Pros and cons of marajuana

Thoughts? Personally I cannot go a week without it 3 days is usually when I really crave

ive been toking almost daily for a while now so unsure how long i'd go without but i find it helps me de-stress a lot. depending on the strain it can make me feel more or less in tune with reality. (more heady sativa gets me awake and alive)

we think its a drug and its addictive.
if it takes away our motivation to manage our emotions and life without it, its not good for us.
its just another dependency that limits our freedom.
it is a LOT better to do proper therapy work and get our $#%^ together.

For me, aside from the fact that the craving and being off it make me feel more crazy than I am, I find that it allows me to access and talk to certain parts of myself I cannot when I am in a state that does not include marajuana. Yet the majority of the things I don't remember are during times of being intoxicated (although I have serious memory issues overall)

It's as if when I am under the influence I truly allow a different part to come out (and it is not always the same part- I often go on something referred to as periods of rolledexing where I basically switch rapidly in a short period of time- it's very intense and yet it is also something that despite not remembering the next day (or somethings even minutes or hours after) is necessary for me to survive

Tried it 3 times. One time it made my dissociation go nuts to the point to where no one could move my arm i lost all ability to move it for a few hours and that was not ok. Not to mention i felt extremely alone it was terrible. My first time it was contaminated with ecstasy and that was ok for some reason though i just sat and kind of melted away for awhile. Another time it just didnt effect me. After that time it ramped up my dissociation i dont like the weeds anymore. Its to scary.

Yeah, for me it also makes the dissociation much worse. It 's not worth it for me. I mean, I already have a natural way of detaching from myself (dissociation), so why make it even more out of control?

I've heard that it works for many people though, to relax and wind down. To laugh, get an appetite. Just not for me, I guess.

Also, memory loss and/or problems are side-effects of this drug. You may want to be careful with that. If those are the main symptoms you experience regarding DID, than it may indicate that there is actually something else going on.

Another thing is that if one is at risk for psychosis, it is not a good idea to use this drug as it can lead to the onset of an episode.

I dont use drugs; bad experiences

fireheart wrote:Yeah, for me it also makes the dissociation much worse. It 's not worth it for me. I mean, I already have a natural way of detaching from myself (dissociation), so why make it even more out of control?

I've heard that it works for many people though, to relax and wind down. To laugh, get an appetite. Just not for me, I guess.

Also, memory loss and/or problems are side-effects of this drug. You may want to be careful with that. If those are the main symptoms you experience regarding DID, than it may indicate that there is actually something else going on.

Another thing is that if one is at risk for psychosis, it is not a good idea to use this drug as it can lead to the onset of an episode.

Thanks but it is more than memory and while I have not been diagnosed I am 100% sure I have DID I even talked to some of my parts who where not aware to inform them so we can work better together.

Maybe weed is necessary for me due to high consciousness and the need to interact with almost all parts at least once weekly and some of them cannot get to the forefront when I am sober unless it is a necessary trigger. I also have a way of fighting certain triggers (sometimes) sober when i dont want a part to take over while with weed I simply let it happen

we have considered medical marijuana. here in Canada one can be approved for a medical marijuana card for a number of reasons, PTSD among them (which we have an official diagnosis for) and know a few people who self-medicate with marijuana for anxiety. The science is at a level that there are multiple strains available and an assortment of methods of ingesting it both of which can be tailored to one's needs.

I was about to write a new post about this topic in regard to dissociation, but now I think I will reply here AND in a new thread...

I've been a habitual user of marijuana for several years now. I use it daily when I can, and haven't gone more than a few months at a time off of it. I've realized recently that the longer I go without it, the worse my alleged symptoms seem to become. By alleged symptoms, I mean racing thoughts, quick, seemingly random changes in personality, speech and behavior, inside voices seeming to be louder and more independent and troublesome, and what I might consider "dissociative symptoms": feeling like a different person, feeling a lack of control over one's own thoughts, speech and actions, experiencing "out-of-body"-like feelings or other feelings like there's something not right with the body. Etc.

(I'm really sorry if all this is poorly worded, confusing, or otherwise just incorrect usage of terminology.)

So that's my "normal experience" without marijuana.

If I go without using marijuana for an extended amount of time, and then use it again, it's actually really terrible. In this case, all of the abovementioned "symptoms" seem to be intensified, so that I can not possibly turn off or ignore the internal voices and am absolutely terrified to move or say or do anything for fear of who would be in control and what they would do. Depersonalization experiences are also amplified, as well as another curious symptom that I only recently noticed, which is that I get confused between other people and myself, even to the point of worrying that I am an alter stuck in the headspace really just watching headmates interact (people's faces, including my own, also get confusing).

Using it habitually is a completely different story though. In that case, it's like the valleys separating our peaks of consciousness seem to dissipate, or rather the peaks seem to all move closer together, so that communication between certain parts seems easier, and everyone and everything seems so much more calm and cooperative. Strangely (or predictably?), I seem to notice gaps in memory or other memory issues more often if I've been using regularly (and not using it all day; only in the evening before bed). In this condition, it becomes easy to accept that the internal voices are real and that there is some merit to the dissociative disorder theory, but as everyone is calm and cooperative (or just completely silent), it's also incredibly easy to deny having any sort of dissociative disorder and to just write it all off as being over-imaginative with an overactive brain. Somehow I hold both beliefs and a combination of the two and tend not to worry about it, since everything is calm and working right.

So there's my thoughts. Has anyone else has had similar experiences or can relate to what I have described?

Does it sound like I'm just a dumb stoner making stuff up? Part of me believes that. I think it would be nice, in a way.