Posted by blueboy on August 20, 2007, at 13:30:59
In reply to Are there any HIGHS that won't hurt????, posted by sometimesblue on August 6, 2007, at 14:03:59
If you run/jog far enough or long enough or hard enough, whatever, you will in fact get high for a few hours after you stop. Not some b***s**t "gosh you will feel so much better", I mean a real concrete high, like you took a hit of some decent recreational drug.
I had a weird experience once when I was stopping smoking. I was running at the time and I got addicted to it, and I do mean 'addicted' in the narrow clinical sense of the word! I would sit around all day, fixated and obsessed with getting out to run just because I craved that endorphin/serotonin relief. And I would push my mileage and ignore physical pain to get a bigger dose. My big toenail turned black and started to fall off. (I started smoking again, so I don't know if I would have just sacrificed the toenail or not. Probably. )
This isn't really normal, but it is socially acceptable and probably overall healthy.
> One of you guys/girls out there said "You can't live a normal life high"...could this be true? Maybe some of us need it to get thru the day...where does that leave us?
>
> -SometimesBlue
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