when the marijuana just doesn't seem to be enough to kill the pain. In my case mostly psychological crap. Last night I decided to get drunk on top of getting stoned and that worked well enough...but I don't like to drink every day or night.
If you're having psychological pain, perhaps you need therapy or some such. Self medicating to kill emotional pain will not stop it. It may shut it up for now, but the problems will still be there. You need to work through the issues, figure out the hows and the whys and learn to heal from them.
I've tried therapy and it did not help, it seems better designed for people who have more obvious and less severe problems. I know self medicating can only temporarily relieve symptoms but it's better then being in constant mental torment and being totally unable to function.
you just deal with the pain. Sometimes life hurts. The important thing is to remember that its not permanent. Everything in life is transient.
you're still alive so you're dealing with it just fine be careful about self medicating, for obvious reasons (you get addicted, either physically or psychologically) but also because you just cover up the pain, which means you don't ever fully heal from it. Sometimes you just have to feel it. I think our society is conditioned to think of emotional pain as bad, and therefore something to be avoided. But its just a part of life, as much a part of life as happiness and sometimes you just have to let it wash over you to fully get through it. If its an every day thing and you've been feeling that way for a while then try to find things to get through it - not cover it up, but get through it. like meditation or therapy, as other people suggested.
Well I guess we might have to agree to disagree than, because I don't feel like I 'need' marijuana just that I need relief from shit and marijuana typically seems to work for that. I mean if that is classified as being addicted to it then I suppose so, but I wouldn't describe it that way. Not to mention I might be alive but that does not mean I am handling things fine...it would be nice if it meant that though. Also I agree with having to feel emotional pain, however its not normal to feel it all the time due to being mentally ill, so naturally I prefer to have some relief. And I might give the meditation thing a go, as that did not even occur to me but I know it can be beneficial.......as for therapy I might think about it when I can afford it but its never done any good.
I smoke pot. I think its the most beneficial herb on the planet, but if you're using it to mask emotional pain its not really different from using any drug for the same purpose.
It does not really mask it anyways, just makes me better able to deal with it all. Otherwise I'm on edge and can't slow my thoughts down enough to actually think about things more rationally or I am to depressed to really do much. But I guess sometimes I just get so sick of it even with the calming effects of cannabis I admit I do kind of want to be unaware of it...I mean I know that would not actually help its just hard not to feel that way.
i hear ya i used to pop xanax so its not like i can really judge lol. I understand completely. Just speaking from experience, its better in the long run just to let yourself feel the pain completely.
