Hey all, love this forum/family of patriots and purebloods. As we are all well aware that the serotonin link is garbage for psych as a recent article came out. Does anyone have advice/tips for OCD/anxiety? My wife suffers from it and at times it is crippling. Sadly she is on seroquel, an SSRI, wants to keep taking it for sleep. We have tried pre/probiotics, kefir, GABA, she has had Christian counselors, etc. I am open to advice from what had helped others. Thanks patriot family ahead of time.
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Wife also has (sometimes) debilitating anxiety, and very mild OCD (limited to having to do things in a certain order or she cannot do it). She also must deal with insomnia (stemming from anxiety and perimenopause).
If you live in a cannabis-friendly state, you may want to have her try it. No more SSRIs, no more sleeping pills, no more medication at all, and she's able to relax, spend time with the kids, and sleep well at night.
I grew up in the D.A.R.E. generation, so I was VERY against it at first, but it turns out it's a god-send for her issues.
Cannabis has the opposite effect on some people with anxiety issues. It really depends on the person and the strain of cannabis.
Yes, very good point.
And I don't mean to be critical of anyone who uses it. For me, it's so unpredictable that I don't use it much anymore. I seem to become either extremely relaxed or extremely unsettled and I never know which one I'll feel. A friend of mine gave me some cannabis lemonade last year that was amazing and was like pure calm for me. A few months ago, I tried some delta-8 and almost ended up in the hospital with the worst anxiety attack I've ever had. Unfortunately I no longer live in a 420-friendly state, so I can't experiment anymore.