Posted by bsj on November 24, 2003, at 21:39:25
In reply to Re: Boy~Do I miss Vicodin!, posted by krazybirdlady on November 24, 2003, at 17:29:19
I don't go to parties. I just recently got my life back, and I work like a fiend. I have a lot to catch up on, and I don't know how long this will last.
But I think there's a de Quincy quote that's appropriate here: "...nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium; its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion; and, in his happiest state, the opium-eater cannot present himself in the character of L'Allegro; even then, he speaks and thinks as becomes Il Penseroso."
Il Penseroso indeed.
As for opiates inducing a "false" sense of well-being: what of SSRIs, TCAs and other politically acceptable depression treatments? Why heavens no! They only make the depressed person feel like himself again, it's said--which is exactly what hydrocodone does for me. Whatever good feelings it brings are, on the contrary, not fake but quite natural and real; it's the constant agony of depression that's truly fake--the drug merely banishes that agony to a corner of my mind where I can let it sit and have its way on occasion; as opposed to its controlling my every waking hour.
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