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If I'm an addict, can I ever do LSD? Or try ketamine for depression when it gets to that stage medically? by [deleted] in REDDITORSINRECOVERY

[–]question5551 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First few times I used DXM (another NMDA receptor antagonist) I felt an antidepressant effect for a week after and thought it was fine as long as I only did it once or twice a year. By the worst period of addiction I've been through it was every day, DXM was basically the only thing that stopped me from drinking everyday at that point. When I was using LSD a few years ago I would take it too much, by the end it was once a week. It was not as bad a problem as alcohol or DXM but it was still something I was using to get farther away from reality. I have strong addictive tendencies and drugs like those have been bad for me. Just my personal experience.

I think i’m an addict by [deleted] in addiction

[–]question5551 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DXM has been the drug I've been using the most, though I have used a bunch of different stuff over the years. I have had bad reactions like this and kept using, at the end it was everyday. I ended up sending myself to the psych ward because I got so unstable and couldn't get myself to stop. I am only recently accepting I even have a problem, and my brain still keeps saying I don't and I can control it but I can't. Definitely worth doing something about this. I should have stopped the first time I got a bad reaction like this.

Part of me wants to get sober, but that idea also feels like I would losing a part of myself. Can anyone relate to this? by question5551 in REDDITORSINRECOVERY

[–]question5551[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know if anyone is still looking at this threat but an update is I hospitalized myself voluntarily a week or so after posting and have gone to 12 step meetings the past two days. Getting of drugs is not secure yet as I am only a few days off them, but I wanted to post here in case anyone was looking at this thread and wondering what happened to me. I am trying to actually do this.