Hi Community,

As the title suggests, I feel like I am craving insane amounts of dopamine and looking for some sort of a human connection.

A bit of context, I have never lived by myself for most of my life: My school days were spent in hostel, further during my bacholers days I was always surrounded by my friends and we used to go out almost all days of the week. The first time I ever sort of lived by myself was during my first job, during which I started observing similar kind of feeling (I wasn’t diagnosed then) and to subside this feeling I used to smoke weed, it made me calm.

Fast forward to now, I have realised weed is a bad cope up mechanism (don’t smoke weed now) but I am going insane and unable to function at my best. I kind of get hyperfixated on my dating app matches, or go insane if my friends don’t pick up my call etc.

I am trying to distract myself with things I like such as movies, or finding new novelty, trying to meditate etc. I do weekly therapy as well. But despite all the efforts, I feel like I am going insane and thus reaching out to the community for any help.

Edit: I take Ritalin LA - 30mg, used to take SSRI (Lexapro) and stopped it few days back as I feel very dud when I take those.

Edit 2: Added information about smoking weed: I dont smoke weed now.

Thanks in advance.

  • metoosalem@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    4 days ago

    As a long time weed smoker I can only advise you to take a break from it. Whenever I smoke weed on a daily basis for too long I slowly start going insane too.

    Also the withdrawal is real, prepare for a grueling couple weeks devoid of joy. It gets better after the second week.

    Here’s a site that helped me understand weed withdrawal and get through with it. https://www.weedless.org/withdrawal/timeline/

    • vaderaj@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Thanks a lot, I am not smoking weed now and putting in a lot of mindful efforts to not to start smoking. I am just hoping for the best 😅

    • Tehdastehdas@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      As a long time vaper, I never get any withdrawal symptoms after quitting - quite the opposite: the first week is still tolerable, but then the depression comes back and never leaves in 9 months of abstinence.

      Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Effects of Medicinal Cannabis Use in an Observational Trial

      Results: Medicinal cannabis use was associated with lower self-reported depression, but not anxiety, at baseline. Medicinal cannabis users also reported superior sleep, quality of life, and less pain on average. Initiation of medicinal cannabis during the follow-up period was associated with significantly decreased anxiety and depressive symptoms, an effect that was not observed in Controls that never initiated cannabis use.