does anyone use marijuana as a mood stabilizer? i have bipolar disorder with acute psychosis, and i respond better to pot than any medications i have ever been prescribed. however all the research ive done tells me this is total bullshit and im actually agitating my psychosis by smoking pot. am i going to end up totally fucked down the line if i continue medicating myself in this manner?

Im bipolar with psychotic features and I smoke like a fiend....though I continue ALL of my meds. You have to. You just can't stop or your manic will come back asap. So I say do both.

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i dont respond well to the meds though. they make me all zombie like and drain me of all creative energy.

plus im basically set with pot, a couple hits every couple hours and i can get my shit done and not get whacky like usual

well im kinda court ordered to take mine so thats not an option for me

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Ever have one of those days where you want to smother your spouse with a pillow? Yeah, me either....

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like, victory. Someday this war's gonna end.."

- Kilgore (Apocalypse Now)

Your just like me. I get psychotic episodes for ussually a week or more every month or two. Now wether I have bi-polar disorder or am schizophrenic has not been decided by my wonderful docs. But I mostly smoke weed to medicate, and it does a wayy better job then all the different meds I have taken. Meds make me a zombie and make me super sleepy ALL the time, while weed just makes me baseline-chill and funny.

yeah i take trazadone 200mg, serequal 1,000 mg, lithium 250 mg and it makes me pass out

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Ever have one of those days where you want to smother your spouse with a pillow? Yeah, me either....

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like, victory. Someday this war's gonna end.."

- Kilgore (Apocalypse Now)

DUDE! 1,000mg of seroquel is sooo much...I was only on 300mg lol.

yeah i know haha and its funny, every time I go in my therapist's first words are : "So do you need to up your dosage on anything?" haha Like WTF, THAT is how they solve everything ugh

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Ever have one of those days where you want to smother your spouse with a pillow? Yeah, me either....

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like, victory. Someday this war's gonna end.."

- Kilgore (Apocalypse Now)

I dono man I think the herb is giving me bipolar disoder. I have been smoking for 4 years and I occasiaonal take the month break. after daily use for a prolonged time I quit cold turkey. The effects I experience are a loss of appettie (I am currently on day 2 actually of a break) I havent eaten anything, trouble sleeping not so bad this break tho, and huge problem controlling my temper. I flipped my gord today and almost went into tears over a math test. I am easily agitated and all that shit. It goes away, but all this happeneing every time i quit has to mean something, i support the herb, but personal experiments at a constant don't lie.

Yes weed can cause problems in people with mental disorders, like bipolar disorder for example. Weed, like many psychedelics, can amplify emotions that you are feeling. If you feel insecure, weed could make you feel more insecure. If you are depressed it could make you feel more depressed and so on. At the same time marijuana can, in a person of the right mindset, help. If you feel like smoking is causing problems, just give it a break for a little or cut back how much you smoke.

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I'm bipolar helps me control mood and helps depression quite a bit counters antidepressant insomnia. I am medical for this reason. Currently on Trileptal 450mg, Lexapro 10mg, Temezepam 15mg, Valium 7.5mg, (for bzd taper), and remeron 15mg.. ahh thats long.

I'm not quite bipolar (Mom really was, though)- I'm just "moody". When I get "manic", I do a lot of art work (paint, quilt, sculpt, etc) and do just fine on 5-6 hours of sleep. When I'm "depressive", 10 hours of sleep aren't enough and I'm lucky if I have enough energy to get any housework done. Pot does help a lot in keeping me from going too high or low. Without pot, I run a real risk of going alcoholic (Mom was). With pot, I can have that evening glass of red wine (for health reasons and a bit of de-stressing) and not drink the bottle dry. Whether or not pot will help you stay "normal", depends on your own biochemistry. Good luck to us all- Granny

Ive never been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but both of my parents have it, {my dad is the worst fuckin case youll ever see}

I dont KNOW if I have it, but I show alot of the signs of having it. Im mellow on the herb, and an asshole off of it.

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Iam surprised at how man people here are bi polar and take some of the same
drugs I do, I think I am older then most people on this site, that not good are bad I just have a felling that I am. so by that I can tell you that smoking pot
for so many years helped me as a mood stabelizer. but now I take a very big
hand full of drugs everyday and smoke weed when I got it, and I seem to be
keeping me out of trouble, ive been in prison 2 times and 4 mental wards, and
I dont ever want to go back. I pretty much screwed away about 25 years of
my life, and now I have to start over, and I feel to fucking old for that.

I dunno I kinda think bipolar disorder is an over given out diagnosis nowadays....just cause you have mood swings doesn't mean you are bipolar....cause if that was true every teenager in the world would be bipolar. But I think weed is the cure for BPD and Schizophrenia. Among other things. Weed has the properties of a stimulant,depressant,anti-psychotic, and hallucinogenic. I believe the fact that it has all these properties make it the most valueable tool in medicine available. Anyways I kinda forgot what I was talking about so yeah.

i was misdiagnosed as having ad.d. for a pretty long time, but then i spent a few weeks in the psych ward being observed and they pretty much nailed it with bipolar disorder and acute psychosis.

I've heard conflicting reports about marijuana aggrivating bipolar disorder, or any psychotic or schizophrenic disorder for that matter, but I have a theory on this. I don't think it's necessarily the THC itself, or even the LSD, psilocybin, or whatever else. I think it's the trip itself. I've found from personal experience that when I had out of control, totally tripping balls experiences (mostly with cannabis oddly enough), the consequences on my own cognition were much worse (though temporary) the next day. I suspect it's the power of the trip, the blast of seratonin and other chemicals during the process, that actually has the potential to cause damage. Just a theory of course.

So yeah, I'd recommend if you are one of those rare people like I used to be who can completely trip balls on weed, to lay off a bit and have smaller doses.

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Im Also mellwo on the herb.. mother was bi polar.. and i get a lil manic every now and then but when im stoned you can poke me over and over and i will jsut smile at ya :-).. so id say the weed wont hurt you.. but it also depends on you and if ur body accepts it ...

i definitely dont get like that from pot. lsd on the other hand i have to stay away from. my last trip was in january and i never really came back. im pondering whether or not try my next batch of golden teacher mushrooms, but ive never had too much trouble wiht those.

yea yea i been like that to, that was after i quit smokin weed for a year after highschool (now im 22) so like almost 5 years ago

took meds for awhile then stopped n started smokin weed again...its all mind over matter type shit

if you have troubles with your high on mushrooms, start drinking, alot,

it will calm you down, and you will have more fun..

i have used or at least tryed marijauan in conjunction with meds like lithium and also tryed marijuana alone without nmeds after 3 years of trying marijuana with and without meds--different pperiods-i would have to say it DOES AGITATE BIPOLAR and now i take the meds without marijuana and never felt better.

it's amazing how great it is to actually experience life when you're on your meds regularly and not smoking pot. you can fully feel emotions, you have more motivation to meet essential duties, and you feel like a productive member of society instead of someone with a problem who's self-medicating in order to feel nothing.

but it is extremely hard not to take just one bong hit before class or work.. especially if meds make you zombied out anyways.

it's just a lot easier for bipolar people to feel normal when we smoke.