floydisgod said:

think it could work? i cant smoke weed anymore cause i get so damned anxious.. especially in public

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the human abstract said:

floydisgod said:

think it could work? i cant smoke weed anymore cause i get so damned anxious.. especially in public

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imagine if it were legal tho.. thats the whole reason that the stereo type drug user is paraniod.. its bc hes forced to do it in a paraniod atmosphere..

and i totally agree Nuggetpouch.. i see shadows when im on high doses of amphetamines but i force myself not to see them and now im not scared.. i didnt do drugs for months after my first encounter with these hooded shadows but now theyre almost a confort when im on amps.. its like my body guards that no one else can see

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Kickle said:

Psychologists utilize the underlying principle you're attempting to describe.
Systematic desensitization - expose an individual to a stimulus that invokes anxiety.
Start small and develop coping mechanisms (e.g. breathing exercises)
Once the stimulus that invokes a small anxiety response no longer induces any anxiety at all, you move forward.

An example for a specific phobia would be:
thinking of a spider
picture of a spider
spider in the room (in a case or cage)
letting the spider crawl on you

Each time you expose the stimulus long enough so that it no longer induces the anxiety response.

There is also the method of flooding, wherein you jump straight to letting a spider crawl on you. The idea being that if you can handle the most intense anxiety stimulus and learn to cope with it, you can easily cope with the rest.

Developing the hierarchy definitely works better, but sometimes people are in a pinch (I.e. businessmen who are dreadfully afraid of flying. Well, it's time to fly, and you're still scared -- here's some coping techniques, hop on that plane and flood yourself!

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Nuggetpouch said:

anyways, someone with moderate anxiety smokes a 'high-anxiety' strain of THC right... so every day they smoke the drug instead of masking the symptoms it causes the person to come face to face with the demons that are responsible... in eventually conquering these demons and moderating your own cognition and behavior you will eventually come to conquer the disorder without masking the symptoms...

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deCypher said:

Nuggetpouch said:

anyways, someone with moderate anxiety smokes a 'high-anxiety' strain of THC right... so every day they smoke the drug instead of masking the symptoms it causes the person to come face to face with the demons that are responsible... in eventually conquering these demons and moderating your own cognition and behavior you will eventually come to conquer the disorder without masking the symptoms...

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OR the constant use of a high-anxiety strain of marijuana induces worse and worse anxiety until the participant starts getting panic attacks while sober.  Sometimes more dr00gz just exacerbates the problem.

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deCypher said:

Nuggetpouch said:

anyways, someone with moderate anxiety smokes a 'high-anxiety' strain of THC right... so every day they smoke the drug instead of masking the symptoms it causes the person to come face to face with the demons that are responsible... in eventually conquering these demons and moderating your own cognition and behavior you will eventually come to conquer the disorder without masking the symptoms...

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OR the constant use of a high-anxiety strain of marijuana induces worse and worse anxiety until the participant starts getting panic attacks while sober.  Sometimes more dr00gz just exacerbates the problem.

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we need to realize that we know nothing

Herbal said:

Im gonna take the biological standpoint. What medications are you on? Whats your diet like? These factors will influence your weed high if you are already prone to anxiety.

Eat healthy, If you can avoid it....dont take prescription drugs (especially recreational use), and learn to relax in your sober mindset (because thats whats gonna be amplified when your high

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good advice and that goes hand in hand, but the cognitive part still plays a huge role

someone made a great post that sounded a lot like cognitive behavioral therapy i think we should move more towards this branch of thinking and away from the pharmaceutical "treat the symptoms" approach we have right now that is playing into wallets of pill-pushing monsters $$

deCypher said:

OR the constant use of a high-anxiety strain of marijuana induces worse and worse anxiety until the participant starts getting panic attacks while sober.  Sometimes more dr00gz just exacerbates the problem.

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Nuggetpouch said:

use drugs that actually induce state of anxiety (obviously not in extreme cases where this could be potentially dangerous)

anyways, someone with moderate anxiety smokes a 'high-anxiety' strain of THC right... so every day they smoke the drug instead of masking the symptoms it causes the person to come face to face with the demons that are responsible... in eventually conquering these demons and moderating your own cognition and behavior you will eventually come to conquer the disorder without masking the symptoms...

no idea is a new idea, but i felt like sharing this because it seems far more obvious and useful in the long run in 'treating symptoms' by having doctors doping their patients up for the rest of their natural lives.... thats the current plan????

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