Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder warning signs?

[Silver_Fire]

Thanks Qadgop. I’m not sure I’ll heed your advice but thanks for putting it out there.

[t-keela]

fetus

Pot has helped in the recent past, BTW.

I wasn’t saying that being stoned helps, I was saying that being a stoner helps. (Although I don’t do most of my obsessive/compulsive behaviors when I’m stoned anyway.) What I meant was that smoking pot seems to have helped me when I’m not stoned–I seem to be generally more relaxed about things in general, including obsessive/compulsive stuff.

Sorry fetus If I missed your point in this regard. Maybe it’s just me but it is a bit confusing.

I said ,

BTW Smoking pot doesn’t really help. It does two things.
One, it just makes you focus more on what you are trying to do because you are stoned and don’t want to fuck up.
or
Two, it’s too late…you’re already too stoned to give a shit whether the door is locked or not.

Are you sure that neither one of these two examples doesn’t apply?

add #3 “When I’m NOT stoned I am more relaxed and don’t obsess as much.”
If this is the case then it is kinda like the old joke. Doc, it hurts when I do this…

Hey, you know what? Don’t do that! If smoking weed makes you obsess on your behavior, don’t smoke it. That’s EXACTLY one of the reasons that I quit. No bullshit buddy…it made me feel the same way you describe yourself.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@t-keela

add #3 “When I’m NOT stoned I am more relaxed and don’t obsess as much.”
If this is the case then it is kinda like the old joke. Doc, it hurts when I do this…

Hey, you know what? Don’t do that! If smoking weed makes you obsess on your behavior, don’t smoke it. That’s EXACTLY one of the reasons that I quit. No bullshit buddy…it made me feel the same way you describe yourself.

Huh? Let me try to put that across another way. I guess I was a little confusing there.

If x represents me, not stoned, before I became a stoner,
and y represents me, not stoned, after I became a stoner,

y is more relaxed than x was and does not obsess as much as x did.

Get it now? I’m talking about an improvement in obsessive/compulsive behaviors at baseline over time, which may or may not be related to medicinal marijuana use. (That ‘medicinal’ part, actually, reminds me of two things: (1) “I only read it for the articles” and (2) “I only use it to smoke tobacco, Officer”. I guess I should come clean and say that I look at the pictures, figuratively speaking, and that’s a bong, not a water pipe.) Anyway, my point is that things have gotten better, not worse, in all situations since I started.