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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
So i first started using canabis 9 years ago. It gave me a lot of giggles of course but i would also have mini blackouts felt like i was floating, things got further away. But i only did it every now and then, not steady. I would go years without then do it then years without again. Then almost 3 years ago i became a HUGE cannabis user. All day every day for my appetite issues and stress.
I stopped smoking 6 weeks ago, much easier than i thought it would be. And when i look back, when i was smoking i would dissociate more frequently. I still do without it, and always have, but not quite as much. And its easier to ground when im not smoking. Last night was BAD, i spent like an hour fighting full force to stay out, even had to have my fiance come up to my work to sit with me incase i couldnt fight it off. But on cannabis, had that happened, i wouldnt be able to fight it off.
So i researched the connection online and came up empty handed. Does anyone have any experience with this? Im just curious why it happened more when i was smoking. It still happens without and ive had these problems long before i started smoking but it seems to intensify with it. Im not going back to smoking, not for a long long time atleast, im just trying to understand it
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PufrpleFlyingMonkeys - I never looked into the weed/dissociation connections as in how the mechanics of it works, but what I know of it based on going to seminars is like you demonstrated in your post weed does carry some dissociative symptoms and cause dissociative symptoms to happen which is why in the diagnostic criteria treatment providers must separate the symptoms and problems...those that are caused/ happen during drug use and those that happen because the person has a dissociative disorder. if the problems are because of weed usage we have to refer the person to drug treatment options/ treat the person for a substance addiction, Im glad you have had positive results with using weed in relation to your dissociative disorder, for most people with DID is works the opposite, causes more dissociative symptoms and the user cant usually pull their self out of their dissociative symptoms. I found this out when I had more severe dissociative symptoms when I would be in the room with someone using weed, then discussed my reactions with my treatment providers..
it is true weed does help many people with mental and physical health problems but like any other drug/medication it doesnt work for all.
A thought here I wonder if your using weed is whats hindering your treatment providers from helping you...I dont mean that in a mean way but you have posted extensively about you having so much trouble with your treatment providers discovering what your problems are and how to help you. it could be that using weed is going counter productive from what they are trying to do to help you, kind of like someone with a toothache going to the dentist for help the dentist tries this, the client goes home and eats candy causing their self more tooth problems they go back to the dentist, the dentist tries something different the client goes home and eats more candy and goes tot he dentist with more tooth problems with the same tooth, the dentist tries yet another treatment and the client goes home and eats more candy on that tooth and .....well you see the cycle ... it may be all this problems you are having with finding the right treatment and figuring out what your problems are could be because the using weed is unintentionally going counter productive/ self sabotaging your getting the help you need...
your weed usage may also be affecting the meds you are on if you are on any meds..
my suggestion talk with your treatment providers. they will tell you why weed is working the way it is for you, why you are having the problems you are on vs off it..