Question for the Molly folks, do you have a terrible seratonin crash the next day? I haven't rolled since I was in college in the late 90's and I recall having absolutely soul crushing depression the day afterwards.
Based on what I‘ve heard and whatnot I think a few big things that help ameliorate it is not drinking alcohol, hydrating a ton, knowing your source (to minimize the risk of ingesting extra garbage), and avoiding the temptation to double/triple dip (taking small doses with you instead of your whole stash, to avoid temptation ) so you can still fall asleep relatively normally without being up all night grinding your teeth. I know one mom who tries to schedule a very gentle day the day after if possible so work and parenting duties are minimal.
Well I was definitely drinking while rolling back in the olden times so that could have been it. Non zero probability that the shit I was encountering in my college town wasn't the best either. Good to know!
As a curious person I have dug into the MDMA Reddit sub a little bit, and there are some supplements people recommend too, but that didn’t come up in my interviews.
I was so ready for the comments here but unsurprisingly I think people are hesitant to share. I’ve never done anything since parenthood for a bunch of reasons - logistics - having a whole weekend to myself would be hard, legality and concerns around contamination. I’ve only ever spoken to one Mum friend about it and she wasn’t horrified but its not her thing. I struggle a lot with self judgement and anxiety and the few experiences I had pre-kids were great and something that definitively gave some insights that helped me - being able to understand that just because someone else was beautiful didn’t mean I wasn’t, letting go of a lot of judgment of others for liking different things to me, being able to chill (sometimes!). I rarely drink alcohol because it just makes me sleepy, and pot was very boring (maybe not a good batch).
I decided to do subscriber only comments because I'm too much of a wimp to moderate comments from non-family who might have strong opinions on what responsible/"good" moms do. The non-drinking thing actually came up a lot in these conversations--many of these moms I spoke with have either stopped drinking or cut way back. I bet that is a little bit a part of why drugs seem a little more less taboo maybe, it's not just a mishmash of chemicals and bad decisions. It's like I want to feel more *this* way, not *that* way.
Question for the Molly folks, do you have a terrible seratonin crash the next day? I haven't rolled since I was in college in the late 90's and I recall having absolutely soul crushing depression the day afterwards.
Based on what I‘ve heard and whatnot I think a few big things that help ameliorate it is not drinking alcohol, hydrating a ton, knowing your source (to minimize the risk of ingesting extra garbage), and avoiding the temptation to double/triple dip (taking small doses with you instead of your whole stash, to avoid temptation ) so you can still fall asleep relatively normally without being up all night grinding your teeth. I know one mom who tries to schedule a very gentle day the day after if possible so work and parenting duties are minimal.
Well I was definitely drinking while rolling back in the olden times so that could have been it. Non zero probability that the shit I was encountering in my college town wasn't the best either. Good to know!
As a curious person I have dug into the MDMA Reddit sub a little bit, and there are some supplements people recommend too, but that didn’t come up in my interviews.
I was so ready for the comments here but unsurprisingly I think people are hesitant to share. I’ve never done anything since parenthood for a bunch of reasons - logistics - having a whole weekend to myself would be hard, legality and concerns around contamination. I’ve only ever spoken to one Mum friend about it and she wasn’t horrified but its not her thing. I struggle a lot with self judgement and anxiety and the few experiences I had pre-kids were great and something that definitively gave some insights that helped me - being able to understand that just because someone else was beautiful didn’t mean I wasn’t, letting go of a lot of judgment of others for liking different things to me, being able to chill (sometimes!). I rarely drink alcohol because it just makes me sleepy, and pot was very boring (maybe not a good batch).
I decided to do subscriber only comments because I'm too much of a wimp to moderate comments from non-family who might have strong opinions on what responsible/"good" moms do. The non-drinking thing actually came up a lot in these conversations--many of these moms I spoke with have either stopped drinking or cut way back. I bet that is a little bit a part of why drugs seem a little more less taboo maybe, it's not just a mishmash of chemicals and bad decisions. It's like I want to feel more *this* way, not *that* way.