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Jul 25, 2006 15:00

so i quit smoking pot, and now i don't get crazy anxiety and panic attacks ( Read more... )

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quixotesco July 25 2006, 22:23:11 UTC
I highly recommend nearlyfreespeech.net. They are reliable, straight-forward, and cheap as dirt. My website (~300 MB) has cost me about $7 in a year, including storage and bandwidth costs.

Glad you found a good solution. I am very bitter that pot seems to have the main effect of making me socially anxious and puts me in a foul mood, now, when what I remember from years ago is euphoria and playfulness.

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shadowboxer3_22 July 26 2006, 05:49:02 UTC
that is a bummer, pardon the vernacular.

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quixotesco July 26 2006, 15:57:31 UTC
duuuuuude.

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black_hatter July 27 2006, 01:17:50 UTC
yeah, i've been thinking that after I stop smoking completely for a month or so I might start again, but try and use it more like we used to back in the day. you know, make an 'event' of it, go somewhere other than my house/couch to smoke, not smoke alone, etc. i was really smoking heavily and regularly, if not all day than all afternoon and evening. it really became something more like a filter for television and food than a drug to experience, and that's when things got all bad. i guess your brain starts to see the stoned state as normal and the sober state as not-normal, and gives you clues that you better get back on the weed soon (withdrawal symptoms ( ... )

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haunteddiner July 25 2006, 23:41:14 UTC
I've been meaning to say this for quite a while, but I missed hearing from you and I'm glad to know you're doing all right. Sorry to hear about your dad, though I think your documentary sounds both interesting and worthwhile and I can't wait to hear more about it. Take care of yourself, man.

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black_hatter July 27 2006, 01:19:51 UTC
thanks man, i appreciate it. your t-shirt icon made me laugh, i don't think anything could've reminded me of you more. maybe if it was a picture of starman in that shirt...wait, starman always wore shirts like that!

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chippedrednail July 26 2006, 02:44:55 UTC
I am very happy to hear you are feeling better....thats so awesome. In the end, I'm sure youre better without it....take it one step at a time and see where it takes you. Out of curiosity, does this mean Ariel is cutting back? (Is that how you spell her name..I know there are a few ways of spelling it:/). I hope you two come out more often!

Which video store? too bad, b/c we just got netflix! We are so far behind! We'll come visit though!

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black_hatter July 27 2006, 01:23:09 UTC
you got ariel's name right, and she is cutting back so as to make the process of me quitting a little easier. i am trying not to make my overdoing a good thing impact her responsible use though. i don't want to keep her from having a good time, y'know?

i'm working at video video on soquel, just a few blocks from my house. it is like the chillest job ever. if your DVD player ever breaks c'mon by. i don't really have a set schedule right now though so i don't know when i'll be there.

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shadowboxer3_22 July 26 2006, 05:48:16 UTC
"maybe i should start by documenting my own story before I go off and start grilling other people."

good call. i am at you disposal as well.

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black_hatter July 27 2006, 01:41:44 UTC
especially as a male, especially as an adolescent male, you're expected to not talk about anything that might make you seem...ummm, what's the term i'm looking for...emotionally weak? or weak at all? so these kinds of things just don't come up. but as an adult i'm having to face all this stuff head on. i kind of feel like i'm going through what the-experts now term a 'quarter-life crisis' where you're thrown into the real world post-college or whatever and your family feels like you're independent so they shouldn't have to support you so much.

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anonymous July 27 2006, 20:34:11 UTC
It's actually in general a peculiar thing to realize, the taking people at face value thing. after commenting with you, I got to thinking about other people in my world and how I ignore the fact that they have personal histories, until they happen to be revealed to me, when my understanding of a lot of their behaviors changes. unfortunately its not very chill to just ask or tell people you don't know very well about their/your emotional development. i think the world would be a much more beautiful though more complex place if we all knew more about eachothers backgrounds and motivations.

as to the quarter life crisis, it seems the human population is gettign more and more crises as we do fewer and fewer things that we were evolved to do with ourselves. i feel like i know so many people in various crises, and I think its getting to be more and more... though that may just say somethign about the people I like to hang out with... crises are good, good change.

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