Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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I've been bp for over 12 years trying different cocktails and beleive me its been a roller coaster of a ride. i tried smoking pot to alleviate most side effects of my meds ( alot of the side effects are stomach pains, naseau, loss of appetite) and find that sometimes it relaxes me and i feel good and other times it makes me crazy manic. does anyone else have this problem?
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Sometimes it does make me anxious ..but that is when i change dealers in the same week. Different weed affects me differently..hopefully you wont get bashed here for admitting this ..i would try the Marijuana comm. for support
I could talk about the experience for hours. Or write pages and pages of stuff..
..but as an overall opinion based on my own experience only, I can only state that there are short term and long term affects. Short term is mellowed me out, but seeing as I smoked every day for 5 years and started at 7:00 AM, I really didn't give my body and mind a chance to recover from the effects.
Long term - paranoia, delusions and psychosis. Horrible.
IMHO, the most underrated drug out there.
I can walk out my door and get weed any time of day, but can't, right now, because of the fact that it takes 6 weeks for the THC to leave the body fat.
I love weed, but recently there have been studies concluding that pot smoking leads to psychosis. Interesting to think about, fur sure.
Weed, for me, leads to paranoia. I had to really analyze what I was running from with the weed in my life. Me. I was running from me. I am better than that. Oh, the temptation.
Keep on keeping on.
Ron
For me, i had to look at what had caused me to begin in the first place, and what caused me to begin and then continue and then what caused me to begin, continue and the use it as a crutch.
That's just me but I had to look at it, finally, from the point of view of my body being a temple and why would i want to mess up my temple. Trust me, I would love to know I could get high everyday and live life chillin, but, for me, I had to make a choice, for work, and it turns out i quit and it benefitted my sanity.
It started on a Saturday. I felt completely off my head. By the Monday I was scared, but I went into work and managed to get through the day. I woke up on the Tuesday, went into the office, and opened my briefcase on my desk...and just cowered behind it. Hiding from everyone. Everyone was staring. I walked up to my boss and said "I'm going home and I don't know when I'll be back"
I only knew it was drug induced psychosis because the pdoc told me at the time. It took me about 9 months to fully recover, the first 3 months off work. Really terrifying, and all the worse because I knew it was because of something I had done to myself. I felt so guilty.
I'd just like to reiterate that I'm not being judgmental on what other people do in any way. This is just what happened to me. I have a friend who has worked as a psychiatric nurse for 20 years. He told me that it's common to get admissions for drug induced psychosis caused by cannabis use going way back
I think it's a good treatment for cancer patients, etc.