[inbetweener]

Hello, I'll try to keep this short:

• I have chronic low appetite and nothing has ever worked to fix it
• I tried weed in my 30s and it worked very well for my appetite, in addition to being fun
• I was mentally addicted pretty quickly, but kept usage at once a week
• Used Indica THC/CBD gummies for 6 months, no unwanted side effects
• Tried a sativa vape a couple times, got intense DPDR
• Followed advice from here and elsewhere, cut caffeine, and totally recovered after 12 days

Because of its medical usefulness to me, I'd really like to try to go back to weed at some point in the future. I obviously don't ever want to feel DPDR again.

So my two questions:
1) Has anyone gone back to weed after a complete recovery from DPDR? How did it go?
2) Do you think the type of weed really makes a significant difference? It seems like a huge coincidence that I went 6 months with no problem with the indica, then had a major problem right after trying a sativa.
I actually posted a poll about weed type here

I think that deep down I know the right thing is to not touch weed again. But I'm curious to hear the responses of other people in similar situations. Thanks!

 

[Phantasm]

I remember seeing a documentary a few years ago where the presenter experimented with different types of cannabis.

I forget the chemistry, but essentially cannabis has two effects: the first calms and relaxes you and the second is hallucinatory.

How the cannabis effects you depends on the balance between these two chemical effects. When there is a perfect balance, the relaxation effect counters any disturbance you might experience from the hallucinatory effect, making it possible to enjoy the experience.

The trouble is that for many decades now cannabis has been developed to be as high in the hallucinatory side as possible, (presumably THC) so people can get as "high" as possible, but without the counterbalance of the calming effect. This increases the likelyhood of "freakouts" and mentally scarring experiences.

 

[C8H11NO3]

My Primary DPDR was SSRI-triggered. Pot enhances the effects of DPDR but wasn’t causal for me. I have chronic migraines and pot is the thing that works most reliably to treat it (with the least dangerous side effects, according to my neurologist)

I use it as a last resort (more often than i’d like, but i also get headaches more often than i’d like!).

Find the lowest THC that works. There’s some good talks on YouTube about the endo-cannabanoid system that you might find useful.
Edibles are likely your best bet since they’re the closest to a measured dose.

For me, stress is the biggest influencing factor and identifying the smaller (prodromal) symptoms—for me: time slowing, differences in sound and scale—may help navigate when is or isn’t a good time to dose.

Re: Sativa vs Indica.

Indica vs. sativa: What's the difference?

Anecdotal evidence posits that indica is more calming, while sativa is more energizing. Some experts say that such statements are misleading. Learn more here.

www.medicalnewstoday.com

“Ubiquitous interbreeding and hybridization of “Sativa” and “Indica” has rendered their distinctions almost meaningless.” Cannabis Systematics at the Levels of Family, Genus, and Species

 

[inbetweener]

Useful stuff, thanks.

I would have definitely though the sativa/indica distinction was bogus or at least overblown, but my experience was clearly different. The indica also had CBD while the sativa didn't...another variable that I wouldn't expect to matter.

Difference of vape compared to edibles seem more likely to be important but again, all shots in the dark. I want to take a scientific approach to testing how I react to these different things, but when a possible end result is crippling mental illness, my interest in research goes down..

 

[leminaseri]

did you try to boost your appetite wirh alcohol?

 

[inbetweener]

did you try to boost your appetite wirh alcohol?

Alcohol makes me nauseous. The feeling you feel when you're gaggy and about to throw up, I feel after essentially every meal. I have tried absolutely everything. Weed and antihistamines are the only things that help, but neither can really be used throughout day-to-day life.

I've done some further research while trying to figure out exactly how much THC I took in from the vape when I got depersonalized. I think it was way more than I meant to. I took two 8-second hits on low voltage, spread out over a couple hours. Hard to find a calculation, but apparently 3 seconds is a much more normal amount of time. So maybe I had like 40mg of THC or something and my brain freaked out.

What was weird was that the actual high itself was unremarkable, and it was only 2 days after smoking that I started to feel the "watching myself perform actions" feeling.

 

[leminaseri]

Alcohol makes me nauseous. The feeling you feel when you're gaggy and about to throw up, I feel after essentially every meal. I have tried absolutely everything. Weed and antihistamines are the only things that help, but neither can really be used throughout day-to-day life.

I've done some further research while trying to figure out exactly how much THC I took in from the vape when I got depersonalized. I think it was way more than I meant to. I took two 8-second hits on low voltage, spread out over a couple hours. Hard to find a calculation, but apparently 3 seconds is a much more normal amount of time. So maybe I had like 40mg of THC or something and my brain freaked out.

What was weird was that the actual high itself was unremarkable, and it was only 2 days after smoking that I started to feel the "watching myself perform actions" feeling.

okay. i think you shouldnt drink yourself to the death. maybe begin with red wine and appetizer food like salted carrots with lemon and mashed potatoes. then you should have boosted your appetite. alcohol is a bigger appetite booster than thc. but many people drink too much and are afterwards too drunken to eat something

 

[inbetweener]

Recovery & Smoking Weed After DP/DR Disorder

hey guys.. not posted for a good while, I got a sudden and relentless episode of DP in September last year, i had been smoking weed heavily for a year every day and could have never predicted such a strange thing to have happened to me, i had felt just fine in the months previous, nothing major...

www.dpselfhelp.com

This was a well-written thread that describes how I felt (albeit mine was only for 12 days), and has good info about trying weed again later, if anyone sees this thread and is wondering.

It'd be nice to have more perspectives, but I know this a highly niche issue.