ange from mildly uncomfortable to life threatening physical and emotional reactions. Your temperature goes up when you take Ecstasy, like a fever. Dancing in a hot warehouse doesn't help your body cool off, so it's no surprise that one of the most common Ecstasy-related injuries is heatstroke. Along with high body temperature, you sweat and urinate a lot if you take Ecstasy. Ecstasy can also cause muscle tension, teeth clenching, anxiety, paranoia and increases in heart rate and blood pressure. The results of using Ecstasy over a long period of time are unclear and controversial. Because the drug affects serotonin, it's hard to say how Ecstasy will affect its users in the future because researchers have just begun to understand serotonin. Ecstasy users say that when you come down, you'll likely feel depressed. This dip in mood, sometimes called "Terrible Tuesday," "Blue Tuesday" or "Suicide Tuesday", can last anywhere from a few hours to a week. Since you've used an enormous amount of serotonin in a short period of time and your body has to catch-up. Medical research points to the possibility that Ecstasy may cause permanent changes in your brain's ability to regulate mood and may affect memory. There also is evidence that people who develop a rash that looks like acne after taking ecstasy, could be at risk for liver damage. One of the worst fears about Ecstasy is that it may be causing permanent brain damage to users without them being aware of it. Researchers say that that the drug destroys nerve endings or synapses, and that eventually users will suffer from depression and senile dementia, the loss of memory and confusion that affects some old people, but at an earlier age. What scientists have been looking for is not a tranquilizer, an upper or a downer but a “stabilizer”, and many psychotherapists believe that MDMA is the answer. Psychotherapists say MDMA helped clients to become open and honest in a w...
