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Originally Posted by relieved
At my last session i told my t I was self-medicating a lot more then usual with some good plant medicine. I told her the emotional pain gets to be too much and smoking helps me so that way i don't have to bother anybody with my problems in order to feel better. I told her I don't want to create a new problem by smoking too much. She said I shouldn't worry about it and if it helps to keep smoking it then and smoke it in moderation. I was thinking about her response and i wonder if it was good advice for a t to encourage me to self-medicate like this or if she should have recommended other ways to try to cope. I went from doing this stuff from once a month to like 5-7 times a week in the last few weeks.
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Maybe if you don't want to be doing it so much, you could directly ask her for other coping methods? It's not so clear to me from what you wrote that she understood you were looking for other ways to cope.
My therapist seems really chilled out about pot - he's told me that he regards moderate use about the same as social drinking. I don't use it, but if I did I can't imagine that he'd get very heated up about it. But I also don't see it as his place to comment on my life choices in that way, so I wouldn't place much stock in his either encouraging or discouraging it.