There is a myth that many people have adopted that drugs help your creativity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Another extension of that myth is that a person in the arts has to be brooding to be successful. Again, a lie. In fact, drugs have ruined many people’s careers, whether in the arts, business or any other field.
When a person originally takes a drug he will feel very fired up and enthusiastic. He will appear happy and free and easy. However, it is a synthetic or artificial high and it does not last. Worse still, after that artificial high wears off the person’s emotional tone goes much, much lower, often down to a point of apathy.
For example, let’s say a guy takes cocaine simply because he is feeling bored. Soon after taking the drug he’ll no longer be bored, but on the other hand, will start to feel a little hyper and excitable. That sensation may last for a while, a few hours or so, and then will begin to wear off. Before too long he is getting ill-tempered and then he has outbursts of anger. That hyper, enthusiastic feeling is long gone and replaced with a very undesirable feeling and in the end he will feel apathetic. The price he had to pay for that hyper, enthusiastic feeling was far too much in comparison to the amount of suffering he does afterward.
Eventually, the guy will settle back to the point around boredom again. Then he’ll want to get the high feeling again and he will take the drug and the whole sequence starts over. At some point he will not be returning even as high as the boredom, he’ll feel worse than that. Then the highs are not even as good as they were in the initial stages. He won’t even be able to get away for a few hours like he used to.
Now he begins to take more of the drug or he’ll try to find a more powerful drug to create as good of a high as he used to be able to get. At this time our guy has become a drug addict and in most cases his best chance is to get into a good drug rehab facility that can help him straighten out his life.
If the drug rehab is done thoroughly and properly then he will not only get off the drug but they will help him change conditions in his life so that he won’t be liable to just drop back into the same trap he was in before. He will not only have a drug free life, but a completely new life!
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