Posted by linkadge on March 17, 2006, at 19:03:46
In reply to so, im smoking pot now..., posted by med_empowered on March 17, 2006, at 15:29:20
I say go for it! I'm in the same boat, I've been on everything! Antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, stimulants, the works. But I eventually came off it all because it wasn't doing me any good. The side effects were terrable.
The antidepressants helped a little, but they always caused so many additional problems, GI, insomnia, anxiety etc.
I have smoked a few times in the past, and I can say that it helped my anxiety, insomnia, lack of appetite, anhedonia, depression, aches and pains all in one. I am not guilty for doing it and would/will do it again.
I take some of the claims about it inducing mental illness with a grain of salt. Sure it increases dopamine that doesn't mean it causes schizophrenia. Correlation does not imply causation.
Another new discovery is that marjaunna, unlike other drugs of abuse, actually kickstarts hippocampal proliferation/neurogenesis, like other antidepressant compounds. The cannabis induced neurogenesis also correlated with improvements in depressive behaviors in mice.
Cannabis also immediatly attenuates overactive HPA axis function, something that SSRI's don't always reliably do.I was much sharper on marajuanna then say I was on a SSRI + antipsychotic combination, I felt better, I wasn't all kinked up like a prezil, and it did the same for my mood sleep, and appetite. So what gives. If a doctor asked me, I'd tell him, give me something that works, then I'll stop.
Perhaps if I can get a clean source, and perhaps a vaporizer, then I will resume.
Linkadge
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