[brandon]

I am 28 yrs old and I have been living with dp for 7 years now. Damn 7years, seems like yesterday I was just finding out what dp was. I have not been on this site for a long time. I used to be on dp sites all the time but then I thought it was making my dp happen because I was constantly thinking about it.

Anyway, my question, does anyone smoke pot to help them cope? I smoked pot before I got dp and once dp started I stopped. I didnt smoke or drink for 3 years trying to figure out different meds to take and just wanted to be sober and clear headed. I still had dp when I was not drinking or smoking.

I am now ( last couple years) at the point where I go through the day sometimes good, sometimes very dp'd but get home at night and get high. Not everyday but a couple times a week (to be honest)

To me it seems like if I do smoke it is an excuse for me to feel dp'd. Like when I am sober and dp'd I can get depressed and aways wonder why am I like this. But getting high or going out drinking (I dont drink much at all) is a reason or excuse why I feel messed up. I dont feel any worse after smoking, it relaxs me.

I feel like all day I spend thinking and at night when I smoke I can turn my thoughts off and relax.

I know some of you think I am crazy that I do smoke with dp but are there other people that smoke with dp and what are you thoughts on the subject?

I have tried many many meds, currently I am on lexapro and toprol.

Gotta run but please reply.

 

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[brandon]

I was 21 years old riding in the car one day (sober) and all of the sudden boom dp struck. I thought maybe at first it was the pot but I dont think so, I dont know if I am high or dp'd when I smoke but I do not worry about it then, I just relax

 

[falling_free]

I don't and definilty wont smoke weed anymore, pot makes me really anxious and upotight (even more so than usual) and I cacoon into my vast, complex and infinlity confused self.

Pot used to relax me a lot though, I did prior to all this dp crap used to havbe a good time on pot, then I just went to introspective and got caught in a downward spiral of insanity.

If pot relaxed my sense of depersonlisation and deatchment from self , enviroment then I would probably partake, albiet not on a daily basis, but weed just tends to widen the hole inside now (sorry to sound so emo)

 

[Martinelv]

Don't do it. Weed is a mild halluciongen, amoung other things, and it only messes with your brain. Keep off it, at least, until your DR/DP has gone. Take it from me - someone who has fallen into this trap.

 

[Guest]

Pot caused dp for me, so i wouldn?t recomend you to smoke this fuckin shit. have a beer instead, works as an excuse for my dp...

 

[fingertingle]

I know what you mean. For me smoking makes the feeling unbearable for a month or so afterward though. Its nice to have a reason and not to have to think about it, but drinking is better I think. Pot screws up everything.

 

[Beth]

I don't think it's a good idea, but I do. It definitely makes me feel weirder, at the time it affects me very strongly and up to a month after stopping I get much stronger dp. But I like it, and I like the way I feel most of the time now anyway.

 

[Guest]

sometimes i think i should start smoking weed again, even if it did cause my feelings which i dont know but its like i dont really care anymore maybe ill fade into nothingness

 

[falling_free]

I wouldnt advise you to smoke weed again aphex (BTW aphex twin is fucking the best music ever) . If you smoke weed again then chances are the division between the world of the real and the surrual ever so strange world of dperosnlisation will start to get slightly less, and also weed tends to make one think outside of the box incresinclly so, and in my peronsel expereince, makes the anylaisis go deeper until you are anyalsing yourslef from an almost 3rd person perspective, which is a confusing state to be in (I should know, I am in a 3rd person state a lot, along with the detachment from physical body)

 

[agentcooper]

i'm pretty sure smoking pot is harmful to most of us dp/drers. most people who have smoked pot for a long time have, at one time or another, experienced dp/dr while high. if non dpers tend to get dped while high, just think what'll happen to us... :shock: