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Marijuana and OCD
I smoke pretty regularly (420) and am unsure if it’s impacting my OCD or meds. Anyone have any experiences or thoughts to share on this?
I smoke pretty regularly (420) and am unsure if it’s impacting my OCD or meds. Anyone have any experiences or thoughts to share on this?
I smoked for 7 years but the moment I got intrusive thoughts I had to stop. I would suggest taking a break. Don’t get me wrong it helped me at times but it also heighten my anxiety and boosted my intrusive thoughts
I understand that
I do not smoke or anything but many people do have the same thing happen. Do research about it, but it is a thing that it can impact the effectivness of medication and treatment. Just like other medications, it can affect a medication that you take so it is important to understand substances or things that can affect the medication or process. In my personal experience I have learned from a lot of people that smoke and it does affect their medication and OCD because their doctors advise them that it will impact the effectiveness of the meds and/or their body is different. I would say talk to your doctor about the medication or do research because MANY people have the same problem (alcohol is another one that plays a factor).
I smoke daily. It don't help or hinder my ocd but I am mindful of my usage when I'm having a backdoor spike that it has in the past helped to make me a bit more anxious.
I also want to add I am on medication for bipolar and I've been open with all medical practitioners. The only thing i was told was it could have an additional sedation effect mixing with the kolopine I was taking.
I have pretty bad OCD and I take venlafaxine for it. I used to smoke weed but I would always notice really bad anxiety on the come down—it made the entire experience turn sour everytime. It’s like it HIGHTENED my anxiety. Al thought it took me so long and multiple sessions to accept that I couldn’t handle it, I finally put it to rest. Now I smoke once in a blue moon and not very much if that. Taking less usually works well for me now :,)
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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