Posted by Angielala on November 13, 2003, at 15:04:59
In reply to Re: Marijuana and Bipolar, posted by pixygoth on November 12, 2003, at 9:29:36
See- this is the bus I'm on too. I have been depressed forever- and I never touched drugs or alcohol. When I discovered pot in college- and actually gave it a shot, for the first time since I could remember, I could feel things. There were no side effects. My appetite became healthy again and I was able to get off my thyroid meds because of that. I have never felt bad from pot, nor have I felt as though I was hallucinating, as I have heard some claim.
I think it depends on how open minded one is for their own healing.
I guess what I was looking for was support from others in my shoes, like pixigoth, rather than what I hear from doctors everday. I want to know, honestly, from other people who use pot as a drug to help them (not as a crutch) through the day.
Since pot is never a real option, there are hundreds of people who all wonder what the true positive effects of pot are to a depressed/BP person.
> Hmmm.
> My position is that I was depressed for... well... my whole life. From as young as I can remember. I got to a point (in early teens )where I'd never taken any drugs, but I got no pleasure from life any way, so I thought I'd give weed a go. And I haven't looked back. I *do* know what weed does to me, as much I'm sure as you know what alcohol does to you.
> My problem is with people who *know* that certain things make their condition worse, and yet take those things anyway. These people's experience is then used as evidence that my own self-medication is doomed.
> I don't want to get confrontational when there's clearly no need for it, so I'll stop now. I'm sure you all understand me.
> S
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