Nootropics Created 10 years ago2013-12-01 23:10:58 UTC by Striker

What is your opinion and, have you ever used such a thing? I am not strictly referring to what's called "smart-drugs"( like Piracetam), I'm more inclined towards natural stuff like Ginko biloba or spirulin.

I personally try to avoid ingesting or otherwise consuming anything that alters the chemical balance of my brain, natural or artificial, for any purpose.
I don't even take painkillers if I can avoid it. (Last time I took a tylenol I couldn't sleep all night, but that's another matter altogether)

I have on occasion used Binaural beats to try and help me concentrate while studying or sleep better, though.

I don't believe in any 'enhancers' 'boosters' 'fixers' 'uppers' 'downers' etc.

Drugs are an easy and most often complete horseshit way out of putting any real work in fixing problems. I believe in the old fashioned way of dealing with mental problems: Find out why you are having issues, find out how to fix these issues, and then do it.
It's not hard, nor does it take that much time. I've done it, it's the only reason I'm alive right now.

Say you take a drug and it makes your problems, whatever they may be, go away.
But then, it stops working. Now you're popping even stronger drugs to get the same result as before, until you can't increase the dosage anymore. Now, because you don't actually know what was causing your problems in the first place, you have no way to deal with them other than going to different drugs... I keep drugs out of my life, I'd much rather endure constant discomfort and pain than pop any painkiller or any medication of any type. I had the option of taking medication for anxiety that would supposedly magically make all my anxiety go away and make me super sharp, but it also ran the risk of making me go completely insane (psychosis etc).

I had to endure almost all of my depression and anxiety, after doing a little bit of alcohol maintenance on myself. There is no greater nor deeper pain than depression, and no greater discomfort than anxiety.
But I hung on, no matter how much it hurt and how scary it got, because I believed I could, and I did.

Ultimately, relying on having to pay a large sum of money for something that somebody else engineered to 'fix' all of my problems in life (I'm still young, life is going to get a lot scarier) didn't appeal to me.

I mean, don't get me wrong, if drugs work for you by all means don't worry about it... But I personally believe everybody should be educated on mental conditions before they have the option to take psychiatric drugs.