Dec. 9th, 2014 02:10 pm
[personal profile] snarp
Some of the Reddit nootropics guys are buying tianeptine in such large quantities that their usual vendors can't keep it in stock. "It's so helpful!" Tianeptine's an antidepressant; the trade name is Stablon. Saint John's Wort and Modafinil are also quite popular.

A huge proportion of the people involved in these communities are, I guess, just looking for inexpensive methods of treating depression that don't require engaging with the medical apparatus. The hyper-macho talk about improving cognitive function to "give yourself an edge!" + war stories about staying up for three days "coding like BEAST" act as kind of a smoke screen for people uncomfortable defining themselves as depressed.

Date: 2014-12-10 07:20 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] vass
The hyper-macho talk about improving cognitive function to "give yourself an edge!" + war stories about staying up for three days "coding like BEAST" act as kind of a smoke screen for people uncomfortable defining themselves as depressed.

Makes sense. And is sad.

Date: 2014-12-10 07:39 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
(and when you're not carrying all that fuckishness around with you all the time, it does decrease cognitive load significantly...)

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