Hi everyone,

short backstory needed for my question: I have diagnosed ADHD as well as severe depression and anxiety. Even before I got diagnosed and put on medical treatment, I noticed Cannabis had a generally positive effect on me. I never went down that rabbit hole too much and only rarely consume pretty small amounts to this day.

I expect Cannabis to help with my depression and maybe anxiety. As for the ADHD, I never get tired from using Cannabis like people I hung out with. It just seems to work differently to some degree with my brain chemistry. I noticed it clearly impairs my executive function and memory pretty severely for about a day if I smoke. But on the flipside it does a similar thing as my Vyanese does and helps to lower how much energy it takes to start tasks.

I am super curious if anyone has anyone made similar experiences or if anyone is successfully using cannabis as treatment?

I am aware ADHD is a spectrum disorder, so experiences will vary. I know at least one person with diagnosed ADHD that also smokes occasionally. In their case the weed takes a bit longer to set in, but it seems to work on them as it assumably does on a neurotypical people. I also heard a lot of people also use/used Cannabis to treat their ADHD and I am glad it works for them. Personally I just used it once for a prolonged period in my life, but the negative effects quickly outweighed any positives. I could get shit done, but it felt like a dice throw each time what parts of my ADHD got much worse in exchange.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I find that being high reduces my racing overthinking by a lot and makes it significantly easier to socialize. Yeah my executive function crashes but eh. Worth.
    What I find interesting is I gain a sort of clarity for the day or two after a good session. It’s like my mental fog clears up and it’s easier to push myself forward into doing things before I return to baseline. This effect goes away if I toke too many days in a row of course so I only do it maybe once a week at most.

    A good friend of mine who is very adhd and also on the autism spectrum tokes very frequently, mostly as a sleep aid.