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self-medicating with marijuana

Smoking brings me down more sometimes. It depends how stoned I get, cause then I start thinking way too deep into things.

I smoke more because my stomach always hurts and I have no appetite. Smoking makes me have an appetite and my stomach doesn't hurt as bad. So I self-medicate that way. Because the stomach pills they have me on don't do a damn thing... and the tests they run are useless, so I got weed to fall back on since my doctors blow.
 
i use marijuana medicinally as well as recreationally. ive got a spinal condition and when i smoke it helps relax my muscles so im not so tensed up. it also helps with my anxiousness. i use it as an introspective drug as well to find where i'm at in my life and what changes i could make as well as point out all the positives.

hell, just look at my avatar=D
 
there are a number of great posts in this thread. personally, i feel that the recreation i get from mj is in itself the medication. quite therapeutic to roll all the troubles of the day into a joint and turn them to ash. also, doctors in europe have been prescribing r&r as a cure-all for centuries %)
 
i used to be a fulltime stoner about 5years ago for approx 2-3 years.
gave up because of insane paranoia from it which caused me to become depressed.

excercise, meditation, healthy eating, boxing, weight lifting, reading, ssris, councelling hasnt helped or cured my depression.

so i decided to start smoking canabis again, i tried weed and got very paranoid because I didnt feel like I was myself because I was so high.

So I smoked pot and have been smoking ti daily for a few weeks (since i started again) I think its alot less paranoia inducing then skunk and for me makes me look at my life and see what I need to do with myself etc.

I think you could say this has a negative effect because my thoughts/life is so depressing but for me everytime im high I just feel like lifting weights and doing anything to feel more like a man if you get what i mean. It kinda makes me feel gay and feeble so it spurs me on to just zone out and blast a load of heavy weights.

Which in turn I think may be helping me. Im kinda unsure whether its helping me or screwing me up. I defnatly feel like I shake alot more when im high though.

but the main problem is i just need sex
 
Looking back cannabis really did help me through a hard time in my life. Just the year before I ever tried it I had to deal with the Bush re-election, the death of both my grandparents, who I was really close to. A shitty 2nd year of highschool with crap teachers and crap grades to reflect it.

I tried cannabis that summer and the following school year. I went from a 2.8 to a 3.5 GPA in accelerated and advanced courses and graduated with honors from HS. But the lasting positive emotional effects were what I most valued. I felt more optimistic for the future and was more motivated to succeed. I am now a full time student in college with a part time job and before I tried cannabis, college was something I was not considering straight of HS.
 
I use marijauna to help me with my stomach alot. I'm always really nauseous when I wake up every morning and I find that smoking a bowl totally takes it away. It's really amazing i've tried all different types of antacids and other meds and none of them hold a candle to cannabis :D
 
Cannabis is a great tool to help you deal with minor emotional problems and stresses; you just really have to be careful that you don't start using it as a crutch, because you still need to acquire and foster proper coping skills as cannabis won't be available in all stressful situations.
 
Cosmic Charlie said:
I use marijauna to help me with my stomach alot. I'm always really nauseous when I wake up every morning and I find that smoking a bowl totally takes it away. It's really amazing i've tried all different types of antacids and other meds and none of them hold a candle to cannabis :D
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This is exactly what I was saying in my post. Glad I'm not the only one that think the stomach meds suck :)

Years ago it got so bad I was throwing up every morning, then every night before bed. I still get nauseous, but the throwing up only happens maybe once or twice a week now. Marijuana has definitely helped me in that aspect, helps me have an appetite and hold the food down more importantly.

Cause it does get to the point where I have to go to the hospital for IV because I get so dehydrated and run down.

It sucks that something that helps immensely is illegal, or that I can get denied a job from failing a drug test, but it's okay if you have prescriptions for something more harmful to lets say your liver and addictive. I'll never understand it. But that's another rant for another thread :)
 
double ewe said:
how many of you daily smokers out there feel like you're using marijuana more for dealing with psychological issues (particularly depression, anxiety and add) than simple recreation?


anyone else feel the same way?
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It's very clear to me that a high percentage of chronic (daily or near daily) pot smokers are self-medicating whether they care to admit it or not. All you have to do is look at the photo of Michael Phelps' bong hit to realize he wasn't a beginner; then read that he was treated with Ritalin for ADD in grade school.

The problem is that the drug war has (very successfully) obscured reality with propaganda and made honest clinical research on humans nearly impossible.
 
Started out as recreation, although i like to tell myself its helping me in other ways, i think its merely an excuse. Justifying getting ripped :).
 
I smoke recreationally, but definitely also to deal with ulcerative colitis and other chronic health problems. It's a good painkiller that doesn't give me the heavy psychological side effects of narcotics.
 
I smoke cannabis for it's anti-depressant qualities and to help with my insomnia.
 
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