Should marijuana be used to treat people with depression?
Or should marijuana be used in the short and or long term fight against depression.
Alternatively you may feel that marijuana should not be prescribed for depression, people think marijuana can make you feel depressed.
I want to thank each and everyone of you wonderful people for the posts that you have put on this website for me to read.
In my earlier post I had commented on having a son who has traumatic brain injury, ADHD symtoms, anxiety, depression, and severe mood swings where he becomes very angry and aggitated. He has been on every med for ADHD as well as those for Bi-Polar, depression and anxiety with no relief only a long list of side effects and worsening symptoms.
I have done a lot of research on the use of cannibas for these such ailments and as of two weeks ago threw out all of his prescription meds and allow him to smoke.
We live in Arizona and they are about to cast votes in November for the legalization of medical marijuana. I would love to see that happen as he will be able to obtain a card and I wouldn’t have to feel like a horrible mother allowing him to partake in illegal activity.
I can tell you what makes me extrememl angry is that we could go to any doctor and get as much adderall, ritalin, xanax and any other pill to help him feel better but something as natural as marijuana is a big no no.
Marijuana has given me my son back. Days were filled with him wanting to die, not liking himself, an inability to function in school, and major explosive mood swings where I could not calm him down to name a few have ended. He had horrible acne and had a type of OCD which made him pick at his head and scalp until they bled has also gone away thanks to the marijuana.
I have gotten overy the guilty feeling as his mother, I help and support him with makes him feel better. I wonder how many other parent who had children that have been medication resistent would feel the same way. I would rather have my child smoke than to wake up one day and find out they had taken their own life because they were so tired of feeling miserable. I appreicate any feedback and enjoy reading others success with the use of marijuana.
I think I most certainly suffer from sort of depresion, I am a functioning adult for sure, high pressure job, single new home owner, dog owner.
Sometimes though I get in a huge funk, a stupor, that I just can not start or finish any task, I feel overwhlemed, I will get behind at work and in my housework, I have motivation to get tings done, I am far from lazy, but there is roadblock in my way.
When I smoke pot (which is usually in spurts smoke for few days in row maybe 1x or 2x a month), that roadblock is lifted, I get so much done, my life runs like I think it should, it runs with a sense of ease. I am not put in a manic state but I accomplish lots and lots of tasks, never rest, I am focused, I can concentrate, things run smoothly.
I have never seen a Dr. for my conidtion, I am adverse to prescription drugs in general, but pot has it’s drawbacks, price, legality, munchies, I tend to buy crazy things when I am high, and it can really impair your alertness when driving.
Jessica darlin’, I hope that you find your peace, life is precious and you know this:)
This is in reply to the last comment..
Life does suck. In the grand scheme of things we are nothing. But that doesn’t mean we should give up hope.
Life can be amazing no matter what the predicament.
http://www.10news.com/health/3919722/detail.html
That kid was born with a rare skin disease that normally is fatal from birth.
His skin constantly sheds, and he has to put lotion on 7 times a day, and tube feed himself pure protien every night while he sleeps.
He not only survived, but he competes in triathalons, and swims a mile in the ocean every day, even though the salt water burns his skin.
Picture having your skin turned inside out basically.. Since birth…
At the end of the day it’s will to live.
It’s not about what’s happend to us, but about how bad we want to live.
We can be depressed about it all day, or we can find a way to get through it.
That kid could have gave up. He could have easily just did absolutely nothing for the rest of his life, and no one would blame him for it.
But with his rare skin disease, he does more by 8 am, than most people do their entire week..
As I said.. It’s about how you choose to live. Nothing more.
I was in a drunk driving car reck 20 days after i turned 16 on August 21st 2004.
I was laying there unconcious w the driver telling the ladies whose house we crashed, not to call the cops, “we’re fine.” They did and i was rushed to the hospital w being on a trake for 14+ hrs, the doc’s getting ready to pull the plug and call me dead gone!
I caught onto the air being pumped in & out of me was then still hooked up to it just incase i stopped breathing again. I then had a feeding tube in me because the trake was in my throat for 2 and a 1/2 months. When i was released i went to a group home to see if id be capable of living at my home. Once i arrived back home, i was admitted to rehab up the street around the corner for 8 months+.
I had a few ignorant a** therapyst’s who judged upon looks, NOT FACTS! One time, i had it w one of them, picked my sh** up from their desk and walked home like fu** you for real real. I lost all my friends & only have a few now.
Life sucks and alotta the time i wish i WAS dead ann had not come back, less stress on the whole world. I have MAJOR MAJOR depression where it feels like my 2 sisters and broter don’t want sh** to do with me or are embarrased to be with me at all or something.
Ill have outbursts of extreme anger where ill take my right fist and punch the fu** out of my chest until it kills and is all bruised looking, like i feel feel feel the pain and its better than my other pain(s) both physically and mentally. I mean, i made it further in a quick amount of time than anyone thought i would be able to but still, life for me i feel BLOWS.
I want out like MURDER me please, i BEG of you…ive even thought about killing myself somehow. Im on drugs for preventing seizures, depression, have tried about 4 & I have had side effects and no real help for the depression from them.
My mood, headache prevention I was getting severe migraines wich i still do, jus not as often. Like im stuck in a box and i want OUT! When i toke it calms me down, gets my mind off of bogus, relieves any pain im feeling and so on.
Some days, i dont want to even take my pills or feel like dumping them in the trash OR even jus taking them ALL @ once od’ing on them…..i wouldnt do this to hurt any of my family, but to make them realize that that is how i REALLY do feel and maybe theres no fixing my problem. Enough with all my talk, everyone have a nice day:)