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Mental Health Weed for PTSD?

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TrippyHippiegirl

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Smoke a smallish joint once in a while and I notice I don'r really get high like most people do from it, to me it's more of a slight good medication working right feeling I start to feel "Normal" via diminished ptsd symptoms regardless of my mood or state that smallish joint produces an enhanced time until it wears off I feel less edgy relaxed calm and my vision is slightly sharper. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this experience and what people are doing for ptsd now a-days? I'm sort of an adult now but was severely abused as a kid I don't know what originally caused my ptsd but I know the abuse made it worse, I've been told by the doctor I was also evidently relievedly sexually abused because my rectal is completely scarred open(multiple scars) I however have no recollection of such events happening. I know it didn't happen within the past 4 years when I started using drugs simply because I was never in a situation where it could of. A very slight dose of stimulants I also find very effective for my ptsd it helps me focus greatly even just 2mg of adderall xr helps me relax and focus but the big thing I've noticed is weed. Valerian root sometime's helps me sleep at night I don't get much rem sleep due to the ptsd my mom had a habit of coming home at 12am from work and bashing my head into the wall I actually have mild brain-damaged from it now via delayed reaction time from it.
Currently I use dxm occasionally adderall,provigil,lsd and shrooms for ptsd Relief!
 
I have self-medicated with weed for anxiety/depression/PTSD quite successfully, but it sounds like you may be throwing too many drugs into the mix to be healthy. I definitely recommend diet, exercise, and therapy as a first line of defense and minimizing the number of chemicals you take, at least until you're stable. Are you able to get some kind of therapy?
 
PTSD is an extremely poor excuse for smoking weed. What you are describing will happen even if you didnt have PTSD, and the cyclical effects of smoking cannabis and DXm and all of your other drugs simply treat your disease which is drug addiction. Of course you feel better doing drugs. Why wouldnt you? It medicates you, right? Fine, but you're far from being healthy.
 
Lulz, there was an RCMP officer (douche federal cops) in Canada prescribed it for this reason.
 
kittyinthedark said:
I have self-medicated with weed for anxiety/depression/PTSD quite successfully, but it sounds like you may be throwing too many drugs into the mix to be healthy. I definitely recommend diet, exercise, and therapy as a first line of defense and minimizing the number of chemicals you take, at least until you're stable. Are you able to get some kind of therapy?
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I agree with this 100%

Weed can help ease PTSD in some people, but including DXM, Adderall, Provigil, LSD, and mushrooms might be a little much. They have euphoric properties so of course you're going to feel good.

Try modifying your diet to eat more healthy, exercise more, and perhaps look into therapy too, like kittyinthedark mentioned.
 
I have little knowledge of PTSD but did use cannabis (mainly resin) daily for more then 15 years.

It retrospect at least part of this use was to mask underlying issues with depression, I also believe the dependence grew to such a level that it triggered alcoholism when I finally ceased along with tobacco.

I certainly would not want to demonise a substance that I know from experience is relatively benign when compared to many other substances but I would never recommend smoking cannabis as a means of treating a mental health issue as it seems like a very blunt instrument.

If you enjoy it recreationally and find it makes you feel better, it's all good but I would try and keep usage under control as dependence is not uncommon.

As for the other drugs listed there does seem too many in the list from a therapeutic perspective....
 
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I have no doubt that it can be used therapeutically, but consistency in the 'medication' is what troubles me a little.

Anyone who has smoked weed (resin less so IME) will know that one strain varies greatly in effect from another, there are clearly many other active compounds aside from straight forward THC.

There is also the significant issue of smoking the stuff, as most do. It can hardly be considered a healthy ROA especially in combination with tobacco.

I haven’t read the links, but I will do so with interest, I'm aware of some of the synthetic canaboids that have been developed,, I'm not sure about the need but it would be good to see a consistent product being used probably orally for medication rather than recreationally.

Overall I think cannabis was a positive influence in my life but the strong connection I forged with tobacco and smoking were not. The few times I've smoked straight weed since giving up it has brought about panic and paranoia, not to an extent I could not cope with but far from pleasant. Some people report severe panic attacks from small quantities hence my hesitance to encourage people with mental health issues to try it.
 
Allein said:
I haven’t read the links, but I will do so with interest, I'm aware of some of the synthetic canaboids that have been developed,, I'm not sure about the need but it would be good to see a consistent product being used probably orally for medication rather than recreationally.
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The problem with anxiety/PTSD is the need to treat symptoms as they occur, which makes once daily meds less useful (and smoked/vaped marijuana particularly attractive). With the proper strains there's really a lot of potential.

(Before having access to medical cannabis I distrustful of strains as well but I've come to realize that our bodies really do respond MUCH better to certain blends of cannabinoids, and I can count on certain reactions from certain genetics. There's a lot to be learned, and unfortunately takes some personal experimentation for everyone--but is that much different from trying each SSRI for a few months until finding one that works...)
 
Unless anxiety or PTSD is so acute that it is completely debilitating I don't think using drugs is a good solution. Why? Because it robs you of the opportunity of coming up with strategies and adaptations that would be healing rather than merely masking. Masking never works, always leads to more problems and leaves you weaker. Learning new healthy coping strategies on the other hand creates permanent change that is empowering.
 
Allein said:
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I have no doubt that it can be used therapeutically, but consistency in the 'medication' is what troubles me a little.

Anyone who has smoked weed (resin less so IME) will know that one strain varies greatly in effect from another, there are clearly many other active compounds aside from straight forward THC.

There is also the significant issue of smoking the stuff, as most do. It can hardly be considered a healthy ROA especially in combination with tobacco.

I haven’t read the links, but I will do so with interest, I'm aware of some of the synthetic canaboids that have been developed,, I'm not sure about the need but it would be good to see a consistent product being used probably orally for medication rather than recreationally.

Overall I think cannabis was a positive influence in my life but the strong connection I forged with tobacco and smoking were not. The few times I've smoked straight weed since giving up it has brought about panic and paranoia, not to an extent I could not cope with but far from pleasant. Some people report severe panic attacks from small quantities hence my hesitance to encourage people with mental health issues to try it.
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A strain that is CBD dominant would be best suited.
 
Yeah, CBD is apparently very useful for pain. You can buy a CBD extract, and it's not even illegal; it's not psychoactive, after all.

Overall though, cannabis is a sensitiser for me; if I was having really terrible thoughts, smoking would just magnify it.
 
I got PTSD , and I can't say that cannabis is helping me much. Though it is not really destroying my emotions or such , it's just that it's not that enjoyable anymore as it was before the trauma. BUT , I mostly smoke hasch these days and before that I smoked one joint of weed once a day in the evening. That was a whole different thing , it helped me sleep and eat during the evening. With hasch I don't feel the same at all, it doesn't help me sleep and I feel like shit during the days.. Well I don't smoke much anymore since it doesn't benefit me... So my thoughts is also that there might be some good strains for this i'm sure... But maybe the SSRI treatment (not a fan of SSRI) is working better for PTSD than cannabis. Wow I'm so tired , got awful insomnia here .. 5 AM and can't sleep even with mutiple sleeping pills...
 
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