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by _98fj 11y ago
My favorite way of thinking about it is regulating expectation or giving an emotional reason to do something. ("I feel like I should do this")
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by _98fj 11y ago
Addendum: I didn't mean to claim that GHB was in any way safer. As far as I know, it's therapeutic index is similar to the one of alcohol.
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by _98fj 11y ago
GABA is the main inhibiting transmitter in the central nervous system. The opponent of cortisol which facilitates stress and alertness, so to say. I dare to say that everything that calms the body, like alcohol, other drugs (GHB), or going
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by _98fj 11y ago
That is true. Once a rather famous illustrator told me that he couldn't have done a certain ad showing a lion because … "Drawing hairs for hours and hours was just too boring, so I smoked". In my experience cannabis especiall
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by _98fj 11y ago
Adrenaline, Noradrenaline, Dopamine, Serotonine, Cortisol, GABA and many more... Just google "lab test" for these.
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by _98fj 11y ago
I wanted to elaborate on that point. You are completely right. There are laboratories measuring that stuff from urine and saliva. They are expensive and the results also need to be controlled for things like normal thyroid function, so you
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by _98fj 11y ago
What makes conversations about this very confusing is the fact that neurotransmitters and "chemical imbalances" cannot be seen in isolation. What we are talking about is signalling inside particular structures. Changes in signalli
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by _98fj 11y ago
It appears that regular cannabis use [0] decreases dopaminergic brain-activity [1]. Dopamine is often referred to as "pleasure"-transmitter, but it's function in certain parts of the brain is better thought of as "regula
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by _98fj 11y ago
It has been developed by austrian & german psychologists, the test for school-children etc. is also in german unfortunately. Like I said, the theory isn't widely adopted. When there's material available in english, I'll p
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by _98fj 12y ago
Feeling well and bad are not opposites on one scale, but rather different brain-function. Bad feelings are often actually anxiety or fear, which lead to a broadening of attention: perceiving many different things, but none of them clearly.
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by _98fj 12y ago
> What do you mean by "slow"? Hours, days, weeks, months, or years? Depends on the issue, but yes. Weeks to years. > Singular use of LSD or other 5ht agonists is unlikely to cause serotonin syndrome in lieu of other metabotr
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Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl(vimeo.com)
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@Mostly sofa use: This probably depends on the drug, I guess it's true for cannabis, but not for cocaine. @Knowledge: What fascinated me is that regular users I asked (at a drug-checking-station at clubs for example) also didn't k
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by _98fj 12y ago
Schizophrenia is more a catch-all term for "things are going severely wrong in a brain" than a disease.