After long-term extreme drug abuse and loss of 'brain cells', do they ever grow back?
Or is that person pretty much screwed? This ‘addiction’ or extreme drug abuse occurred in the teen years of that persons life for quite some time.
Or is that person pretty much screwed? This ‘addiction’ or extreme drug abuse occurred in the teen years of that persons life for quite some time.
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YES THEY GROW BACK, in the long run.
It levels out, but nothing grows back.
They’ll never be able to reach their full pre-drug potential, and they’ll have to work harder than they did when they were younger, but unless they’re in a mental institution or keeled over in a wheelchair drooling 20 hours a day, I’m sure they’ll be fine.
Damaged brain cells are permanent
once you lose brain cells they are gone for good as far as i know.
No they don’t grow back I have epilepsy and have loss of brain cells they don’t suddenly appear again the damage is done when they’re gone they’re gone.
Yes brain cells grow can reproduce. Recent scientific studies show of cells resembling somatic stem cells in the brain. A location in the brain called the hippocampus is where all the magic happens. Though there a limited amount of spots where the stem cells are, they are there. Scientists are still researching about if those stem cells are able to regenerate other types of neurons. So the answer is yes, brain cells can grow back but at a very slow rate. Not like your skin cells or etc.
I can’t imagine the physical damage to the brain being crippling, unless they were doing some really bad shit. Especially if it was only during their teens.
The bigger problem with extreme drug abuse is actually the decay of the reward system. See, when you do addictive drugs, it starts to take more and more dopamine to get over that hump of ‘ahhh yeah’. So you have to do more and more drugs. But when you stop doing drugs, your reward system’s still working like that. So its hard to feel reward in a lot of other situations in life. You know, going to work every day, getting a raise, watching a funny movie. These things release dopamine, but it just doesn’t feel as good as it would have. But it takes a lot of drug use for it to be really bad.
So the issue is usually less that they’re stupid now, and more that they don’t care as much, have a harder time being happy.
No. Brain cells cannot regenerate. Once they die, they are gone for good.
everythign kills ur braincells. just being alive kils brain cells
no they do not ever grow back
Addiction can be counteracted, but the actual brain cells that are lost will never grow back. Brain cells are among the few cells in the body that cannot be replaced.
Lost brain cells never grow back. But new brain cells grow all the time. Once the person is off of drugs, they have the ability to grow new brain cells. They are not "screwed", but they will be way behind a person who has not spent years doing drugs.
I will go ahead and tell on myself. I am 37 years old. I did drugs for over a decade, and the really hard drugs for 4 years.
I have been sober for almost 7 years. About 3 years ago I put myself back in school. I went from having a GPA of a 1.6 and being on academic probation, to having a 3.2 GPA and making the Dean’s list.
With that being said, it did not take much, to prove my potential academically once the drugs were removed from my life.
HOWEVER, I have been f**ked up almost my whole life. In the past, I could never talk, flirt, make out, sleep with a guy, unless I was totally obliterated.
I was high as a kite for all of those years where I was supposed to learn how to act on a first second thir date. How to act as a new girlfriend. How to act in a REAL relationship.
It turned out, that academically, as soon as I put my mind to it, I was as good as new when I finally quit the drugs.
But SOCIALLY? There is no way to make up for 15 years of lost ground. I am 37, and even though I am at the age where people have been married for decades, or at least have gone on a million first dates, this is new territory for me.
I feel like a teenager, nervous and uncertain, and making the same dumb ass mistakes that no adult or at least someone who has been an adult as long as I have, would make.
So there you have it. From someone who is honest enough to tell you the truth. I do not think you really "kill" your brain cells. I think you just "stop" them from growing. As soon as you quit the drugs, it will not take long for your brain to pick up where it left off and move on.
But when it comes to social skills. Skills that deal with the heart and the parts of your brain that are not of pure logic (i.e. experience..) well that is a whole nother can of worms.
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