Does anyone else find that cannabis makes their OCD 10X worse?? I had to quit it a couple months ago because of how bad it made me feel, and how real the fears felt with it, I use to use it to help me sleep, but now I can’t because it makes me go from anxious to terrified and wanting to scream
I can't even go near it. It messes me up in a bad way.
Drugs are the only avoidance that I allow myself to do.
@Newerthannewb82 Me too, cannabis used to be fine for me, but when my OCD flares up, it makes it so much worse and so debilitating
ugh i’m so in between on this. certain kinds do make it worse for me, others make it better. it also kinda depends on where my head is at before i smoke, but most of the time im ok. i will say that once you stop, picking it back up can be challenging as you have to break through the extremely low tolerance phase again & that always shoots my heart rate through the roof on one puff & will have me questioning if i need to call an ambulance. but i say do what feels right for you & your body!! if it makes it worse dont do it. i found some natural supplements like ashwaganda gave me a nice calming effect at the end of the day almost kinda like smoking does and they make ones with melatonin added in which will help with sleep 🫶🏻
@purelypixie I’m the same, some strains make me bad, some make me better, but it got to the point where I didn’t want to take the gamble anymore so I stopped it completely because the way it makes me feel is the worst I could possibly feel, like its constantly feeling like I’m in the deepest part of a panic attack, and all I can do is curl myself up in a ball and wait for it to wear off, it’s horrible
@Fcukocd we are in the same boat. currently question if i need to stop because of the way it makes me feel sometimes. but its also something i do personally enjoy most of the times, so im really trying not to let my ocd take another thing i enjoy from me :( i actually hate ocd so much its not even funny
@purelypixie Me too, OCD has taken so much that I love away from me, my girlfriend, my ability to play games, my hobbies, my sleep, my confidence, my sense of self, it’s robbed me of everything that makes me, me, it is genuinely the worst thing I’ve ever had to go through, the most challenging part is the groinal response, I hate that part so much it makes me so anxious and angry like why does my body react in ways that I don’t want to things that I don’t enjoy
@Fcukocd :( i’m so sorry. that’s so horrible and something no one should have to go through. i deeply understand, i am actually a shell of who i used to be, i had to quit my job that i love so much recently cause it’s gotten so bad. its actually sick & twisted. excuse my ignorance as i am a girl so i dont know if i would be able to experience that, but what is a groinal response?
@Fcukocd just watched the video you sent & i’m so sorry. i also think you just educated me on something i didn’t know i was also experiencing, so thank you. i can’t even imagine the anxiety that would come with it as a guy because the response is so much more noticeable. i never really knew there was a name for it. i also understand in a way that i tried to share a post with my boyfriend about something similar, and he reacted in such a way i would have never ever excepted him to react. he said it’s so disgusting someone would have those thoughts, not even acknowledging the ocd aspect of it and made a very ignorant comment about it in front of me, not knowing it’s something i also experience. now i feel really scared to share any of my thoughts with him.
@purelypixie I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing it too, it’s no problem at all, I’m glad I could help you to understand that that is also a part of OCD, and yeah, the anxiety I feel when I get it is so overwhelming it’s unbelievable, and the compulsions I do in response to it are more harmful than good, which makes it that much worse, and I’m sorry that your boyfriend reacted that way, I’d be exactly the same about sharing my thoughts if someone I trusted reacted that way too :( have you got anyone else that you can confide in? People like us with ocd don’t need judgement, as we judge ourselves enough as it is
@Fcukocd i can’t imagine. i have a few things where my compulsion are more harmful than good as well :( i hope some day soon you are able to manage it better. and um to be so honest not really. maybe my mom but at the same time she doesn’t have ocd & is my mom so there are certain things i don’t want to share with her due to our relationship. i seriously dont think ive ever met someone in real life that also experienced ocd, so its been a journey. social media has helped the most with that for me i think
@purelypixie Yeah :( n that’s a shame I’m sorry :( have u got a therapist or anything? I’m the same, social media has helped a lot for me
I’ve definitely found that higher dose edibles have made it worse for me. The lower dose stuff is okay, which is good because I use it for pain.
@mgvieyra13 Yeah the higher the dose for me the worse it makes me feel
Have you heard of the cannabis rubber band effect? 😬 the basic idea is that it makes your anxiety and OCD better at first, only to come back and pop you in the brain after you begin using more and more. I used to use it literally every day. Then, just like you, it started to make EVERYTHING worse! Fears I never even had tried to take root in my mind and they felt exceptionally vivid in a stoned state. I had to completely get away from it for my mental health. Plus, it’s not good for you anyway unless you have a specific condition like seizures. The current societal mantra of “it’s just a plant” is misguided and naive. It’s an addictive substance with short and long term negative cognitive effects. I speak to you as someone who used it for the better part of 12 years. If I could go back in time and slap the bong out of my younger self’s hands, I’d do it.
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
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.
I’ve had relationship OCD for about five months now and it’s been excruciating, I know it’s relationship OCD but my brain can’t grasp it, I was doing very well for about a week a few days or a week. It’s about the only amount of time where I feel that sense of clarity or almost back to normal definitely not normal but life seems pleasant again. I made a bad mistake. I was with my friend on a sleepover and we decided that we wanted to eat some good food and be stoned because we enjoy eating food and being stoned since it tastes much better, no I believe this just made it worse. I know that weed can be worse for some people. It can make them overthink and I think it’s triggered me to relapse, because my worries and intrusive thoughts are about something so much more worrying in a way and it feels so much more real, I guess I’m hyper focusing on every single thing about my partner’s personality every floor and everything he doesn’t do, and my brain is telling me that means I should break up with him, ”if he dosent do this this means the relationship isn’t right” “ or anything happens my brain will tell me that I’m losing interest or losing feelings and I get many intrusive statements. Like “you like being single more” literally any time I’m enjoying myself alone And I’m getting many that don’t make sense “he doesn’t accept you for who you are so that means that you need to break up” over an interest that we both have…… And it’s so frustrating because any time I talk to him about anything serious or obviously I’m not happy about something because that’s normal in relationships not everyone is gonna do everything right so you have to communicate it but then I could get intense urge to break up and it makes me upset, or when I’m trying to tell him how I feel my brain will just say that I need to break up it’s honestly so confusing and I’m falling back into the compulsions and reassurance seeking all over again and my brain is making me believe it’s not relationship OCD because what if it’s not relationship OCD and it’s actually not the right relationship for me? But I don’t want it to be that I love him so much and I honestly can’t imagine not being with him. It’s so confusing and my head hurts and I just need someone to talk to.
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