[ComfortablyNumb5]

I so often hear lately how psych meds are abused and sold on the streets. Ok benzos, and phetamines, yea I get that. But I've had people ask me for my seroquel. Really? What's so fun about being knocked out so hard you don't even dream and feeling like **** the whole next day?

And just the other day I saw an article that said "gabapentin, the new oxy" lmfao really?! Oxy has lead people to using heroin because it's cheaper. I'm pretty sure no one's pawned their moms wedding ring for some gabapentin.

Then I came across one page of an artists view while under the influence of different types of drugs and one was titled "60 mg geodon". The artists drawing was all colorful and crazy. I'm here looking at his art work like "hah yea I WISH geodon felt like that".

Sorry. I laughed a lot in this post. But really though? I'm afraid that because people are abusing these meds that one day they will become part of the stigma as "bad bad drugs" and pdocs being afraid to prescribe. I mean, something being compared to oxy when it had absolutely zero effect on me like that. And many people for that matter. Bipolar or not. I know people that were prescribed gabapentin for serious pain. Like herniated disk and fibromyalgia and they all tried it and laughed.

I'm pissed already when "healthy" people accuse me saying "you're just high on psych meds that's why you feel better". I just laugh. And laugh. I'm sorry if I offended anyone with this post but if I did it's only because I don't understand why these meds are being abused when all they do is pretty much sedate you. And I'm not talking about a nice calm sedation. I'm talking the "out cold and unable to hold a thought" type of sedation.

Ugh. I'm sorry I really don't know the point of this post. I'm just baffled and really, I'm having a terrible night and been crying like a abandoned puppy. I needed to giggle at stupidity and vent to take my mind off ****.

If everyone's having a good time on pretty much every med I've been prescribed then I must be taking them wrong lol.

[UpDownAround]

I don't get abusing sleep hypnotics either. Maybe they affect some people differently. Ambien quit working for me after a while, but when it did work it just made feel like I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open and I would sleep. Some people did stuff and had amnesia. Is that a fun high?

[Sometimes psychotic]

Apparently the APs mix well with crack/cocaine type drugs so there is a market for them.

[Guiness187055]

That's just nuts! People that don't need the drugs must get a much different feeling than we do. Last thing I would say is hey wanna get high on some zyprexa.

I think people can get a variety of responses from the same drug. Some drugs such as the ADHD and benzo really get some people off.....as do pain meds and sleep aids. I heard something about some people responding a certain way to Gaba. Some people think psych meds make people high. I don't even get sedation from many of them.....I'd have welcomed the sedation at the time. My husband ran a unit at a state hospital and they caught patients snorting and even injecting Wellbutrin so I guess it's a thing for some people. Without an AP, I respond sort of strongly to Wellbutrin but with this AP I'm not. People will think we are getting high cause they are misinformed through media a lot of times. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people smoking pot on TV and the reaction they show people having to it is like a serious acid trip more than cannabis! A lot of people really think it's like that! And who knows, for some people it's maybe like that but not that I've ever witnessed. People are very influenced by the media. There is a strong anti-psychiatry and anti-med groups out there. People don't know what it's really like unless they have it or someone they are VERY close to has it. People are very ignorant on the topic and mental illness is "hushed" so that true awareness in going to be a long battle.

[WildcatVet]

Media hype is definitely doing us more harm than good. And many of the same people who will try any new fad drug will be the first to shame the mentally ill. Are they the real crazy ones or has the whole world gone crazy?? Don't answer that...I don't want to know.

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Oh yea Wellbutrin. My friend said guys would trade it in jail and they call it "prison crack". He also said they used to snort buspar. Another med that does nothing to me.

[Shazerac]

There are entire websites where people discuss their experience with "Recreational" use.......snorting, shooting, and even cramming them up their butts. Psych meds I mean. They are usually using way high dosage. More then we would take in a week.

Seroquel is referred to in prisons as Suzy Q and everyone wants to be on it. I guess if I was in prison I would want to be drugged into a zombie state too.

I guess some idiots will try anything to get high.

[UpDownAround]

I hate hearing all this about wellbutrin. All of my care team is aware I should not get drugs subject to abuse. I do not think of wellbutrin fitting in that category. It is only slightly stimulating; coffee is stronger IMO. If it makes me very slightly hypo, I would not take more to get full blown despite my post a day or two ago (I was kidding). I am hopeful about either 225 or 300 being the right dose BTW.

[scatterbrained04]

Yeah I'm baffled too. I know doctors are supposed to run a report on patients prior to prescribing gabapentin. I don't get it. I either feel no effects of it or drowsy if anything. But I guess maybe spacy when I first started it. Maybe that's what their after? I don't enjoy psych meds, so I don't get it.

I don't need drugs to get high......I take drugs to not be high. When depressed I imagine it's like a person taking a bottle of benzos......even with no drugs in my system I feel so drugged and sedated. When manic is like having taken speed without having done so. Why is everyone so concerned with whose getting high I wonder? Why do they care so much about other people's health conditions or recreational habits? When someone thinks a person is "high" what does that mean? How does a high person feel? People get natural highs.....should they feel ashamed? I just don't get this obsession with other people's medical conditions.

[UpDownAround]

Originally Posted by ElsaMars

I don't need drugs to get high......I take drugs to not be high.

Same to some degree. One of my worries is that I am found out for never being all the way straight/sober even with no alcohol or drugs (other than prescribed) in my system.

[Shazerac]

I take gabapentin when the herniated disk in my neck acts up. It helps with nerve pain. It also helps keep me calm. I get very anxious when I'm in pain because I fear that it will get so bad that I can't handle and start screaming or something. Then I get worried that I would get branded as psychotic because of that. It's all so complicated ....

[Sunflower123]

That's just wild! I had no idea.

[still_crazy]

wow. gabapentin. i'm even prescribed that stuff, despite a questionable history (I cleaned up my act years ago, Praise God). I guess that explains why the latest shrink at the clinic was asking me so many question about every substance imaginable...even coffee!

these days...society's so puritanical, even seroquel, wellbutrin, and gabapentin are regarded with suspicion.

[WildcatVet]

What's society supposed to think when the real crazies are out there snorting psych meds?? C'mon, nobody in their right mind takes this stuff for cheap thrills. P***es me right off! I don't want to be considered to be in the same class as them.

[Nammu]

I don't need drugs to get high...I quit the psych meds I get high on mania....if I could bottle that and sell it I'd make a killing.

[bioChE]

Dude, if someone offered me cash money for my Seroquel, they'd have it in a heartbeat.

[UpDownAround]

Originally Posted by bioChE

Dude, if someone offered me cash money for my Seroquel, they'd have it in a heartbeat.

How much for the vyvanse? Kidding!! I turned it down after I got off adderall (which I abused). The pdoc was telling me you can't abuse it because you can't split up capsules and 2 is too much. I told her they sell gel caps at GNC and I could slice and dice all I wanted. Besides, I am such a wimp with drugs that a normal dose would probably get me high. So, I take straterra. I wonder if anyone tries to abuse that.

[jacky8807]

yeah we lock up and count gabapentin at my work (Detox) because it is abused. People also abuse Wellbutrin and try to cheek it and crush/snort it.
Wellbutrin gave me some kind of ride but it wasn't a good one.
Soon we will be looked at in suspicion for even these meds. Crazy

[WildcatVet]

Which makes them less and less available to those of us who really NEED them.

[bioChE]

Originally Posted by UpDownAround

How much for the vyvanse? Kidding!! I turned it down after I got off adderall (which I abused). The pdoc was telling me you can't abuse it because you can't split up capsules and 2 is too much. I told her they sell gel caps at GNC and I could slice and dice all I wanted. Besides, I am such a wimp with drugs that a normal dose would probably get me high. So, I take straterra. I wonder if anyone tries to abuse that.

The Vyvanse you can peel from my cold, dead fingers. It's the one thing that cuts through the med fog in the morning and allows me to concentrate on work and such. That one I need. The Seroquel, not so much.

[UpDownAround]

Originally Posted by bioChE

The Vyvanse you can peel from my cold, dead fingers. It's the one thing that cuts through the med fog in the morning and allows me to concentrate on work and such. That one I need. The Seroquel, not so much.

The straterra doesn't give you a push; it helps you steer. Coffee (and I think the recently added wellbutrin has a slight stimulating effect) is what gets me going. Also, because I am such a dosage wimp, 2.5 mg of saphris is enough to sleep but not enough to cause any additional morning fog. I have brain fog all day every day with or without meds, so I am largely habituated to a surreal view of the world.

[bioChE]

I have to be at work at 2AM tomorrow morning. I'm considering popping a Wellbutrin, because it causes insomnia in me. Probably not a good idea, though.

[Unrigged64072835]

Some people will try anything to get high, and sell anything to make money. My daughter's boyfriend's older brother is like that. That's why he's not allowed to visit our house, and all of our meds are locked up.

I'm not high; I'm medicated so I can be functional. I don't know what my pnurse would do if she had to stop giving me gabapentin, as it's the main med for my anxiety.