Close to a month now. my dreams have calmed down a bit, not as vivd anymore. but they're still there.
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Originally Posted by CognitoSchiz1989
I too have thoughts about me being better on drugs. I was more sociable, I had more friends, my mental illness was completely covered by my drug use so I felt fine. Honestly, it will take me a lot of therapy for that. I am 5+ years sober and I still feel this way on occasion. So I don't really have words of advice except that I know what you are going through.
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I only had friends who I used drugs with but I dumped them about 2 years ago. Was feeling way better after a while, even though I had ( still have) 0 friends. I wouldn't say my drug use covered my personality disorder, It amplified it. I can get a bit more joy from doing things besides smoking pot. But it's still things i do alone and there's not much motivation.
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Originally Posted by GennyM
Good luck! I'm a pothead but have only thought about quitting!
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If you ever want to quit and have some questions, want advice or need someone to talk to just pm me. Just don't be upset when I only reply after a few days.
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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
Hey congrats and good luck
The hardest part of quitting smoking 20 years ago for me was changing my life style. Everything I did was built around using. The brain cravings should soon go away, just need to eliminate triggers that kick off the cravings.  |
Hhm wouldn't say my life was structured around using, It's legal here so I don't really have to go out of my way to buy/use. Also I was pretty good at hiding it, but that could also be the high tolerance i've built up for so long. when i get a craving now it's not like "I WANT it really bad now" but more like "it might be nice" and only lasts for about 5 secs.
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Originally Posted by ablankscript
I just quit myself. For me it was just a habit to do, I guess it was an addiction that I had wantedto quit for a long time. It was making my symptoms far worse, feelings of panic and thoughts of self harm. It used to be a way for me to relax and unwind, but it is hard to relax when you are freaking out in your head. Everytime I had weed I would say this is it, but break down and get more thus a cycle of helplessness ensued. It seems to me that either the weed I was getting was of poor quality or I over did it thus burning out the receptors or maybe it's the medications. I don't know? The last straw was an article on the positive and negatives of pot. I don't know if I believe what I read but it was enough to make me wonder if I need to be smoking something when I could be doing something more health promoting with my time. So I got rid of my stuff and my bowl, it hasn't been a week yet but I haven't had any cravings so far.
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for me it was never to suppress feelings, more to actually feel something. About you thinking you have been giving low quality, that could be. might aswel be that you just smoked too much and your tolerance went way up. that's why I did an occasional "T-break" for a week to get really stoned again for about 2 days and then only get stoned for a bit.