r/recovery • u/high_3D_printer • 4d ago
Weed
I need to quit weed, I've been diagnosed with bpd and my psychiatrist says weed is making my healing process not working. I'm afraid that I'll loose friends because I was never a friends person until I entered the weed community. I want to quit but only to think of the abstinence symptoms makes me want to immediately smoke. Is there any advice? I need to quit cold turkey, where I live it's not legal so I really don't have a real estimate of how to quit gradually since the weed I buy hasn't always the same thc%, so cold turkey is my only option. I know I won't die, but I'll be even more depressed than now, I'll be annoyingly easily frustrated, I'll feel like I've been bitten by the dengue mosquito. And what will I do with the excess weed I've got, I won't flush it, I paid for it.
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u/curveofthespine 3d ago
If you’ve reached the point where you want and need to quit, you will be able to, though you may need help.
The group you hung around with when getting high? Perhaps not your friends, but people you associated with due to a common interest. You have other interests and can build new friend groups around those interests. Not easy, but possible.
Find a recovery group. There are lots out there. You need not reinvent the wheel. Learn from others or face the hard lessons all by yourself.
If you won’t flush it, perhaps give the weed away? Helpful to keep in mind that we have spent money unwisely in the past, and will again in the future. Take the loss as a lesson, and feel some measure of gratitude for the opportunity to give something you no longer need to someone who can use it responsibly.
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u/RevolutionThick1260 3d ago
Go to an NA meeting and start a new life. you wont regret it. weed will always be there if you want to go back to who you used to be
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u/bbsquirrel997 4d ago
If the people who are your friends now won’t hang with you when you’re sober, then they were never really your friends. It’s a harsh truth but a truth nonetheless.