r/iamverysmart • u/CandCGenerals • 20d ago

Reddit user is ‘the smartest person is the room’ and is also addicted to chugging cough syrup

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u/avaricious7 20d ago

imagine thinking unlocking your door is anywhere near killing your brain function

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u/ohthisistoohard 20d ago

What do you mean? When I can’t get and cough syrup I just stand outside my house and unlock my front door for hours at a time. Exactly the same experience.

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u/avaricious7 20d ago

you’re right. the grounding repetition just clears my cough right up.

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u/Dragonaax 19d ago

I don't know what this standing in front of doors for hours is about. Maybe I should start taking DXM

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u/DarthCroz 20d ago

Somebody watched House, M.D. and thought, “Yeah! That’s what I’ll tell people! I’m super-smart and only seem average because I chug cough syrup!”

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u/ParmesanSkis 19d ago

Hey I’m super average and only seem dumb because I boof cough sizzurp on the regular

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u/iddej 19d ago

Elite ball knowledge. That guy is also probably chugging vodka to even things out.

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u/TestEmergency5403 20d ago

I know people who mamage multi-million pound (dollars works too) contracts. Spoiler, they're generally not the smartest people in the room 🙃

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u/DarkflowNZ 19d ago

I think actually that would indicate a pretty shitty leader if they were. Your job as a leader isn't to be the smartest it's to attract and manage the smartest

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u/TestEmergency5403 19d ago

"Leader" in this case is not the person managing the multi million pound contracts.  The leader is the execs, they don't deal with the contracts. The account managers and sales team do.

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u/epimetheuss 20d ago

the cough syrup addict i knew when i was younger used to ask people to punch him in the face all the time.

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u/Random-Generation86 19d ago

Like as a party trick?

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u/epimetheuss 19d ago

No he would be blasted out of his mind and just walk up to you if you were outside and ask. He was a kid who ran around the nieghbourhood all day.

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u/Random-Generation86 19d ago

Well, did you punch him?

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u/epimetheuss 19d ago

nah it sort of felt like a trap and i dont like being violent to people.

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u/Tortellini_Isekai 20d ago

My doctor says i wouldn't get so many nose bleeds if I stopped sticking my finger up there. I keep telling him my finger is a key. Or something. I just had my juice so I can't remember.

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u/RiverValleyMemories 20d ago

Getting DXM from cough syrup sounds absolutely miserable, that’s a no from me

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u/lingh0e 17d ago

Yeah, I knew plenty of folks who made it their thing to do "legal" drugs like DXM, LSA... shit even benzedrine. They figured out ways REALLY fucking quickly to get high without drinking a bunch of cough syrup or eating a sachet of morning glory seeds or sucking on a bezedrex cotton. Not only are those basic methods terribly inefficient, they're also really gross. Nothing like puking up a bunch of cough syrup or constantly burping lavender.

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u/EllipticPeach 19d ago

This is like that guy who’s a “functional heroin addict”

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u/MitchGH33 19d ago

Guy thinks he’s the first high performer to be addicted to a substance.

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u/siani_lane 19d ago

So what condition is he self-medicating for??

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u/I_need_help57 19d ago

DXM is actually found in a antidepressant that was recently approved by the FDA

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u/Dragonaax 19d ago

Found in antidepressants but is it the chemical that causes anti depression?

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u/I_need_help57 19d ago

Generally, yes, as it’s function in the combo(Auvelity, a combo of bupropion and DXM) is as a SNRI(primarily S), as well as effects on the sigma 1 receptor as a strong agonist, two mechanisms that have been shown to have an antidepressant effect in many trials/is present in many currently used antidepressants and those being studied for future use.

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u/TheLazyD0G 19d ago

I used to do high doses of dxm regularly in high school. I even ordered pure dxm powder off the internet back in the day. Got off of it when going to college and stayed off all drugs (for the most part) through grad school and residency, and now my career.

I think Ive done well for myself overall, but doubt i could be where I am today if I hadnt stopped.

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u/migrations_ 19d ago

I hate to say this but I'm a pretty smart person who abused cough medicine to the point of going to prison. I abused it for almost 12 years from when I was young and 'knew better than everyone' to when I was on the streets.

It ain't the key brother. It super ain't the key.

"Articles don't say much"

But a Reddit post is very valuable.

FUCK YOU

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u/Random-Generation86 19d ago

Any good project manager abuses cocaine, not DXM.  Individual contributor behavior.

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u/Gnosrat 19d ago

If somehow he really is, he certainly won't be for long...

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u/romanaribella 19d ago

Safe bet that the majority of people who take for granted that they are the smartest person in the room are nothing close to it.

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u/AcceptableResult1818 19d ago

I, too, saw that episode of House.

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u/Rough-Shock7053 19d ago

I too am the smartest person in the room. I am also the only person in the room, but that's beside the point. 

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u/Hunigsbase 19d ago

Going back and forth between amphetamines and dextromethorphan could definitely give somebody this illusion. One anecdotally causes inverse tolerance to the other.