I only seem to feel like my best self when I’m high on thc as I quit alcohol for the time being. I just feel as happy as a kid when I’m high. I feel very bland when I’m sober. I just can’t see being completely sober from weed too.
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Brain normalizes pretty much everything. Keep the happy sources small, and sometimes really small things can give a big hit.
My most recent hit? A rosary popped out of a treadmill.
The most common way for me is with music, sometimes a song hits just right and it’s amazing. Doesn’t have to be a happy song to make me feel happy, just has to be the right song.
Amen. Music is my drug. I take it frequently, and in heavy doses to get my fix. When that harmonic change hits and I get frisson along with the bass frequencies moving my body, brother, I’m in heaven. Usually goes something like 🙂🙂☺️☺️😯🫨🫨🫨🫨😄😁
I’ll echo what others have said. Try laying it off for a few weeks, then the occasional time will be more effective and special. Speaking from experience, I guarantee you that you will find clarity and discover new things that bring you happiness, if you give it a chance.
Without drugs your body moderates moods and emotions naturally based more or less on what is beneficial or harmful (good things might be connecting with friends, succeeding at a challenge, good food, a comfortable or beautiful environment). Thinking positively is incredibly helpful too.
With drugs though, your feeling of good and happiness is skewed out of balance so only drugs will give you that feeling.
Drugs artificially elevate mood by flooding the brain with neurotransmitters such as dopamine, distorting your sense of well-being and preventing your body from producing these feelings naturally.
It might not be easy but your body will return to normal rythms and emotions with time and healthy habits.
When you become addicted to something, taking that something will often bring you back to baseline due to the cravings you have when not doing that addictive something. At least that’s how I see it. It’s like when smokers say they feel less stressed when they smoke, but really they just feel normal when they smoke because the addiction stresses them out when they’re not smoking.
This is my perspective on it too.
It doesn’t feel bad until it wears off, pretty soon you aren’t feeding your addiction to feel good but feeding it to not feel bad anymore.
When you become dependent on feeling “normal” or “good” from an artificial outside source that is an addiction.
Cocaine, ghb, twelve Thai prostitutes at once. They have to be Thai though.
With or without dicks?
Yes
Maybe you’re self medicating
I smoked a lot of weed as a young adult. Looking back on that time I believe that I was escaping from the endless intrusive thoughts. Focusing my mind on any sort of work was difficult and I used all sorts of substances to get by. My typical usage profile is to find something appealing and use the shit out of it until it becomes a problem, spend time recovering and repeat with the next chemical. After recovering from heroin addiction it became obvious that it was not normal behaviour and I sought medical advice. They diagnosed ADHD and many of the past events started to make sense. I use routine to bring order to my life. I meditate to calm the mind. The medication allows me to focus and prioritise tasks. I think of my life in two starkly distinct chapters, pre and post diagnosis. I feel happy and the thought of taking substances seems like a strange thing to do.
I was just bored. I live in a shithole town with almost nothing to do other than get high and go to the movies or eat fast food. And all the adults didn’t give a fuck about any of us. Getting high af was pretty much the only way to make boring AF nothingsville remotely interesting.
I lost interest when I got to college and actually had interesting stuff to do.
I dont want to discourage you from getting clean and healthy, but you kind of can’t feel the same joy from sobriety.
There are certain moments in life that will blow regular drugs out the water (cant speak for hard drugs/DMT), like getting married, seeing your kid get born, achieving a lifelong goal etc. The problem is they’re just moments. Life is absolutely dull when sober, but once youre used to it its just fine.
I don’t even feel joy with alcohol and weed. It just shuts off the constantly simmering rage for a while so I can socialize without being a dick.
Alc and thc in the long term both suppress your ability to be happy without them. Your brain gets so use to them that once they are gone it doesn’t know how to maintain your dopamine levels properly.
My biggest advice. It’s ok to be sad, it’s ok to be bored. Infact it’s good to be bored on occasion. It drives passion and energy. Learn to take care yourself. Be gentle when you’re sad, talk with family, exercises, hand with friends. If you’re bored or sad it’s generally your bodies way of telling you that the environment your in needs a change. Being sad or bored or anxious doesn’t have to feel like the end of the world. It takes practice but it’s achievable. You just need to be vigilant and mindful of your emotions
I think that when you “poison” your brain with easy dopamine like candy, fastfood, alcohol, drugs, endless scrolling, etc you will shift the internal goalpost of when something feels good. Compared to these easy sources of “joy”, life just isn’t that interesting. The scale changes to the point that normal things cannot longer provide enough jou to be worth it.
Personally I’ve been trying to constrain myself a bit on these easy sources of “empty happiness”. Things that do give me joy without ruining my brain are, among others: running, music festivals, listening to nice music, looking back at something cool I made, making something cool, playing videogames, chilling with friends (though this usually involves alcohol). These things definitely don’t reliably provide joy, Most of the times they’re just “nice” but definitely not amazing. But every now and then I get hit with that dopamine rush and it’s all worth it.
Yes. We’ve conditioned ourselves to want easy and instant gratification. No one appreciates what’s real.
We have a consumption economy that encourages this.
I mean, I don’t, but I didn’t feel joy with them either.
I guess, sometimes there’s a cat to pat.
I transitioned and now life is mostly kinda acceptable levels of bullshit with some very bright spots so… estrogen injections I guess.
I am in the same boat as you, but I agree with the other comments that say weed will make you ok with anything. Weed has always seemed like a good option for me due to (multiple sources of) chronic pain, but I can absolutely tell that it has affected me negatively over the years. I need a substantial lifestyle change at some point in the near future… I need to reorganize my entire life, and also need to stop being a fat piece of shit.
