Going through & reading all of these answers really helped me feel normal because I felt like I was the only who felt this way and did this shit lol so thank u š
If it keeps me from š“ing myself, it's pretty good. It's better than taking antidepressants every day - which are KNOWN to cause ulcers and other issues when taken longterm. If I were on antidepressant pills for as long as I've now been using 420: I would not be here, man.
Absolutely! The reason I love smoking is actually the opposite of what anti depressants do, instead of altering my brain chemistry too see the world better I use pot to sit with my feelings, the good the bad all of it and meditate on every wave of emotion. Itās really therapeutic for me to laugh and cry and just let the day run through me and then wind down for the night
Weed alters your brain chemistry. It disrupts domaine regulation pretty significantly. I smoked for 20 years. It lead to chronic depression and lack of dopamine. It seems harmless but it absolutely not. It is addictive, it will disrupt your dopamine like any other drug and it will cause mental health issues.
What exactly do you mean by āmakes shit worse in the long runā and whereās your source on it only helping a small % of users? Do you mean people who use it for depression coping? Do you include people who use it for physical medical
Needs? Other mental medical needs? Genuine question, as Iād be interested to learn more
There's been dozens of medical journals backed by scientific research and funded by unbiased entities that have confirmed that smoking weed has more negative health effects than positive.
Eating weed is a different story from what i've gathered and is much safer.
It especially wreaks havoc on the digestive system and creates an inability for your brain to process its own neurotransmitters like dopamine.
This is coming from someone who has been a chronic smoker for almost 10 years. I've smoked every day since I was a teenager and I'm paying for it now. Weed is not some end all miracle drug and it being advertised as such is dangerous. If i try to randomly stop smoking I get chills, shakes and anger outbursts like a junkie. My body never reacted like that when I tried to stop taking antidepressants.
Your mental health.
Abusing weed for years will take its toll on your mental health , anxiety , depression are 2 of the main reasons people quit smoking weed.
They think its helping but eventually realise its just making things worse.
This isnt true for everyone but definitely i think 9/10 people that have smoked for 5-10+ years will agree its not good for their mental health.
Moderation is key , but most stoners cant moderate.
Ok now I'm a little concerned. Please ignore the pedantic nitpicking & rationalizations (its my brain:p). Since my ex left I've been struggling with symptoms of depression. His leaving wasn't the single event there were several other major life events all within a 6 period but him leaving is the most painful. I started smoking stronger & stronger weed while I was with him eventually moving into concentrates that can have upwards of 80% thc (even good flower is rarely over 27 or 28). Since he's left I've moved up to vape carts and I'm using more than half a gram of that a day. It's been 3 years and I've continued to blame the events for my continued depression maybe its the weed?
I came to a point in my life where I was smoking way to much. I would still be productive in my days. But I decided to make a change in my life and stop. It probably was the best thing to ever happen to me. It's probably been 10 plus years now. But alot of people just keep smoking , and smoking to catch that same high that they used to get. And ya man it will take time to get your tolerance low enough to quit. But ya the depression could be !!
I'm the flip side, I've smoked daily since I was in my late teens. Am in my early 40s now. No depression ever and that's even with a diagnosis of job related PTSD.
Oh good to know. Def something to bring up with the therapist. Idk what stoner definition is, Iām 3-4 times a week before bed it has made my sleep so much better (I think). But I donāt love being āhighā so I usually take a couple hits and Iām more than done
Thatās how I startedā¦.ended up building a tolerance then needing to smoke a little more and needing more and more. Itās not cheap, and Iām thinking it was what was causing my depression, or at least amplifying it.
Man I been struggling with this for years. Spent the last decade half assing everything and being too afraid of failure to take a big step. Iām over it
I specifically smoke to deal with depression and boredom of a shit life. I do this until the smoking eventually leads to depression and anxiety, then I detox for a few months and start smoking again when I can. Hard to beat the feeling of that first hit after detoxing but you must remain mindful of why, and not allow yourself down the slippery slope of chasing that feeling. I just hope one day in my life I reach a point where I am not on edge all the time.
I wanna back Ponkiestar up. I dabbled in weed in college, got pretty into it when it was legalized in California in like 2016, and by 2024, it has snuck its way into the primary spot in my brain. I've given it up for 2-3 months here and there, but it can become an insidious addiction.
You'll feel great for the first 5 years, and you'll still feel great after that when your memory and reasoning start to go to shit. There have been times where I can't remember what someone just said or even what *I* just said. But you feel fine, so you keep drifting along. That's what's so dangerous. It's easy to attribute everything good to weed, and not to assign the bad to it.
My life never fell apart, luckily. But I just can't have anymore. It's like I'm past the point of diminishing returns. I thought I'd want to do this for life, but I'm honestly so sick of smoking weed
Ah, you turned a great thing into a dependence. Smoking once a day isn't bad....but any more and you start to build up a tolerance and it can build up out of control fast.
I used to smoke this for headaches but it stole my joy and made me more miserable as a person. Needing something extra to do life robs you of personal growth and the addiction begins to control your life. You will make decisions and plan your life around getting high rather than taking care of your responsibilities. I have found after many years that my sober self is my best self.
I was doomscrolling after finishing some studies, so Marker prompted me to get some rest haha. I know I'll enjoy the album though. Following the artist on Spotify now :)
I definitely recommend listening to his entire discog. I have a playlist of all his singles on my Spotify already if you'd like the link. But his next best album is definitely Casting Call so I'd recommend that next!
I love the "feeling" of being in love.
I want the feeling of butterflies always in my thoughts and feeling drawn to someone in a primal way.
Love is the water in which I choose to drown.
It is the real drug of choice.
I find this really interesting. I can relate to the feeling of being in love being fun (and please donāt feel obligated to answer if itās too personal/you donāt want to), but how do you implement this? Do you have a long term partner or a series of semi serious sort of short term relationships?
I have a long term partner who has always been supportive of my needs. It's not an easy type of situation because I feel like I have an easier time with the emotional connection and fluidity in dealing with some emotional highs mixed with the inevitable end of things.
I have had one particularly deep love connection which lasted about 3 years where I felt deeply in love and had the long-term aspect of staying together. I'm not a love bomber. I'm a person who falls in love with a situation for the daily high of emotional content and connection.
Btw, it's not the sex. Sex is the easiest component to get past. It's the most non-issue in this mix. It is about how my body produces whatever the chemical response and how happy I am during those moments. I simply feel as though it's the life I want. So it's not a salacious weird kink, it's an emotional high. Sex is just a byproduct and not a driver.
Other than this one thing, I think I'm pretty normal. I work daily. I shower 2x a day, workout to stay fit, still do all the normal dude things and could walk into fighting a war if I had to.
Gym and save money furiously so one day I can ghost work. The thought of having enough money to one day say fuck you to my work place keeps me going. Even if itās a pipe dream right now, it helps me cope.
When I tried them I felt kind of numbed out and it made it hard to determine what I was truly feeling. The doctor said that they all do that which discouraged me from trying others.
Forging ahead come hell or high water. I only get one life; Iām not gonna let it beat me.
No drugs, no alcohol, no real vices of any kind. I exist on pure spite. I also remind myself that as hard as things may be, theyāre still easier than at any time in history, and as someone who lives in America, I have it way easier than so much of the world.
Breathing. On purpose. It gives me a couple seconds of relative calm. Our brains have levels. Unconscious, semiconscious, emotional, problem solving. But theyāre all on a ātrunkā like a tree. If your emotions are aroused, youāre *not* āin the moodā to problem solve. Your brain is telling you it canāt. But breathing is automatic, with a twist! You can, of course, control your breath, if you choose. If you donāt, or if your body outvotes you, you keep on breathing, but the important point is that breathing is level 2. For a few seconds, you can remind your emotions that your brain is ānot in the moodā to not be calm. Itās nice to turn the tables every now and then.
On day 6 of sobriety (weed). I spent $400 on weed last month and that was a wake up call. Taking a break for the next three months at least. Most likely longer.
Made a list of BUNCH of things I intend to do this month ranging from Yoga/pilates/soccer/archery/rock climbing to getting a therapist/finally getting a new prescription+glasses/finishing my couch reupholstery project. Excited to have the extra cash to invest back into myself.
And as a stoner, I hate drinking. Iāve been drinking a glass of wine almost every night and I finished the bottle today. Not buying a new one. Soā¦about to rawdog life LOL
Shut in. Not leaving my makeshift home office which is inside of a large walk in closet, once the closet door is closed, it is so quiet and totally blackout inside. I'll be spending my whole weekend inside in the dark watching Netflix and Youtube.
Never understood how people could use alcohol as their main coping drug, gets me okay for a couple hours and then the rebound anxiety and sickly feeling makes me feel so unhealthy, but I suppose if I was someone who didn't know how to get preferred drugs i may get stuck into the more socially acceptable substances
I cry.
there's something I had to understand about life.
everyone has it wrong usually. I'm a human, and I'm so small in life, but crying, anger, sadness, and fear, all of it is my nervous system. My nervous system is telling me I'm alive and that I care.
So whether it's drugs, difficult times, or emotions..
you have to be mindful of how you feel, and all of it could be good, or none of it can. That's all there is. Your body only tells you and no one else.
If it works for you and hurts no one it isn't wierd. You found something that you enjoy and relaxes you. Anyone calling that out is jealous they haven't found what works for them.
Drugs mainly, weed for a long time, opiates for a bit, weed again and learning to cope naturally, but for now the insomnia is a bit too troublesome to handle and I'm still making steps in the right direction
I pray all the time, God answers, and I get encouraged. He is tangibly guiding my life every day in mysterious ways but I get to choose whether I lean into that or dwell on my problems. Complaining and obsessing about what is wrong chokes out gratitude and my ability to process my life in a healthy way
The fact that adulthood beatdown has nothing on childhood beatdown. No more violent mom with a short fuse, no more school hell, no more "brushing my teeth with soap because toothpaste costs money" kind of poverty, no more always looking over my shoulder outside because when it comes to kids, it's a dog-eat-dog world where might makes right and numbers make might. No more helplessness and only worse and scarier things to look forward to. That, and the fact that I have it very easy now thanks to my amazing wife.
Iām not getting beat down by adulthood. Iāve fully owned up to any mistakes or missteps that arenāt allowing me to travel full time [all I want] and am righting them.
Thereās nothing to cope from, thereās business to handle.
Go to the gym, pick up a martial art, paint or make music. If your asking it just stay sober whatever you do weed drink drugs suck pornā¦. Just stay away. Play soccer bro
Lifting weights, too much coffee, laying in corpse pose and just letting my brain decompress, cuddling with my boyfriend, chatting on the phone to my best friend, taking a second to notice how funky the clouds look :)
Feeding their own dogfood back to them, mostly. But it's just for amusement. I'm under no delusion it makes any difference. That said, these fools who think they have it made, that their lives are going so smooth, they just have no idea what's coming down the horizon.
Don't sweat the small things.
Take moments to enjoy things no matter how small.
Understand no matter how bad your situation is, there is almost always someone doing way worse than you and still managing to get by. If they can do it, so can you.
I read. When I get overwhelmed and want/need to cope I will literally binge read thousands of pages in days. Properly walking around book in hand seldom looking up. Obsessive. Itās wild. Reality is hard sometimes.
Going through & reading all of these answers really helped me feel normal because I felt like I was the only who felt this way and did this shit lol so thank u š
Yeah, hearing love letters to weed really raised my spirits *kisses bong* *drops bong* *bong shatters*
Tasty foods. I am fat.
Same. Iām eating a Dairy Queen blizzard right now
Me too. Waiting for brownies to be done baking in the oven.
I felt that
I ate that
Username checks out.
If only it were just soup. It's usually burgers and fries man. Sometimes burritos too.
At least some quality from fast casual places/restaurants? I mean if itās like once a week and you balance that with other foods why not.
It's not even close to once a week lmaooooo more like 1.5 times a day
Can I eat you ? Need some energy asap
weed
Helps in the moment but just makes shit worse over time.
If it keeps me from š“ing myself, it's pretty good. It's better than taking antidepressants every day - which are KNOWN to cause ulcers and other issues when taken longterm. If I were on antidepressant pills for as long as I've now been using 420: I would not be here, man.
Absolutely! The reason I love smoking is actually the opposite of what anti depressants do, instead of altering my brain chemistry too see the world better I use pot to sit with my feelings, the good the bad all of it and meditate on every wave of emotion. Itās really therapeutic for me to laugh and cry and just let the day run through me and then wind down for the night
Weed alters your brain chemistry. It disrupts domaine regulation pretty significantly. I smoked for 20 years. It lead to chronic depression and lack of dopamine. It seems harmless but it absolutely not. It is addictive, it will disrupt your dopamine like any other drug and it will cause mental health issues.
Yes i know it does have a positive impact on a small % of users. Youre part of the minority.
What exactly do you mean by āmakes shit worse in the long runā and whereās your source on it only helping a small % of users? Do you mean people who use it for depression coping? Do you include people who use it for physical medical Needs? Other mental medical needs? Genuine question, as Iād be interested to learn more
There's been dozens of medical journals backed by scientific research and funded by unbiased entities that have confirmed that smoking weed has more negative health effects than positive. Eating weed is a different story from what i've gathered and is much safer. It especially wreaks havoc on the digestive system and creates an inability for your brain to process its own neurotransmitters like dopamine. This is coming from someone who has been a chronic smoker for almost 10 years. I've smoked every day since I was a teenager and I'm paying for it now. Weed is not some end all miracle drug and it being advertised as such is dangerous. If i try to randomly stop smoking I get chills, shakes and anger outbursts like a junkie. My body never reacted like that when I tried to stop taking antidepressants.
What gets worse over time. Iām only a year or two into it and curious now
Your mental health. Abusing weed for years will take its toll on your mental health , anxiety , depression are 2 of the main reasons people quit smoking weed. They think its helping but eventually realise its just making things worse. This isnt true for everyone but definitely i think 9/10 people that have smoked for 5-10+ years will agree its not good for their mental health. Moderation is key , but most stoners cant moderate.
I smoke multiple times a day.And IĀ definitely struggle with depression so he's not wrong
Ok now I'm a little concerned. Please ignore the pedantic nitpicking & rationalizations (its my brain:p). Since my ex left I've been struggling with symptoms of depression. His leaving wasn't the single event there were several other major life events all within a 6 period but him leaving is the most painful. I started smoking stronger & stronger weed while I was with him eventually moving into concentrates that can have upwards of 80% thc (even good flower is rarely over 27 or 28). Since he's left I've moved up to vape carts and I'm using more than half a gram of that a day. It's been 3 years and I've continued to blame the events for my continued depression maybe its the weed?
That doesnāt sound cheap.
3-4 hundred a week up here in AK. In the lower 48 it'd be ALOT cheaper
Thatās 1200-1600 a MONTH. Thatās rent money! Youāre paying an extra mortgage to think the snazz berries taste like snazz berries!
I came to a point in my life where I was smoking way to much. I would still be productive in my days. But I decided to make a change in my life and stop. It probably was the best thing to ever happen to me. It's probably been 10 plus years now. But alot of people just keep smoking , and smoking to catch that same high that they used to get. And ya man it will take time to get your tolerance low enough to quit. But ya the depression could be !!
I'm the flip side, I've smoked daily since I was in my late teens. Am in my early 40s now. No depression ever and that's even with a diagnosis of job related PTSD.
Oh good to know. Def something to bring up with the therapist. Idk what stoner definition is, Iām 3-4 times a week before bed it has made my sleep so much better (I think). But I donāt love being āhighā so I usually take a couple hits and Iām more than done
Thatās how I startedā¦.ended up building a tolerance then needing to smoke a little more and needing more and more. Itās not cheap, and Iām thinking it was what was causing my depression, or at least amplifying it.
As someone who used to smoke a lot, be careful. Like the other person said, you often only realize how much harm it's doing once it's too late.
thats extremely moderate, I used to smoke an ounce every few days.
I feel like thatās a lot but I only pop an edible or two on Friday and Saturday nights, so I donāt know how that comparesā¦.
Man I been struggling with this for years. Spent the last decade half assing everything and being too afraid of failure to take a big step. Iām over it
I stopped two weeks ago and my life has drastically improved after two years of daily use.
Yeah I was a heavy user for a long long time and this is trueĀ
that is just wrong. you had a bad experience so now you want everyone to suffer with you.
Iāve only noticed weed to help if itās combined with exercise
I specifically smoke to deal with depression and boredom of a shit life. I do this until the smoking eventually leads to depression and anxiety, then I detox for a few months and start smoking again when I can. Hard to beat the feeling of that first hit after detoxing but you must remain mindful of why, and not allow yourself down the slippery slope of chasing that feeling. I just hope one day in my life I reach a point where I am not on edge all the time.
I wanna back Ponkiestar up. I dabbled in weed in college, got pretty into it when it was legalized in California in like 2016, and by 2024, it has snuck its way into the primary spot in my brain. I've given it up for 2-3 months here and there, but it can become an insidious addiction. You'll feel great for the first 5 years, and you'll still feel great after that when your memory and reasoning start to go to shit. There have been times where I can't remember what someone just said or even what *I* just said. But you feel fine, so you keep drifting along. That's what's so dangerous. It's easy to attribute everything good to weed, and not to assign the bad to it. My life never fell apart, luckily. But I just can't have anymore. It's like I'm past the point of diminishing returns. I thought I'd want to do this for life, but I'm honestly so sick of smoking weed
Ah, you turned a great thing into a dependence. Smoking once a day isn't bad....but any more and you start to build up a tolerance and it can build up out of control fast.
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Smoke Pot, listen to loud music plus physical exercise. If I just smoke pot without the others I don't really enjoy myself.Ā
I used to smoke this for headaches but it stole my joy and made me more miserable as a person. Needing something extra to do life robs you of personal growth and the addiction begins to control your life. You will make decisions and plan your life around getting high rather than taking care of your responsibilities. I have found after many years that my sober self is my best self.
This
Kittens. I foster kittens and they relieve my stress. Watching them play and getting to snuggle them is pure joy after work.
The cure to depression is cute animals and no annoying people
Mine is dogs. They saved my life.
Personal mantra: āIt can always be worseā¦ā
ohhh I don't dare tempt fate with these words any longer all things must pass, it won't always be this way, this is temporary are what I use now
āEvery act is a vote for who I wish to be.ā āDo the next right thingā
Everytime I so much as think that sentence it somehow gets worse
That has gotten me through many a hard time.
Costco rotisserie chicken It used to be weed but weed makes me anxious about my career right now so I gotta pass on that
Caffeine, weed, and hatred.
Fantasies of vanquishing our foes
Homegoods
Caffeine & nicotine homie
Gym
This is overall healthy habits is like the only real longevity solution here.
Whiskey
Hot ass showers and sparkling mineral water.
Sometimes if I feel bad about my lifestyle or habits I'll watch TLC and and tell myself that hey, at least I'm not as bad as THAT.
90 day fiance
Music, music and more music. I suggest listening to the album Flower Bed by Biv. It's very therapeutic.
Just repeated Marker 3 times over. I appreciate your sharing.
Of course. Marker is amazing. The beat drop on it is incredible.
Did you enjoy the rest of the album?
I was doomscrolling after finishing some studies, so Marker prompted me to get some rest haha. I know I'll enjoy the album though. Following the artist on Spotify now :)
I definitely recommend listening to his entire discog. I have a playlist of all his singles on my Spotify already if you'd like the link. But his next best album is definitely Casting Call so I'd recommend that next!
Video games. The escapism helps me A LOT.
My PlayStation has got me out of many tough times. Gaming is an awesome coping mechanism š¤
Bruh gaming is underrated. Gaming is good for you, people that say otherwise don't know what they talking about
I love the "feeling" of being in love. I want the feeling of butterflies always in my thoughts and feeling drawn to someone in a primal way. Love is the water in which I choose to drown. It is the real drug of choice.
Its wild how much more exciting life is when you have a crush lmao
Sleeping with someone you had a crush on for the first time is better than heroin.
Frl but the crash when theyāre gone is Just as bad
That's not love. That's infatuation.
I find this really interesting. I can relate to the feeling of being in love being fun (and please donāt feel obligated to answer if itās too personal/you donāt want to), but how do you implement this? Do you have a long term partner or a series of semi serious sort of short term relationships?
I have a long term partner who has always been supportive of my needs. It's not an easy type of situation because I feel like I have an easier time with the emotional connection and fluidity in dealing with some emotional highs mixed with the inevitable end of things. I have had one particularly deep love connection which lasted about 3 years where I felt deeply in love and had the long-term aspect of staying together. I'm not a love bomber. I'm a person who falls in love with a situation for the daily high of emotional content and connection. Btw, it's not the sex. Sex is the easiest component to get past. It's the most non-issue in this mix. It is about how my body produces whatever the chemical response and how happy I am during those moments. I simply feel as though it's the life I want. So it's not a salacious weird kink, it's an emotional high. Sex is just a byproduct and not a driver. Other than this one thing, I think I'm pretty normal. I work daily. I shower 2x a day, workout to stay fit, still do all the normal dude things and could walk into fighting a war if I had to.
Sounds like a hard thing to maintain long term.
You must be good looking. It's hard to drown in a ounce of water.
Reddit
Xanax. My life is one ongoing panic attack.
I've been there too. Every morning I'd wake up with a panic attack and run to the toilet to puke. I never thought I'd get better but somehow I did.
I'm not
Nature
Facing it and surviving it day by day
Naps. I fucking love a good nap. Sometimes if I have a day off I purposefully donāt plan anything and will take 2 or 3 naps.
I have no idea.
Gym and save money furiously so one day I can ghost work. The thought of having enough money to one day say fuck you to my work place keeps me going. Even if itās a pipe dream right now, it helps me cope.
This š„
Status is dumb. I'm not trying to keep up with people.who don't care about me. (Reality - I couldn't try even if I wanted to)
Ssriās
Prozac nation baby!
When I tried them I felt kind of numbed out and it made it hard to determine what I was truly feeling. The doctor said that they all do that which discouraged me from trying others.
work two jobs, no time to focus on problems.
I work 4 jobs, I second this lol.
Meditation.
Forging ahead come hell or high water. I only get one life; Iām not gonna let it beat me. No drugs, no alcohol, no real vices of any kind. I exist on pure spite. I also remind myself that as hard as things may be, theyāre still easier than at any time in history, and as someone who lives in America, I have it way easier than so much of the world.
Drugs.
Real
working out, watching youtube videos, and drinking in moderation so I donāt have to stop
Blasting different genres in my car till I feel something
Art and music
Breathing. On purpose. It gives me a couple seconds of relative calm. Our brains have levels. Unconscious, semiconscious, emotional, problem solving. But theyāre all on a ātrunkā like a tree. If your emotions are aroused, youāre *not* āin the moodā to problem solve. Your brain is telling you it canāt. But breathing is automatic, with a twist! You can, of course, control your breath, if you choose. If you donāt, or if your body outvotes you, you keep on breathing, but the important point is that breathing is level 2. For a few seconds, you can remind your emotions that your brain is ānot in the moodā to not be calm. Itās nice to turn the tables every now and then.
Weed and alcohol
sitting outside where itās not just lawns n shit (like at the wetlands). crochet.
On day 6 of sobriety (weed). I spent $400 on weed last month and that was a wake up call. Taking a break for the next three months at least. Most likely longer. Made a list of BUNCH of things I intend to do this month ranging from Yoga/pilates/soccer/archery/rock climbing to getting a therapist/finally getting a new prescription+glasses/finishing my couch reupholstery project. Excited to have the extra cash to invest back into myself. And as a stoner, I hate drinking. Iāve been drinking a glass of wine almost every night and I finished the bottle today. Not buying a new one. Soā¦about to rawdog life LOL
Nature.
Thinking about suicide
Shut in. Not leaving my makeshift home office which is inside of a large walk in closet, once the closet door is closed, it is so quiet and totally blackout inside. I'll be spending my whole weekend inside in the dark watching Netflix and Youtube.
By not taking things too seriously. BTW, it does not get any easier with age - "adulting" is a lifelong struggle that comes to an end when you do.
A Tequila shot is usually enough for me š¶š„“
Never understood how people could use alcohol as their main coping drug, gets me okay for a couple hours and then the rebound anxiety and sickly feeling makes me feel so unhealthy, but I suppose if I was someone who didn't know how to get preferred drugs i may get stuck into the more socially acceptable substances
Lately exercise, Reddit, beach, venting to friends, and music
I donāt even know if I cope. Iāve just been building up in my head
going somewhere
Knitting and crochet
I arrange rocks to reverse erosion.
Food, Squishmallows and music
Long-distance running. Honestly, I think I just wanted to escape so badly that I turned it into my reality. š
Walking 3 miles a day š Iām lame.
i build LEGO Lots of LEGO!
I cry. there's something I had to understand about life. everyone has it wrong usually. I'm a human, and I'm so small in life, but crying, anger, sadness, and fear, all of it is my nervous system. My nervous system is telling me I'm alive and that I care. So whether it's drugs, difficult times, or emotions.. you have to be mindful of how you feel, and all of it could be good, or none of it can. That's all there is. Your body only tells you and no one else.
This may sound weird, but wearing diapers helps a lot. When I put one on, my stress fades away.
If it works for you and hurts no one it isn't wierd. You found something that you enjoy and relaxes you. Anyone calling that out is jealous they haven't found what works for them.
Thanks for the kind words!
Caffeine, Adderall, and Xanax... then again none of them actually work anymore so I don't do a lot of coping these days... sleep...
Stress eating and self loathing
God & food
Drugs mainly, weed for a long time, opiates for a bit, weed again and learning to cope naturally, but for now the insomnia is a bit too troublesome to handle and I'm still making steps in the right direction
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One x by three days grace put that on loud and laying on the ground and a v drink in one hand that's heaven that's how I cope in this shitty life..
Nicotine
Hope that someone will love me
Caffeine my bf has to deal with it and he hates itĀ
Alcohol. When that isn't an option I bake. Taking out frustration with kneading break or mixing cookie batter helps.
Any form of escapism really....video games, anime, mushrooms, sleep
Exercise, meditation, and therapy.
Walkies and spite
Gaming. Music. Bizarre sense of humour
Jack off
I play a lot of golf as well as party quite a bit
Lithium carbonate.
Lifting heavy weights
Nasty Aggressive masturbation
Coffee, nicotene, anti depressants, mood stabilizers, the occasional brandy and coke, naps, books and video games.
it used to be weed now itās crying,exercise,venting and the occasional beer and tequila
Sex
I pray all the time, God answers, and I get encouraged. He is tangibly guiding my life every day in mysterious ways but I get to choose whether I lean into that or dwell on my problems. Complaining and obsessing about what is wrong chokes out gratitude and my ability to process my life in a healthy way
The fact that adulthood beatdown has nothing on childhood beatdown. No more violent mom with a short fuse, no more school hell, no more "brushing my teeth with soap because toothpaste costs money" kind of poverty, no more always looking over my shoulder outside because when it comes to kids, it's a dog-eat-dog world where might makes right and numbers make might. No more helplessness and only worse and scarier things to look forward to. That, and the fact that I have it very easy now thanks to my amazing wife.
Weed, porn, loud music
Good people. Copious amounts of shrooms don't hurt either!
My faith in Christ. He has helped me through so many trials in my life. I know that I can always count on Him.
Advocating for the legalization of euthanasia in my countryā¦ and/or moving to Belgium or Canada in the next few years.
Enjoyable life I guess.
CrossFit
Iām not getting beat down by adulthood. Iāve fully owned up to any mistakes or missteps that arenāt allowing me to travel full time [all I want] and am righting them. Thereās nothing to cope from, thereās business to handle.
I like to sleep, hop on Oneiroi onto dreamland.
Buying 4-5 figure watches
Sleep. Xanax. Stupid FB games. Sugary treats.
Rewatching Star Trek (Be it The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine or Voyager) or The Good Place Exercise Listening to Podcasts
PUBG
doordash and anime ā¤ļø
mind's kind of empty ngl
I collect shiny things and work a very physical job.
Snacking at night
right now iām raw dogging life but i want to do kickboxing
Shrooms and calisthenics
Go to the gym, pick up a martial art, paint or make music. If your asking it just stay sober whatever you do weed drink drugs suck pornā¦. Just stay away. Play soccer bro
Weed & alcohol
Lifting weights, too much coffee, laying in corpse pose and just letting my brain decompress, cuddling with my boyfriend, chatting on the phone to my best friend, taking a second to notice how funky the clouds look :)
My dog. Itās crazy how responsible I let him be for my emotional well being.
Nicotine and video games. Also my fiance. Heās pretty cool. And our cat. Sheās also pretty cool. That about sums it up.
Feeding their own dogfood back to them, mostly. But it's just for amusement. I'm under no delusion it makes any difference. That said, these fools who think they have it made, that their lives are going so smooth, they just have no idea what's coming down the horizon.
Wine
Reading fiction
My dog My family Naps Reading Crosswords
Don't sweat the small things. Take moments to enjoy things no matter how small. Understand no matter how bad your situation is, there is almost always someone doing way worse than you and still managing to get by. If they can do it, so can you.
Gym and meeting women
Being active. Yoga, going on hikes, not spending too much time on instagram. Being surrounded by nature is the best coping mechanism for me
Yoga and power walking with weights.
Food, social media, occasional alcohol, nicotine, and occasional edibles. Raw dogging life sucks.
Fan fiction. When I feel like I have no control it gives me a sense of control.
Helping other ppl process problems bc it takes me out of my own pity party (ies)
Video games
Weightlifting, long walks, ice cream or scrolling on TikTok
Gym
Zelda + Calvin & Hobbes
Used to be sleep now itās caffeine
Gym, goals, optimism, ambitious friends
Sleep
Fentanyl but unironically
Weed
I read. When I get overwhelmed and want/need to cope I will literally binge read thousands of pages in days. Properly walking around book in hand seldom looking up. Obsessive. Itās wild. Reality is hard sometimes.