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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Glad your pa is ok. Yeah weed should not be underestimated. I smoked some very high THC weed which, coupled with a very unhealthy relationship with work, put me in the hospital after a 4 month long panic attack which was there 24/7. It took years for me to go back to my old self, I still have some aftershocks from whatever happened to my brain at that time. No doctor could tell me what was wrong other than that I had a very high white blood cell count. No other biomarkers were affected though, no infection, nothing. It was basically “just” 4 months of panic and around 5 years of moderate/low anxiety.





  • Accept those thoughts as a part of you, at least when they come to the surface. Try to picture yourself as two persons, one persons is the one you want to be and the other is all the traits you don’t like about yourself. Try to picture the latter just sitting in a chair, loudly complaining like a Karen. Don’t pay any attention to them, just let them rage in silence. The point is not to fight these thoughts because then, you already acknowledge that they hold power over you. But you shouldn’t dwell on them either, just acknowledge them, then let them fade into nothingness. In time, this person’s whining and screaming will get more and more silent, until it will eventually become just a whisper. It will never truly go away, but it won’t make you question yourself anymore.

    I know it sounds stupid and what you’d expect a shrink to say, but it really does work. It takes a lot of learning to let go of stuff though.