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Not pain related. But my g.f of 4 years struggles with bi-polar symptom's and depression. I don't always wake up to the same woman i did the day before.. She struggled with addiction growing up, doctors of course put her on pills which make her uncomfortable. One day she decided to set her substance abuse issues and family/friends opinions aside and try smoking, since it was never her choice of stimulants.. After this change, she managed to get herself off her prescribed pills, and now she just puffs. Weed has been a miracle drug for her... Thank you washington state [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
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Those are 2 great benefits, you're right. And you're also right that most people that say they are "benefitting" from the flower, are actually foolin themselves, they just like the mellow high. And i can't blame them.. You cannot OD, there is no real fear with weed, and you hit a ceiling in terms of how high you get. I will definitely disagree with the rest of your comment. I watch first hand the difference in my girlfriend when she takes a puff. Bi polar symptons are lowered, and she is able to stabalize her feelings and mood. She's able to sleep at night, she's able to eat. And she's off the cocktail of pills her therapist and everybody else prescribes her.
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So, I'm no psychiatrist, or psychologist, or even a first year psych major, but I happen to know a lot about bipolar. What you describe does not sound like bipolar to me, because pot is
not a replacement for Lithium. It might help some, but it's far from a cure (subjectively I think it does help, but I haven't seen any research published that answers the question one way or the other.)
For instance, pot might aid sleep, but it will
not cure (or even come close to curing) a manic person's insomnia. I guarantee that if you find some crazy homeless person in a manic phase and smoke him out he will not go to sleep (unless he literally smokes enough to pass out from it).
I'm not saying that anything you said is false, just that maybe whoever diagnosed her got it wrong (psychiatrists don't make accurate diagnoses 100% of the time). Maybe she was taking drugs she didn't need as a result and then weed cured the real issue that the doctors failed to diagnose, allowing her to ditch the drugs and their side effects (which weren't really solving her problem anyway because she wasn't really bipolar).
Don't get me wrong, I <3 weed; all I'm saying is, it doesn't cure bipolar, and it's not exactly super rare for psychiatrists to misdiagnose someone. But it's great that whatever her issue is your girlfriend found a solution for it in pot, especially since the psychiatric establishment failed to help her.