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Xanax is for people who don't want to think, psychedelics are for people who feel they can't think enough. Accidentally, (too much) Xanax turns people into zombies who can't think while (too much) psychedelics turns people into aliens that talk a different language than everyone else.

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Hamilton Morris has commented on this paradox of drugs...

People who take Amphetamines because they want more energy end up tired, etc.

I always thought that with substances like that you were only ever borrowing from the future.

Amphetamines at therapeutic doses are safe and neuroprotective (and even prevent substance abuse), but if you're abusing them "for energy" that's not a therapeutic dose.

If you're doing that, what you actually need is 8+ hours sleep, proper sunlight and exercise, a sleep apnea check, and then maybe buy adrafinil off the internet (where legal).

I guess I was talking more about recreational doses than therapeutic ones.

Dosage and timing is key.

Benzos bring me to a place where all of you people live. I take klonopin as needed because I think way way way way way too much. I know glutamate plays a large role in my schizoaffective disorder and I can bring me out of an involuntary trip and a half an hour.

So I just wanna kind of correct what you said, Xanax is for people who think too much and psychedelics are for people who think too little.

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