On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties

Re:On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties by herbst on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:26AM (#34103874)

We are going slightly off topic here, but may I ask how your life turned better without weed?

When Corona made availability a bit harder I quit last year for several months. But to my surprise I wasn't more productive, wasn't more focused all I got was getting more moody and easier to distact.

I came to accept that weed is self medication against my ADD and depression that works better than I actually expected.

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Re:On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties by Shindi on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:53PM (#34111012)

No worries, this really depends on the person and their smoking habits. I know for me I was smoking almost daily, using it to cope with founder stress in unhealthy ways, using it to run away from problems. For me personally, weed has the effect that it makes me super lazy, and that effect lingers for a couple of days, which made me more stressed.

Cutting weed definitely made me a ton more anxious for the first month, but after that I felt more motivated, more linguistically fluid.

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