I’ve suffered with anxiety since I was a kid, and things like CBT don’t seem to work for me at all. I know pills from the doctor are available, but I only want to go down that route as a last resort.

So does anyone have any experience with CBD products for treating anxiety? The reviews online seem mixed on whether they actually work.

  • VintageTech@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I really want to say yes because I love weed.

    I take a prescribed medication for my anxiety, along with the support of talking to strangers about what my stresses are and that definitely helps.

    I’ve used CBD for a 6mo period of time and I feel that it didn’t help the situation, but masked it during times when I would be exposed to my stressors. So if I used something throughout the week, that meant I’d have a breakdown/meltdown over the weekend where I could just eat a tub of junk food and binge watch a show. I really thought it was helping ke, but like any substance you develop a tolerance.

    So I just stuck with weed, but eventually the same problem would come up where I was just masking it, but I was high and smiling all the time. Productivity kinda dropped but boy did reading become fun again.

    I really hate pumping my body full of pills, and I’m not going to lie and say it’s not masking it either, but I feel like the mask is a constant while I work out my issues it a healthier way vs. just kinda sitting around in a fog.

    What’s comical is that I’m finding out my cause for anxiety seems to be coming from what I think ADHD is? My inability to focus on projects and see them to completion is a HUGE stressor to me, making me anxious all the time. I think once I’m in a better headspace I’ll transition to looking into that deeper in hopes that my assumption is correct.