Dissociation and Substance Use: Does One Affect the Other?

yeah similarly to some commenters I had my first DPDR experience when I smoked weed sooo

Weed sent me into a panic spiral where several mental health issues I had were brought to the forefront for the very first time, and I haven’t been able to shake them since. I think weed can be helpful in specific individuals, but it ruined my life lol.

We’ll for me they do alcohol is usually okay but something like weed is very triggering especially since mine happened during a time where I was doing drugs

honestly it depends i’ve used lsd and it made me feel more intact with everything but it only lasted a little bit so short term yeah but i don’t recommend it

yes substance makes it worse; especially hallucinogens and weed

i have depersonalization and derealization constantly for the past almost year and yes i definitely does for me atleast depersonalization derealization can also be caused by substance use