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Would NOT recommend as OCD is an anxiety disorder. People will tell you it mellows you out but in the long term it has the opposite effect. 1 person I knew with severe anxiety smoked weed constantly to calm themselves and ended up becoming progressively more anxious (over a period of a couple years) until they took their own life. Another friend of mine eventually stopped being able to leave the house because the weed had increased their anxiety so much. It might work for some but I personally don’t want to risk it because I never know what effect it might have.
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Yes. Don’t smoke it makes the anxiety worse for pretty much everyone with OCd
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I feel like this is what triggered HOCD years ago for me. ??♀️ but ppl swear it helps with anxiety. But im with you @tabbykitty it makes it so much worse for me
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^do you think it depends on the person? or is it actually proven that it makes everyone paranoid?
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@okay-cool oh it def depends on the person. It literally freaks me out.. but others its totally okay for them!
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I always thought it made mine worse and triggered an intense fear of being near marijuana which I had for years, but recently I tried again and it turns out just indica makes it worse and I do fine with really small amounts of sativa but I mean small like only one hit does the trick. Start with a very tiny hit, wait 20 mins, see how you do, and build up. Do baby steps until you learn. But tbh as far as ocd symptoms mine is always better with alcohol. However I don’t drink often so as to not fuel any bad habits
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But when you google it everyone says if you have anxiety to do indica and idk man it’s the opposite for me maybe ocd is different?
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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
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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 🫠
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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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