Posted by Doug on April 12, 2000, at 16:47:12
In reply to Re: CRAIG and everyone please read - Unreality, posted by Craig on November 18, 1999, at 1:34:16
People,
I had this exact same problem when I was 16.
I am now 41 years old and its strange to remember
how much trouble I had coping with it. For,
instance, when I would be in a large department
store, I would have trouble focusing my mind
on a particlar item on the shelf (I'm not taking
about visual focus, but mentally isolating a
specific item which I was looking for). What
was so troubling is that the change occured
almost overnight and linked (I think) to the use
of pot (panic reaction). I felt that I had
suddenly developed a barrier in my visual
preception of the world, which took one or
two years to shake off. When it would bother
me, I found that reading would take my mind
off of it. It eventually either went away or
my mind adapted and overcame it. I think that
it was the later, but I'm not sure and I don't
know if I could tell the difference. I think
that the key to overcomming it is to accept it
and deal with it, but don't expect it to go
away. When you truly come to grips with it
then it will gradually cease to be a problem
and you will forget you ever had it (well almost).
poster:Doug
thread:8172
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000411/msgs/29753.html