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It's especially frustrating as someone who needs cannabis for severe anxiety, because it's anxiety inducing in itself to have to hide it and that pretty much cancels out the benefits for me- it's something we absolutely need to destigmatize at work especially.
Please try therapy. Anxiety is curable with therapy, whereas meds or cannabis are temporary symptom relief, but the symptoms will always come back as soon as you're sober.
Lmfao. Anxiety is curable with therapy is not a rule. Some anxiety is curable with therapy, but not all of it.
For example?
I have Generalized anxiety disorder, It's chronic and therapy doesn't "cure" it. I will most likely struggle with it for the rest of my life. While this may be an anecdotal example I'm not aware of anything that "cures" anxiety disorders, therapy is mostly there to manage the symptoms effectively. Therapy helped me understand and somewhat mitigate the problem, but it's not something I can ever be rid of, and that's how it is for a lot of people who have an anxiety disorder.
Same, and funny enough, one of the things my therapist recommended to treat my anxiety more effectively is cannabis.
And just like that, the entire American medical system, as well as kittnpunk's mental health, began to heal!
Psychotherapy is the single most evidence-based treatment for anxiety, the literature stands up across the world. Not sure why you're bringing the American medical system into this, but while we're on the topic, our medical system absolutely encourages people to seek solutions in substances. Kittnpunk is saying they're so anxious that they cannot function without being high. Psychotherapy can 100% help them decrease their reliance on cannabis to feel less anxious