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How does weed affect ur ocd
Or intrusive thoughts and false memory I’m not certain I have ocd but I’m curious bc sometimes I smoke and it gets worse and I’m more anxious but sometimes I’m relaxed
Or intrusive thoughts and false memory I’m not certain I have ocd but I’m curious bc sometimes I smoke and it gets worse and I’m more anxious but sometimes I’m relaxed
For me, weed helps to control the intrusive thoughts. Better than antidepressants do. It seemed like a good cheaper alternative, until I started to use it for my depression. The high from weed is temporary, and once you realize the party’s over, you get back on it even harder. So I quit it for now.
@NevadaCowboy It definitely has its pros and cons I love it and I hate it at the same time ,I hope everything goes well for you!
@idonknow I keep thinking what if I was sexually abused then I said is that why I’m attracted to triggers. But I’m not, am I saying that because I feel false attraction and I believe it’s true when it’s not
@idonknow Thanks! It’s just like any other drug honestly. But right now, I’m staying off it because it messes up my depression and also can show up on pre employment drug tests. I want to have a career and live a fulfilling life.
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@soupyhat Sounds horrible I’m sorry:( weed can be relaxing sometimes and i feel like anxiety is bad on its own but being anxious while on weed is like a very heightened anxiety.. and i know why people stay away I smoke weed basically everyday and I like it but sometimes I get really anxious and it gets my thinking worse
For me it is a BIG NO. It was fine while I was high, but 2 weeks after the intrusive thoughts become worse and more repetitive than the usual
I love cannabis, and used it everyday. However, I cannot tolerate high levels of thc. I vape cbd flower and sprinkle small amounts of thc with it. I used to be able smoke high thc, but as I’ve got older it’s changed
I’ve actually avoided using weed for this purpose because I don’t know which way my OCD would react and I don’t want to either 1. Traumatize myself or 2. Develop an addiction
@Anonymous69 Dependency is something I struggle with for weed bc I like how it feels MOST of the times , sometimes it makes me even more scared
@idonknow Do you usually use the same strain every time and notice it still makes you feel different ways? That’s interesting
@Anonymous69 No i don’t use the same strain ! Sometimes I smoke and my heart starts racing a bit I think it’s the anxiety it makes me feel like I have something to be very worried about, I get the same feeling when I don’t smoke too though so idk 🙁lol
So I’ve noticed that my OCD has calmed down, I’m getting less intrusive thoughts but I feel more uncertain than ever. Is this normal for recovery?
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 🫠
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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