WhoManBeing said:

got to ask, what is your diet like?  mix it up a bit if repetitive, constant sameness.

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That is great advice. Nutrition can have huge impacts on mood.
Additionally, you can mix WhoManBeing's advice with mine and take a cooking class and learn to make nutritional yummy meals; and meet some cool people while you're at it.
I hear women love men whom can cook too.

Anonymous said:

"I don't have a damn hobby left besides drugs. I don't blame drugs by the way, I was headed down this path long before I ever took them."

sound like you were on good path to begin with

used to enjoy life music tennis science etc
now your only hobby is drugs

perhaps denial is your hurdle

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Mumbling_dumbass said:

If at first you try and don't succeed, fuck it all and smoke some weed...

..Weed helped me get back on track

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I'm a minor alcoholic attempting to cut down, (and doing pretty well too). I used to drink bourbon and cola. I try to restrain from that now and only drink beer when i drink.
I began at a gym and lost some belly fat, and was doing well. The cravings for the bourbon and cola were often to hard to resist. Weed helped me back off drinking a lot. Problem is, the fucking munchies weed gave me made me put that belly flab back on lol

Spacerific said:

YOu take "drugs" OP? Let me guess, you drink "liquids" too?

What kind of drugs are you taking and HOW are you taking them?

I have found that drugs are an incredible motivator, source of health joy and learning, but I'm pretty sure we're not doing the same drugs in the same way.

The fool who persists in his folly becomes wise. Take time for your interest and do it right, then you will be well rewarded.

Of course if you sit your ass on your couch, drag your feet in the morning, rely on pills and shrinks to keep you going, you might run out of steam every once in a while.

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Hah and what are you making these assumptions on? I know you and have talked to you many times and we both take similar drugs in similar ways I think people are misunderstanding me when I say drugs are my only hobby. Im not addicted and aside from some phases where I smoke before bed I'm sober 99% of the time. I'm not burying my problems in drugs. I started using psychedelics for insights into my issues and overtime have expanding interest into a few different categories. I find them highly fascinating and spend a lot of time on shroomery. I don't spend THAT much time actually doing them though. Maybe a psychedelic and dissociative or two per month at my height. I won't deny I have an obsession with psychedelics which can at times be slightly distracting. But fuck it beats boredom. Lately it's not enough though. I can't do it every day like guitar or painting. So I'm bored with life. And that's the issue

If anything drugs have kind of been my last hope not the things that drove me down. And i think they saved me in that sense, or at least bought me time. Of course that's not where I want to stay in life.

jacksonian said:

reading this i came to a thought that doing drugs is a phase...you said you 'used to do 'xyz'...

well i 'used to do drugs' too

the next thing will come about...you'll see...

the beauty of it is is that you won't see it coming, and before you know it you will be in the next phase

have fun...always...

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we both take similar drugs in similar ways

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Anonymous said:

Mumbling_dumbass said:

If at first you try and don't succeed, fuck it all and smoke some weed...

..Weed helped me get back on track

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I'm a minor alcoholic attempting to cut down, (and doing pretty well too). I used to drink bourbon and cola. I try to restrain from that now and only drink beer when i drink.
I began at a gym and lost some belly fat, and was doing well. The cravings for the bourbon and cola were often to hard to resist. Weed helped me back off drinking a lot. Problem is, the fucking munchies weed gave me made me put that belly flab back on lol

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Mumbling_dumbass said:

Anonymous said:

Mumbling_dumbass said:

If at first you try and don't succeed, fuck it all and smoke some weed...

..Weed helped me get back on track

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I'm a minor alcoholic attempting to cut down, (and doing pretty well too). I used to drink bourbon and cola. I try to restrain from that now and only drink beer when i drink.
I began at a gym and lost some belly fat, and was doing well. The cravings for the bourbon and cola were often to hard to resist. Weed helped me back off drinking a lot. Problem is, the fucking munchies weed gave me made me put that belly flab back on lol

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Lol I just smoke before working out, I find I can go harder and ignore pain

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Spacerific said:

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we both take similar drugs in similar ways

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Oh, so you also go to psy festivals and to the Santo Daime church for group Ayahuasca tripping?

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Yes to both, but pachamama for me, not santo daime

Spacerific said:

Hobbies like guitar and painting are very nice, and at the same time they can be alienating if there's no group context whatsoever. Are you doing them in group settings at all? Do you play guitar in a band? Do you invite fellow painters over to paint together? I for one have never been bored doing that, but have been bored if trying them solo for too long. We're social creatures, ANYTHING can get boring and alienating, if done alone for too long a time.

Anyway that's what comes to mind from reading your initial post, may or may not be relevant to your exact situation.

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I've got bad social anxiety, so i actually normally prefer to be alone. But to answer your question, yeah i have played in several bands. It makes my anxiety way worse because i feel like i'm being held to higher expectations. However, even on my own now i can't be productive. As for painting, i paint with my girlfriend but that's about it. I'm not really all that good at it. It's just something I've picked up while tripping and like to dick around with. But if i've been sober too long the confidence and creativity leaves me.

Damn, i thought i was doing pretty well today til i attempted to get some homework done and nearly punched another hole in my computer screen. My irritability and explosiveness is through the roof right now. I want to blame school, but my lack of hobbies doesn't really give me much of an alternative