Iโm not projecting my mental illness buddy. When someone is admitting to being unable to brush their teeth in the morning without getting high, thatโs addiction. I was merely stating my personal qualifications which are the fact that Iโve been through that. Iโm not judging them. Iโm asking yall to be fucking real with yourselves.
No, YOU donโt understand the post. If you typically canโt 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 youโre failing to understand is what I meant. Not everyone understands how things work and thatโs okay.
Hey, I think youโre using that as an excuse to not be real with yourself. You CERTAINLY shouldnโt be smoking before completing your daily tasks if youโre 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? Itโs 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 youโre using it for no reason and letting it control your life.
as someone who has also struggled with substance abuse youโre not very good at emitting your โempathyโ youโre 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 isnโt how you help people โค๏ธyour heart is in the right place i think but your words arenโt 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 โescapeโ from mental illness. not to be that guy but itโs 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, itโs one thing to politely suggest something based on actual research, and itโs another to try to say what someone should and shouldnโt do with THEIR mental disorder. for me, weed mitigates a lot of my ADHD symptoms like executive dysfunction, adhd paralysis, rejection dysphoria, etc. everyoneโs 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 arenโt โsubstance abuseโ 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. itโs the โwell i think itโs unhealthy/dangerous/not useful and i donโt personally need to use it to function, so neither does anyone elseโ 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.