Moi, again, you're a wise woman

Well, to be fair, my parents also "experimented" with drugs (they were addicts, lol) and my dad even grew his own weed and, oh, did I mention he was in prison for drug dealing? Yeah. He's still scarred. He should've known better.
Mom went to a plethora of therapies and she's clean for years. My dad stuck to MJ, it soothes him, he's a very nervous man

I'm sorry to hear everyone has had such bad experiences around people using drugs, that's really tough. My sister has serious issues with weed, at this point I'm pretty sure she's never not high. She says it's for medical reasons but it's really obvious she's just emotionally dependant on it. That being said, I don't think it's even half as dangerous as alcohol, so it doesn't really make sense to me to have it be illegal. Banning it never stopped my sister and others from abusing it, all it really did was make it so I couldn't try it for my pain for the longest time.

I remember at one point my dad decided to tell a story from his youth to try and convince my sister to use it less. It didn't work, but the story was pretty funny. He admitted that he used to be a huge stoner when he was young, and he was so stoned all the time that he and his friends thought it was an amazing idea to like quit their jobs and travel across Canada singing and playing guitars to pay for food and stuff. The problem being:

A) They were tone deaf
B) None of them had ever even held a guitar

He says luckily they never went through with the plan, but they got darn close to it. So his moral of the story was "don't smoke too much, it makes you an idiot >8U"

I'm sorry things have been so stressful for you Jacob. I have OCD too, and I get worked up like that at even the thought of my cats crying or getting upset, so you're really strong to be getting through that level of anxiety when it comes to a child. I hope you're able to see your therapist again, fingers crossed.

(Also yeah the laugh-crying emoji needs to just be like, a letter in the alphabet. I struggle to communicate without it pahaha)

Both my parents were drug addicts AND alcoholics (and smokers, that's an addiction, too!) :,) Alcohol addiction has been in my family for centuries, I believe, and domestic violence. You take that with you from your home, so it's no wonder it travels through times. I've decided long ago that I'll be breaking that cycle. So far so good. But I do see addictive tendencies in myself. Internet, games, etc. I need to be really careful.

I've heard that weed is a gateway drug and I sort of agree. Meaning I think some people are prone to try more and more until they go to hard drugs. I believe that's how my parents started. I don't really believe it's not addictive, even coffee is addictive so weed also must be. You can get addictedto anything, really.

YESSS,I constantly want to use regular emojis here, especially the laughing crying one, I use it all the time, it's my new "XD" I could use it as a period, end each sentence with it

@jacob: My sister says she often stays still when herboy fell asleep on her because she just doesn't have a heart to wake him. It's a mom thing

You could try it, it's said to be relaxing, maybe it would help with your axiety My dad uses it especially when he's either very angry or stressed out. Being angry is kind of being stressed out, so... XD

You can genetically have fragile lining of your stomach. Has anyone in your family had similar issues? And was it always like that for you? You could check that out, but it would probably involve gastroscopy.
Ash has a similar problem, but it's not as severe.