- Username
- nochill
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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.
I feel like I'm the only one on this app who struggles with alcohol. It's literally the only thing that stops my intrusive HOCD thoughts. How do u all cope with this disorder in a sober way. I'd love to hear ur responses because I truly want to live a happy sober life I just have no idea how to. I've been self medicating with alcohol everyday for the past 6 years.
Alcohol and OCD: A cruel mistress! Hi all. I wanted to share my thoughts and potentially start a discussion about the role of alcohol in OCD. Certainly in my case I think it is a fundamental contributor to my suffering, and I'm not surprised about the statistics related to how many OCD sufferers also suffer from problematic drinking. My current obsessive themes are Real Event/guilt OCD and are often related to situations and events where I was incredibly drunk with fuzzy and missing memories, or my drunkenness contributed to certain actions that I now obsessively regret. Whilst this was in the past, alcohol is still contributing to my suffering, and I'm starting to wonder whether I would be much happier without it. I find that after sometimes months of feeling fine, most if not all of my major relapses have occurred directly after a night of heavy drinking, and that spark has sent me spiralling for days and sometimes weeks. I then became obsessed about limiting my drinking in certain situations, I had a fear that if I was drunk I would end up committing some horrible crime or cheating on my partner. Now though I'm finding that I'm drinking moderate amounts of alcohol on a very regular basis, just to take my mind off my obsessions, which is very unhealthy. When I have a drink, even just one, it feels like my thoughts just almost vanish in importance, it's like a beautiful break from all the suffering. This feeling scares me a little and I now worry that I might be verging on some form of dependency on alcohol. I'm not looking for any reassurance here, just wanted to share my experience and chat with others who might also be struggling in this way.
Has anyone used any kind of cannabis for ocd. I tried it a couple of times and it just made my anxiety worse (I'm told it's the thc). Any info will be appreciated.
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