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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: outoftime20 on September 12, 2012, 08:31 am
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Well maybe my depression is linked to my drug use? Do painkillers mess up your ability o be happy or sad.
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Well naturally if you're withdrawaling or suffering PAWS from opiates you're going to be depressed...it takes a few months to get out of it sometimes. Any time I have gotten off heroin and gone through the physical aspect, the mental part/depression takes a few months to subside.
Also, when you're using opiates it really throws you're normal "thinking" off balance. I IVed daily and sometimes would go through horrible depression because of stress in my life and even though I was getting euphoria from opiates it was also making my depression worse.
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I've always taken the view what goes up must come down when taking drugs. It's great to be high but there's going to be a price to pay. When I come off opiates I get really emotional for the first week or so, cry easily thinking about things I've fucked up with, mistakes I've made, etc. I just dig in and wait for it to pass. I wouldn't say being on heroin makes me depressed, if someone gave me a lifetime supply I think I could function pretty well and not really be affected mentally but different strokes for different folks. It's what a habit does to life that makes me depressed, rather than the habit itself, if that makes any sense.
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I don't have time to go in to a bunch of details but when I was taking 300-400 mg's of oxy a day along with daily heroin use for 4 years I had horrible anxiety and depression for 2-3 years after I quit. This is just my experience with it but I was never like that untill I quit. Much better these days, though.
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Uh, yah heroin use causes major depression especially if you are a heavy long term user. I don't think my brain has ever recovered from my years of heroin addiction. I don't feel like things excite me or affect me in the same way anymore and this is after being off heroin for a long time and even when I was drug free for a year I still didn't ever feel like I did before heroin use. While heavily addicted I wished I would OD and do huge amounts of dope hoping I would not wake up out of a nod. I was miserable....