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I was a heavy smoker, got up to 2oz / month at one point. Most recently was smoking about an oz a month. I halved it over two months and then quit 23 days ago.

I am trying to accelerate my weed withdrawal process. I am feeling more clear mentally, but I am not feeling so great physically. I am struggling to eat, because I have relied on weed to get hungry for so long now.

Any tips that anyone has to accelerate weed withdrawal process? Has anything helped you with sleep?

I need to gain weight and feel hungry again. I would be less irritable. I would like to have less mood swings and anger. I would like to get my memory and cognitive ability back.

What helped the most with weed withdrawal symptoms? What helped make the withdrawal go away faster & have you test clean sooner?

I have C-PTSD with Dissociation. I have not previously known that I was dissociating my whole life, but it makes sense looking back. I recently realized I also have like a high level of memory distortion/dissociative amnesia from past trauma events, possibly made worse from smoking a lot of weed for 7+ years.

Do you have anything that helped you piece together your memory? How did you heal from dissociation / dissociative amnesia? Have you ever successfully discussed this with abusive family?

I am struggling to know what is real and not real. My family & friends found out I struggle with this because I got way too drunk when I was in a dissociative state. I couldn’t feel the effects of alcohol and I said some wild things that are rooted in truth but are completely distorted memories.

I am having a hard time with this because I come from a family who was physically, emotionally abusive. I have been officially labeled as the crazy one, despite a lifetime of abuse & 9 yrs of unlearning in therapy. My family often gaslighted me and made me question my perception, so I find it hard to talk through this with them.

Does anyone else have the experience where they drank alcohol while they were in a dissociative state and they ended up getting way more drunk than they intended?

I didn’t feel drunk at all, but I think I was so dissociated that I was way more drunk than I realized and said some off the wall stuff to my friends. I think I couldn’t feel the effects of alcohol because of the dissociation. :(

Does anyone else have this experience?

I am looking for an aesthetic iOS widget to help me track days since a past date.

Does anyone have any recommendations on an aesthetic and beautiful widget for days since?

This is different than a countdown to widget, I need a widget for days since X day.

Thanks!

I need help finding full sun plants that will survive on my full sun west facing balcony.

I live in NYC. I have West facing balcony that gets 6-8hrs of full sun. High summer heat radiates from nearby buildings. No trees on the street. No shade. All my full sun plants keep dying.

The only two plants that are thriving are my sedum, cactus & my olive tree. Strawberries, Mint, Basil, All Flowers dying.

TL;DR - Anyone have any tips on full sun balcony plants who can take the heat & full sun? Looking for both annuals and perennials.

I think I have been dissociated for a few months now because of a few things that my partner and my friends did that lead to me reexperiencing some bad trauma. It re-ignited some past trauma and PTSD memories to just flash through my head until I lost touch with reality.

Being so disoriented about time lead me to miss my flight for my bachelorette party and let all of my friends down because I arrived 8 hrs late.

They spent months planning and I fucked everything up. I feel like an awful friend. I apologized my friends are concerned and worried about me. They are also mad at me and feel like I need to take accountability. I am not even fully sure what I did besides like being unable to communicate that I was feeling so stuck & missing the flight.

I also said a bunch of things I don’t really remember over the last few months. Like I imagined conversations that people later told me never happened. I told my brother’s fiance some fucked up stuff and was talking about trauma a lot.

I am so confused & scared at what is happening right now. I know what triggered this but like wow, this is scary and confusing because I’m not entirely sure what happened.

I called my psychiatrist today and she is putting me on some medication so I am hoping that works.

How did you get yourself out of a dissociative state of mind?

I am extremely worried about my dad. I think he is a late stage alcoholic and I fear he has reached dependency. He also has diabetes, and poor heart health.

The signs were always there, but I am getting increasingly concerned.

A few years ago, we went on a vacation and I heard him throw beer bottles in the bathroom trash can at 2AM. He wasn’t showering and the only reason he took a shower was because we told him we could smell him from across the room.

I noticed he drinks all the empties on the table before we leave the restaurant. He does it sneakily too, when he thinks we’ve all turned our backs. I think he has mostly lost his sense of self control.

He also works in sales and he’s often “on the road” for Tues-Thurs and he told me he watches the games and has 4-5 beers alone. His tolerance is so high, often drinking 10+ beers in one outing and not even being hungover. He drank for 15 days in a row and on our vacation he did that almost every day.

He started working at a bar a few summers ago when he lost his job. He went back the past few summers to work there for “extra money.” I FaceTimed him at the bar and he was in the basement stacking cases. He asked me if I thought it was okay if he drank empties left behind from customers. When I would call, he’d say “I’ll have a beer since you’re calling.”

I started seeing him shaking in his hands and legs last time I was home. His face is red, his nose is enlarged, his rosacea is so bad and he now has “ocular rosacea.” His eyes have looked bloodshot. I don’t even recognize him sometimes.

I find myself increasingly concerned about his well being and how this impacts his diabetes & long term health. He said he thinks that he only has 10 years left to live. He seems to be accelerating down the dead man’s curve.

He used to give up drinking with my mom for Lent. I don’t think he could stop if he tried nowadays.

My parents have a limiting belief that you can’t be an alcoholic if you only drink beer and wine.

One of my brothers agrees he is an alcoholic, but our other brother and my mom don’t agree.

TL;DR:

What should I do to help my dad with late stage alcoholism? What worked best in helping yourself or your family find recovery from alcohol? ❤️‍🩹

My fiance (30M) and I (29F) went to a bar with a men’s and women’s room right next to each other. The sinks were outside and there was a line of women waiting for the ladies room where I was standing. My fiance was in the men’s room and the door wasn’t closed. I closed it for him.

While he was peeing at the urinal, I noticed he had his underwear pulled down so his butt was fully exposed.

I asked him about it. He said it was normal and he doesn’t like boxers with the flap. He said it’s to prevent any splash back. I told him made me uncomfortable that others just see his bare ass every time he pees. He said this is normal.

I am terrified of him doing this, because what if we go somewhere where kids go and my fiances full bare ass is always exposed in public urinals.

TL;DR - My fiance (30M) exposes his full bare ass when he pees. Men please weigh in. Do you find this to be a normal or socially acceptable behavior?

Update: I talked to my fiance about this and I am so relieved. He said it was a one stall bathroom. The locks weren’t working and the door didn’t stay closed when I shut it. He said that he DOES NOT put his butt out in a public urinal, he did this in a one stall bathroom and he thought the door was closed. He said he does this in privacy to make sure all the urine comes out of his urethra.

I told him i was afraid i was marrying a flasher. He said he is not a flasher and he thinks it’s very weird when guys do this outside of a private one person bathroom. Lol he is so mad at me for posting this.

I wanted to compile a list of the best iPhone widgets. I am looking to upgrade my IOS setup after getting an iPhone 17 Pro.

What are your favorite iPhone widgets? Why are they your favorite?

Does anyone still order delivery from Empire Cannabis Club?

Reason I ask is I have been feeling very strange after smoking their weed in the last 4 weeks. Have been buying there for years and wanted to know if others are experiencing this too.