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PTSD weed smoker here. Not the case whatsoever. If I don't smoke I don't suddenly have intense nightmares about my near death experience nor do I have a physica

PTSD weed smoker here. Not the case whatsoever. If I don't smoke I don't suddenly have intense nightmares about my near death experience nor do I have a physical impetus to keep smoking. If I run out of weed I don't slip into the worst stages of PTSD. It seems that there ate a ton of people speaking on behalf of both actual smokers and people with chronic illnesses and disorders. If you don't have PTSD, you can't comprehend it, nor should you try to. Top commenters issue is that they lack self control. Their "addiction" to weed is self imposed and akin to overeating or being addicted to masturbation. When you stop smoking, you don't have withdrawals. You simply begin experiencing the chronic illnesses that you have been self medicating against. I'd also like to add that for mental issues like anxiety, PTSD, and depression, weed acts like a mild antidepressant that is extremely manageable compared to the prescription options that typically make people even more unstable. Every antidepressant in America comes with a warning that it can increase suicidal tendencies, and I can tell you from experience that it is very true. Those kinds of "medicines" work by making you numb, not treating the actual problems. You don't feel normal at all; you don't care about anything, become very reckless and unstable, and many kids end up killing themselves because of this mental state when they had taken the medicine to quell suicidal thoughts in the first place.

boomboomsubban 8y ago
First and foremost, you are one person. Your experience does not represent the full range of experience, nor do anecdotes from people you've met. Next, PTSD can cause flashbacks in several forms. Many people with the illness never have harmful flashback dreams. I said that this is causing a mental addiction. So on top of everything effecting people differently, these require particular forms of thinking. If you don't know that marijuana can suppress dreams or use it for that purpose, you won't develop this addiction. A mental addiction isn't a "lack of self control" or "self imposed" as you say. It works by a similar means to the placebo effect, where your belief that something has an effect leads to the effect. >It seems that there ate a ton of people speaking on behalf of both actual smokers and people with chronic illnesses and disorders.If you don't have PTSD, you can't comprehend it, nor should you try to. Seems to me that you shouldn't assume what diseases other people have suffered from. As you aren't the only one with first hand experience. >Those kinds of "medicines" work by making you numb, not treating the actual problems Though it's true that the prescribed alternatives are not cures, neither is marijuana. Both help you manage symptoms, but can lead to other problems. Therapy has been the only thing shown to be effective as a cure.

boomboomsubban 8y ago

First and foremost, you are one person. Your experience does not represent the full range of experience, nor do anecdotes from people you've met. Next, PTSD can cause flashbacks in several forms. Many people with the illness never have harmful flashback dreams. I said that this is causing a mental addiction. So on top of everything effecting people differently, these require particular forms of thinking. If you don't know that marijuana can suppress dreams or use it for that purpose, you won't develop this addiction. A mental addiction isn't a "lack of self control" or "self imposed" as you say. It works by a similar means to the placebo effect, where your belief that something has an effect leads to the effect. >It seems that there ate a ton of people speaking on behalf of both actual smokers and people with chronic illnesses and disorders.If you don't have PTSD, you can't comprehend it, nor should you try to. Seems to me that you shouldn't assume what diseases other people have suffered from. As you aren't the only one with first hand experience. >Those kinds of "medicines" work by making you numb, not treating the actual problems Though it's true that the prescribed alternatives are not cures, neither is marijuana. Both help you manage symptoms, but can lead to other problems. Therapy has been the only thing shown to be effective as a cure.