Does Cannabis affect Dissociative Identity Disorder?
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- What affect does cannabis have on DID/OSDD?
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This was very validating. Part of my earliest days as an ACTIVE system (alters came out of hiding, and I became aware), was very affected by cannabis. I ALSO felt rabid switching, and was afraid it was my imagination. Yes, they become easier to hear. I still feel awkward talking to them, so I don't know on that... I do my best to listen, at least. I had wondered if cannabis perhaps blended mood states or something like that.
So glad I found your page, I'm transmasc and we have DID (among other things) and feel like I've never really seen someone like us with a youtube channel. Hope youre doing well these days
also, definitely agree with the rapid switching. cannabis helps us alot as we struggle with communication, and when we're high it becomes much easier and thus becomes smoother and quicker, and consistently. although I find specific alters do show up more than others when high, usually the ones that typically feel the most uncomfortable in our body normally.
I started using CBD and cannabis a year ago. I have DID and this has changed my life for the better. We all communicate!
For us to be honest we rapidly switch when we smoke cannabis but this is helpful for us and our system because we actually become heard and noticed by our host. Usually if we are not smoking our inner world is quite and all that is heard is they odd alter, music and other background noise with in our inner world it’s like our host shuts t all off some how but we dissociate more. In result to the quietness when we toke there is less chance of a dissociative episode to occur . We are more motivated and energetic as well we feel more at ease since we all our enjoying each other’s company. Which can be very difficult when we don’t smoke. Also it keeps some of our other alters who have anger issues more at ease they are less argumentative and able to control their anger better as well. I can say so far cannabis has actually been very very helpful for our system
Im not diagnosed with DID yet .but recently when i smoke weed i become more dissociative and become shy and quit and there many thoughts that makes me anxious.. so i want to ask how is weed helpful when it makes me dissociative
I am a singllit, but I wanted to express how happy I am that so many multiples have had positive experiences with cannabis!! It has helped me with my mental health journey as well and I hope one day I can smoke a joint with all of you!
Haha thank you :) that sounds like fun
Yo this is so pure 🥺💕 Thank you for this comment 🙏 this is some real ally love right here
Wow we just found your channel and I’m so glad we did! I don’t think I have felt as understood as I have watching your videos. We have cptsd, chronic pain/fibromyalgia, a working diagnosis of DID/OSDD, OCD, and a bunch of other stuff. But that aside cannabis has helped with all of it so much! Especially cbd! But we have found that THC helps ‘unjunk our head’ it’s like we are finally able to breath and think properly. We are able to actually understand a bit better where one alter stops and the other begins more then without it. Like it’s easier to see “oh that was Osiris and this is Kai”. Still difficult sometimes but definitely easier, and I agree with what you said about switches being easier as well. We rapid switch sometimes so fast it makes us dizzy/headaches and in pain but cannabis helps make it less uncomfortable.
Without cannabis it’s so loud and crowded and fast and it slows it all down enough to make sense of it.
I have also noticed some alters come out more when I’m high then when I’m sober. Idk if anyone else has experienced that?
Either way, very very good video, thank you so much for creating such great content! 🖤
-Osiris
all of this yes. cannabis makes my head chill out so much
I had eating issues, sleeping issues etc, before cannabis I felt more checked out then I do now. honestly I don't even always feel high, I just feel alive.
honestly I don't know if I would know about my system without getting high because that's the first time I met all of them, I got really stoned by myself and suddenly they were talking around a table at me in my head and I couldn't really put that together really understand what was going on I didn't really consider a bad trip but it freaked me out. after a year and a half of therapy I found out I had osdd
This is really interesting. We had to spend 2 years to figure out there are altars. An alter is still not fully convinced, but switches as clear as daylight happens and he still somehow want to believe it's all made up. He is determined to find evidence of us, but of 241 hours of recordings (which I worked out Is equal to 2 months of a 6hour work week) is not enough to have concrete evidence, I'm not sure where he will find evidence. There's evidence of it happening, but he is eager to find it, despite the fact that he found the evidence in 2019 already. Now I laugh at him, but when he's out, he Actually stress all of us and it's not fun. I do know when on Cannibis it's very easy to communicate it with him, but he gets worried that's not evidence enough And then blames weed for hallucinations. I am so tired of this cycle with him, but it's good to know that you got that right in just one night. My next job is to help him with his recordings of all of us interacting, because he can be extremely exhausting when he is so in doubt. Anyways, any tips to convince him is real? I or him is the original / host. I haven't figured that out yet. I think it's him, but I'm scared, because I keep the body and brain calm when he has panic attacks, but then again he does that all day until he cannot cope and shuts down. I know what triggers me, so sometimes when I see he gets like that I can help him chill. Other times he just carries on for days despite getting to an answer, leaving all of us tired and exhausted as we try and help him understand. But he thinks his reasoning in his head is just him being unsure And him playing devil's advocate. Any advice?
@@henkster6067 hey friends! If I can weigh in (host of a system here!), I would say to tell this fella quite directly that even assuming what you’re all experiencing is somehow NOT DID or OSDD, the fact is clear that you are plural. You are experiencing consciousness in a plural way, there doesn’t need to be any further evidence of this than the fact that not only do you speak to one another but you argue passionately about topics like “do we have DID” but literally the FACTS are that you think in terms of “we” at all and you have fully separated thoughts and feelings on multiple topics. This is simply not singlet behavior or experience. There really isn’t any way to argue against that. As far as what specific label or diagnosis applies, that can be up for discussion and debate, sure. But your lived experience being what it is is quite simply enough evidence all of its own that you are not experiencing life and consciousness in a typical way/as a singlet. Perhaps you can all meet in the middle here and compromise on that much at least. And perhaps from there, you can get this alter to accept that you don’t even need to argue or find definitive proof that one label fits you precisely, you can maybe all just agree to let go of the need for proof and evidence and precise labels and simply accept “we have some sort of dissociative disorder” or “we are clearly some flavor of plural” and let that be enough for now? I hope this helps or that you already have found a solution. 💕
I have my medical cannabis card for ptsd and just got diagnosed with DID. Saved my life. I have an alter who has food issues. She gags on whatever is in her mouth. I was so thin. Beefed right back up and then some. I space out more. I think that is typical. New to awareness of system so can't speak of switches yet.
Everyone says rapid switching. That’s my experience too.
Weed brings out my child parts and turns my trauma flashbacks into these horrific psychedelic visuals and panic. If I use weed and then stop, these effects can last months on their own. I'm never using it again just in case one day, it never goes away.
I'm really sorry you've had a bad experience with it. It's definitely not for everyone.
same here. the only thing is my paranoid alter who was the reason we found out about each other. and smoking alone feels great to get things done
or to let out a depressed alter and have a nice time - switches are way more rapidly
So, yez we smoke Kanibus, since bout 17 I think, and we describe it like this there is much goin on internally with Alters thoughts, feeling, and voices it sounds like statik and seen as a fog, wen we SMOKE(0-1 yrs of body,our internal "oxygen/air/breath") it klears the fog a bit so we Kan start identifying everything n everyone more klearly 🤓🖤💋🦇
I thought the voices were caused by cannabis and I stopped for a month but they didn't go away. It didn't make sense because I've been using cannabis for like 6 years now and nothing happened until now. It gets really bad with cannabis sometimes, all of a sudden I can have several in my head at once having different conversations to the point that I don't know what's happening and I feel like I'm losing my mind.
I am psychic and I also share my head with dissociatives. At first I thought I was schizophrenic...I have used cannabis. I related to what you said about cannabis making your voices clearer. I would for sure be able to hear you think.
After I sent you the first comment, I had a vision of you in the morning.
I suffer a lot.
I tried hypnosis and I honestly have the psychic link
When I look back on it, I would use weed when I felt very sudden agitation and didn't want to take it out on my housemates. Thinking about it now I do wonder if an alter I'm not aware of is seeping through a bit... now I'm torn between feeling guilty for suppressing her and grateful that I have an avenue to help calm her down. I guess, really I have to try and communicate with her.
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I haven’t smoked in a few months but for the 3yrs I did smoke it kind of felt like a drawstring was pulling and holding us all together and stuff but then I had a bad experience and it started to increase my physical pain and make all my MH much worse
I just become agoraphobic, want to go home and be alone with my many thoughts. And the strains work differently on me, many people want that active strain and that strain leaves me hiding until it goes away; the chill strain has me running around cleaning my house and having the most epic conversations with myself... but again, I don’t even want my loved ones around and have been known to run and hide if anyone shows up.
Hey bro, you are right it is different from person to person. If one has a dissociative identity disorder or any other pathology the side effects (or well for me its the over doses) will put you in a very bad mood, irritated, losing control of one emotions and thought pattern and a bit of depression. Anyways the overdoses go away if you dont smoke for two or three days (the first night you wont be able to sleep, you could take a just a bit to sleep, again im talking about "over doses" being the signs I described above and it differs from person to person).
Recreational use is like alcohol, a bit is okay, over doses will turn the joy into kind of suffering and abusing it, as anything in life, is bad.
As a psychologist (but I had to admit they didnt teach anything about it in collage) I´d say if the subject as a pathology, look for professional advice about your personal condition for using it. Being that said, if you are in the autistic spectrum, like arsperger, it will give you a slow view of your rich inner world.
Losing control over your emotions is almost a nonsensical statement to someone like me. I controlled my emotions until they controlled me. I controlled my thoughts until they weren't mine any longer. Losing control over them would be an improvement. Then maybe I could see who I am.
@@FirstnameLastname-cx6go if you don´t want to use your whole brain, then go ahead.
@@howdareyou5800 You clearly don't understand what I am talking about. Bye.
@@FirstnameLastname-cx6go the pre frontal cortex of the brain is the most complex one, where abstract thinking happens, where the built of identity takes place and the capability of taking decisions occurs.
Emotions take place in the parietal, temporal lobes and cerebellum.
If you let yourself be taken by your emotions you are not using the most capability of your brain, using it like animals are limited to.
The sensation of self is built out of knowledge-memory, abstract thinking and instinctive emotions.
You are taking one aspect (and the simplest one) to take over you because you make a clear distinction between what u called 'you' (self awareness and abstract cognition) and separating it from what u called 'emotions' (instinctive attraction to pleasure and avoiding pain).
"Archiving" just the opposite as you wanted, winch is no fragmentation of the psyche.
I´ve got your point that 'controlling' emotions fragments your psyche cause controlling is 'something else' controlling it and in a "violent" way.
The answer to emotions is not repressing them, not letting them now take control.
Its overcoming them using your more complex capabilities of the human brain.
Take it as a free lesson from a friendly psychologist that I happen to be, I didn´t mean to insult you in my first comment, now u know what I meant.
Cheers.
@@howdareyou5800 I have multiple personality disorder. I didn't say ignore anything. Controlling my emotions is how I gained alters. You are fake.
I grew up poor with no health insurance so had to figure out how to stabilize myself the hard way, trial and error using myself as a guinea pig the entire way. the two practices i ended up focusing on were meditation and lucid dreaming. for me the basis of meditation is reaching a pure blank state, when you first start practicing meditation this can take upward of 10 minutes, through daily practice I can manage it in seconds. from a pure blank state its not near as hard to reboot, especially if you make it something all of you does. It may sound crazy but lucid dreaming with full retention is both completely possible and with some mastery makes it possible to interact with your alters in your subconscious. I Will post both my meditation method and lucid dreaming intro as replies for everyone's perusal ^_^ (they're still rough drafty so forgive errors lol) will throw in an easy to learn lucid dreaming technique to prove im not full of shit.
The key to my meditation method is the perfect visualization of a container with a lock or latch that holds it closed. Use a container you know immensely well, like you know how it feels inside and outside(to the point of being able to imagine the textures) you know how it looks and any flaws chips or cracks in its construction, you just know every little detail that makes up this container. I have found that every person has at least one container they can do this with to perfection(I use a big green wm trash receptacle myself.)
once you have this perfect image of a container this method of meditation has a variable element depending on how you think I think in text so I convert thoughts and feelings into words but for others I have taught pictures or imagined vocalizations of the words depending on how they think. Keep this in mind as I describe my method
I take my perfect image of the container and imagine it opening. once I have the image of the open perfect container I begin pouring my thoughts feelings and physical sensations into it, the longer you spend doing this and the more specific you get the more effective this form of meditation gets. A side note as you practice my meditation method this gets easier to finish and happens faster. after 15 years of practice in my form of meditation I can accomplish total emptiness in seconds.
once you have every little thought feeling and sensation you can track down in the container close the container and latch or lock it and "push" or "place" it off to the side in your mind. with this completed you will be left with a beautifully blank mind(feels like pure bliss everytime i do it even after 15 years) with the blank state of mind in place I started out by counting 1,2,3,4 breath in count 1,2,3,4 (this part is important and increases the effectiveness of this method at least three-fold as you advance) after you breath out and before you breath in make another count 1,2,3,4. doing this counting method helps you keep absolutely blank and slows your heart rate. as you get comfortable with counting to 4 on every breath move the whole method to counting to 8 then to 12 then to 16 etc.( I myself am up to 30 and at 30 I have been able to set off heartrate monitors at the hospital with them thinking I was going into arrest and sending in a nurse.)
After you reach a 12 count comfortably you can build a setting in your mind to meditate in. I use the image of sitting at the base of a giant oak tree with a river flowing around it on each side. with the setting in place continue counting in the newly built setting. Once you can maintain the image without disturbing the box my meditation method gets so zen it's too amazing for words.
start keeping a dream journal, a dream journal teaches your conscious and subconscious minds to communicate. as you keep dream journal your ability to remember dreams will increase. With this increase in dream retention, you gain access to the ability to manipulate more and more of your dreams. it takes around a month of keeping a dream journal to gain full retention. from this point powers such as flight super speed and teleportation are quite easy to pick up. once you figure out how dream abilities function and how to use them on a larger scale you can move up to world-building, at this point sleep makes you a god in your own mind with no real limitations as to what you can create in the dreamscape.even at this point there are still god tier techniques to learn.two apps that will make this process faster are dreamcatcher(a journal app with tagging) and day journal( a speech to text journal)
@@aveanth hey Ethan. If you check my other videos I mostly talk about lucid dreaming and how I've used it to better understand alters. Ive even done a few talks about it.
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I have a simple trick that if learned is an excellent way to combat sleep paralysis or nightmares. close your eyes hard until you hear the bloodflow from closing them harder than usual, then open them. spend 10 minutes a night practicing this technique over a week and you should be able to do it sleeping. doing it while asleep causes you to instantly wake and once you learn to do it actively in any dream you can use the ability to break out of sleep paralysis. this technique if you learn to do it halfway instead of fully waking you can hold your hand out focus on something and it shatters that entire element of the dream. The second stage of this technique is capable of "shattering" and "reabsorbing" alters into the whole of the primary you, it only works on minor alters though none of my big 3 are affected by it but with the ability to thin the heard i was able to make peace with the reminder through self diplomacy. with all of my work there are now moments when we can consciously coexist
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I find cannabis stops us switching. Canna is only thing that helps me . But we only have DID not any other under laying conditions