Mental Illnesses.

[Hardope]

Haha yea, she's fam. Thanks Gator!

[evanescence]

I have borderline personality disorder, and pot is the only thing that works for me. I have tried many anti depressants and all of them have horrible side effects.

[capnjazz23]

I have schizophrenia and same eyanescence, pot does some amazing things that medications never did, or made me feel unnatural and gave horrible side effects in addition to (not to mention many anti-psychotics/anti depressants being linked to brain damage and high toxicity which ironically causes more mental problems) in my opinion, even though herb is iffy its still a hell of a lot better than taking the synthetic toxic stuff the drug companies offer right now.

I have a theory that indicas help me because they are higher in CBD which makes sense because during a long dry spell I just had a bowl of resin and whenever I would get overwhelmed with anxiety or off on some tangent, just the resin was enough to clear a lot of thinking I had, sometimes smoking too much can cause symptoms to get stronger, but honestly I do occasionally just smoke 'a lot' and I'm usually fine, in the right environment the insights can be extremely useful actually and something I saw before as a obstacle sometimes proves to be a lesson or a gift.

I think schizophrenia is pretty different though and a lot of the issue is how its treated, I think pot is only a preventative and definitely not the whole thing, really I think the entire environment has to change, unfortunately I don't know a way that I can do that right now but thats my intention, and doctors don't want to help because they are totally bound by science and think they know everything, want to purely base it as a physical defect, when really its just a difference. These are just some things I've thought, I just know the treatment I am getting now is not working.
but yeah sry to kind of go of on a tangentt
peace

[Butch420]

I have depression & mental illness....Marijuana helps me greatly, I do
take meds, but only a few, & they are needed in my case....pot does
wonders 4 me....I've personally always got the best effects from
Indica/Sativa blends, or I find that 'purple strains' help me a lot, I
like Sativa, but Indica better...I also suffer from anxiety too, if I
smoke, damn...I'm so much better~
PEACE OUT

[ac1610]

Have been using it to self-medicate for 20+ years. It is better than the majority RX medications with the side-effects. It was made illegal over discrimination toward the hispanics entering the US - Randolph Hearst felt threatened. "they" smoke this joint and that became the thing to rant about - "pot smoke, drunk mexicans, blah, blah " - they owned the paper and wrote what they wanted (yellow journalism).
Am so hoping that I get to experience a change in cannibis, hash, hemp, etc soon. Excited even if I live in a 'republican' state'...wth??