Marijuana my Cure?

[andriaSRH]

Holy shit there is alot to read in this thread lol.

All I have to say is I'm glad weed is helping you out Purp. My bf has mental issues as well and weed helps him out alot. If he doesn't have it he freaks. It's pretty annoying..but it's understandable since he has head issues.

And animal..stop destorying your liver.

[AbbyRoad]

my brother has tourettes and weed helps him deal with the ticks and anxiety
when he is baked he has no ticks and he super laid back.
even he had no job and was stressing out about school and shite, our mom gave him money to buy weed. she doesnt even smoke weed ever but she knows it can be used medicinally.

[SToNeR ChRiS]

Marijuana has been my cure when it comes to migraines. I used to get them really bad... I would see an aura beforehand which was similar to a rainbow flashing in my vision... I also had blind spots all over the place. Once that happened, I knew I'd be having the worst head pain of my life in about 20-30 minutes. The only cure was sleep and even then I once had a migraine that lasted close to a week... Since I started smoking weed pretty much daily a few years back, I've only had one migraine. I can't emphasize enough how happy I am about that, though I don't think about it as much as I should!

In the context of such cures, marijuana can be a great thing. I stand by my initial post, but it is also nice to see the short term and long term benefits weed is producing for you (purple) and others in this thread.

[SpRi7e]

Weed helps migraines, it helps tourettes (a little), but it will NOT cure, nor fix HIS three mental issues.. You have schizophrenia and bi-polar, which I can almost guarantee will get worse in time with repeated weed use as I have seen it NUMEROUS times in people.. maybe not so much the schizophrenia, but from 1 persons experience, and reading many things, I can say that smoking weed (in the long term) will make it way more apparent when you aren't smoking, and eventually since I'm guessing you smoke a lot already, you will develop a bigger tolerance (since you have more reason to smoke now) and your symptoms will start fading over to your high life.

The only one I'm not so sure about is the PTSD because it has varying results depending on the person, where it came from, how they use it to get over their problems..and how much they smoke. I know it's bad to say on a WEED forum that you shouldn't be smoking weed for those reasons, but I've seen it affect a gooood amount of people in a bad way after a while.. and why? Because negative effects from weed take a while to start getting to you when you have VERY SERIOUS mental health issues..

Now my question is, which ones were you diagnosed with first?

I'm purely not saying this to be the dick here, but from my PERSONAL experiences of smoking, and being around people who smoke for certain reasons, you start seeing a trend on what happens mentally to them, and I'm just trying to warn you as it always seems like a miracle cure for them before they find out too late (which usually ends in them quitting smoking weed forever)

But to also show that weed can be a GRREAATT temporary cure from personal experience (not relating to mental issues), it's helped me with my back problems which have gotten way worse this year due to either weight lifting or skating. I can go months without having a single problem and feel amazing, but the past few months I have been having severe back spasms which could either be from A: My trampoline incident that gave me HORRRIBLE back problems almost every week for a year, or B: My weight lifting accident that tore a major muscle in my back that made me stop doing any physical activity for a month. The spasms cause me to have my entire body tense up for 20 minutes - 3 hours leaving me almost paralyzed from pain.. Now it NEVER happens when I smoke, and if I smoke while it happens, the pain/spasms go completely away in a matter of seconds.

Anyways, good luck and I hope you are the SMALLLL percentage that it doesn't affect like the way I've seen it

[SToNeR ChRiS]

Anyways, good luck and I hope you are the SMALLLL percentage that it doesn't affect like the way I've seen it

Ditto man... I don't really support the theory that smoking weed helps mental issues such as schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder so I don''t mean to only quote the one thing that somewhat supports his actions. With that being said, my buddy's mom is bi-polar (though I think it may be self-diagnosed) and she smokes quite a bit of weed. In all fairness, I do believe it keeps her level. No one is really saying marijuana is a cure here, but it may help someone cope with problems that we can't even begin to imagine. This is not to say that perhaps her symptoms have gotten worse over time, however she does manage to keep a job and provide, albeit very little, for her son and two daughters. Who knows? Like you said, there simply may be a small percentage out there who actually do benefit from marijuana in such a scenario. The thread starter has read enough on each side now though, it's really up to him as to decided what he feels is necessary.

[SpRi7e]

yeah there's no more need for me to post here unless it's a specific question or comment, I've said my dues..

plus you can never tell someone how to live their life, just give advice

[andriaSRH]

What if Purp stayed on his meds but smoked as well? Would that somehow fuck up what the pills are suppose to do for him?

A: My trampoline incident that gave me HORRRIBLE back problems almost every week for a year,

Do tell. Backflip off a garage perhaps?

[AbbyRoad]

spri7e has given sage advice in this thread.

but i thought even though marijuana can aggravate mental health issues it doesnt permanently worsen the mental state of the user...like once the let all the drugs run out of their system any of the positive and negative effects will soon dissipate. but i dunno...im just repeating things ive heard like a parrot.

and this is something ive learned from life... there is no cure for real mental health problems. there are only treatments that help people deal with the symptoms and live a "normal" life. ive known my fair share of schizophrenics (my uncle, friends and my best friends baby daddy) and a common problem they all seem to share is once they get on doctor prescribed meds and become symptom free they seem to think they are "cured" and stop taking the drugs and revert back to full on psychosis.
i could never understand why this cycle trapped each and everyone of them. meds on, meds off, meds on, meds off.
it makes me think that when they are on their meds and relatively symptom free it would dawn on them that its the FUCKING MEDS that make them feel "normal". not change in their own brain chemistry...

this isnt aimed at you in anyway Purp...just my own musings on the subject...

[SpRi7e]

What if Purp stayed on his meds but smoked as well? Would that somehow fuck up what the pills are suppose to do for him?

A: My trampoline incident that gave me HORRRIBLE back problems almost every week for a year,

Do tell. Backflip off a garage perhaps?

close.. frontflip off of my fort on to my trampoline... landed it perfectly.. I was just too heavy for it and my feet hit the ground with my back arched backwards

With him staying on meds and smoking, it would be just a bad idea because with his medications he's taking, they interact real bad with weed and it doesn't let the drugs work properly. Abby, I've also noticed that a LOTTT too about people taking meds and then stopping, then when they feel bad again, start taking it again..

Stupid, very stupid, it just doesn't work that way.. Like you said, the drugs make them feel good, then they think they learned to cope with the issues so they stop taking it and it puts them back at square 1, if not lower. Just that alone will stress the person out even more, possibly making it worse.

Purp, what medications were you taking btw?

[blackxs]

Weed helps migraines, it helps tourettes (a little), but it will NOT cure, nor fix HIS three mental issues.. You have schizophrenia and bi-polar, which I can almost guarantee will get worse in time with repeated weed use as I have seen it NUMEROUS times in people.. maybe not so much the schizophrenia, but from 1 persons experience, and reading many things, I can say that smoking weed (in the long term) will make it way more apparent when you aren't smoking, and eventually since I'm guessing you smoke a lot already, you will develop a bigger tolerance (since you have more reason to smoke now) and your symptoms will start fading over to your high life.

The only one I'm not so sure about is the PTSD because it has varying results depending on the person, where it came from, how they use it to get over their problems..and how much they smoke. I know it's bad to say on a WEED forum that you shouldn't be smoking weed for those reasons, but I've seen it affect a gooood amount of people in a bad way after a while.. and why? Because negative effects from weed take a while to start getting to you when you have VERY SERIOUS mental health issues..

Now my question is, which ones were you diagnosed with first?

I'm purely not saying this to be the dick here, but from my PERSONAL experiences of smoking, and being around people who smoke for certain reasons, you start seeing a trend on what happens mentally to them, and I'm just trying to warn you as it always seems like a miracle cure for them before they find out too late (which usually ends in them quitting smoking weed forever)

But to also show that weed can be a GRREAATT temporary cure from personal experience (not relating to mental issues), it's helped me with my back problems which have gotten way worse this year due to either weight lifting or skating. I can go months without having a single problem and feel amazing, but the past few months I have been having severe back spasms which could either be from A: My trampoline incident that gave me HORRRIBLE back problems almost every week for a year, or B: My weight lifting accident that tore a major muscle in my back that made me stop doing any physical activity for a month. The spasms cause me to have my entire body tense up for 20 minutes - 3 hours leaving me almost paralyzed from pain.. Now it NEVER happens when I smoke, and if I smoke while it happens, the pain/spasms go completely away in a matter of seconds.

Anyways, good luck and I hope you are the SMALLLL percentage that it doesn't affect like the way I've seen it

+1
exactly what I was trying to explain

It may be a bandaid solution to make you feel better now but long term, its basically suicide

[XxGaia666xX]

Well, i had stage 3 melancholic depression. Weed pretty much saved my life, i had attempted suicide for the last time when i realised maybe weed was the answer. I'm here now and it's beautiful

[Gorecore]

I find smoking weed helps with my normal aches and pains from a rough night at work. Doing physical labor 40 hours a week in a frigid environment is hard on the bones and muscles. Maybe not so much for the younger folks, but when you're creeping up on 40, those aches are oh too real.