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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jamey who wrote (87890)5/22/2004 5:32:07 PM
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How fascinating, Santiago. I didn't know about that study. I wasn't psychologically addicted, I think. The whole problem was the physical addiction and withdrawal symptoms when I stopped. There was no "Wow" moment. But since I don't drink or smoke and those are legal substances, I suppose I just don't have an addictive personality -- which it seems isn't a "personality" at all, but brain chemistry. They do keep learning that things they used to assume were psychological are in fact chemical or wiring phenomena.

That reminds me that it was discovered recently that some of those suffering from a syndrome considered psychological in which people complain that something is crawling under their skin do, in fact, have little things crawling under their skin!

I have read something to the effect that painkillers have a different effect on those who are taking them for pain than it does on those who take them to get high. I had two moments only of feeling "high," or at least floaty -- one in the hospital, on morphine, and one shortly after that, at home. Lasted about five minutes. Maybe two.

A thing that astonished me is how anyone who had been through a cold turkey withdrawal from oxycontin could EVER subject themselves to the inevitability of another such experience by taking the drug again, voluntarily.

P.S. Does SI count as an addiction? :)
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