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CBD oil cured my anxiety and so I lost important part of my ADHD motivation šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø

I was always very anxious person and this anxiety really helped me to motivate myself to do anything. I would procrastinate, wait for anxiety to kick in and panicking do the thing in 1/10 of time. However after this cbd thing the anxiety no longer kicks in lmao. It is gone for real, I canā€™t even evoke it if I wanted. And so my career/education took a huge hit.

At first I thought this effect was because of slight amounts of THC ā€œmaking me lazyā€. I imagined that I got a bit addicted to it over the year of everyday full spectrum cbd usage and I got stereotypical ā€œbumā€ mentality from ā€œweedā€ šŸ˜…

My next step as soon as I noticed that I no longer have drive and motivation and ambition? was to just come clean off it and I did it single day, was a bit irritable and angry for a week but generally not a big deal.

So now I am months after that and I realize that there is more to this. That this anxiety that cbd killed was actually part of my coping with adhd. I mean how else explain that months after quitting I still havenā€™t regained my ā€œmotivationā€ to finish something before deadline? The anxiety just doesnā€™t kick in, it is gone.

Idk honestly I must find some other way because I am almost 30 and that also is some sort of deadline hopefully the anxiety kicks at birthday.

I donā€™t know honestly if I should celebrate my calmness and relaxation or should I curse myself for losing the coping method. I need to find another.. somehow.

I guess I donā€™t miss panic attacks but it is hard to balance it all. Some anxiety is kind of a force that for me was propelling me forward. Now I just want to relax and chill all the timee. Sit there on the patio comfortably with beverage and just take the nature in. That doesnā€™t work good for me in the long run I feel.

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  • Adderall helped me with this temporarily if that is something accessible to you.

    Iā€™ve smoked weed daily for the past 4 years and over time it helped me slow down my mind to identify situations that give me anxiety. Iā€™ve practiced either avoiding those situations or taken the time to understand why those situations give me anxiety.

    I am a people pleaser and would do everything I could to make others jobs at work easier at my own expense. I got lots of praise and good raises because of it. After learning to deal with my anxiety I just canā€™t put myself back into that position anymore.

    I started taking Adderall which helped for a few months but I didnā€™t stop with the weed so I feel like iā€™m back at square one as my body has gotten used to it.

    Currently trying to abstain from weed to see if it helps but struggling with the irritability and anger.

    • Weed has helped me figure alot out about myself as well. The main thing is that I really don't like spending all my time stressed out. It feels physically uncomfortable. I had never noticed that before I had THC, to calm me down for the first time in my life. It's helped me break down a lot of walls my anxiety built, which were keeping me from parts of myself.

      Tolerance is so unfair lol

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