I want to try drugs. A friend told me that is better than harming myself.
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Drugs are just a different way of harming yourself. If you genuinely believed it was a good idea then you wouldn't have posted here. All drugs will do is help you avoid dealing with your feelings, it won't help you or your recovery progress at all.
Last edited by Pomegranate : 05-11-2008 at 03:51 PM.
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You posted about a friend you were worried about because she was on drugs, and you seemed distressed that she was doing this to herself.
So how come you want to go down the same road?
I have never done drugs, but I can tell you that as someone who has seen good friends overdose or die from it, etc, that it is not a good idea at all, because you are still hurting yourself.
what kinda drugs are you talking about hun?
wait can you post that here?
okay well some drugs can be okay once in a while to have fun kinda thing.
but in the end, their just not good for your body and like someone said above.
if you thought it was a good idea and everything
you wouldn't have posted here right?
hope you do well
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yeah i know. i have been wanting to try them since i don't know how long. i don't know why though, since its so dangerous.
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Taking drugs is different to intentionally harming yourself for harm only. They will achieve you a different state of mind but may well effect you extremely badly mentally. I don't think it's worth the risk and certainly not something to take place of harming yourself intentionally.
Not a good idea to swap one for the other, you need to know what is urging you to do either and work on that.
Be careful.
Yes they are dangerous so it'd be wreckless behaviour.
Can you say what's making you want to do something so potentially dangerous?
(sends a hug)
+ sorry to double post.
Drugs aren't a safer alternative to harming yourself at all. They can really mess with your brain chemistry and make any mental health problems worse. You could get addicted. You could accidentally overdose. Not worth it, seriously. You don't want another problem to deal with.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
Drugs are worse than self harm. They give you a temporary release (sometimes, or they might just make you freak out). But instead of leaving just a physical scar they can alter your brain forever, make any existing problems worse and bringing out any hidden problems, so if you are predisposed to psychosis, for example, they can bring it on.
Also in the short term there is the come down afterwards, which makes everything worse than it was before you used it, and of course the risks of addiction and overdose and generally screwing up your whole life.
Of course some people can use recreationally and be fine, but for us with m.h. probs, it's a bit russian roulette.
Do you know why you want to use?
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The problem with drugs as well is, you don't know what you're going to get. They affect people differently, plus even if you have one good drug experience then it won't necessarily happen again because they just fling anything in when making them so it's never really the same drug twice.
this is an awful idea. my best friend took the drug route to stop self harming and now shes on something literally, ALL THE TIME. you dont want that. not that cutting is good, but its better than killing your braincells and body organs.. and its cheaper!!! muchhhh cheaper!
thanks for the replies. i don't think i will try them, i just want to.
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I've done minor drugs, but I was around people doing a lot heavier stuff...
In a way, I'd say doing drugs is almost worse than cutting. (but neither are good at all)
think of it this way: with drugs, you are physically harming your body, brain, mind, and so forth. with cutting, you are physically harming your body (maybe to the point of being very serious), and you are keeping yourself in depression, therefore harming your brain and mind. (depression is a big strain on your brain)
so they both harm you physically and mentally. but drugs also cost money. ALOT... one particular drug that my friends used to use around me (which i will not mention the name), seriously cost $60 for a few of them to get high ONCE. i've seen it. you start having to have it. just like cutting. except now you don't have the money to. even the minor one I used to do would get expensive once you got addicted. so what do you do? you HAVE to have it. you can't afford it. many people resort to stealing. my friend who got me involved in all this told me that she once just randomly broke into somebody's house, with her baby sitting in the back seat and stole whatever she could find. and she was one of the most dedicated people when it came to her baby. but drugs ruined her. she also once got nearly killed for pissing off a drug dealer. she used to be so smart. and now she just makes the dumbest decisions anyone could make.
same with alcohol. same friend had very little money. we had decided to try stripping to make money. (and we liked the dancing... BAD idea). she needed the money for her rent, electricity, lazy ass boyfriend, and baby. but as quick as she made the money, she'd be sneaking shots of alcohol at the bar (even though she was underage), and spending everything she just made. and she would not listen to me when i told her to stop.
not to mention, you can go to work/school/friends and act perfectly normal after cutting, for the most part. you go somewhere high, and people figure it out. they also have drug tests in many workplaces and you can get fired or even go to jail. if you buy from someone and the police happen to find out (see you guys having an interaction that looks suspicious), you can go to jail. and in addition to stealing, many people start selling drugs. undercover cops are all over the place.
and the physical things get worse with the harder drugs. one of the worst ones makes you break out with acne BAD and very shortly after just getting high once. it also encourages anorexia, cause some of them make you dangerously skinny. and you start to like that. and if you already have an ED, it's even worse.
and the thing is, even though you say you're gonna stop cutting, you'll get depressed cause of the horrible lifestyle it brings. and you'll cut too, in addition to the drugs. you already know in the back of your mind it can make yourself better. it's an addiction. if you're living like this, you'll go back to it when drugs stop making you feel good, which they will...
so logically all you did is make yourself worse. cause now you got DRUGS, possible ANOREXIA, and CUTTING. not to mention that lifestyle also makes you more likely to have unsafe sex (you're too high/drunk to say no, you turn to prostitution/stripping (which gives you more opportunities to sleep around) for money since you have spent it all on drugs), and with that comes STDs, huge emotional problems, and unexpected pregnancies (and then the question, do i get an abortion?). you always say you'll be careful. but then some guy talks you into not using a condom. your birth control makes you gain weight so you stop taking it. or you're just so out of it drunk and high you don't even think about the fact that it's unsafe.
And you don't think things through and will do very unsafe stuff. i once hooked up with a guy from the strip club. he was moving, and so i went to the hotel he was at before he left. i barely know him and i'm with all his friends. i get drunk, but this time, i was stupid and took my meds before. i end up passing out and hitting my head on the bathroom wall. i didn't even drink much. i was on the other side of town with a bunch of guys i didn't even really know. that could've been SO bad had they been the wrong guys. but i was so into the sex, drugs, and alcohol that i didn't even think it through. I could've been raped or killed, being unconscious, drunk, and such with people i barely knew.
so in no way am i encouraging cutting. however, i don't think you'll get from drugs what you think you will. You probably won't stop cutting, and you'll get even more heartache than you already have. I've either experienced this or seen best friends experience this. I just really hope you think this through before you try it. it's like cutting in that once you try it, it's very hard to stop. even just a little bit. I still wish I could get high at times, and i only did 1 drug and alcohol for not too long. So please don't. Get help for cutting. Drugs will not help you at all.
Substituting taking drugs for self harm, you'd be running the risk of adding another addiction to your life .... and drug addiction is definitely NOT pleasant and has a hell of alot of horrible effects on your whole life - friends, family, employment, financial, health etc - that I'd NEVER see it as a positive replacement for self harm ..... its just another form of it!
My RYL family:
I-used-to-be-positive is my big sister razorxkissedxwrists is my mommy alyssa.star is my sister phoenixflames_forever is my cousin concreteangel, helpmydeath, xxbeckyxx and queer fringe are my little sisters bob--says--hi is my twin
I'm confused.
You said you haven't taken drugs, and you want to try them, then go on to say that you've tried Heroin "many times"?
Hm. Sorry. Just slightly confused by that.
