Drugs.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 6:56 pm

Well, jeez moreso the abuse of drugs. I simply assumed people would understand I meant the use of drugs in the context of this conversation. I leave out a bit and everything goes to shit.

FORMAL RESTATEMENT
I don't dig the abuse of medical drugs, don't dig normal drugs with next to no medical benefit or those that were designed with no medical benefit in mind, and I also do not dig natural mind altering drugs. KAY?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 7:04 pm

Well, I neither abused nor took the Paxil for recreational purposes, so no matter how wrong-minded your statements are, they still don't apply to this situation.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 7:28 pm

Ben wrote:Well, I neither abused nor took the Paxil for recreational purposes

Ben wrote:I scored a load of Paxil off my grandfather last night, and I've just taken my first dose. Come with me as we explore the strange, wild, wonderful world of taking other people's prescription medication!!

Yeah, that wasn't recreational at all.

... Are you fucking kidding me?! I'm half-shocked that you didn't come out on the other end of this binge having written a sequel to Naked Lunch.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 9:29 pm

I have a very serious problem which I am trying to find effective ways of dealing with. This was one of them. It didn't work. This is not "recreation" in the modern sense of the word.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 9:57 pm

Ben wrote:I have a very serious problem which I am trying to find effective ways of dealing with.

I didn't realize that the cure to "being a vicious and utterly foul miscreant to anyone and everyone you encounter" came in pill form. Hmm!!

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 10:43 pm

Alright, yeah. This is the help I need now. Maybe the vocal disdain of your so-called "friends" will finally do the trick.

k. roo · Post by **k. roo** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 4:09 am

Ben wrote:I have a very serious problem which I am trying to find effective ways of dealing with. This was one of them. It didn't work.

I seem to recall a rather effective cure by Smith & Wesson (no affiliation). Maybe you should look into it.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 6:35 pm

Seek medical advice first so it doesn't look like you're just popping whatever comes to hand. After the quacks prescribe something that just makes your hands shake and kill off your sex drive is when you start looking for alternate medication. Eliminate all caffeine and sugar from you diet for one month. Then take two aspirin and post back in the morning.

THE
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AARDVARK

bot · Post by **bot** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:20 am

For the record, my gf uses Paxil and she has acknowledged (publicly, at least) exactly zero incidences of Bodhidharma-like awareness, but four incidences of decidedly unpleasant, inter-skullular rubber-band snapping.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:11 am

A snapping of an inter-skullular (sp?) rubber band means she just went batshit crazy, right? Or does it in fact mean something else entirely?

As for Ben, the chief result is that he has apparently stopped posting altogether. I would like to say that in his case Paxil was not a "success."

bot · Post by **bot** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:32 am

Actually, what I meant was that while coming down from the drug, she made claims to the effect that it felt like rubber bands were snapping inside her head. This seems to be the usual thing for a prolonged user undergoing Paxil withdrawl. That this made her a little more difficult to live with than usual would be an... erm... acccurate assumption.