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Sure, this seems obvious with respect to my own experience with it, personally. But the question I really want to know the answer to is if I've been totally sob
by meowface 6y ago
Sure, this seems obvious with respect to my own experience with it, personally. But the question I really want to know the answer to is if I've been totally sober for over 24 - 48 hours, is my performance still below baseline? What about a week or a month without it?
If it were theoretically somehow proven I was still experiencing a negative effect despite cessation for over a week, that would be enough for me to rarely or never use it again. As far as I know, there isn't any convincing evidence of that, but if there ever was, I'd definitely want to know about it.
- rustytrombone69 6y agoSome conflicting studies have found subtle cognitive deficits in users who were abstinent for ~28 days (see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037578/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037578/). In my anecdotal experience, I definitely notice difficulty with conversations, deep reading, etc for ~2 weeks after stopping. It takes about 1 month of sobriety for me to feel 95% back to normal and 2-3 months for 100%.
- meowface 6y agoNot that this necessarily makes things any better, but what are the odds this could largely be explained by a kind of withdrawal from people who were using it every day for years? If you suddenly stop taking almost any psychoactive substance that you've had in your body 24/7 for years, the odds of some negative effects persisting for a month don't seem too unlikely. It could certainly be some combination of both, too.