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Ocd and weed
Does anyone know if weed helps ocd symptoms?
Does anyone know if weed helps ocd symptoms?
Makes it worse from my experiences. Makes the intrusive scenarios more intense
@Anonymous me also
It just depends on the person, for me it silences the millions of thoughts going through my head and provides temporary relief
@Anonymous As others have mentioned, it all depends on your own tolerance, what type and/or strain you’re using, and how you’re feeling at the time. My advice, definitely discuss it with your therapist, and if you want to try it, do your research. Find a local dispensary and see what they have available. Most sites will either tell you or link you to another site that will tell you about the products, like what you will most likely experience when using it, and characteristics like taste, strain, terpenes, etc. The budtenders at the dispensary should also be very knowledgeable about what they have, and if you talk to them about what you’re looking for help with, they should be able to make suggestions. Everyone is different. I have friends who like a full body high where they can’t move and feel like they’re floating, whereas if feel any changes in my body whatsoever, my intrusive thoughts tell me that something is very wrong and I’m going to die. When I was first testing things out, I always made sure I was in a safe location with people I trusted. Bonus points if I was at home or spending the night where I was so I didn’t have to worry about getting home. It took me YEARS to figure out what I could and couldn’t handle and how to calm myself down if something hits me too hard and I start to panic. But now, I know what works for me and what I need to stay away from.
That’s a great question, and it’s something many people in the OCD community wonder about. Some individuals report temporary relief from OCD symptoms with weed, but others find it can actually increase anxiety or make intrusive thoughts more intense. If you’re struggling and need more assistance, remember that help is available. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at NOCD to find out how we can support you. Also here are some helpful resources: https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/does-marijuana-help-with-ocd-or-make-it-worse/ https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/self-care-for-ocd/ https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/does-cbd-and-marijuana-help-with-ocd/
Makes it worse. I would stay away
I think it depends on your general mood when you partake. For me it’s supportive when I feel good and really multiplies the ocd anxiety when I’m not in a good headspace.
@mv3269 Totally feel this answer. Seconding it!! I’m super sensitive to medication like SSRIs so weed has helped me tremendously at times :)
It makes it significantly worse for me. It feels much more real and I basically have a panic attack every time I smoke now.
Makes it worse for the vast majority of people. Weed makes a lot of people MORE paranoid, not calmer.
To be honest I think excessive thc use triggered my ocd to come back (I suffered as a kid then it went away in my teen years) started using it all the time at 16 and I developed symptoms again and it used to stop them and now just recently it’s starting to freak me out when I smoke so I think I’m gonna quit.
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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