So like.... I don't need my preferred substance to get through the day. I think all the days I go without it kind of prove that.
But sometimes I just am done dealing with the week and want to spend my remaining free time smoking a bowl and listening to Sci fi and fantasy lore videos so I can pretend I'm chilling somewhere near the Anduin or on the holodeck.
Damn, if holodecks became real, humanity is basically over.
44100%. Except I've moved completely on to edibles. My supply last 20x longer and my lungs don't feel like an ash tray.
Learning how to make your own edibles was the best move I've made in a long time. Just pop a couple after dinner, and it hits guaranteeably after the kids go to bed, and I get to enjoy the rest of the evening just relaxing.
Edit: Gummies. I make gummies.
12Personally I vape, but I do like edibles. I need to stop vaping as mY primary source, I've been noticing a decrease in lung capacity beyond what covid did. I did not enjoy biking long distance last week.
I'm pretty good at baking, and have always wanted to try my hand at making edibles, but I think I'd rather try and find some chocolate chips or butter or something that I can use in a normal recipe first. I make a mean chocolate chip cookie.
2Edibles don't work for me or I would definitely switch at least partly. I just get tired and way too high at high doses and nothing from low doses.
1
Yep. Same here. Except weed gives me panic attacks. But I just had (am having) the worst Monday ever and I am the boss at my job and since I'm having the worst Monday ever I said fuck it, put my phone on do not disturb and started day drinking... Basically told my service manager it's all in your hands today and he knew exactly what I meant. Now I'm floating around in my pool with a beer in hand and saying fuck it. I'll regret it tomorrow, but that's a future me problem, not mine. I wish tomorrow me good luck.
9
In capitalist America, self medication is cheaper than therapy and prescribed drugs.
18Wouldn't be so bad if there was no rest. I feel like we're expected to always be doing something. How can you afford to pay the bills and keep a minimum of cleanliness, like clean clothing and a pest-free domicile, otherwise?
Or maybe I'm biased because I am so close to experiencing caregiver burnout.
Oh well at least I got pockets of 10-15 minutes to zone out before getting back to it.
16I unironically need to relearn how to do that
4I love Endorphines, Melatonin, and tbh Serotonin also works really well for the real life simulation.
I have had worse experiences with LSD.
3Btw, never tell psychologists you take drugs, when it is not relevant.
That is awful advice. Your doctor and psych should always know everything you are taking perscribed or otherwise. They literally can't rat you out and they need that information so they can predict any potential drug interactions. There are also conditions like bipolar and schizophrenia which can be strongly effected by certain drugs and your doc/psych can advise you on that and how to most safely use your substance of choice.
If they are treating you different or giving you worse care because you use drugs then you need to see someone else. The vast majority of medical professionals subscribe to the school of harm reduction if yours don't then they're just shit.
12Not all doctors are that interested in helping drug users. Just saying. It's not always wise to tell them every detail. Like you mentioned there are some shitty doctors out there
6I get how that advice may be dangerous, I will remove it. BUT
Your doctor and psych should always know everything you are taking perscribed or otherwise.
No, they dont need to know you use Cannabis to calm your mind, if you have ADHD and all they will give you are literally stimulants to work better.
This is highly dependent on the drug you take and the things that go wrong in your brain.
This scentence is sooo standard, "prescribed or not", yes prescribed of course, but no they dont need to know everything.
They literally can't rat you out
This is not true either. If you visit one to get a diagnosis, anything you say could end up in the one paper you get, which you then need to give to every doctor or psychiatrist to get medication.
These might be sensible things, or simply not relevant.
Example: ADHD is one of the most self-medicated cognitive differences. This self medication often doesnt work well, is illegal etc.
Cannabus is only legal here for a some months, there are no optimum levels and extremely little studies on compount degradation in the body.
When driving, 1ng/mL blood is still used, which could mean that after 3 weeks or more abstinence you may still fail.
This could mean you dont get medication, after waiting for it forever.
There are also conditions like bipolar and schizophrenia which can be strongly effected by certain drugs
Yes absolutely, and this is an important reason. BUT you know what the psychologist told me?
"Cannabis has a tendendcy to increase likelyness for psychoses, ADHD meds can do that too. So if I would prescribe them, I would want a blood test".
This is like 1+1=2. There is no evidence and no studies on this, just guessing.
This is crazy, because what I mentioned, Cannabis calms the body (while also being far from perfect with a potential to really increase psychoses likeliness), ADHD meds stimulate so much that people dont want to eat, Cannabis makes people hungry (or more, focused on the body, I often feel really sore and want to do sports).
Both have a potential to cause psychoses in predispositioned people, while having effects that are opposite of another.
So yeah, the generalization is pretty harmful. But in that specific case, it was really good that I just blacked out these lines and saved myself from that trouble.
then you need to see someone else.
Lol, in fairyland maybe. In Germany you can be very happy if you get a "medication prescriber", even though assisting therapy would of course help a ton.
The vast majority of medical professionals subscribe to the school of harm reduction
If they mandate to stop using a calming drug, to prescribe you a stimulating drug, I disagree.
It is a danger for them to prescribe that, as theoretically there is higher danger, not because of actual studies (and humans are so different that I think generalizing here would harm a lot) but because 1+1=2.
So if it is "just" ADHD they would prescribe nothing, to "reduce harm".
2
