{"id":25,"date":"2002-04-04T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-04T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=25"},"modified":"2002-04-04T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-04T18:29:00","slug":"drugs-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Drugs and Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a topic that’s come up on a couple of journal’s of late. In a discussion of standards for boyfriends on virtualexile<\/a>‘s journal, someone else said they would never associate with anyone who did drugs, and kidkero<\/a> just posted an intense, in depth, blow by blow of his first, and perhaps last, circuit party weekend. It’s brought up alot of thoughts, and I’m going to ramble on this for a bit.
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\nAs a doctor’s kid, I grew up around chemicals that mess with your physiology. Most of them were intended to cure you of what ails you, and thus make you happier. The drugs that skip, or at least try to skip, the middle step are the ones that disturb me. <\/p>\n

I’m all for letting people damage themselves in whatever way they see fit. If someone really and truly wanted to commit suicide, I would try to talk them out of it, but I don’t know whether or not I could bring myself to do more. Fortunately, it’s not something that’s come up very often in my life. So, I’m not about to make a blanket statement that other people shouldn’t do drugs. That’s their decision, and, on a case by case basis, I will provide my input, where welcome. <\/p>\n

It’s not for me to decide whether someone gets more out of their high than they pay for later. And yet when it comes to me, I (usually) opt to avoid mind altering substances. Aspirin makes me uncomfortable. Let alone prozac, let alone, etc. Now, I’m sure as hell not going under the knife without anaesthetic, so clearly this has some tighter boundary than “anything which mucks with my state of consciousness”. <\/p>\n

A category of drugs that really bothers me is antidepressants. I’ve seen some of the wonders it works, but at the same time to think that emotion is so easily and directly manipulated disturbs me. So someone with a depressive personality has a disease, and I can and have seen it. But it still squicks me out.<\/p>\n

Ecstasy was originally an anti-depressant. It plays with your seratonin levels, and gives you happiness for a little while. Where’s the dividing line? Ignoring the question of legality, what separates “good” drugs from “bad” drugs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a topic that’s come up on a couple of journal’s of late. In a discussion of standards for boyfriends on virtualexile‘s journal, someone else said they would never associate with anyone who did drugs, and kidkero just posted an intense, in depth, blow by blow of his first, and perhaps last, circuit party weekend. … Continue reading “Drugs and Happiness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,14],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commentary","tag-navelgazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}