> Anxiety I often offset with significant amounts of CBD (a $100/month expense).
While I wouldn’t dare to comment on someone else’s mental health situation, I’d note for anyone else reading and considering this that traditional SSRIs are very effective for some people, cheap, and you won’t have trouble taking them across borders or getting them prescribed in an emergency from a random doctor if you lose your stash
With immense amount of side-effects, I'd advise people to use CBD to see if it alleviates the symptoms before any SSRI.
In addition to the anxiety, I needed it for inflammation and pain relief which is a massive component to many ailments that have compounding effects. I worked 70+ hours a week in the peak season(s), so sleeping became a rare commodity which high loads of CBD with some CBG/CBN/THC made it happen nearly on demand.
This idea kept me from trying them for years, and I have not found this to be true at all for me. Again, I'm not trying to speak to _your_ situation -- for some people they're ineffective and laden with side-effects -- but there's a lot of scare-mongering for a treatment that works absolute wonders for a lot of people. I'd encourage people with anxiety to absolutely try them before deciding they're not for them.
It’s nuts how we are regulating CBD when alcohol and nicotine do far greater damage. CBD is legit therapeutic. The more I learn about it, I can’t wrap my head around this.
One day..a hundred or so years from now when the world is saner, our children will read about it in their textbooks and stare at each other w/disbelief.
Going to agree with the sibling reply. I've been on SSRI's, and I have friends who've been put on SSRI's, and there hasn't been any awful side effects. Definitely not "immense".
You sounds like living within extremes in quite a few aspects of life. Feels like some underlying (mental?) condition from description that manifests as anxiety. Ever thought about getting deeper instead of trying to fix the effects of such a behavior?
While I wouldn’t dare to comment on someone else’s mental health situation, I’d note for anyone else reading and considering this that traditional SSRIs are very effective for some people, cheap, and you won’t have trouble taking them across borders or getting them prescribed in an emergency from a random doctor if you lose your stash