Do you think Marijuana could help people with Anorexia?
Marijuana helps increase appetite in people without the illness. But would the illness override the feeling of wanting to eat caused by marijuana.
Also would marijuana relax or alter the mind, making the person more likely to eat? Perhaps you know someone who has anorexia, who has taken medical marijuana to fight the illness
Find out whether you have may have an anorexia problem, people who may have anorexia, reveal their thoughts.
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Marijuana can be helpful or not. The helpfulness of it has changed throughout time. I used to be severely anorexic and then bulimic for a decade.
I started smoking pot in college, when my bulimia was full blown. Did not help. Maybe made me enjoy food too much? I just couldn’t control myself. Also my academic performance started to decline. Was it the pot, or just my overwhelmed mental state? It seemed like a long continuous mental breakdown. I started art school the next year, and dropped out from the pressure of it all. During that time, pot helped me to cope, but my eating disorder didn’t go away right away.
It was one of those rare cases where I “recovered” on my own after many years. Maybe I was so sick of it all. I think the bad state of my teeth (and the horrific dental bills) was the biggest motivation. However, my appetite had become permanently haywire. Still is. But that is where the pot comes in. I don’t like that it hinders my mental abilities and motivation to do things. That is the biggest “evil” of it for me. However, it allows me to enjoy food. It allows me to eat, and to eat enough without that automatic urge to purge.
I am at a healthy weight now. When I am feeling too anxious and or nauseous to eat, a small toke will make the world of difference. It helps to regulate my eating and appetite in a big way, and for which I am very thankful for.
Can I get medical marijuana for anorexia, I am only 95lb and antideprssants aren’t working, does anyone know how I can get some? Anything is worth a try, before I die.
I live in a state where it is not legal.
I too was very close to a physical death, and felt like I had died mentally b/c i had lost everything to my ED. I made the choice to break the law to save my life! I believe anyone faced with death should do the same.
I am anorexic and bmi is under 15, where do I go to get a marijuana medical lisence? 95lb and loosing. I don’t want to die, antideppressants aren’t helping. Any advice?
first canabis is not the wonder cure all drug it does have a place in medical research. I am a post cancer pt. I also lost my left kidney the drugs they gave did little to help me eat. However after a vaporizing a bag I can eat a normal meal. I wish you all the same results. Billy
Billy, all drugs work differently on different people.
i smoke weed
Marajuana is a viable option for those with less succeptibility to addictive behaviour and for whom other alternative therapies have failed. If it dos’nt work for you dont do it anyway eating the stuff is the most effective yeah a marajuana pill to help aid eating and opening of other nueral pathways
I also have found that marajuana just fuels the self loathing, “i hate my self therefore why even bother sustaining my health?”
I have developed eating problems due to prescription medication , leading into drug addiction and on occasions seriouse abuse.
Marajuana is a viable option for those with less succeptibility to addictive behaviour and for whom other alternative therapies have failed. If it dos’nt work for you dont do it anyway eating the stuff is the most effective yeah a marajuana pill to help aid eating and opening of other nueral pathways
In my case smoking marijuana DID NOT help me at all with my anorexia/eating disorder.
Being stoned all the time enabled me to ignore the hunger, and I simply replaced food with smoking weed. I found smoking marijuana to be a very effective appetite suppressant.
Yes, I got the munchies initially for the first couple of weeks after smoking the stuff. But after smoking weed every day my body became resilient to the munchies and the marijuana as well, so I smoked more and sought more potent weed, food and eating became unimportant.
The kilos just came off very easily 35kg, and could have easily continued. Great, I was starting to disappear. (that was my reason, I guess ).
So I would have to say no, marijuana did not help me.
I have done this more than once, and it works every time. Now, I won’t smoke marijuana or take it any other way because I do not want to start the vicious cycle again. So just be careful. in my experience marijuana and an eating disorders can be counter productive.
Ive been smoking Cannabis illegally for around 3 years now and i find myself agreeing with some of the other posts on this site, when i fist started smoking Cannabis i started to put some weight on but as time went by i think you smoke past the munchies and the hunger pains you just get higher and see no need for food and your body builds a tolerance so you up your dose as to speak, and so your hunger just goes away.
You think giving this to somone who is allready having prioblems eating is a good idea? Isnt this just repacing one bad habbit with another? – maybe it would work if they had small precribed ammounts of thc over short periods of time?? but under a close watching eye? im unsure..
AND YES, JOE SMITH, I DO SMOKE WEED TO HELP ME EAT…
RATHER I STARVE?
YOU CLEARLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT AN EATING DISORDER DOES TO SOMEONE AND THE LENGHTS THEY WOULD GO TO IN ORDER TO NOT ONLY CURE, BUT HELP IT.
Actually…fxxx you Joe Smith.
My eating disorder came into my life before marijuana, and I slowly discovered that it was the first successful treatment for my loss of appetite. It also helps with the anxiety, stress and insomnia I’ve had to deal with. I would not label it as a cure, but certainly a viable treatment.
However, I do have the most addictive/obsessive personalities ever, hence my eating disorder. I’m addicted to cigarettes and caffeine but not once have I felt dependent on weed to get me through a day.
A word of caution though, marijuana DOES cause munchies, it’s no myth…so if munching out be careful not to over eat, as this has very painful consequences (if you are on a binge/purge cycle).
I have personally struggled with anorexia for 16 years.
I have been hospitalized 14 times for my eating disorder, and have also done many intensive outpatient programs, as well as residential treatment. During some of my “recovery” periods (in between relapses) I smoked marijuana.
No, it is not legal where I am, but it DID help alleviate the anxiety that surrounded me when i went to eat ANYTHING. I lived on 200 calories a day, and when I smoked marijuiana, I could actually eat a whole entire meal without feeling like I literally was going to die from the guilt.
No, it didnt’ CURE may eating disorder, but it did help with anxiety, making it more likely that i would eat more. Some of my treatment team members knew I was doing this, and they did not frown upon it. If it helped me eat, they did not care HOW I got the nutrients my body so clearly needed. And no, i am NOT a drug dealer….like someone who is in medical school…i am a social worker.
joe smith, great logic, what can i say?
you wrote: “who ever brought this up must be a selling it! making money hands over fists!” Don’t you think that when legalized the black marked sellers would get out of job?
A pusher loves marijuana prohibition, first he makes good money on a super high price on something that’s illegal and second he comes easier to the customer suggesting him real drugs (Heroin, cocaine ect). It’s guys like you the FBI, who are the BIG PUSHERS and inventors of this market, love to have all round. It’s a shame people have to suffer under these mentalities!
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