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11 voters
Substance Abuse
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Most chemicals that give humans a buzz evolved to disrupt insect nervous systems. If our brains used different chemicals, we would not be so vulnerable. However, we have common ancestors with insects. It was long ago, about 500 million years ago, when our ancestors split off from the arthropod lines that became modern insects. However, our neurochemicals remain about the same as theirs. Fortunately, most plant neurotoxins don’t kill us. We have evolved to eat plants, and we are much larger than
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― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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...I learned I didn't have to be a slave to my circumstances. I could look beyond the prison walls from within the prison walls by changing who I was. Letting go of drugs was getting a gorilla off my back. I could face any scenario without turning to chemicals to protect my soul. Taking it day by day, I didn't need to feel guilt and regret and anger for the past. I didn't need to fear the future. Those things were outside of me and I could just be.
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― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
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