The effects are quite different from what I get with tianeptine sodium. With sulphate the effect lasts longer, yes, but it's not just that.
It puts me in this spontaneously contemplative mood. I'll leave the house and the sky will look magnificent. I'll be walking down the street and just endlessly marveling at the sky. Ordinarily I'll look at a pretty sky (or house, or landscape) and just think "yup, sure it's beautiful", but I'll feel nothing. But if I take the sulphate I'll feel that beautiful sky as I look at it. It's a feeling somewhere in the vicinity of gratitude and joy. I suppose the depression blocks one from feeling those things. With the depression momentary lifted, the feelings come flooding in. I've never taken LSD or mushrooms or anything like that (and I'm wary of taking them), but I guess it's similar to the feelings of joy people report from taking those substances. It's probably related, then, to the fact that tianeptine, like those substances, reduces serotonin. Anyway, this doesn't really happen with sodium in my experience.
Tia sulphate also makes me much more eloquent. Sodium has a bit of this effect as well, but with sulphate it's much more pronounced. My writing style is usually pretty ordinary (like right now; I haven't taken tianeptine in a week), but the sulphate unlocks something in me. It's not that the prose looks better to me when I'm "high", either; I'll reread my texts months later and wonder how I managed to write them. I'll show them to other people and they'll tell me they're great. Amphetamines do the same thing to me, eloquence-wise, but they come with a lot of nasty side-effects (tried them once, not worth it; Peat is right about them). And this eloquence thing probably happens (I think) because both tianeptine and amphetamines raise dopamine.
If I could find tia sulphate for cheap I'd take it every day (at responsible doses, yes). It anihillates my depression. Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to import, and increasingly expensive as well.
But yeah, that's it. Just sharing my experience.
(And of course, please be careful with tianeptine. It's easy to get addicted and withdrawals can be painful.)
It puts me in this spontaneously contemplative mood. I'll leave the house and the sky will look magnificent. I'll be walking down the street and just endlessly marveling at the sky. Ordinarily I'll look at a pretty sky (or house, or landscape) and just think "yup, sure it's beautiful", but I'll feel nothing. But if I take the sulphate I'll feel that beautiful sky as I look at it. It's a feeling somewhere in the vicinity of gratitude and joy. I suppose the depression blocks one from feeling those things. With the depression momentary lifted, the feelings come flooding in. I've never taken LSD or mushrooms or anything like that (and I'm wary of taking them), but I guess it's similar to the feelings of joy people report from taking those substances. It's probably related, then, to the fact that tianeptine, like those substances, reduces serotonin. Anyway, this doesn't really happen with sodium in my experience.
Tia sulphate also makes me much more eloquent. Sodium has a bit of this effect as well, but with sulphate it's much more pronounced. My writing style is usually pretty ordinary (like right now; I haven't taken tianeptine in a week), but the sulphate unlocks something in me. It's not that the prose looks better to me when I'm "high", either; I'll reread my texts months later and wonder how I managed to write them. I'll show them to other people and they'll tell me they're great. Amphetamines do the same thing to me, eloquence-wise, but they come with a lot of nasty side-effects (tried them once, not worth it; Peat is right about them). And this eloquence thing probably happens (I think) because both tianeptine and amphetamines raise dopamine.
If I could find tia sulphate for cheap I'd take it every day (at responsible doses, yes). It anihillates my depression. Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to import, and increasingly expensive as well.
But yeah, that's it. Just sharing my experience.
(And of course, please be careful with tianeptine. It's easy to get addicted and withdrawals can be painful.)
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