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- 6y
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- 6y
I had to stop smoking weed, drinking alcohol, and even caffeine completely because they sent me into panics. It’s a control thing. People with ocd like to be in control and anything that makes them feel out of control of their own bodies or even trapped (like being trapped in a high they don’t want to be in anymore) causes panic.
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- 6y
I wish :/ once I do I’ll let you know but so far even being apart of a conversation with someone and having to sit there and listen and not talk is enough to send me into a panic. Even with cutting every trigger out of my life I’m still very hyper aware of all bodily sensations so that even causes me to panic. At this point i wouldn’t even know where to begin to not feel like I have to be in control at all times lol
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- 6y
Before I even dealt with ocd when I would smoke weed I would get similar thoughts to what I have now!! Some even more delusional and wierd. They would be extremely repetitive too I would also have panic attacks(shake uncontrollably) and dissociate .
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- 6y
that’s a good point, the strain I’ve been getting is a super strong head high, so that definitely doesn’t help...a hybrid or body high might be better suited for me... thanks! yea I’m so curious about this!!
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- 6y
YES. I've had terrible OCD symptoms while smoking and nobody I mention that to seems to understand it. I have no reason to smoke it anymore; it used to make me feel good but now it only forces me into a thought loop. I foolishly tried smoking some indica last night to try to sleep and I woke up to panic attacks.
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- 6y
I’m following this. I smoke a strain that only gets me body high so it relaxes and only at night but am really curious about others experience and if somehow it could be backfiring in certain ways
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- 6y
Well I’m not sure if mine is directly linked to OCD or just other anxieties but if I smoke anything with a head high, but especially high head High I get incredibly panicky and tend to place myself into huge panic attacks that are hard to get out of. I always thought it was just me but maybe it does have something to do with OCD and others have similar experience. I have a pure stativa blend that I vape to avoid combustion because that increases anxiety for me and it helps a ton to just relax my body prior to sleep. Sadly doesn’t help with the staying asleep Part though haha
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- 6y
Sorry for spelling errors haha thought I got all of them!
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- 6y
Yes yes yes!! Do you have anything that allows you to safely practice not having full control? I find that I need to release control more in life and relationships but because it induces panic in basically everything i try to hold on even tighter
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- 6y
Right there with you! We will get better!!
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- 23w
Does any one else struggle with eating when on a ocd spiral ( that’s what I call them ) I go through periods where I can’t stand the feeling of food in my body but idk I smoke weed and that helps the thought to go purge everything I don’t know if that’s my ocd or a eating disorder 🫠
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- 20w
For the past three years I've smoked marijuana nearly everyday. It helped with my anxiety and quieting my brain and helped me sleep. Recently, it began to make me feel more anxious, i would wake up nauseous and even threw up a couple of times which really triggered some health anxiety. I decided to quit because of this and i'm almost 2 weeks out from the last time I smoked. My body is slowly recovering but my brain just doesn't seem to quit it. I went to my GP a couple of weeks ago for a routine checkup and everything came back normal in my blood work and exam, yet that hasn't stopped me from completely obsessing over my health and feeling like (in my mind, not my body) i'm seriously ill- which is giving me extreme anxiety. Because of my reoccurring stomach issues my GP referred me to a GI who I had an appointment with yesterday. He was very unimpressed by everything I said and seemed like everything is pointing to IBS-which is not serious and something my mother also deals with. He ordered some extra tests to make sure I wasn't dealing with inflammation and he said he was very confident that my internal vital organs were a completely fine. I'm still waiting on those test results and his confidence should I have made me feel better but i'm still freaking out. Everybody in my life is tired of hearing about it and I just don't know what to do anymore. I feel like i'm pushing people away. I feel good and like myself when I'm distracted and doing something fun, but mornings and nights and when i'm doing something mundane it's the worst. I feel like I can feel all of these pains and sensations but I have no idea if it's real. I've even started asking Chatgpt for constant reassurance and constantly googling my symptoms. I'm in a horrible loop. I should mention that on top of quitting weed, I also just graduated college, moved back home and my boyfriend and I started the longest period of long distance we've ever had to do so i'm just not feeling like myself at all. My psychiatrist just put me on Zoloft (my vomiting and intense anxiety coincided with when i began taking Prozac again so she wanted me to try something else) I'm only on day 3 of the meds but nausea and insomnia are the two side effects im dealing with right now which is just making my anxiety so much worse before the meds have even kicked in. Does anyone have advice on how to break this cycle of constant checking-i feel like taking a deep breath has even turned into a compulsion.
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- 15w
Does anyone know if weed helps ocd symptoms?
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