Originally Posted by godsonmyside
We forgot what it was like before we started using; we forgot the social graces. We acquired strange habits and mannerisms. We forgot how to work; we forgot how to play; we forgot how to express ourselves and show concern for others. We forgot how to feel.
Slow and insideous - like the frog in the pot of water that starts out cold and then when the heat is turned up slowly, doesn't jump out. I hate this analogy, but it fits. And like the poor frog, drugs were killing me, too. Slowly at first and then faster and faster in the end.
And tolerence for pain? I think I have a very high tolerence for emotional pain and a very low tolerence for physical pain. Can anyone else relate to that?
--phinny