Comment · Sun, September 8, 2013
Can someone help me understand euphoria.
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Crabaroni · 5 points
Euphoria is an effect of a lot of psychoactives, but I'm not sure how to identify if I'm feeling it or not. I've smoked weed, did mushrooms(highest dose was an eighth), DXM(second plateau), and last night I did 20mg of hydrocodone with zero opiate tolerance. Can someone help me identify which of the feelings I felt was euphoria?
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Euphoria is subjective, and varies from person to person. It's not simply a mental or physical feeling, but an aggregate of everything that leads you to a state of joy and happiness. You may have felt euphoria with all your substances, just in different ways. Opiate euphoria is more of a calm and content feeling, where amphetamine is more of a speedy and pushy happiness. I consider both euphoria, even though they have differences.
Some people even feel euphoria with benzos, even though they do not lead to a direct mechanism that usually mediates joy. That's because happiness is more than just activation of the dopamine or serotonin systems. It's a higher level thought process that is linked to all your systems. Sometimes people use physical cues to determine if they are euphoric, like head tingles or rushes through one's body. Sometimes it's purely mental. It's really up to you to define your own euphoria.