bipolar and canna

[Bio boy]

ive learnt that my bipolar can be treated better with weed than with the meds i have to take,
ive also come to see that indicas are better removing the paranioa form the equasion,,
also blueberry strains have a big impact on the bipolars activiy and seem to be best for the medical values towards bipolar,

so i rang the us and asked a few medical canabis specialists

they recomended indica strains with blue berry being one of the main to be used,

i feel calm and relaxed on blues compare to msot i stil feel on edge, but the blues seem to wipe my mind of worries and set me to a level i am good at, no anxiety .


has anyone els found any strains that work amazing on bipolar but unlike with the blues i am looking for one that will keep me active instead of sedated lol

 

[Andyo]

ssh

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I found some phenos of ssh good activity promoters with out anxiety helping find the middle ground so to speak.
Though it may be just a personal thing .A

 

[Bio boy]

taking it thats super silver haze? what company is it from il give it a blast

 

[TacomaComa]

Blueberry seems to work very well for a bipolar friend of mine. Only strain he will touch and he swears by it.

 

[Limonene420]

Bipolar II here. I have found over the course of a very difficult decade that I do better with a low dose of mood stabilizers (500 -750mg of depakote) and a lot of canna, have the best effect for me.

I also started taking supplements like Fish Oil and Vitamin D, and I changed my diet, trying to remove as much of the processed foods as possible. These changes have made a significant positive change in my mood and outlook on life.

now a little on my use of canna. Over the years of experimenting I found that smoking buds does very little to help with my bipolar and in some cases can have a negative effect if it leans to much toward the sativa side inducing manic episodes. In recent years I have converted to smoking only hash. This allows me to moderate my usage better, and the ability to smoke less more often has been key for me.

Hope that helps, it can be rough with all the ups and downs, I've personally ruined many relationships and friendships over the years, because of my manics, so I wish you luck in finding the right balance in your life.

Stains I like for Bipolar

GDP - all around good strain for day or night
Afgoo - very relaxing
Bubba - Great night med to diminish the racing thoughs
Casey Jones - casey is my sativa exception, I cant smoke the bud, but the hash is very relaxing and an overall feel good strain.

* a note on my depakote dose. 500-750mg is considered under therapeutic levels, if I dont take some amount I still have bad manics and lows, If I take the full 2000mg/day does I feel flat and emotionless... either way if you do go that route discuss it with your doctor, before attempting. My doctor knowing me for many years, knew this was the best way to get me to continually take my medication.

 

[Bio boy]

dude wow, now thats a reply i want to hear!
awsome, yes me too i drove my partner to her limit, didnt think it was my condition i thaught i was right and the silly things that i made so much of a deal over and flipped out on she walked out on me and i walked out too, id never touch her or my kids, but i did find myself fightin and harming myself and id get into somthing liek eg a grow and rip it all out cause of snapping one branch, idiotic anger emotion somuch all in one the only way to explain it is a hurricane inside my mind of all the thaughts and feeling confusion and it came out so bad it scared me somuch, i foudn myself in a state where i was hitting myself infront of my partner ''is this what you want''

then id turn to tears all loved up and sorry and hurting inside sobad asif someone had died, but then times where id get so hyped up you woudl think i was 6 years old,
then i started to get help started the meds, and yeah worse for 2 weeks then an improvement,

but my pills lead me to amnesiea in the mornings thrush and black tounge finding it hard to pee, and alot of other things,

the buds help me alot more and yeah pure indicas are the line i found to take with it

since ive been medicated and had smoke to medicate with me and my partner have been 2 years without 1 argument, im happy and im happy makign her happy, and being with my kids, i find tidying up a pleasure not a chore,

its amazing its only recently ive been able to see what a tit ive bin, and acutaly understand why and where my anger and emotions come from,
and since understanding it more and seeing it wasnt life it was my chemicals in my mind messing around, up and down it was easyer to control, i stil have bad days but instead of anger ive learnt to either sit aND feel like death sleep or walk the dog ,
ive stil alot to improve and a long way to go, i know its for the rest of my life,

the one thing thats good is my son has headed the same way as me... i have alot of understanding for him i knwo how it is and im glad, i just hope as ive read about the weed side that it can be a very good fix when done right,

and id prefere the weed than to see him as you say emotionless.zombiefied as it ca n be eaten or whatever but all in all isnt toxic and dont effect us the same as pills,

amazng read dude woudl love to talk to ya more about it

 

[Limonene420]

Great, glad I can help, I have subscribed to the thread, unfortunately I do not have a 50 post count yet, so I dont have access to PM as of yet, but you can post here until then.


I can relate very much so to you post, it can be very trying for loved ones as it takes time and patience to learn to read the emotions of someone who is bipolar, and longer to learn what to do. For as much as it is a trial and error process for us, it is the same for those around us.

I can sure say that I wish I had someone to walk me through it, my family turned to alcohol and made things worse, which left me at the mercy of the doctors who felt many different medications would make things better.

Thats good that you see that in him early, I am not sure the age of your son but I would say the greatest benefit to him will be information from someone who has been through it. It can be a crazy emotional roller coaster, to the unknowing.

I found out I was Bipolar II when a doctor talked me into taking an antidepressant and I completely flipped out, definetely the worst year of my life. if bipolar I believe you need a mood stabilizer before you can take medications like celexa or lexapro. (ssri)

Bipolar type II is often misdiagnosed as severe depression due to a different range in emotions.

Good luck and keep us updated on strains you find to work for you as well

 

[Bio boy]

dude ge ya post count up lol, glad to find somone similar,
yeah i was 'depressed'' for years, then i found it out by finding my dad and seeing that all the males on my side have it, my cousin drove a car at 90 into a wall for no reason,
so i went cpns and psytric the lot and told i might be depressed and suffering anxiety,
i looked up everything to do with bipolar, and i mesnioned it to a private doc who said what i am experiencing was manics and there it started, crap serive for bipolar in uk, dont know where you are but here they just think its not that bad
im on 40mg flux(prozac) and 75-100 amatriptaline, keep having to have ecg's incase of heart block etc, ive almost put myself into a coma twice taking wrong painkillers with my meds, and the side effects are longer than this sites index

 

[Limonene420]

Yeah I've been working on that post count...
I think I am up to 0.19 posts per day


never really got back into posting on the forums regularly after OverGrow. I was disenchanting, after having all that info wiped out so quickly, tried a couple of places after that and some of them shut down, others weren't for me. I like IC but after so much time I dont always feel like I have something new to contribute to the conversation, so I mostly just lurk and check out some of the new techniques others come up with here and there.

Sorry to hear the Bipolar treatments aren't so great in the UK, I am here in the USA and my current doctor is great, unfortunetly my health care is less than adequate so it takes a long time to get to see my doctor, usually 3-4 months. My previous doctor was the pitts. She believed everything could be solved with another pill, even the side-effects I would get from some of the pills. Sad to say but I feel like my quality of life improved when she retired, just goes to show what a difference a good doctor can make.



thanks for sharing as well, I don't usually have others to discuss bipolar disorder with myself, so it is therapeutic for me too.

 

[Bio boy]

ive not run off ive been sick lol will be back soon

 

[Limonene420]

Hey BB sorry to hear your sick, I've been a bit busy this last week, but yeah take it easy, and get better.

 

[devilgoob]

lol at the bipolar.

They should screen people for that.

I got really mad and they told me I was having delusions, then I hit a door and broke my 4 and 5 metacarpals (boxers fracture)

Basically, I was in a facility and they let a suicidal girl with MPD out. This was right after I glorified death as being a function of time and we're just as beautiful in the grave......THE GIRL TOOK MY ADVICE OBVIOUSLY. She left group to sign herself out of the facility. I think she will be ok, as when you looked at her, you could see her paying attention to the internal voice telling her bad things as she masochistically took it and laughed because she was deserving most obviously because it's her own brain telling her.

 

[Weird]

diagnosed pre teen spent long periods of times hospitalized and was on every med under the sun

swapped it all for pot and I have what most people in live want

family car place to live hobby occupation

not that the weed mitigates other mechanism that make for a healthy balance, for those of us who are truly challenged by our own bio chemistry it makes all the difference in the world

lol devil goob, my right hand is about an inch and a half wider than my left

ill tell a quick story

was seeing a shrink (woman) for some time, she reminded me of an angelic elf from lord of the rings

so after a couple years, a plethora of meds and all these heart to heart talks I was user she really got me, that she understood me, I was quickly falling in love.

then she shared her diagnosis

she wore the kindest kid gloves when she told me

Weird, (and she made those mannerisms like this was a real fucking understatement), your a bit, how do you say it, grandiose)

WAH WAH WAH


yeah sometimes that's how it goes

 

[grandmaster B]

ive not run off ive been sick lol will be back soon

hope to here from you soon bio boy get well. Good info limonene420
At the club that I am a member of "DJ Short" stops by every so often, and has many strains for transfer that are BB crosses, and could be helpful with this disorder as well. I will talk with him to see what he knows. i will subscribe and keep in touch good luck

 

[Smoke_A_Lot]

I've been suffering with bipolar for 3 years (more like my whole life) but i got a solid reason for what the hell was wrong with me 3 years ago. I've been on every medication under the sun to try to treat me, nothing really worked with out a hitch. I'd say my best combination was paxil, seroquel, and klonopin. Paxil made me feel too good in the words of my doctor so he took me off it. Klonopin was good but i have to admit i abused it and i'd eat them like skittles in order to self medicate. Seroquel is a wonder drug in calming me down and helping me sleep at night. I'm no longer on any medication or see any shrinks. I don't like how these doctors are so free with their prescription pads, instead of trying to talk to you about your problems they'd rather drug you up. I honestly think the whole system is pretty screwy, because i worked for it. I was a security officer at a mental health facility, and i provided suicide watch of patients before they were admitted. I also had to restrain violent patients, which could of been avoided if the docs tried to talk and calm them down. Instead we had to go "hands on" and restrain them to a bed so they could get a needle (or a couple needles depending on the severity) on the butt cheek. The best advice i could give any one is try your best to live with it, it's a long hard road trust me i live with it every day. Try to do things you enjoy, and avoid stress as much as you possibly can.

 

[Smoke_A_Lot]

I'd also like to know some good strains to help me with my condition. Does any one know a good strain that helps with racing thoughts or obtrusive thoughts? Some thing that really takes you down a notch and is soothing/calming. I'd also like to know a good strain that helps out with depression and low energy, something that will give you a good boost but not spacey. I'd really appreciate some answers and i bet others here who suffer from BPD will too.

 

[softyellowlight]

DJ Short's Vanilluna is fantastic for a lot of those symptoms. I identify with most of what you speak of having a problem with, Smoke_A_Lot, although all I ever got officially diagnosed with many years ago was depression combined with ADHD. Now I feel like that's oversimplifying things; medicating with weed and some sort of meditation seems to be what works the best for me, although I haven't really tried a ton of different varieties since I've started growing.

 

[Smoke_A_Lot]

DJ Short's Vanilluna is fantastic for a lot of those symptoms. I identify with most of what you speak of having a problem with, Smoke_A_Lot, although all I ever got officially diagnosed with many years ago was depression combined with ADHD. Now I feel like that's oversimplifying things; medicating with weed and some sort of meditation seems to be what works the best for me, although I haven't really tried a ton of different varieties since I've started growing.

Thanks for the suggestion, i'm in the process of building another grow cab for my medical needs. I took a long break from growing and smoking. Where i'm from good weed is really hard to come by, either it's compressed brick or some unknown dank which goes for $15-$20 for a .8 bag which is ridiculous. So i'm really looking for some nice strains tailored to my needs.