The title basically says it all. I started doing weed when I was 16 and the next 10-12 years included various phases of use, from smoking everyday for a few months to smoking a few times a week to smoking rarely or even quitting for about a good year or so twice - however, when I did smoke, the experience was almost always enjoyable, with very few exceptions. When I got into my late twenties and then my 30s though, that started to change.
Now I often feel like there is something overwhelming to the effect, it is just somehow "too much" (although I don't take excessive doses at all), and this can escalate into feelings of intent unpleasantness. Negative thoughts may also be a part of the mix if I am having a bit of a depressive phase, but they don't have to be. Usually, if I am feeling good or at least ok before getting high, then I can keep those negative feelings of being "overwhelmed" or "unable to keep up with the drug" at bay, though this does require me to sort of actively manage the trip to a degree that used to not be necessary. And of course, if I'm in a bad mood / bad shape to begin with, or if I am exposed to unexpected stressor during the experience, then this act of managing the trip becomes more difficult to do and more likely to fail.
Also, there is a second (probably unrelated?) aspect that has crept into my weed experiences in the last years, which has to do with the increased sensitivity to bodily sensations. This can be nice (e.g. when having sex on weed), but lately, I often found it very annoying when my body was sore from a workout, because weed seemed to make those feelings of soreness a lot more pronounced / noticable. I don't recall having this issue earlier in my life, although I certainly did have a long stretches of time where I smoked weed and also did sports regularly.
Has anyone else had a similar trajectory with their THC use? Did you find a way to remedy this issue? Are there perhaps certain strains that would be favorable in this situation?
Now I often feel like there is something overwhelming to the effect, it is just somehow "too much" (although I don't take excessive doses at all), and this can escalate into feelings of intent unpleasantness. Negative thoughts may also be a part of the mix if I am having a bit of a depressive phase, but they don't have to be. Usually, if I am feeling good or at least ok before getting high, then I can keep those negative feelings of being "overwhelmed" or "unable to keep up with the drug" at bay, though this does require me to sort of actively manage the trip to a degree that used to not be necessary. And of course, if I'm in a bad mood / bad shape to begin with, or if I am exposed to unexpected stressor during the experience, then this act of managing the trip becomes more difficult to do and more likely to fail.
Also, there is a second (probably unrelated?) aspect that has crept into my weed experiences in the last years, which has to do with the increased sensitivity to bodily sensations. This can be nice (e.g. when having sex on weed), but lately, I often found it very annoying when my body was sore from a workout, because weed seemed to make those feelings of soreness a lot more pronounced / noticable. I don't recall having this issue earlier in my life, although I certainly did have a long stretches of time where I smoked weed and also did sports regularly.
Has anyone else had a similar trajectory with their THC use? Did you find a way to remedy this issue? Are there perhaps certain strains that would be favorable in this situation?
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But then, I kind of feel I had to bath my body properly in the natural cannabinoid profile of a plant again and add nothing else to it, sort of to clear my system or 'override' this negative experience or conditioning one could say. Does that make sense? Like properly blowing out the chimney after not heating for a longer period.
