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The max approved prescribed dose is 60mg per day, so at that point he's probably doing something illegal.

• wincy 5y ago
  Oh for sure, the reason I found out about it is that he asked to buy mine, and I declined. I have too much to lose, a wife a kid and a good job, to be slinging Schedule 2 drugs for a couple hundred bucks a month. Plus I actually take my dose as prescribed. He moved away though, thank goodness.
• salawat 5y ago
  Said like someone who has never dealt with clinical tolerance before. I've been up in that territory before. Even that was done under the regular visits to a therapist. I've dedicated myself to suffering through learning how to cope with a lower, highly tolerance dampened dose. I will say there are days I miss it terribly. It's a bit like having an overclocked capacity to process information and learn. The multi-month adaptation process to the decreased dose is quite literally like being brain-starved. You want to think, you know you could at one point but you just can't get things to fire as fast as they used to. You dampen your ability to forge paths of understanding in novel contexts, but the trade off is you're cut off emotionally from anyone around you because no one else is holding onto or working with the context you can throw around. When the impedance mismatch is that high, misanthropy is a hazard one has to actively decultivate. The practical upshot of coming down from it after acquiring your context/understanding though is you tend to generalize what you learned and render it more communicable. The anhedonia is also a #$&-+. Point being, the medical literature is based on averages. Not everybody lives in the hump of a Gaussian distribution.
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