I just get tipsy and it's good enough for me

most of the time

I pretty much only drink to get drunk

i started just drinking every now and then with friends, and then it slowly built over several years to the point where i was just drinking alone, and watching youtube, dark times man, dark times

Yeah, that's really shitty.

Once you get to the point where you're doing it yourself everyday doing, well, exactly that, it's terrible.

it's so gradual that you dont really notice you have a problem until you really have a problem

That was my weed experience

Usually related to depression or anxiety

self treatment

Mine was weirdly quick though, I started to fall into that pit, wallowed in it, and came out of it within the span of 2-3 months.

thats good

I had this ritual where every night after I got home from work I'd smoke a cigarette then get high, then a few hours later smoke another then get higher, then smoke another then get higher, then sleep and repeat

When I was drinking every single day or smoking every single day at points, it wasn't to get drunk really it was to get back to the base level of what had become the new "normal" for me.

I haven't had a single cigarette since I pulled out of that

It felt like me being drunk or high was my natural state

and sober was unusual

yeah i know what that is like @Ϻ14ᛟ

i still need to quite cigarettes

I luckily never felt that

I always found tobacco to be the easiest thing for me personally to just give up because it had no real altering affects like weed or alcohol

For me it was just trying to recapture the magic of this one night I had with it a while ago, every single night, and continuously failing and trying again, for months straight, and I totally ruined it for myself.

@Chloé Adsolution I had a bad weed habit too, and then i stopped smoking weed and a year late got into the alcohol. I never really got back into weed, it made me too paranoid

I feel like the negative effects are very downplayed nowadays

of weed

yeah

Definitely

everyone knows how bad alcohol and tobacco is

It went from the bad sides overplayed or made up

to the downsides being downplayed

alcohol did nothing wrong

But a lot of the downsides are very person to person

Say you have an anxiety disorder

Yeah, it's very personal

Weed can either dramatically help it or utterly ruin you

weed gives me existential dread

I only took it once and had a panic attack and couldn't speak for like 5 hours.

Like full on hallucinating that everyone could hear my thoughts

That happened to my friend when I tried to introduce it to her

Her boyfriend was not happy with me lol

weed just makes you want to keep smoking weed. I went on a long camping trip once and picked up some weed half way through, and did nothing but lay around and smoke. and after it was gone, i just kept thinking about how much i wanted some more weed. It put a damper on that part of the trip

Other people are perfectly fine and actually get better wth it

Well it does feel pretty good for a lot of people

It's not technically addicting but as with anything that feels good, you want more of it

(technically addicting in the physical dependency sense)

yeah

There isn't really a strong withdrawal

caffeine has a stronger withdrawal

```weed just makes you want to keep smoking weed. I went on a long camping trip once and picked up some weed half way through, and did nothing but lay around and smoke. and after it was gone, i just kept thinking about how much i wanted some more weed. It put a damper on that part of the trip```That depends too. After I recovered, I don't feel that at all anymore. Whenever I get high on occasion now, I'm totally satisfied with being completely sober for the next few days.

its mental

It can also cause things like nerve disorders and bring on mental health issues like schizophrenia faster though. As well as lung problems, heart problems, etc. I have been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat because of the constant smoking because it raises your heartrate so dramatically and so high, then it drops, then you raise it back up again, repeat. Especially with the amount I smoked at the time.

Also if you're under like 20 you pprobably shouldn't mess with it

Well, a caveat there

If you have schizophrenia

I first smoked weed at 18

a drug trip can trigger it

so if you're undiagnosed you can have your first episode when you smoke weed

I had the opportunity to do it earlier, just never did

I started at like 17

Didn't become a daily thing for me though until like last year

@obrallaghan yeah, nowadays if i smoke it feels like when Frodo puts on the ring and everything gets dark and scary. fuck that shit

I know a girl who got *fucking destroyed* when she took some drug(I want to say LSD, but it might have been heroin)

She already had the disorder but it finally got triggered for the first time

and hit her like a train

I've definitely had a few totally batshit deathly weed highs

Got schizoid personality disorder, dissociative personality disorder(changes names like every 3 months)

Only recently(like 4 years after it started) has gotten better.

brb

That shit isn't exactly common but it's something to watch out for.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/257360482564833280/427006032988995596/DY74fnZWsAAap1g.png

I am in no way anti-weed, in fact I want it legalized and sold and amnesty for people who are in prison for it.

oldie but goodie

In the end, for me, exercise has become my daily drug. It gives you rushes of adrenaline and after you are exhausted it is similar to a drug-feeling effect.
Then I just smoke a couple times a year - if that, and drink every couple months or so.

In high school i smoked so much that i genuinely believe i developed psychosis. I got over though, eventually

But any mind altering substance has the potential to fuck up fragile people and mess with childhood development.\

For example, ADHD is a real thing and many people need both drugs and therapy to cope with it

Especially in modern society.

I'm not even that mad.

But you shouldn't throw a ton of drugs at kids all at once.

For all that money spent into documenting they're obese.

Dont you know, depression aint real

but we have to know WHY

3.5 mil is a drop in the bucket as far as taxes go

I figure that 3.5 million went into more than just specifically lesbians.

and honestly obesity is such a problem I think it's fine to research it as much as possible.

50 billion to find out if traps are gay

This shit needs to go

We spend more to train one squad of soldiers

Only 3.5m to be able to claim dykes are fat, it's science, bitches.

oh and like

depression isn't *one* disease.

It can be extreme sadness that eventually ruins your hormonal system

or it can be an actual physical damage thing

i almost feel like depression is a symptom, but i am not a doctor

and of course there's two billion different treatments and some people are just fucked

In reality, it is

It's sort of like how a fever is a symptom of two billion diseases.

Or how we call about 10 diseases "the flu"

remember "H1N1"? it was just the flu

yeah