Posted by novelagent on June 13, 2012, at 16:44:35
In reply to Re: Boring reality...no dopamine release » rjlockhart04-08, posted by Zyprexa on June 12, 2012, at 22:25:42
He's burnt out his receptors. He'll have to be on Nuvigil for the rest of his life. The anhedonia is permament. There's not any cases where anhedonia spontaneously goes away over time... people who abused stimulants but didn't quite burnt out their receptors, they're fine over time... but someone either is addicted or not, and the way they know they're addicted is if they sleep for a few days, like they're in a coma, almost, upon acutely withdrawing from their stimulant.
I got anhedonia from taking high doses of a stimulant, but that was from what I thought was a sleeping disorder, and my doc was stupid enough to let me have the high doses for so long. I'm not an addict, though, so I now take low doses of a stimulant for my ADD, and it happens to treat my anhedonia, and I'm fine. But if you go over his posts, you'll find a pattern of woe-is-me, I-don't-deserve-this. He's not at a stage in life where he'd be able to do the same thing, not that any doctor is stupid enough to trust an addict with a stimulant, anyhow.
> You know that the coke and meth are what is depleating your dopamine? When you use the drugs you get an instant rush of dopamine. gradualy the dopamine receptors in your brain stop producing as much dopamine, the more you use drugs. So the only pleasure is when you use drugs. But eventualy it get worse the more drugs you use and it takes more and more. Eventualy your receptors stop working. The only way to stop the depleation of dopamine is to stop using drugs, and eventualy dopamine will get back to normal after a long time. I belive the same happens with drugs like adderal, etc.
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> Not trying to bring you down...
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