I'm in recovery from speed addiction. Looking back, I ask myself: "What was I thinking?"
Speed made me do aweful things like wonder arround my apartment naked. I also laughed hysterically to bad news. At the height of my addiction I became euphoric and hallucinated.
Yuck !!! I don't want to re-live it for anything. :(
2007-01-14 19:15:23 · 6 answers · asked by Phillip 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
People start it to lose weight or to stay up and be productive. Thats the initial lie addiction to speed uses to lure. However, as you learned, the reality of it never looks as rosy.
The ironic part is, someone on speed will say I feel great, theres nothing wrong with it, etc. While people on the outside are saying, "What is she thinking". Good thing for you that you have enough distance away from the addiction to look back and now say that about your own behavior.
Hang in there. You are doing awesome.
2007-01-14 19:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by spiritualjourneyseeker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing you have some idea of the answer to this question as you took "speed" even to excess. I'm guessing there must have been something that you got out of it. Without wanting to down play the bad side of the drug, it can be an enjoyable thing to experience. Addiction is a risk that people need to understand when they take it, though, and there are other problems (most of them brought about by the fact of its illegality, in my opinion). It's good to hear you have made it out the other side. Good luck with your recovery.
2007-01-14 19:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by Stag S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just keep thinking that way. Good for you, speed addiction never has possitive outcomes, only if you stop.
People have addictions for many reasons and are addicted to many things. I am addicted to Little Debbie Nutty Bars, I get upset when we run out and can't have one w/milk before bedtime!
I have noticed in our local police reports that half the arrests are for speed. I have learned allot about it in just the past few years. My friend worked at a Drug Rehab Center in and out patient for 6 years, I would go visit her at lunch sometimes and just reading the bulletin board in the waiting room should be enough to scare anyone. Short-term abuse many can recover from without long term effects, but just a two-four year binge can cause 10 to 20 years aging, tooth loss, weight loss, brain damage, abnormal, permanent nervous habits (ticking and rocking). It is horrifying to realize so many continue to use and abuse this drug. I knew a beautiful girl, actually an old neighbor, 10 years ago, she's now 25 and half her teeth are rotten, she has had 3 children, all taken from her and placed in Foster care or with the biological father and she continues to use last I have heard.
2007-01-14 19:45:53 · answer #3 · answered by Mt ~^^~~^^~ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well some of them take it cause they like the effects you wrote there, and they want to have those effects. Others, to jam for exams, and others to lose weight, and some cause they are afraid to fall asleep. There are so many reasons, for this, and it is cause there are so many different type of people, and reason for them even trying it. Some of them do not mean to get hooked or become addicted to it, or to abuse it, but it happens. At least you learned something from it. A lot of people don't until it is too late.
2007-01-14 19:28:16 · answer #4 · answered by Ladyofathousandfaces 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
y would you take speed you get a better jolt from an electric cable in the butt.
I know this from my own experiance
2007-01-14 19:53:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a drug which makes it "cool" so you try it and then you are additiced and everything starts to fall apart. Which isnt so "cool."
2007-01-14 19:19:26 · answer #6 · answered by Aural Thanes 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋