Richard@DecisionSkills wrote:Moderation that denies any discussion about topics or themes people in the community deemed “offensive” or uncomfortable, for example being skeptical about PAWS. Real helpful.
Again, what help did you offer Graham?
He has expressed anxiety so crippling, that he was unable to read the title of a link and click on it. What do you have to offer to help Graham?
And regardless of what caused that anxiety, be it a high dose of THC he took 28 months ago, or if it is a mental barrier, ie a phobia unrelated to his weed consumption, it is a concern he should address through clinical therapy in my opinion.
What’s your words of wisdom biohack? Or is it simply to attack me, because you have nothing of actual value to offer the discussion?
Where exactly did he express anxiety so crippling that he couldn’t click the link?
I‘m gonna tell you something about PAWS. I tried to quit addiction since 5 years and I never felt quite right after quitting and going into recovery. There was always something going on symptoms wise and nobody could tell me where those symptoms are coming from. Of course there is anxiety involved when you have symptoms without knowing where they are coming from but since the day I know about PAWS and I finally knew why I am going through all of this it no longer causes anxiety about my symptoms. From that day one I still had the symptoms until now but I don’t worry or stress out over them. They are simply here. On some days my symptoms are completely gone and I live a carefree life and couldn’t give a single **** about paws but without any apparent reason there is a switch flipping over which sets me back into my symptoms. I can feel this switch as clear as it can get and I experienced it so many times that I exactly know that I don’t do anything different. I don’t think any different, I don’t have bad mindset or anything else which would trigger my symptoms to come back. PAWS comes in cycles and at some point the bad cycles stop coming. I don’t have cravings to smoke weed since early withdrawal and the thought to smoke a joint passed my mind not more then 5 times since then and it wasn’t even an urge or craving just a thought like maybe I could buy icecream later BUT in my dreams my brain is still reliving past addiction behaviour until this day and the times my addiction dreams are really strong my symptoms also are very strong. I wake up and I feel so relieved of it just being a dream but my sleep isn’t restful in those times. Those phases where I dream a lot about my addiction past come and go like the paws cycles and if you would spend some time in my reality then you also would realise that neither OP or 99% of the people going through PAWS are psychosomatic. Their brains are healing. People fried their receptors while being addicted and PAWS is the process of eliminating those excessive receptors in the meantime you feel like sh**.
Only people that never went through this hell have the guts and nerve to doubt its existence and I’m tired of a-holes like you that project their subjective feeling of reality onto everyone else because they are to small-minded to acknowledge phenomena’s outside of their own spectrum of reality. And nobody here is afraid to click on any links but there are people out there which are in their early phases of recovery and they can easily be scared by uneducated statements and suggestions you throw out into the universe without overthinking their potential and damage they could cause.
Every single addiction dream reminds me of how real PAWS is and how important it is to respect this process and treat yourself accordingly. And no I don’t suppress my thoughts in daily life and those addiction creeps into my dreams. I am regular meditator and dreaming is a way to process trauma and negative experiences from the past.
If you don’t believe in PAWS then keep it for yourself or articulate it loud and clear for a single time with a respectful justification. Telling people that PAWS isn’t real and it’s just anxiety + being psychosomatic isn’t much more then a simple opinion. There is no need to argue with people suffering from the specific thing which existence you are doubting over more then 3 pages.
I once knew a guy that did coke for several years and consumed it on a daily basis. One day he stopped doing it and after about 3-4 weeks he was completely fine. There is no superior mindset that recovered this guy this fast. Recovering your brain from addiction is like healing a bone, at least the neurochemical part. You can assist your body by not moving to much, eating healthy and just being relaxed but at the end of the day your brain still needs to heal on its own, a neurochemical process which a person can’t control or steer. You don’t fix your bones, your body does that. The brain is a lot more complex then a bone and people are very very different. The dude that snorted coke for years is completely different then me. His capability to produce neurotransmitters and his overall baseline is completely different the mine. I couldn’t even snort coke more then one month in a row without even dying. I once did speed for 5 days straight and I felt at the verge of dying. There are some people that build different and their bodies are way more resilient by genetics. His genetics allowed him to snort coke for several years without loosing his mind or dying. You can’t compare people on that realm of things. The other dude that consumed weed for 20 years still went through paws 13 months. Maybe he wasn’t having 10 other cross addictions like for example myself. Maybe he didn’t grow up with high speed porn, video games and was using tobacco to mix it with the weed and smoke it. Maybe he wasn’t blackout drinking for a decade since his early teen years. The sheer fact that you don’t consider how different people are is showing how small minded and ignorant you truly are.
PAWS is real and I’m tired of people that never experienced it, pretending it’s not real. Not because it’s causing insecurity or anxiety for myself but for the people that are the very start of their journey.
