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      Imagine a giant taking care of you since you were born. Playing with you when you were a kid. Giving you a nice bed and plenty of food, caring for you. And watching over you when you grow old.

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    The brain story telling again…

    I guess that’s why we have alcohol, but it’s such a shitty drug

    Edit: Holy shit, I didn’t realise I’d start this… Good to hear folks sharing what works

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      THC has been a tremendous help. I just fall asleep in seconds. It has helped me to fall into deep sleep for the first time in a very long time. Alcohol was terrible

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          Sativa is what I do. I’ve had insomnia my whole life. I basically never go into deep sleep. My sleep has always been light and messy until I met THC. I now sleep like a baby. My mental health has improved a ton (the magic of sleeping well 😁). All positive so far. I haven’t had a single negative. I exclusively smoke it before bed time and only one single hit out of my pen, no more no less and ONLY before bed time.

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            My husband has PTSD induced insomnia. THC has helped him IMMENSELY with both the sleep and the nightmares. He used to take several heavy prescription drugs, but now he only uses cannabis. It’s made a huge difference in his quality of life.

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              I’m so glad it is working out for him. Mine isn’t PTSD luckily, but just me.

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                I didn’t want to say so, but this is true! Of course, I’m so happy for him most of all, but he’s also so much more approachable when he’s getting enough sleep and when his PTSD isn’t kicking in.

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        THC def better, but if I really need sleep the combo of the two is best. Just have to be careful with timing and amounts. THC keeps the dreams away.

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            I dunno what to say. I have constant intrusive thoughts, an incessant inner monologue, constant over analysis, and have terrible dreams. All I can say is that I use oil or edibles every night and it helps me sleep and keeps the dreams to an absolute minimum. I don’t use much, and I don’t smoke, and I’m also in Canada and only use what I buy from legal shops.

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      For me, alcohol makes the stuff in the OP 1000x worse. I guess I’m doing it wrong because in not drinking until I literally black out, but idk how I’m supposed to do that and hold down a job.

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    I constantly have to acknowledge that I’m mentally torturing myself, and force myself to stop. Idk why my mind seems to enjoy that activity so much.

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      The first step to stopping catastrophising is realising you’re doing it in real time, so well done

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      I feel like this is the biggest reason. I used to daydream about getting cancer and dying young and shit, it used to terrify me as a younger man who never wanted to die.

      Now at 30 years old, the only thing that scares me is the possibility of reincarnation and having to do this again lol, our brains condition us to get over our fears if we let them.

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        interestingly enough the happiness of the 15% least happy people really doesn’t increase with more money beyond $100k, while all other groups happiness rises with more money.

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          That’s not the conversation though. Intrusive thoughts don’t stop just because you become rich, or successful, or “happy”. They continue to be something you have to actively overcome.

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            so you think you can never get better? because I personally know that’s not true.

            to be clear my first comment was a joke.

            In reality, you don’t need to be any of these things to get rid of intrusive thoughts. Or fatalism and catastrophism. (winky face)

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    People do this?

    Hmm… goes to show how incredibly different inner lives people can have.

    I don’t recognize this at all and it sounds like a very strange thing to me.