Posted by katekite on June 9, 2002, at 20:15:20
In reply to Re: Antidepressants + MDMA?, posted by oracle on June 9, 2002, at 15:47:42
I'm not really against the use of X. Just very cautious. I think anyone should get to use whatever they wish in their own body!
Long term repeated X users do report more subsequent depression than other people. Obviously its hard to know why they used X in the first place: if they had subclinical depression to begin with that would account for the finding entirely. It's hard to experiment on humans once the drug's been classified the way it has.
It seems unlike pot and alcohol and stimulants, X hasn't been around long enough to know very well what the long term effects might or might not be: what do people who are 70 who've done it once a month feel like? It's relatively new and that is never a plus.
There are many well known drugs where different species of animals respond to a much different dose. For example, one pill of tylenol will kill a cat, but an equivalent dose would be well tolerated by a human. We do have different chemistry than experimental animals. Whether for X that works in our favor or the other way around is really hard to know. We can all will our brains to science and ask them to check what happened, but it's going to take a while.
Obviously if you've already tried it and found it not to affect your overall happiness/empathy abilities then you've done that experiment and it may well be completely safe for you at the doses you have taken in the past.
Some shrinks advocate it's use in therapy: helps get through bad memories etc and has great utility.
I would guess occasional use is less safe than pot but not as bad as binge drinking every night.
I didn't mean to come across as wholly negative -- as I'm not -- I've never tried it and would love to experience the effects if it were well known to be as safe as aspirin -- but it does scare me and I'm cautious.
kate
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