#self-medicating

I knew that weed was only holding me back from the other things I wanted to do in life. Instead of looking forward to spending time in nature, pursuing art or hobbies, I was looking forward to smoking a bowl. I realized my whole life revolved around it.

Are you struggling to quit smoking weed/marijuana? Or maybe you’re wondering why it’s such a big deal to some people in the first place. This unique perspective on one woman’s journey to quit her dependence on marijuana takes a nuanced, balanced approach to an often misunderstood issue. my ‘safe’ drug Ah, marijuana. Everyone’s favorite gateway drug. It’s relaxing, ups your appetite, and is…

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“For the ambitious children of the bourgeoisie, high achievers raised on Adderall, Xanax, and a raft of discreet legal narcotics, drugs are the norm just to get to sleep, to deal with anxiety, to avoid crushing bouts of abjection and the relentless pressures to exceed and excel. In the hood, promethazine, the syrup of Houston, became the fashionable coping agent for those living in the free-fire zones of America, where turf wars regulated with cheap handguns cut down lives in a vicious spiral. From so many points of view, then, one looks out into the Trump era with a prevailing numbness, nihilism, cruelty, ambient anxiety, disarticulation seeping in from all sides. The music records all this. It sounds like this. Future’s lyrics are mocked for their lack of sophistication, but the veritable pharmacopeia in his verses is not dishonest or inarticulate about an affect that is pervasive, or its origins… A preoccupation with depression, mental health, a confused and terrible desire for dissociation: this is a fundamental sensibility shared by a generation.”

Yes, you totally could’ve learned to live with it. Lots of people aren’t diagnosed with adhd until a lot later in life, some people even as late as their 60’s, and they never knew they had adhd, either because they assumed everyone else experienced the same things as them, or because they’ve learned to live with it.

For you, it might be a mixture of both, as there are quite a few lesser-known symptoms that people either assume everyone experiences, or that they think is just something they do that makes them weird. (For example, being overly emotional.)

You gotta flip it Nikki.

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The Dangers of Self-Medicating for Common Ailments Self-Medicating Self-Medicating In our fast-paced world, the temptation to diagnose and treat ourselves has never been stronger. With endless information at our fingertips and over-the-counter medications readily available, self-medicating for common ailments has become second nature for many people. A headache? Pop some pills. Can’t sleep? Try…

Self-Care is Health Care I’ve noticed as I age our health care system becomes less and less concerned about the things which could shorten what’s left of my life here on Earth. As such, it’s up to me to schedule regular checkups, and follow through on referrals for things like mammograms and colonoscopies. One cancer scare is one too many for me, even if it was caught early enough for surgery to…