ecstasy addiction?

i have used ecstasy a good amount of times, and recently started taking it every week. i stopped recently because of heart problems. im just planning to take a month break to let my heart recover. not having used the drug for a few weeks now, i have noticed that in general i feel alot happier compared to the previous few months of weekly use, but at the same time i sometimes feel a intense and overwhelming urge to use X. this month break is proving very difficult for me! is it possible i am addicted to X? some of my friends have suggested this after witnessing my behavior, but i hear it is impossible to become addicted to MDMA

 

Some people go through a 'honeymoon' phase with Ecstasy where they use it quite often. For many it seems this phase wears off within a year or so as many lose the 'magic.' There are rare cases of Ecstasy addiction but maybe more often people seem to 'graduate' to other drugs, harder drugs that are more reinforcing like crystal meth or drugs that induce stronger psychedelia like LSD.

If you're experience a change in your emotions, like randomly crying or down or something a few.days after rolling than that's more a sign of you're serotonin system being altered rather than addiction but if you feel a need to take ecstasy than you should probably try and stop.

 

Theres nothing wrong with a good cry after sucking all your friends off while high on Ecstasy , assuming you wasnt gay in the first place.. :leaving:

 

thanks guerilla, its probably just the "honeymoon" phase your talking about, although the idea that ecstasy will ever be less fun seems unrealistic right now. it seems like all i think about is using this drug, its so much fun and im normally not very happy or social so it really solves alot of my problems. stilltho i wish i could get it out of my brain sometimes, after all whats the point in thinking about drugs when your not even in a situation where you could take some? lol orison, ive never gotten fucked up enough to do something like that! are u talking from personal experience?

 

if your not normally happy and social, it wouldnt be very good if this stuff messed with ur seretonin. Space it out between rolls.

 

rollinstoned, thanks for the advice. also, how did u get that picture fromthe big lebowski to be in your posts??? i love that movie!

 

If you keep up your pace, it will self regulate. You will not get any effects no matter how much you take. Less is more with this stuff.


Don't believe me? you will find out soon enough. I know it's tough because there is always a show coming up or something.

 

I think you go to user CP, than edit link. or go to edit profile than edit links. Just find a picture you want and copy and paste the url to the edit link section

 

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Heavy use of X, with addiction or not, can be VERY heavy on your body. In all sorts of ways. My advice would be to quit for 6 months. Get to the point where your not even thinking about it it before you take it again.

 

wow thanks your all very helpful. unfocuseddanakin, youre definetly right, often i say "ill stop after this time" and then next week theres a party or a concert and then i just take it again! its okay tho, its so fun that i dont really mind.i definatly have noticed negative effects, like heart attacks, depression, etc. but i def dont want to stop that long, i plan to end my break from the drug this weekend. thanks again for all your help!

 

wait where do i find "edit signature"? i dont see it in user cp

 

its under 'quick links'
my bad

 

ok thanks! lol i dont get this site at all

 

my friend takes a LOT of ecstasy... like for example I saw him on Tuesday. He had rolled two nights ago, was planning on rolling that night, and then when I talked to him two days later he was rolling that night too. Like based on how much he talks about it, and how much molly he can go through, it seems like he rolls about 3-4 times a week. its fucking crazy.

 

it's hard to say for some heavy users is it addiction or they are just plain stupid. but sure, there are hc abusers of MDMA. like with ganja, you ain't really adictied even if you are hc stoner but than again using MDMA aint nearly as safe.

I wasn't even using MDMA offten, rather used it in very high doses on what I considerd rare ocasions and months and months were needed to get back nice efects and avoid heavy hangover. Before that I was using it in moderate doses still not often and started loosing "magic" anyway. Now I think everey few months, moderate dose and not redosing many times is best way to go with MDMA.
But more pleasant effects are also conected with general health and mental state when you take it.

 

ive noticed with my friend that does it a lot, he is just extremely spacey, and doesnt seem to talk about much else other than doing drugs (mainly E)
like i could barely hold a conversation with him last time I saw him... he probably forgot what he was saying in mid sentence like 20+ times in the hour or so I saw him for.

I mean I've only done it once, so I dont have much of anything to say about the drug itself, but it took me a few days to feel like I could function normally again, and I had a great time but Im definitely not about to do it again for at least a few weeks... I feel like my mind needs to recover a bit... way more so than doing hallucinogens, in my experience. I just can't imagine rolling like 2 days in a row or 3 times in one week.

 

Does your friend smoke a lot of weed as well?

When I used to smoke weed and roll often I noticed I was really spacey and had memory problems. However I still roll on Ecstasy and similar drugs now and rarely use weed these days and noticed I'm much more sharp compared to then, I should note that I'm not a weekly Ecstasy user or anything like that tho. Also Ecstasy is often used at raves and all night parties and sleep deprivation is not good for memory and cognition.

Anyways I initially attributed memory problems to Ecstasy when I was smoking weed with it but since then I'm thinking that perhaps Ecstasy has a role in memory function that may have exacerbated the memory impairment effects of weed rather than causing it's own significant memory impairment.

Yah the emotional crash and physical drain can be brutal.

 

yea i have definetely gotten more spacey with weekly X use and daily weed smoking, i often will lose my train of thought mid sentence. i also find my self talking about drugs alot with my friends, whether or not they give a fuck about what im saying, most of them dont do drugs as much as i do and dont care about them as much. but, what are you gonna do!

 

Extacy is probably fucked my brain more than any other subtance. One summer of using it almost every weekend turned my inner visual spectrum from beauty to chaos. Its probably better if you got away from it.

But once and awhile is fine. Your brain does go back to normal. Id just not use it every weekend.

 

yea thats what i did too,the summer that just took it i took X every weeked and i think it kind of fucked me up