Ecstasy / Molly / MDMA

Names for Ecstasy : MDMA, Molly, ADAM, M, X, E, Scooby Snacks, Hug Drug, Love Drug, Skittles, Vitamin E.

Ecstasy vs. Molly vs. MDMA

These are all the exact same drug, they are just prepared in different ways.

Ecstasy – Is a pill that is pressed into different shapes, with different logos on them to represent a specific drug dealer or just for the look. These pills contain very little MDMA (the actual drug), and are mostly made up of different additives such as caffeine, aspirin or other over the counter medications.

Molly – This is the purest form of MDMA. It is sold in its pure crystal form in capsules or  rocks depending on how much you buy. there is usually zero additives since it would be very hard to hide them while selling crystals.

MDMA – This is the pure crystal form crushed into a powder and cut (mixed) with other drugs or additives such as caffeine, bath salts, DXM, Ephedrine and many many more substances that are detrimental to your health.

What is Ecstasy? 

Ecstasy is a designer drug that was originally created by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912 as MDMA (Methylene-Dioxy-Meth-Amphetamine). It’s a designer drug because it was created for the purpose to make you feel “High”. In the 1970’s it began being used as a party drug, sold illegally under the table with the brand name of Ecstasy.

Ecstasy is a chemical substance that combines both a Stimulant and Hallucinogen. Users experience intensified feelings whether they’re good or bad. A typically good experience while being high on Ecstasy would be, the user feels very positive, energetic, intense feelings of love and empathy for everyone they’re around. Users feel as if they’re in a dreamy mind state, music sounds like the most amazing thing on the planet, and overall it seems like a harmless drug that does wonders to your happiness. This drug is Extremely addictive, in many cases during the after effects of being high, users experience crippling depression leading them to want to get high again and again to avoid the after effects.

The majority of the people who take drugs like Ecstasy are led to believe it’s safe because of what their peers tell them, or from doing a quick internet search and find out it’s safe based on peoples experiences on some forum.

This drug is a chemical that was made by humans in a laboratory, it can cause neurotoxicity ( When your brain is exposed to natural or artificial toxic substances that alter the activity of your brain in such a way that causes damage).

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How Ecstasy Works

Ecstasy works by increasing the activity of a few neurotransmitters (the chemical messengers of brain cells) such as, Serotonin, Dopamine, and Norepinephrine, Serotonin is mostly affected. Serotonin plays an important role in our brain, it regulates our mood, sleep, pain, appetite, and our behaviours. When Ecstasy enters the body, it forces the brain to release excess Serotonin which causes mood elevating effects.

Effects on The Brain

After being high on Ecstasy, your brain will be depleted of its serotonin levels which will leave you feeling down and depressed over the next few days after being high, until your brain regenerates more Serotonin.

Because of the significantly increased activity of these neurotransmitters that would not normally happen without a substance, serotonins regenerative abilities are damaged. Long-term and heavy usage of this drug can severely damage the regenerative abilities of your neurotransmitters (Brain Damage). You might not feel stupid or like you’ve been dumbed down after taking this drug, this is because it doesn’t effect the memory parts of your brain. But if you do experience changes in your mood like depression, anxiety, or aggression, or if you have new sleeping disturbances you haven’t had before, these are all signs of damage to your brain.

Medical Uses of Ecstasy

In the 1960’s, Ecstasy was being used as a psychotherapy medication to lower inhibitions (a feeling that makes one self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way.)

It no longer is used for medicinal purposes due to its negative effects on the brain.

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Side effects of Ecstasy

• Sweating
• Dry Mouth
• Grinding of teeth
• Clenching of Jaw
• Dehydration
• Increased Heart Rate
• Blurred vision
• Increased Body Temperature
• High blood pressure
• Thirst

Withdrawal Symptoms

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Panic Attacks
• Reductions in Mental Abilities
• Lack of Appetite
• Sleep Problems
• Agression

Sean.

Major Depressive Disorder

 

Also Known As: Clinical Depression, Major Depression, Unipolar Depression.

In life we all feel down, upset, and even depressed about issues that make sense to be depressed about. Things like a death, a breakup, losing your job, failing an exam, these are all normal reasons to feel depressed for a little while. But after a few days, weeks, or months you should be feeling your normal self again.

Major Depressive Disorder is an illness that causes an extreme feeling of deep sadness, hopelessness, and emptiness for a time usually lasting 2 years or longer. This is something that affects people feel every day of their lives. It feels like there is no point to getting out of bed in the morning because of the way you see yourself when you’re depressed.

You feel worthless, like no one will ever want to date you, be friends with you, or hire you for any career.You feel hopeless, like nothing will ever change and that every day of the rest of your life will be the same as a day when you’re depressed. You feel empty, there are hardly any emotions other than sadness that are left inside you.

Depression is a disease, an illness, it is not something someone can just snap out of at any given time. Everyone tends to become very irritating whether it’s your parents, siblings, or best of friends. You always want to be alone but you are saddened at the fact that you feel lonely and like there is no one there for you. The biggest problem with depression is that people have trouble expressing themselves because of their lack of emotion. This causes the affected person to keep all thoughts and emotions to themselves keeping everything bottled up. When someone does not speak up how are they supposed to get help? They can’t! After a long time, suicidal thoughts begin to flood your mind and it becomes clear to you that suicide is the only answer because you are so hopeless of the future and of your depression ever going away.

Now most people who are depressed do get suicidal thoughts, but never actually attempt suicide. That is why it is so important to not take any kind of depressant drugs while depressed. Alcohol greatly exaggerates your emotions and actions while intoxicated.

Many teens and adolescents that are Depressed are also usually shy. This makes it very hard for these people to get help because they can’t speak up for themselves. So they end up suffering much longer than should be. To overcome shyness and to possibly help yourself become a stronger and happier version of yourself i’ve listed below tips and techniques you can use to achieve your goals.

Causes of Major Depressive Disorder

Depression does not have a single cause. It arises in each person differently. A person’s life experience, genetic inheritance, age, sex, brain chemistry imbalance, hormone changes, substance abuse and other illnesses all play a role in the development of a depression.

Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder:

• Pessimism (The bad things in life outweigh the good things)
• Hypersensitivity to Rejection
• Shyness
• Suicidal Thoughts / Behaviour
• Feeling Hopeless
• Social Withdrawal
• Feeling as if you’re moving/ thinking in slow motion
• Low Self Confidence
• Impaired Judgement
• Extremely Low Energy
• Agoraphobia (Fear of leaving your home)
• Personal Neglect
• Loneliness
• Lack of Emotional Expression
• Irritated by Friends and Family
• Victimized Feeling
• Feeling Worthless
• Impaired Concentration
• Excessive Sleeping

Techniques you can try to feel happier 🙂

• Start a youtube channel, get your thoughts out
• Join an online community and talk to others
• Learn to say NO (being shy you may be someone who wants to please everyone else, learn to say no to people and please yourself)
• Make a Free Blog and Vent Your Feelings and Thoughts
• Exercise
• Eat Healthy
• Get Enough Sleep
• Try Something New
• Set Goals
• Do something that makes you happy each day

A Mindset to Put Into Action (Don’t Let Your Emotions Control Your Actions, Let Your Actions Control Your Emotions)

You can let your emotions such as being sad, empty, hopeless… control the way you act (laying in bed all day, staying home instead of going out with friends, not exercising, and eating unhealthy)

Or you can let your actions such as working out, going out with friends, eating healthy.. control the way you feel (Happier, proud of yourself, stronger, and like you’re taking control of your life).

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Drugs

Many drugs can cause a person who is already depressed to become severely depressed.

The drugs to watch out for that can cause you to feel even worse are the following:

Alcohol –  Drinking Alcohol while depressed can extremely exaggerate depression and suicidal thoughts. Alcohol and Depression are not a good combination at all.

Ecstasy/ Molly/ MDMA – Taking this drug will make you feel extremely happy, energetic, and loving for a few hours. In our brains we all have storage reserves for chemicals such as Serotonin and Dopamine . These chemicals are responsible for making us FEEL happiness, excitement and pleasure. When we get happy or excited, our brain releases small amounts of these chemicals from the reserves to the rest of our brain, keeping the reserves still filled with chemicals to feel happiness throughout the day.  Ecstasy works by releasing the majority of these chemicals over the course of a few hours. After being high from ecstasy and your reserves are close to empty there is no doubt you will not be feeling as happy or normal as you usually do before you ingested this drug. Your brain will then take a few days to fully restore these chemical reserves. Ecstasy can damage the process in which serotonin and dopamine are created within your brain, which can leave you feeling depressed for a very long time.

People that are not depressed who take ecstasy will feel somewhat to completely depressed over the following days after being high. This drug is very easy to become dependent on because of the depression that follows after a high. People that have never been depressed before have experienced suicidal thoughts after being depressed from Molly for a few days.

This is seriously NOT a drug for anyone who is already depressed.

Be careful what you put into your body. 

Sean.