Hi all, I am curious what others experiences are with marijuana usage. I feel like marijuana exacerbates my OCD and provokes really visual intrusive thoughts. I am wondering if others can relate?
Oh yeah I can’t do it! Even if there aren’t images it literally brings similar sensations as anxiety.
I can’t smoke weed because it makes me paranoid and also I think it makes my intrusive thoughts worse and my anxiety bad.
If I do it at all, it’s like a literal puff and I’m good. I don’t do more than that. I feel the effects really easily, so one is good enough for me and its little enough so that I don’t get anxiety from it. In high quantities it most definitely makes it worse.
Definitely not recommended since weed makes most people more paranoid.
I’m a 23 year old student and have been smoking for a few years daily, it’s never really affected any of my symptoms tbh however I do take citalopram (celexa) which probably helps, however if it’s making your ocd symptoms worse I’d give it a rest and let your brain level itself out, because if you keep having these experiences while smoking the more it’ll cause future anxiety. I’d say chill out for a while and let it be and then when things are getting on better, ease back into it and hopefully you’ll feel better for it
@Eire2000 Also After 2 years of being nearly symptom free, I went into a really really bad relapse due to my medication being adjusted, and at the moment I’m off smoking, I’m not certain I’d enjoy it at the minute with how things are but as I said above, taking my own advice and letting it be for a while until my head levels out
@Eire2000 And sorry one last thing but also I do have some crazy shit come into my head when I’m smoking but I always just try distract myself and watch some stupid af videos or something lol
Thank you all!
I tried it twice. The first time was an edible gummy and it was a very little dosage to the point where I was slightly high but not super high and I was with my best friend who didn’t get high and it was fine. The second time tho it was a brownie edible and i took wayyy more than I should have and it hit really really bad and I was super paranoid so I’m too scared to try anything ever again especially since now, my OCD is worse
When I smoke weed when I think of non ocd things or themes, my head starts to make sense of things I feel more open and I think clearer. So that’s where my big concern is!!! Because when I’m high and think of ocd things like being a killer, or someone who’s a sociopath or someone that can be a pedo it feels real like my mind is clearer that I am these things Any one who has experienced weed with ocd help me I need insight on this im very confused and it’s causing me to ruminate all day
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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