difficult to tell what is going on. It would be an error to castigate
oneself about true self versus false self. All of one's selves are real enough
and responsible for one's life course. But meds do make a difference
(which is why they are prescribed and taken in the first place).
I am a baby boomer - the self-medicating generation, if you will - and we've
been through a lot. Today, psychoactive, metabolism boosting meds are routinely
given to children, all in the name of attaining cruising speed in an increasingly
demanding world: capitalistic in structure, fascistic in mood. Symptom meet drug,
and the devil take the hindmost. We are intolerant of shyness, and fragility.
What happens to someone put on amphetamines? It is a mania producing drug, so
that someone shy might show, for certain metrics, normalcy. But it might also
induce hyperactive behavior, extreme endurance for sport, great feats of concentration
on work. With consequences for the body. Sleep is necessary for the brain, which
does maintenance and cleans out toxins. Long periods of inadequate sleep - from a
housekeeping perspective - will not be made up in one go.
What happens if one goes off the drugs, cold turkey? Physical abnormalities, for a
long while until the body readjusts. Amphetamines up body temperature, so someone on
detox might find low body temperatures at times he would normally be taking the meds.
There might hormonal abnormalities as well, because stocks and the osmotic mechanisms
that drive things will now have inappropriate settings. It might take time and care to
recalibrate.
On the up side, the body might have become hyperfit. Not a bad thing. My advice:
enjoy the libido while it's there, and go to a party.
* * *
In biology, diffusion and osmosis are related but quite different processes. From
French language Wikipedia:
DIFFUSION
Under the impulse of thermal energy intrinsic to particles, and respecting temperature,
concentration and pressure gradients, solutions will become irreversibly homogeneous.
OSMOSIS
In a situation where a membrane makes diffusion impossible ie the solute cannot cross
the barrier, the solvent will cross to establish homogeneity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thermally_Agitated_Molecule.gif
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