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Every stimulator drug always backfires. I won't be surprised if the subjects of research will go into deep depression and productivity slump once they stop microdosing therapy.

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They wont. I've microdosed daily for 30 days and the next day was completely normal. Very, very happy and content, maybe.

What about a week or two after that?

Still not, I'm afraid. More clarity and spiritual insight and greatly enhanced sense of belonging. It all comes down to what you do with the tool you're given. What you have in mind.

I also depends on your initial state and the source of your problems. If there's a problem in your body chemistry and you take a stimulator that temporarily fills holes in it, the whole structure will crash when you stop taking it in.

That goes for pretty much everything in these circumstances, yeah

>Every stimulator drug always backfires

I'm gonna need you to back up that claim, because as far as I can see the positive contribution of coffee to society is pretty well-understood

I went through caffeine addiction myself, it was a nightmare. After 3 months of struggle I now see that I am more productive without it.

Yup, story checks out, that seems like the type of experience that often lead people to over-generalize, like you did above.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-is-how-you...

"The plural of anecdote is not data"

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