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treeman8
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Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset
#26612357 - 04/19/20 08:20 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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"I think I may be ____ and that's the problem."
To start off I smoke a lot of weed and really I know that's part of the problem. With that said weed simply creates questions with difficult answers but it hasn't answered them. My brain is on a loop of thought the same related thoughts... every day.
I was going to write a large post about how a new sort of pessimistic perception has been digging me into a hole of realization of the world. I won't continue though as I believe the simplest solution is to stop smoking weed. I may have slowly become depressed. It has taken a while to get a low as I am but I have confidence in my mental strength.
(An unorganized post that even I can't make sense of) lol
Keep it all good in the hood,
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: treeman8]
#26612387 - 04/19/20 08:32 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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treeman8 said: ...To start off I smoke a lot of weed and really I know that's part of the problem.
1) many folks one day wake up to the same realization.
for other folks apparently its not a problem.
2) so you've posted about it.... now what are you going to do about it? no need to tell anyone here
3) but (as has often been said of many endeavors) without a plan, any chance of success is reduced
For instance in the case of this issue, you may still be hanging out with friends (6' away?) who think smoking weed is cool, if so - how will you handle the peer pressure you have so far succumbed to? And what will do with the time that used to be involved with dope? There are many obstacles that will have to be overcome in any big change. As they say: " a business with no plan, is a plan to fail" - (some mean person might say: 'But that's ok you can just get stoned again and the pain will go away".)
4) but I will say: good luck
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: treeman8]
#26612436 - 04/19/20 08:49 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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treeman8 said:
I was going to write a large post about how a new sort of pessimistic perception has been digging me into a hole of realization of the world.
I think compartmentalization is important. In saving this Funland perhaps God has to rid the world of a lot of people, but I can't let that color my outlook of treating people the way I want to be treated- Separation of Church and State as it were.
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The Blind Ass
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: Buster_Brown]
#26612466 - 04/19/20 09:01 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sounds much like being high on cannabis. I find the stuff almost useless, but to each their own. I grew to prefer the simple basic clarity of the natural state of mind much more than the herb high that ultimately was just diminishing my sharpness and had to be maintained for any semblance of normalcy. Been high on smoked cannabis maybe 10 times in the past 5 years and I don’t miss it.
Give it a shot and just roll with it if your already noticing what your saying. No need to come to the same conclusion 100x over, that’s just crazy.
Although...Now and then, I think it would be nice to eat some edibles, because my body reacts much more favorably to them, but with my current life and where I live the opportunities are scarce.
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Edited by The Blind Ass (04/19/20 09:39 AM)
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Forrester
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26612763 - 04/19/20 11:31 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I feel ya on preferring the clarity of the natural state of mind, although it took me quite a bit of my life to figure that out. Wish I had done it sooner now.
Weed is the only substance including nicotine and alcohol that never gave me problems though, probably because I'm one of those people that it makes extremely socially awkward, and also really tired, so I've never used it but at night before bed.
I've never understood people that could be high all the time or even smoke at all during the day, but that's just me I'm not judging... It clearly affects me very differently than some.
Regardless of what the substance is, it's easy to tell whether it's serving you or not - if that little voice in your head is telling you it's time to stop, it probably is...
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: Forrester]
#26613464 - 04/19/20 05:32 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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sometimes a hole convinces you that it is actually art, or nobility of a kind, and you become enchanted - you yearn to be more hole.
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: redgreenvines]
#26618610 - 04/21/20 08:06 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Weed is good for you.
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: treeman8]
#26648136 - 05/04/20 11:37 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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treeman8 said: "I think I may be ____ and that's the problem."
To start off I smoke a lot of weed and really I know that's part of the problem. With that said weed simply creates questions with difficult answers but it hasn't answered them. My brain is on a loop of thought the same related thoughts... every day.
I was going to write a large post about how a new sort of pessimistic perception has been digging me into a hole of realization of the world. I won't continue though as I believe the simplest solution is to stop smoking weed. I may have slowly become depressed. It has taken a while to get a low as I am but I have confidence in my mental strength.
(An unorganized post that even I can't make sense of) lol
Keep it all good in the hood,
I'm not so sure weed is your problem. I have the same one and I don't smoke it - makes me paranoid and shatters me into a thousand distinct shards.
I'll tell you a bit about my take on it and maybe there will be something in it that resonates. At some level I experience the world as if there are no boundaries, no 'me' or 'them', but just an all-encompassing 'I'. That level of experience is my core, and because it continues undivided I can't 'see' myself - it's like an eyeball trying to look at itself. I can't 'see' myself because I'm a unified thing just like the eyeball.
So I make hypotheses to explain myself, and these I generate via observation of the world around me because I can't look directly in. I generate them always, endlessly. Some of them contradict one another, and so I have to investigate which is true. That begins a process of winnowing down hypotheses, and as such my hypotheses get, what I think to be, closer and closer to the 'truth'.
I always think my latest 'truth' explains everything, but then another one comes along...
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: treeman8]
#26648350 - 05/04/20 01:12 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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treeman8 said:
To start off I smoke a lot of weed and really I know that's part of the problem.
Although you see some negative consequences of your behavior, you must find benefits in it or you wouldn't do it.
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Forrester
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#26652533 - 05/06/20 09:01 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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RJ Tubs 202 said: Although you see some negative consequences of your behavior, you must find benefits in it or you wouldn't do it.
Think so?
To me the definition of an unhealthy relationship with a substance (addiction) is when it gets to the point that we keep doing it regardless of the fact that it no longer provides us with any benefits, although we may think it does.
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: Forrester]
#26652622 - 05/06/20 09:58 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Forrester said:
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RJ Tubs 202 said: Although you see some negative consequences of your behavior, you must find benefits in it or you wouldn't do it.
Think so?
To me the definition of an unhealthy relationship with a substance (addiction) is when it gets to the point that we keep doing it regardless of the fact that it no longer provides us with any benefits, although we may think it does.
no longer provides us with any benefits is one thing, but if it creates problems for heath - relationships - employability (may be a thing of the past) - and survival - then it's a real problem.
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Re: Constant realizations -- An "I think I may be____ and thats the problem" mindset [Re: Forrester]
#26655868 - 05/07/20 07:33 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Forrester said:
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RJ Tubs 202 said: Although you see some negative consequences of your behavior, you must find benefits in it or you wouldn't do it.
Think so?
To me the definition of an unhealthy relationship with a substance (addiction) is when it gets to the point that we keep doing it regardless of the fact that it no longer provides us with any benefits, although we may think it does.
Without a specific belief there's some benefit in the behavior, you'd have no motivation to engage in it. It's like people who purposely cut themselves - our behaviors are always functional and serve a purpose. We never choose to engage in behavior without motivation.
Have you ever considered what benefits there are? Of course it's tricky with drugs, because if we conclude we are happier under the effects of a drug, this conclusion was reached under the influence of drugs and should not be given a huge amount of weight. But, of course, we do.
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