Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group

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scottyb865 07/17/2018

PTSD is a B****!!!!!!! Not sure what caused mine but i know it sucks. But if i smoke weed i can do things that i normally couldnt do without meds. Well the doc took me off the meds that normally helps and now that im done with courts im able to smoke with no worries. When i smoke it feels as if i never felt i had ptsd in the first place. Its not legal here where i am but its getting closer. But fighting the battle alone like with no one beside me makes it even harder. Been looking for awhile just cant find someone thatll accept me for who i am and what i have wrong. I know there is someone out there just waiting for them to step in my direction. It would make things better i think having someone around that understands and can help me with this battle.

MrMojoRisin 07/17/2018

Severe trauma causes PTSD. if you don't recall ever going through extreme trauma then i would hold off on the self-diagnosis.

mujicaptsd 07/17/2018

Yeah, self-diagnosis isn't a good idea with something as complex as PTSD, especially if you don't recall the original trauma. Mine was a car bombing overseas with my family, for instance. Though a civilian, my treatment, therefore, wasn't conventional PTSD treatment. I was treated by a VA therapist who specialized in treating Iraq veterans who had survived having their Humvees bombed by Improvised Explosive Devices left by the side of the road on their patrols. Until that VA doc treated be for that specific extreme trauma, nothing worked for years.

SimpsonsOK 07/17/2018

Scotty, hope you find a legal way to deal with your past and present. We accept you here. We do need to also live in society to have a social life. You'll get there. Hugs

scottyb865 07/18/2018

mr.mojo i would hold off on assuming thing cause your way off ive been treated for my conditions since i was 12 thru helen ross. and jeane no i dont smile to much. and no the weed wont cause me any more problem as long as im carrying it on me in public

MrMojoRisin 07/18/2018

good to hear. helen ross does good things for vets and their families.

combat-type PTSD is what i deal with. wish sometimes i blanked on it too.

mujicaptsd 07/18/2018

Is anybody else here like me as to marijuana? I have no qualms about it, in fact I welcomed it and hoped it would help me, but over a dozen repeated attempts at self-medicating with different strains via different means--brownies, smoking a marijuana cigarette, delivery via bong--all backfired. It turned out that I was one of those rare people for whom marijuana causes acute anxiety rather than calming it at all. I would have intense 4 hour panic attacks after taking it instead, no matter in what form or what strain.

Again, it's about a real medical reaction I had to it over and over, not a prudish or "square" opposition to it. The legality of it is another matter for me, because I live in a state where medical marijuana is legal. My psychiatrist, who I saw just today, writes prescriptions for it all the time for other patients, so it's really frustrating that it's available to me and yet it doesn't work for me. Beyond not working, it's harmful to me.

Has anybody else had my kind of negative experience with marijuana? Or heard of someone else having it?

scottyb865 07/19/2018

i have a few friends with same problem check out hempoils. they make to treat different things and lacks THC, my friends has better results with it than the real deal

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