u/Winter-Sort292

Hi guys. Throughout high school and undergrad, I was a chronic weed-smoker (especially heavy cart user). I would smoke so much, it did not even physically affect me, eyes would not even red or squinty. I would go to work/school high constantly, drive around, hit the pen every night to go to bed, etc… I would go through a cart in a matter of days😭

Since starting grad school, I really began to wean off and now rarely smoke almost 2 years later. In fact now if I do, it hits like a truck after one little rip and I am fried and look it (eyes go squinty, no way I could drive, voice changes, delayed reactions, etc). However, I have also noticed from the last few times I’ve smoked, the paranoia I get is insanely intense and it actually makes the whole getting high thing pretty miserable.

Anyways, this past weekend I ended up buying a cart because I was bored and used it for 4 days straight. The cart totally blew me off my ass and hit me like a truck. Once again, I got a lot of crazy hard hitting paranoia and guilt about random things as soon as I would hit it and then it would just send me into oblivion.

After throwing it away a few days ago, I’ve begun to get these really weird feelings (almost indescribable) and I think it actually might be dpdr, more derealization not as much depersonalization, but I don’t know. For context, I am finishing up grad school for psych so I am familiar with the condition but learning about is one thing vs actually feeling some of the symptoms. If I do have it, I know I must be grounded in reality but idk that I do, but everything I’ve learned and then read about points to me thinking I have a little bit of derealization but I wanted to hear from people who have actually positively had it and what helped them.

My symptoms are hard to describe but I’ll try my best. It’s almost like now when I look at something, it kinda feels pixelated and like through a lens or fake even, idek how to describe it. Things like a highway sign or just single blades of grass or spots of rubble can look so odd and feel odd. I can’t really describe it more than that. My sense of time is also a bit off I think. The scale of time has been going through my head a lot. Like I think about how a year is only 365 days and we only live for so many years and then in the grand scheme of time it’s nothing. And our lives are almost pointless/mean nothing because we are a split second on earth and it never stops moving and idek how to keep going. Trying to write out my symptoms is almost impossible to describe but I tried

I don’t even know what I’m looking for or asking about. Maybe just if any of you have had something similar happen to you after using weed after a period of severe tolerance drop/inactivity. These feels are just very strange and unfamiliar to me and maybe just a few people to talk with who get it would be nice :)

Hi all,

I’m currently on track to become an LPC and am about to start my practicum/internship in August. The population is mainly children/adolescents and the majority of issues I’ve been told is mainly depression, anxiety, and OCD.

If I’m being honest, I feel very lost and unconfident. I have no idea how I am actually going to run a session and what not. I feel like I don’t know anything and everything I have learned has just gone in one ear and out the other. I truly feel like I am going to blank and be a terrible intern/counselor.

Did anyone else ever feel this way and what advice do you have for me. What should I be studying and try to master with the last few weeks I have left?

Hi all,

Tomorrow I will be at 12 weeks post-op from my ulnar nerve transposition. I was wondering how long did it take before you felt your arm was truly 100% again?

I feel like mine is around 75-80% but I’m a bit worried because my surgeon said the recovery should only take 3 months max, and he is quite certain about that. I was a an avid lifter and did a lot of combat sports and eventually want to get back to those things but I can tell for sure I would not be able to do combat sports right now and even lifting is questionable depending on the lift and weight.

Just want to hear from people who have actually had the surgery and what their own personal experiences were… also I know everyone has different recovery rates but I’m just eager to hear from people who have actually had the surgery

Hi guys,

Curious if anyone could tell me their experience with returning back to weight lifting and activity after an ulnar nerve transposition. I am now over 11 weeks, and began lifting after 10 weeks… albeit with super light weights like a third or fourth of what I was doing before (it’s also been 10 months… didn’t lift for 7 months before surgery due to pain).

During the lifts, all the movements feel great and no pain but I definitely get some soreness hours after the workout near the incision site area. No pain just kinda irritation/soreness.

I’m just curious if anyone could give me what their personal experience/timeline was and how long was it before you stopped noticing soreness after lifting. I’m taking it really slow and have been given the green light by PT and surgeon but I am a chronic worrier and think after every workout I am going to screw up the surgery lol.

Hi guys! Looking for advice from experienced lifters.
I’m coming back to training after about 10 months off and an elbow surgery. Before surgery, I built a ripped physique (not bodybuilder but visibly ripped at 5’10” 165lbs) I was really used to running a push/pull split. I am kinda new to lifting and had only done it for about 2 years and after this medical nightmare am so eager to get back to it.

My push days were:
\\-DB Bench Press
\\-DB Incline Bench Press
\\-Rope Tricep Pushdowns
\\-Seated Dip Machine
\\-DB Shoulder Press
\\-DB Lateral Raises

My pull days were:
\\-DB Hammer Curls
\\-DB Supinated Curls
\\-Neutral-Grip Seated Rows
\\-Pronated Lat Pulldowns
\\-Supinated Rows

Now I’m considering switching to an upper/lower split to reduce overuse risk and improve recovery while I get back into lifting and eventually return to combat sports.

My concern is that I’d probably only do around 7-8 upper-body exercises instead of the 12 exercises I was doing across my push/pull days. I did PPL 5x a week and with U/L it would be 4x a week but upper only being hit twice instead of 3-4x.

For those of you who have run both splits, do you think an upper/lower split would noticeably limit my ability to rebuild the same physique long-term, or am I overthinking the exercise variety and frequency? I’ve had a lot of body confidence issues and lifting was the only thing that helped and then I suffered a injury and I want to be able to get back to where I looked before and feel good. Is upper lower going to drastically change this

P.S. What should my Upper split look like if I do switch? I’m very OCD so the change is a lot to me and I’m kinda freaking out

Hi guys! Looking for advice from experienced lifters.
I’m coming back to training after about 10 months off and an elbow surgery. Before surgery, I built a ripped physique (not bodybuilder but visibly ripped at 5’10” 165lbs) I was really used to running a push/pull split. I am kinda new to lifting and had only done it for about 2 years and after this medical nightmare am so eager to get back to it.

My push days were:
\-DB Bench Press
\-DB Incline Bench Press
\-Rope Tricep Pushdowns
\-Seated Dip Machine
\-DB Shoulder Press
\-DB Lateral Raises

My pull days were:
\-DB Hammer Curls
\-DB Supinated Curls
\-Neutral-Grip Seated Rows
\-Pronated Lat Pulldowns
\-Supinated Rows

Now I’m considering switching to an upper/lower split to reduce overuse risk and improve recovery while I get back into lifting and eventually return to combat sports.

My concern is that I’d probably only do around 7-8 upper-body exercises instead of the 12 exercises I was doing across my push/pull days. I did PPL 5x a week and with U/L it would be 4x a week but upper only being hit twice instead of 3-4x.

For those of you who have run both splits, do you think an upper/lower split would noticeably limit my ability to rebuild the same physique long-term, or am I overthinking the exercise variety and frequency? I’ve had a lot of body confidence issues and lifting was the only thing that helped and then I suffered a injury and I want to be able to get back to where I looked before and feel good. Is upper lower going to drastically change this

P.S. What should my Upper split look like if I do switch? I’m very OCD so the change is a lot to me and I’m kinda freaking out

Hi guys! Looking for advice from experienced lifters.
I’m coming back to training after about 10 months off and an elbow surgery. Before surgery, I built a ripped physique (not bodybuilder but visibly ripped at 5’10” 165lbs) I was really used to running a push/pull split. I am kinda new to lifting and had only done it for about 2 years and after this medical nightmare am so eager to get back to it.

My push days were:
-DB Bench Press
-DB Incline Bench Press
-Rope Tricep Pushdowns
-Seated Dip Machine
-DB Shoulder Press
-DB Lateral Raises

My pull days were:
-DB Hammer Curls
-DB Supinated Curls
-Neutral-Grip Seated Rows
-Pronated Lat Pulldowns
-Supinated Rows

Now I’m considering switching to an upper/lower split to reduce overuse risk and improve recovery while I get back into lifting and eventually return to combat sports.

My concern is that I’d probably only do around 7-8 upper-body exercises instead of the 12 exercises I was doing across my push/pull days. I did PPL 5x a week and with U/L it would be 4x a week but upper only being hit twice instead of 3-4x.

For those of you who have run both splits, do you think an upper/lower split would noticeably limit my ability to rebuild the same physique long-term, or am I overthinking the exercise variety and frequency? I’ve had a lot of body confidence issues and lifting was the only thing that helped and then I suffered a injury and I want to be able to get back to where I looked before and feel good. Is upper lower going to drastically change this

P.S. What should my Upper split look like if I do switch? I’m very OCD so the change is a lot to me and I’m kinda freaking out

How we feeling about this?

Hi guys. I recently had an Ulnar Nerve Transposition and am 5.5 weeks post-op. Over the last week or so, my arm started feeling noticeably better and swelling has really started to go down (able to hang arm freely, starting band resistance in PT, less pain, able to do daily things with way less thought/discomfort)

However, yesterday I noticed when I was doing one of my motion exercises (arm straight at side in extension and then up to flexion like a hammer curl) I noticed I felt a pop near the inner elbow. It was pretty consistent on each two but totally painless. This was the first time I had ever felt it.

I’ve read online a lot of different things about this and have gotten mixed answers. I have PT today and will of course bring it up. I was just curious if anyone else had something similar to this about a month or so after the surgery. I’m just really worried because I don’t think I could handle doing a second revision surgery and am terrified something is wrong now ugh.

I should probably mention that prior to the surgery I never had any numbness/tingling but severe sharp pain with certain movement (such as the hammer curl motion, or anything with neutral grip and extension basically). I did also have some subluxation before the surgery but it was painful and noticeable when it would pop.

Please comment your experiences, I’m desperate to hear from people who have gone through something similar and what they ended up having to do or if it’s truly not a big deal