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A casual community for people with ADHD
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Weed is making things so much worse for me. Anxiety is my only drive in life to do boring stuff. And when its levels go down, my level of productivity plummets to the point of nothing is getting done anymore.
The frick is that hippy stuff? sounds like some load of bollocks no offense
In the US, some people look for “alternative medicine” out of fear that pharma companies are trying to “mind control them with unnatural products” or some shit. I’m not sure the exacts, but it relates to paranoia around artificially grown substances and one or two instances where genetically modified organisms (GMOs) caused disturbing mutations. A lot of this alternative medicine involves essential oils, which are plant based oils made from like one singular plant mostly used for vaporizers and hot baths, which is why it gets dismissed as “hippy stuff.” But some of those treatments aren’t entirely farfetched, and some even stem from ancient Wiccan practices.
Here’s an article from a magazine that moreso gives off that vibe. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/g37212791/best-essential-oils-for-anxiety/
AKA snake oil.
At best, essential oils can be slightly relaxing or stimulating just like smelling the thing the oil is based on.