My guess as to why Chantal can’t sleep is tied to her already terrible habits. What was she doing before bed when she was home? Getting high and being either in stream, at naders, or scrolling through reaction channels online.
She can’t get high in Cuba. She can’t have Nader in Cuba. All she’s got right now is her sober ass reading comments from kiwifarms and from reaction channels. She could handle the mean comments when she was high. But I’m the daylight these comments hit too close to home.
So she can’t sleep. She doesn’t have her usual coping mechanisms she’d use. And her first night or two was fine because she was exhausted from the trip.
Nope. It's the weed withdrawals thats making it hard for her to get to sleep right now (along with many other behaviours/ symptoms in the last few days).
Every other smoker in the thread knows this is true. The 'Bedtime ritual' she does always has one key component across all the little activities that is present alongside whatever she is doing.... that is weed/ toking/ THC. Even trivial things like not having the feeling of the joint in between her fingers would 100% be bugging the shit out of her. People dismiss weed withdrawals as not that bad but they don't realise that majority of the symptoms can often stem from the physical rituals involved with smoking
not the psychological addiction of the active chemical as most would think,
It's why shes got this pseudo-psychosis vibe going on right now. This constant thought on her mind that just being able to smell one joint, crinkle the plastic on a single gummy bag would probably cure her current depression is the carrot on a stick which is going to lead her back to the airport sooner than her hotel booking expires.
When weed withdrawals (a heavy user like Chantal especially) combined with soppy 'emotional trauma', a splash of BPD tendencies and a massive change in environment at the same time it's no wonder she is acting this way. She is having a hard time going to sleep because her brain is going, "NO! I am refusing to go to sleep without THC," basically throwing a tantrum because she's definitley conjoined SLEEPING and BEING HIGH in an unhealthy amalgamation as most smokers probably know what I mean. It's hard and takes time to reverse that process to begin with - and will only just be ramping
up in intensity for the first 2 weeks or so at least for a heavy THC user like Chantal.
Along with the manic acting.... vivid dreams/ nightmares... it's just classic weed WD that shes never had to experience before.
Must be quite the system shock because she isn't in Canada anymore. Strap in Chins! It's only going to get worse for your whole planned stay unfortunately.
The difference when she has had to go without for 1 or 2 days in Canada before, her brain will be more at ease and relaxed due to the fact it knows that weed only lays a short car drive away from wherever she is at the very worst if not on her person or car.... not an international flight.
I don't blame her - it's kind of a learning experience for everyone. She can always go home anytime she wants at the end of the day. It's not like she's being held there hostage (besides the VIBs).
I
DO feel bad about the nightmare part of it though because I honestly wouldn't wish the nightmares I get from WD's on my worst enemy.
The really telling part is how she keeps saying, "I feel like I'm literally going crazy.", "You guys DON'T understand!". The psychosis symptoms from the weed WD can definitely feel like you are going crazy in a much more
eerily real way than say some form of stimulant comedown psychosis which she has
definitely experienced before that is noticeably much more artificial feeling and 'temporary'.
This is because her brain is in shock right now; the scary and unexpectedly intense symptoms can't be correlated with anything that she directly induced herself, this fact making it incredibly hard for a reasonable person to associate it with the weed at all - only serving to increase the paranoia and exacerbate the current symptoms.
To her, having never experienced this before (and crucially having no immediate/ percieved immediate access for the first time), it's like these quite intense and concerning symptoms just appeared for no reason out of the blue!
At least there is a simple solution..... just have more THC and sit secure at home!
Welcome to the downsides of THC consumption in the
SUPER++++ category Chins and the reality that '
what goes up must come down' remains true across
ALL vices, compulsions and life in general no matter how different or timely of a manner they manifest in. Weed isn't as benign as it's current societal repuatation alludes.... especially when using insane doses like she is along with treating it like a critical life 'super-crutch'. Anyone who does is bound to find out the hard way sooner or later! Seriously though some of her doses are absolutely ridiculous and she
MUST know to some extent the potential cons of THC.... then again... it is her. What more can one more mark on the already heavily notched belt that is Chins' medical repertoire really do?
When she arrives back in Canada, this whole episode will be dismissed and wongly associated with Nader and LOVE as soon as that first Welcome Home joint hits her lips at the pyramid. No doubt she will be thinking, "I feel much better now because I am home and much closer to him! His aura is healing me! Love really IS powerful........ I wonder if that should be a vague Community Tab text post or a meaningless Instagram quote image?"
I just hope she does it on live.
prepare for someone on the patio panic part 2
