So awful; so sad. The amphetamine experience. It is good that Oliver Sacks unsparingly tells his readers and listeners the true effects and dangers of amphetamine addiction, stressing that it turned him into an electrified rat for entire weekends at a time. How brave he is, telling the world of his past weaknesses.
I've never found it to be anything like that, it was always a social drug there would be no point in taking it alone but maybe that is to do with personalities because I don't drink alone either. If you highlighted people with drink problems and said this is the normal for people who take alcohol and read stories about the extremes that alcoholics go to it would be a similarly horrible picture but is that a whole and true representation ?
i am a amphetamine user for over 20 years now ,15 of them without a diagnose , i was diagnosed with ADHD 5 years ago and am currently on Attenthine, i can honestly say that amphetamine saved my life.. no one i did not tell would never se that i am using .. the problem is that many doctors refuses to give long time users of amphetamine the drug be course they se it as an substitute for an addiction.. the thing is that amphetamine alone does not create fys addiction (you dont get sick if you dont get the drug) and still today there is not made a study on how dangerous a long time use of only amphetamine really is.. sorry for my poor grammar ..
I also have ADHD and can relate. I know it shocks people when they find out the treatment is often with amphetamines (or other strong stimulants), but it's only by using the medicine that I feel at ease and can actually sleep at night. My brain, in its normal, is always restless and hyperactive. I feel sorry for Sacks though. I think neurotypicals have a totally different experience, especially when they get addicted to it.
@@filipedecarvalho3390 He was taking doses way higher than a doctor will prescribe. You would have the same experiences if you took a week's dose at once. Everyone's brain behaves the same way when taking huge doses of amphetamines.
Monday to frinday i did the responsepble thing thats wat he needed to do. i like that because it the same for me weekens it my time and im gonna have some fun.
Sacks is one of the finest examples of a fully lived human life I've come across.
My left ear loved this.
So awful; so sad. The amphetamine experience. It is good that Oliver Sacks unsparingly tells his readers and listeners the true effects and dangers of amphetamine addiction, stressing that it turned him into an electrified rat for entire weekends at a time. How brave he is, telling the world of his past weaknesses.
I've never found it to be anything like that, it was always a social drug there would be no point in taking it alone but maybe that is to do with personalities because I don't drink alone either. If you highlighted people with drink problems and said this is the normal for people who take alcohol and read stories about the extremes that alcoholics go to it would be a similarly horrible picture but is that a whole and true representation ?
I mean rats electrocuted in the pleasure centres anyone would think he was taking something regarded as strong.
i am a amphetamine user for over 20 years now ,15 of them without a diagnose , i was diagnosed with ADHD 5 years ago and am currently on Attenthine, i can honestly say that amphetamine saved my life.. no one i did not tell would never se that i am using .. the problem is that many doctors refuses to give long time users of amphetamine the drug be course they se it as an substitute for an addiction.. the thing is that amphetamine alone does not create fys addiction (you dont get sick if you dont get the drug) and still today there is not made a study on how dangerous a long time use of only amphetamine really is.. sorry for my poor grammar ..
I also have ADHD and can relate. I know it shocks people when they find out the treatment is often with amphetamines (or other strong stimulants), but it's only by using the medicine that I feel at ease and can actually sleep at night. My brain, in its normal, is always restless and hyperactive. I feel sorry for Sacks though. I think neurotypicals have a totally different experience, especially when they get addicted to it.
@@filipedecarvalho3390 He was taking doses way higher than a doctor will prescribe. You would have the same experiences if you took a week's dose at once. Everyone's brain behaves the same way when taking huge doses of amphetamines.
@@lupertazzi6533 The thing is with snorting that you destroy nasal membrane and sinuses ...
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Monday to frinday i did the responsepble thing thats wat he needed to do. i like that because it the same for me weekens it my time and im gonna have some fun.
Look at the picture of him on his book to him now. Age is a mutherf*cker. This guy was a straight model. wow!!!
Great point. He's essentially wearing a very tight leather shirt, jeans.
Is it too late to fall in love with a new idol?
I realised recently I am in love with this man, but he has been dead for 9 years. At least there are the videos and his books.
This type of human is a dying species...hence where we are today......
Amps p much cure all of my psychological ailments.
I bet you recently came up with that.. give it some time and you might reconsider
I do wonder how olivier took his Anphetamine.???
That person must have been taking about five times the maximum allowed prescribed dose.