Iām not projecting my mental illness buddy. When someone is admitting to being unable to brush their teeth in the morning without getting high, thatās addiction. I was merely stating my personal qualifications which are the fact that Iāve been through that. Iām not judging them. Iām asking yall to be fucking real with yourselves.
No, YOU donāt understand the post. If you typically canāt do all of those things (basic necessities to take care of yourself, the bare minimum) without smoking, you have a problem. I fully understood what OP meant. What youāre failing to understand is what I meant. Not everyone understands how things work and thatās okay.
Hey, I think youāre using that as an excuse to not be real with yourself. You CERTAINLY shouldnāt be smoking before completing your daily tasks if youāre a person with ADHD. Making poor focus even worse. My god. I understand that not everyone has done the research to understand what addiction looks like in people who are not neurotypical, nor even done the research into how the drug affects their non-neurotypical brain. But please listen to those who are trying to inform you.
You do realize weed is prescribed for depression, right? Itās used as a medicine. Using it as prescribed for depression does not make it substance abuse, or addiction, it makes it a medicine. You would never say this about regular psych meds. The issue comes when youāre using it for no reason and letting it control your life.
as someone who has also struggled with substance abuse youāre not very good at emitting your āempathyā youāre calling people stupid and telling people you know more than them if you were an actual ex abuser I just feel like you would know this isnāt how you help people ā¤ļøyour heart is in the right place i think but your words arenāt matching
hi so me personally i smoke before doing all of these things because not doing so causes me to be in unbearable physical pain, not everyone smokes for leisure or as an āescapeā from mental illness. not to be that guy but itās extremely ableist to assume people are using certain medications for one purpose and that they are addicts when you have no idea what their circumstances are and why they may have started using it in the first place.
hey! this is not empathetic language, itās one thing to politely suggest something based on actual research, and itās another to try to say what someone should and shouldnāt do with THEIR mental disorder. for me, weed mitigates a lot of my ADHD symptoms like executive dysfunction, adhd paralysis, rejection dysphoria, etc. everyoneās experiences are different :)
This. I also smoke for chronic pain and it helps with my disability too. It allows me to do things without vomiting, headaches, getting dizzy, and pain. There are many reasons why people smoke that arenāt āsubstance abuseā or being an addict, and that can be mental health, or disabilities. The generalizations made by the OP are very much personal biases that they have towards smoking that are inherently incorrect and ableist.
i think it was commenter 12 making the generalizations, not OP. but i agree. itās the āwell i think itās unhealthy/dangerous/not useful and i donāt personally need to use it to function, so neither does anyone elseā mindset. like prescription pain meds and mental health meds can be addictive, dangerous, and bad for your health long-term, but not everyone who uses them are addicts and they often started using them for a very real reason. same with weed. individuals have individual needs.