More social when sober?

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

I've noticed that when I score I just want to lock the doors, make music, play games, watch TV, and so on. Just be by myself ya know. But when I'm over the 3 day hell of D/T I want to get out with friends and be social. Maybe it's just to keep my mind busy, but it's weird I always wanna do something when I'm sober. When I'm high I just wanna order a pizza, sit around the house with a smile and be lazy. Although I do get out while high but not NEARLY as much as I do when sober. Anyone else like this???

[newjerseysfinest]

hell yeah dude i totally agree.... i always get completely dressed.... lookin fresh *or at least thinking i am* and go out and just be around people....

when im getting high im a fuckin hermit....

i just want to ask, this may be dumb but what do you use? good lord i wish it was a 3 day detox!

[Opiyum]

The phenomenon you speak of is boredom. Drugs make a boring situation (being alone in an apartment) not so boring. Being social makes life not so boring...sometimes.
Being around friends and family releases happy juice in your brain. So stay off drugs kids and get high on family.

[Russellmeboy]

im like half and half on this one. when i get right i wana be around people, it makes me wicked talkitive and happy to be in pretty much any situation. i HATE being alone at home like 99% of the time high or sober BUT if i got sompthing to get right im 100% more complacent to just sit at home and dick around.
Its funny when my friends started to catch up and sniff oc's some would get EXTREEMLY agitated afterwards for no reason, i can rember it clearly. but yeah i guess if i had an unlimted amount...i might just be content to sit at home lol.

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

hell yeah dude i totally agree.... i always get completely dressed.... lookin fresh *or at least thinking i am* and go out and just be around people....

when im getting high im a fuckin hermit....

i just want to ask, this may be dumb but what do you use? good lord i wish it was a 3 day detox!
I've been taking Norco daily for about 3-4 years. My peak was 20-25 a day but for the past year or more I've just been taking 6-8 a day.

[Russellmeboy]

im pretty much good after 3 days on a normal amount of IV heroin, mabey 4.. dont be a wussie :p

[marshalldylan1]

Yeah after the 4-5 days of hell, I start to get really bored and hang out with friends just cause I'm so god damn restless. You know that "happy im gonna be clean forever i feel so awesome yippee ya yooo" glow you get right after you finish detoxing? It's usually around that period I'm all happy and excited and go out and do shit, and chill with different people.

After that feeling goes away, and the excruciating depression comes in, I feel like doing nothing but getting opiates.

[ouaisOut]

I'm a social hermit, like Eric Idle in that Monty Python sketch of all the hermits gossiping on the hillside where they all have their little hermetic caves. Doing opiates makes me so much more social. I've been tapering and living on a small maintenance dose of pods for several months and I'm just now getting myself out of the house on the regular. I work at home and have been self-employed for years, so I can get away with hanging out in the house all day for days on end. Opiates kill my shyness and get me chatty and out and about. Which is why I made myself give up OC. Too much of a crutch. OC makes me the ultra-efficient, ultra-social creative professional I can be. But I'm trying to mange wihtout it. I think I'm finally turning the corner. I'm making myself go out every morning despite my crushing shyness and depression. Once I'm out, most days it's not that bad.

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

I'm making myself go out every morning despite my crushing shyness and depression. Once I'm out, most days it's not that bad.
Heck yeah man that's awesome. Takes some willpower to do that. I have ADD and social anxiety so I know.

It's not that I don't socialize when I am around people. Opiates definitely make me talkative and happy around others, it's just when I have dope I am content and I usually go to my apt. after scoring and do not wanna leave. When friends call I sometimes reject calls or make up things because I am already content. Something about opiates and video games, I LOVE IT, I get so into them it's insane. If I had a choice to be high at a bar with my friends or in my favorite chair playing video games, I would certainly pick the latter. If sober, it would be the opposite.

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

The phenomenon you speak of is boredom. Drugs make a boring situation (being alone in an apartment) not so boring. Being social makes life not so boring...sometimes.
Being around friends and family releases happy juice in your brain. So stay off drugs kids and get high on family.
That makes sense now, thanks

[Patches]

Effexor is a good med for a number of things,social anxiety being one of them.I think you would need script insurance though,they aint cheap,and their a daily med.......P

[SHELLEY]

i like to be around people all the time
it's just different people when i get high
and when i'm sober, i'm cool sitting around with people
but when i get fucked up, i want to go out and "do something"
problem is, it's always 3 in the fucking morning when i want to do something
and the only thing open after 12 round sofla is a club and some legs
and who wants to go to a club all strung out on coke or h? not fuckin me

[OxiContinKing]

The phenomenon you speak of is boredom. Drugs make a boring situation (being alone in an apartment) not so boring. Being social makes life not so boring...sometimes.
Being around friends and family releases happy juice in your brain. So stay off drugs kids and get high on family.


What was that acronym that we were arguing about in that other thread?

QFT?

Whichever one you'd like to go with, I dont give a shit, quoted for truth, or quite fucking true, whichever floats your boat.

+1 Opiyum

[Papa Verine]

I'm the exact opposite. When I get high I want to be around people. I talk to everyone, start calling my friends. etc... When I'm sick I turn into a hermit. I don't even answer my phone. I don't know what I'm like after I get through withdrawals and return to "normal" because it's been so long since I've done that I can't remember.

[duck]

If it's not heroin it's socializing; if it's not socializing it's religion; if it's not religion it's food; if it's not food it's liquor; if it's not food it's running; if it's not running....well, you get the point. We all gotta just keep our mind busy in a world where survival is incredibly easy. I prefer smack and motorcycles, what's yours?

[Duckfeet]

You guys probably wouldn't even know me if you saw me here...after I dose, I come home to my shack, check out what the waves are doing, then log on here and drink my coffee...at noon I walk down to my AA meeting, and then go out bodysurfing or swimming around the pier if there aren't waves...sometimes I do Qigong down on the beach for a while, just cuz my friends laugh and like to watch...I know most of the people around here: all the lifeguards and local surfers all know me, and are my pals...I'm pretty outgoing and cheerful...everybody knows I got knocked out paragliding and had a bad patch off and on since then...that's about it...best part of my day is walking outside and watching the sunset off the pier and chatting w/the vietnamese fishermen out there...off heroin I'm o.k...I don't quite know why I had to go thru all this shit again...but oh well...yeah, I'm sociable enough off dope...on dope I sulk and wish I was far far away....

[God_Albino]

this last year and a half has turned me from a self-reliant motivated on-the-go dude to a fuckin shut-in. nothing seems worth it, when i get my patches its kinda like being happy for a few hours.

people just annoy me but im lonely without em, shit. i need to do a taper SOON, shit scares the hell out of me.

[Opiyum]

I've just realized that its the suboxone that keeps me from ever getting to that sober point where I become bored and decide to go out and get into something with someone. Instead of that I just stop taking the dope, start taking the subs, feel shitty for a few days then I level out and remain slightly depressed and lethargic until I use again.
This has been th cycle for a few years now.
I can't wait to break it.

[Patches]

I don't know what I'm like after I get through withdrawals and return to "normal" because it's been so long since I've done that I can't remember.[/QUOTE]


LMAO:D Do you dare to meet the "stranger" lurking with-in???????:D

[mrnatural]

[QUOTE=Papa Verine;381521]I'm the exact opposite. When I get high I want to be around people. I talk to everyone, start calling my friends. etc... When I'm sick I turn into a hermit. I don't even answer my phone. I don't know what I'm like after I get through withdrawals and return to "normal" because it's been so long since I've done that I can't remember.



^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^What Papa said^^^^^^^^^^^^