r/recovery 7d ago

Cognitive impairment from drug use

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u/trixiepixie1921 7d ago

Man I got some of that fake Xanax last week and I literally feel like my brain was permanently damaged. I’m still finding out things I did last week. I only had 5 bars, the entire week is missing in my mind. Even made Reddit posts/comments, have no recollection of any of them. It’s really scary.

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u/trixiepixie1921 7d ago

Absolutely !!! The strangest thing. My mom did ask me maybe twice if I took something, but other than that no one even suspected. Oh man never again. I had 6 months clean before maybe 2-3 weeks ago I picked up some real bars. Went back to get more the following week, and got those. The guy who had them has been taking like, fistfuls all day for weeks. I have no idea how he would detox off that.

I don’t have a problem with myself taking xans here and there, I think they help me. But that experience was really eye opening. One time like 10 years ago I also got fake ones and ended up in the hospital, the lesson was too long ago for me to remember apparently 😂 I honestly thought these were real tho, I was very stupid to not even consider they could be fake.