>>2579If your aunt has psychological issues because of one or two sessions of X, she probably already had problems; the X made them temporarily worse, but it looks to her like the X gave her those problems. Unless she's specifically extremely more susceptible to MDMA's neurotoxicity, it's not immediate brain damage that is the problem.
I had something similar happen to me with nootropics a couple of years ago. Minor amounts of anxiety and stress have always been a problem for me; when I started taking piracetam & caffeine together that anxiety got significantly worse. At first I thought all the symptoms I experienced (like dyspnea & excessive fear) were solely due to the noots. It took me a while to realize that anxiety had been plaguing me the whole time, and now that I've learned how to deal with it I can take noots, stims, basically whatever I want with a manageable level of anxiety.
My point is that if you have latent psychological problems, they're probably going to surface at some point or another, and probably already affect you to some extent. If anything taking X or a psychedelic might allow you to deal with those problems. That's not to say you shouldn't exercise caution when using drugs.
>>2580>Ecstasy is one of the sketchiest substances...If you mean street X, yes that is likely to have brain-melting shit that no one wants to take. And I guess the advice for OP is to buy a testing kit. But MDMA isn't as bad as I think you're making it out to be. If you're referring to neurotoxicity, then I'd present the case of millions of people taking methylphenidate therapeutically (myself included) over long periods of time, with no statistically significant brain damage.
I think your perspective on brain damage is a bit skewed. Most of the bad trip reports I've read on Erowid had to do with already stupid people taking excessive doses or mixing drugs and getting serotonin syndrome or just toasting parts of their brain. It's not necessarily the drug that's directly "zapping" your brain; if you're dehydrated and overheated and your serotonin receptors are maxed out, but because of impaired judgment continue to pop DXM, X, or whatever your poison, the resulting high fever and dehydration will definitely kill some brai
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