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What does Weed with ADHD feel like?
Basically same as the other dude, but no anxiety beyond the norm anyone would have in their daily lives, and no paranoia beyond the legal consequences of excersing what I see as a right yet the state sees as a crime. Were it federally legal it would mitigate that of course, but that'll never happen because then nobody could use legalization to get votes so we can't actually go around solving things, now can we? (Bitter? Maybe. Paranoid no lol.)
What do you use? And what's your dosage? (I know it will vary from person to person)
"Weed." And I don't live in a legal state, so dosage is hard to describe I guess. "Some," not enough to be zombiefied but enough that I feel it, is the best I can do.
I used it to self-medicate for my ADHD for years. It calmed down all the noise in my head and allowed me to have one train of thought at a time. It also made me high, which was nice. I'm the end, it became a crutch for dealing with the hard aspects of life, and fucked with my brain chemistry a lot. I ended up a paranoid wreck, developed severe anxiety and stopped. Now I enjoy it occasionally but if I smoke too much it makes me feel depressed for days afterwards.
I am not diagnosed but have good reason to suspect I have adhd so I am in the process of trying to get a diagnosis. This is kind of it for me too. My brain never shuts up. Weed slowed my mind down and of course made me feel good like you said. I actually had moments if i didnt overdo it where it gave me motivation to actually do something with myself. Fine line though on the amount, kind of needed to microdose for that affect. Otherwise it just numbed me to my own issues and kind of made me not care. Only reason I quit is because my problems i wasn't dealing with started to catch up with me and I hit a really bad depressive state that kind of scared me after literally everything was crashing in on me. Maybe eventually I will use it recreational again but for now I'm staying away and trying to get real help.
Here's a balanced take from someone with moderately bad ADHD who very rarely smoked weed (so, not biased).
A mild high feels like a bad ADHD day, but then I had a fewer symptoms after the high is gone. Trace amounts could get me mostly symptomless without any real feeling of "high", but I'm so lightweight that would be less than what most people call "microdosing".
A moderate high...well, probably the same as everyone else (except I would get there for less than most). Then the entire next day it was like I didn't have ADHD at all.
Beyond that, I only did once and I "greened out", possibly related/causal to the part where I "very rarely smoked weed". Greening out with ADHD is like greening out without ADHD I'm sure.