Following on from my earlier post in this topic about LSD, we also had more than a couple of years where it was pills, pills and more pills, every weekend.
By this time most people I knew were working, serious work (with serious pay), so it was heavy on for the weekend, but then an enforced 5 days/nights off to work (gotta pay for your habits).
I never really had suicide Tuesdays, or the various variants of it, usually managed to get some food or calories into me during the weekend, probably the worst of it was just the sleep deficit.
It started to taper off when children started arriving, as the double hit on sleep deficit, even if all the other problems and responsibilities could be managed, was just a killer.
I would argue that no noticeable cognitive decline occurred, I have worked 30 odd years in a highly demanding profession demanding abstract thought and the ability to deal with lots of details and join dots others may not see. So I think I would notice if I was fried.
One thing was, pretty early on, I got on to the concept that most drugs are buy now, pay later. And that if you were going to do something that was going to vastly increase the rate of consumption of certain precursor chemicals in the mind and body, to preload heavily to avoid depletion burn out.
So I had a standard stack of supplements we almost always would take first. Maybe why I never really had the Monday/Tuesday crashes many seemed to, as well.
By this time most people I knew were working, serious work (with serious pay), so it was heavy on for the weekend, but then an enforced 5 days/nights off to work (gotta pay for your habits).
I never really had suicide Tuesdays, or the various variants of it, usually managed to get some food or calories into me during the weekend, probably the worst of it was just the sleep deficit.
It started to taper off when children started arriving, as the double hit on sleep deficit, even if all the other problems and responsibilities could be managed, was just a killer.
I would argue that no noticeable cognitive decline occurred, I have worked 30 odd years in a highly demanding profession demanding abstract thought and the ability to deal with lots of details and join dots others may not see. So I think I would notice if I was fried.
One thing was, pretty early on, I got on to the concept that most drugs are buy now, pay later. And that if you were going to do something that was going to vastly increase the rate of consumption of certain precursor chemicals in the mind and body, to preload heavily to avoid depletion burn out.
So I had a standard stack of supplements we almost always would take first. Maybe why I never really had the Monday/Tuesday crashes many seemed to, as well.