Reflective Essay On Marijuana

ThMy experience with stopping marijuana usage was challenging and enlightening, but I am currently abstinent without cravings and intend to remain mostly sober moving forward. I have deemed myself a recreational user, one who does not suffer from the categorical classification of a substance disorder, and I currently believe I can moderately control my usage. After explaining my reasoning for defining myself as a recreational user, I will systemically explore, along with relevant theoretical constructs learned in the addictions course, the ways I conceptualize my various stages of change. In this discussion, I will address my slip back into using. Then, I will share the applied techniques for monitoring my use and the support I received

Without a continued or compulsive need to use, I currently classify myself as someone who uses and sometimes misuses marijuana. Fisher and Harrison (2013) offer four different definitions of substance participation: use, misuse, abuse, and addiction. They assert that the definitions exist along a continuum with more serious consequences progressing from former to latter. Personally, I think moderate to serious complications with my physical, mental, emotional, financial, spiritual, or social health (or any combination thereof) would necessitate appropriate maladaptive effects, and because I do not allow myself to experience such devastating effects, I do not fall on the more severe area of the spectrum that includes abuse or addiction. In my past, I suffered from sometimes abusing marijuana, but those experiences were relatively rare as I have learned from my mistakes. Currently, when I notice that I am teetering on the border between misuse and abuse, I am able to apply willpower to reduce my usage or stop

I could have continued to believe in a rational approach to my use, pledging that the medicine was, indeed, working to alleviate my symptoms, and I was suffering only minimally in regards to my negative impact on my psychological aids. However, as any decent scientist should understand, most of the time there are multiple ways to solve problems, including multiple interventions I could self-apply outside of the realm of drug use. If I expect my clients to think differently through reframing or changing their attitudes, then I believed that I should do the same to understand the difficulty when I help clients facing their own changes. I felt a mandatory calling to make the effort to