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a lot worse but also they may be more likely to try it in the first place or lean on it in order to self-soothe because of this promise initially that it's this calming chill out really dopey kind of feeling

Now, how our anxiety presents beyond cannabis use just in general is also different from person to person.

Some people feel anxious when they feel out of control.

Some people feel anxious when they feel like they have too much control and they're too overstimulated.

They're too alert.

They're too aware.

You can kind of guess which person is going to have a worse reaction.

Two people might both think that they're anxious, but for somebody, weed is really calming.

For others, it's not.

For the person for whom their anxiety really manifests as needing to be alert, wanting to be on top of things, consuming weed might not always give them the break from time, memory, and place and sensations that they want.

It just feels like dissociation.

It feels really overwhelming.

So maybe I'm not explaining that well, but basically...

you can come to the table, like anxiety isn't one type of thing, right?

We think of anxiety as this one condition.

There are actually variants to our anxiety.

And that is why even if we're not just comparing anxious and not anxious people, but

Two, three, four different anxious people, every single one of them could respond differently to weed based on how we interpret and how we relate to body sensations or bodily sensations and how in control we want to feel.

cannabis doesn't just create anxiety out of the blue it seems to amplify whatever emotion or feeling is already there such as pre-existing anxiety especially when the dose of THC is higher that also may explain why

Again, you may have different reactions across two different days because of your pre-existing emotional state on top of dosage, on top of your environment, on top of what is unconsciously going on for you.