, not a drug addict who took as much as he good and never gave back.

AllPraiseToAllah fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Dec 17, 2014

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Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
Good on you for waking up in the only way that really matters and deciding to turn your life around. Especially for realizing all that before you'd burned every bridge and destroyed everything.

Out of curiosity, what brings you pleasure now? Have you picked up any hobbies or started volunteering?

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