So you know how “substances” come in all shapes and sizes? Like recreational, proscribed, everyday varieties, delicious things, and many other sorts? And being the miserable little depressive you are, some of these substances call out and beckon for you to use them?

Substances are your friends. And like your friends some of them are way fun, and fuck you up after you play with them, and other ones are less fun, and also fuck you up after you play with them. Then there are a few that make you feel better for a bit, before letting you down again. And on occasion, there’s a couple that help lift you up and support you as you get back on your feet so that you can kick your depression in the face. Then hug it because it deserves love too, despite being a whiny little bitch.

People like to put drugs in different categories. The biggest one being that whole “legal versus illegal” thing. Still, as we all know, drugs of any type have effects and “side effects” which are really just effects that people typically don’t like as much. At the end of the day, these categories are only so useful, because they are made by people who are not you, and do not necessarily understand everything about you and how you operate.

Your body, is yours. Your mind, is yours. And you are the one that will bear the consequences of whatever substances you decide to intake. It can be hit or miss when you’re trying to find a balance in managing your misery, and people try out different techniques. That is what that is.

Challenge is when people don’t observe the outcomes of their little experiments, or ignore the outcomes that don’t fit with what they want reality to be. If a substance works for a bit, and then stops, that’s good to know. If a substance works for a bit, but also causes blah, eyes bleeding, blah blah, internal hemorrhaging, blah blah blah, alien invasions and such, that’s also good to know. And if after a time, a substance just isn’t really doing that much for you anymore, yet you find yourself doing it anyway, that’s important to note as well.

So substances are wondrously diverse and magical! And you may try different ones in your soul searching quest for reduced miserability. That happens. Paying attention to how your interactions with said substances develop and the results of those interactions is a thing to do. So do it.