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If you use any substance to cope, it's not healthy and will ultimately lead you down a darker path. Unless it's truly recreational or for experimentation/exploration, stay away from them.
All emotions, even the strongest ones like unbearable grief and loss, need to be felt and processed. Allow them in and don't repress or run from them. Especially not with the help of mind-altering substances.
I hope this helps.
I think that's too general and doesn't take into account the reality of one's situation.
Should depressed people feel their depression? To a certain extent, yes, but after a certain point it does not bring any more processing and just trains the brain to continue being depressed. At that point it becomes legitimate to repress those feelings with mind altering substances such as anti depressants.
I don't know the specifics of OPs situation but imagine you were in a war torn country. Would it be better to be paralyzed by anxiety and grief, or to smoke a joint and be able to function? Would the response be different if it was anxiety meds rather than weed?
My only reservation would be that weed is often a poor anxiolytic and can even become anxiogenous in certain usage patterns. But if it works for OP, all the power to them, as weaning from weed is generally easier and less risky than weaning from benzos.
Isn't that a bit too broad? We use drugs for so many things in life. People use coffee to get through the day. And yeah it's not healthy but my point is that there is a spectrum, I don't think it is a black and white situation.
As for feeling feelings, I believe that we should give our feelings the time and thought needed to properly process them, and I do it. But somethings you are done processing, you accepted the truth and you felt what needed to be felt, but it's still hard, and as long as this situation is unresolved it will continue to be hard.
No.