Thoughts about marijuana and ocd anyone?? Personally smoking causes more anxiety until i build my tolerance and then i just want to get higher and higher so i stoped smoking lol. Just been sticking to alcohol lately. Hard to quit when ur in college and all my friends are alcoholics lol. Alc def helps me with ocd. I feel like my real self when I’m drunk all anxiety goes away

Quickest way to a substance use disorder. Relying on these things to deal with anxiety and thoughts. Trust me, I know. Just be careful because addiction is another form of obsessing. The problem is it does work, but only for so long

Oh as someone with 20 years experience going down that road I have some thoughts. Self medicated since I was teenager with cannabis, alcohol, and every other substance you can think of but cannabis was drug of choice. Honestly it number me to the anxiety. These days it can trigger anxiety rumination and dysphoria. Doesnt mean Ive quit thats a hard thing for me and nit even really a goal. But it has consequences. Ive had productive life but something is wrong with my brain I have memory issues, issues just being sober. But overal Im quite successful in an objective sense so I cant say if it helped or hindered me long term. I just know its taken a something from me. Maybe its just memories I dunno I feel like life is a blur sometimes. Maybe thats ocd I dunno. Alcohol yea its great when Im drinking. But anxiety is worse when you are hungover or get older and hangovers are worse. Im trying to cut back these things but its to do and do ocd treatment and just deal with things in life Ive drank and drugged away for years and years andd years. So yea be careful. Habe fun but be safe and aware or what you are doing and why you are doing it.

I feel like it makes me hate myself less. It makes my OCD thoughts be able to enter my mind and then pass

Recovering alcoholic here. I drank and popped benzos to try to get away from intrusive thoughts and it damn near killed me. I barely escaped with my life. Watch what you're doing.. it's really easy to become addicted and once you are you're an addict for life. The numbing effect only lasts for a time, then your consuming more and more to medicate the thoughts but to no avail.

I find that marijuana helps me not act on my compulsion. It doesn’t really reduce my anxiety but it helps me sit with it without any harmful behavior. I try to limit my use however as i don’t want to rely on anything.

I've self medicated with alcohol for a long time about 6 years now I can't stop drinking

I think I'm in a similar position with alcohol (and thought of testing MJ, but not yet anyways). I tried alcohol for sure since 2 years ago and last year (add college + trying to experiment + stress + drinker friends) made me drunk quite a lot of times, also, the thought of wanting of thinking about alcohol was there quite too much... It made me ask myself If I'm in some alcohol abuse pattern or something :/ Anyways, because of a medication I couldn't drink with it since 2 months ago and I've been feeling nice, you know? It's like feeling like myself again and with less of those thoughts and I am feeling healthier (rest all the hangovers that I avoided). It's nice tbh, both feelings, so I think now after of lefting the medication I will mash both sides: getting drunk in college once a while it's quite nice, but not drinking some time it's also quite nice, so, why not rotating with both?

I’m the same as glitchy with Cannabis. I love it, but I make sure to be mindful because anything can become addicting. Alcohol on the other hand nearly killed me and the hangovers were unbearable.