Why is it so polarizing?
Even people who used to smoke a lot just can t anymore, myself included: I used to exclusively smoke until my early 20s; Now even a couple tokes make me either feel self conscious or totally overwhelmed and „braindead“.
Others have the exact opposite effect, where it makes them super relaxed or even forget all their worries to a point that they need to stop to confront their problems.
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I think of it like a massage. Some people will feel the mild discomfort and new sensations and relax the muscles in response then feel less stress, some people will tense up even harder at the pressure. It really depends on the pressure given(how strong a change it is from normal) and a bunch of things about who the person is that changes how they respond to it. Some people are put into a new state of mind and find that it allows them to break from the stress patterns they were following because it’s different enough for them to realize they were tensing and relax. Others are in a new state of mind and instead of it freeing them from their existing worries they just occupy this new space with new worries.
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