The Effect of Cannabis/Marijuana on Mental Health and is it Addictive?
The Effect of Cannabis/Marijuana on Mental Health and is it Addictive?
In this clip of the UCLA BrainSPORT Podcast Cannabis episode, Adel and Maddie Katz Professor and Vice-Chair of Clinical Affairs in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Thomas Strouse, discuss the effects of Cannabis on mental health and whether Cannabis is an addictive substance.
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"Reality is for people that can’t face drugs"……TOM WAITS
Opioid withdrawal sucks. I took pain medication for months leading up to my back surgery. I had to because the pain was so bad that a times, I couldn’t even stand for a couple for too long without pain. After the surgery, I was on pain meds for about another 6 weeks, until the doctor pretty much stopped prescribing it. He didn’t even taper it down for me. Basically when I requested a refill, I was told it was my last refill and then that was it. So I had to do it myself and taper down the last bottle. At the end I was only taking 2 pain pills a day so I didn’t think I would suffer withdrawal when I was out of meds. I was wrong. The pain and cravings were just brutal. I might try edibles to see if it will ease my withdrawal, but I don’t know what to expect.
Doktors allways lies about cannabis..š¤¬š¤®š
I am 100 percent jealous of all these people that find THC REDUCES their anxiety. THC for me is like gasoline and fire to someone that barely even feels anxiety throughout his day to day life. Obviously if something really really sad happens in my life i am capable of feeling anxiety but that is normal. What Iām saying is that i do not feel anxiety or any kind of negative emotion until THC enters my body. I even tried a vape pen last night and one hit was all i needed to lead me into a very strong anxiety attack and even panic. Itās annoying that i feel its mainly down to the fact that in the UK where i live itās illegal which makes it near on impossible to get a strain of weed that is like basically 80 percent Cbd with a tiny bit of THC put in for good measure. The strains these days are packing as much THC into their product as possible.
Let me help. TLDR, don’t abuse it…and it can help. Pretty much like anything in life, don’t abuse it.
Sober October is almost here.
Weed made my anxiety worse! And I felt sluggish and my self esteem was low. I quit weed and porn and Iām already seeing the benefits!
There is no benefit ..stop fooling people
The problem is you eventually ending up needing to smoke more. You get worse anxiety and panic attacks cause you smoke more. I have bipolar . I feel like it’s helped a lot but it’s caused severe attacks but I would rather smoke out then quit cause I feel it helps more than it induces anxiety . It really helps me with stress.
smoked kinda heavy since last may, can say i have never had a bad experience, no anxiety, paranoia, which is the reason i think of it so highly (no pun intended)
is that normal? Planning on trying microdose shroom gummies
Itās shit man especially when the only reason your smoking is to drown away sorrows but same time I love it lol itās a ba***rd of an addiction
It may help anxiety/depression, but why not get to the root of the problem, than masking it with a drug. When you do quit, like stopping alcohol, your brain says, "It’s showtime!" I think weed is for weak people. Just like alcohol.
I think any drug is about two things.
:How much of it you do/have done
: the relationship you conjure with the drug though environmental influences and genetic dispositions
I was smoking weed in the bush very young not going to school. Thinking it gave me all the power in the world. Of course I was going to have issues with this drug later in life.
Now, if I was in the bush not going to school drinking liquor. That may very well have been the drug of concern.
If youāre going to do any drug. Pick one you least enjoy. One that you started later on life and have less āneural pathwaysā connected to it
It never helps.
Everything must be done in moderation, especially with cannabis. It can help you in many ways, but be sure to be responsible for your actions.
Could we look into what is causing the mood disorders?
Lol, this host is obviously a user… so defensive!
Thanks for sharing
Mental, mental, mental, condition. That’s stuff is no good.
Man buns are worse for your brain than weed!
I’ve never smoked before and I tried a delta 9 gummy the other night to see if it would help my anxiety. it made it worse. I had one of the worst panic attacks of my life. heavy chest,, racing heart, hyperventilating, my whole body started to buzz and my ears were ringing. then I went into a grande Mal seizure. I’m not epileptic, but I’ve been having seizures since 2016. I was going in and out of consciousness and I was hallucinating. I live alone and in a very brief moment of clarity I called 911. I was rushed to the ER and they started an IV and fluids. they told me that thc can make your anxiety worse, not better. after 4 hours they discharged me and I had to call my neighbor to bring me home. I’m never touching that stuff again. I thought I was having a heart attack or a stroke. it was awful.
āthe problem with weed is that it makes you fine with being bored.ā – Randy Marsh
If anyone can give me their opinion i’d like to hear it. I have bad adhd, ptsd, and major severe depression (or whatever they call it). I stayed away from cigarettes as a main vice because my grandma died to lung cancer, and even in stage 4 she wouldn’t stop smoking and I saw how it wrecked her, how helpless she was to cease the addiction. I ended up falling for the vape campaign towards my senior year because of the stress and peer pressure. I have an addictive personality but here is where it gets tricky. I’m not physically addicted, I’ve went cold turkey multiple times for months without a problem. However, being disabled at 23 and in isolation since late 2018 (my mental health is a mess I know) becoming disabled at 19, and having nothing to do wrecked my adhd, so I use nicotine vapes as something that is there that I can use. I stared smoking weed off and on junior year of high school, and went heavy with weed when I was 19. I didn’t smoke weed again until I was 21. Now i’ve been using weed every month or every other month (i go through 5 grams of delta 8 thc disposables in 3-4 days). Where my addictive personality comes in, is like with everything I take it too far. If I have food I over eat, if i’m at a party i get a little too goofy, if i have weed or nicotine im chain smoking until it’s gone. So my question is, what do you think? I feel like i’m not additicted in the traditional sense, but i’d be naive to say there isn’t a problem.
I get really depressed and agitated when I run out of weed and I feel like this for days. I like weed because it helps me sleep better. Without it I have severe insomnia. i do believe it is highly addictive for certain people, all in your mind, yes. Hard to fight these thoughts though. It’s a lose / lose situation for me as I don’t have enough money to support my habit.
Its a hate crime to a child health woild you like to be tested like a 10 year old child mind and breathing ?
Weed is just a plant natural enjoy it don’t abuse it ,moderation is key
This is why delta 8 is better it gets you high enough to function normally without the side effects . Get it from a trust source and you should be fine . D9 has always made me feel on edge but content itās honestly a huge mixed bag but the worse thing about d9 is the anxiety itās much worse here then in d8 by a long shot ā¦
I have had depression since I was 9 when I abruptly moved countries and I never really had a ānormal lifeā and when I was 13 I started cutting myself.. I wouldnāt cut myself to die but I wanted to ease the pain for sure but my parents wouldnāt even know cuz I would hide it in my thighs .. when I turned 16 I started going to therapy (my mom never believe medicine would be a good thing so I wouldnāt go to a psychiatrist until I was 18) I then went through a myriad of drugs like lexapro, wellbutrain and zoloft.. nothing seemed to work really well and then at the age 19 I started using weed almost daily at first and now more spaced out (Iām 23 now) and I can tell you I havenāt been this happy since I was 9 I read all the researches and everything and Iām well aware my brain is not fully developed but what weed essentially does for me is I get to suppress the depressive part of my thoughts and work on what I need to focus on (I have also been diagnosed with ADHD, and yes I did take concerta and straterra and concerts made me freak out and streterra wouldnāt do much) so to me essentially as I see it is Iām changing from using a more chemical drug like an antidepressant to a more natural drug like weed
That doctor is full of shit its the chronic use that is the issue not inrequently
It’s kinda a shame everyone smokes in my highschool it’s in Europe but it’s like the last year so basically seniors are just drinking and smoking and I’m the only one who smokes and they are like ok wit it they just don’t want to smell the smoke but for me it’s really weird over the summer break I forgot that people actually don’t smoke weed and sit in they’re room all day haha šš
I feel I am at ease and more focussed when I have 4-5 drags of it. Withdrawal is bad and I have also realised that I am more paranoid when I am not on weed. Itās weird. It kinda helps me but then I donāt want to dependent on it.
Thank you for telling the truth.
It may help mental health but it made my husband very lazy and increased his procrastinating.
i strictly use marijuana to help me sleep and i wound up stopping about a week ago because I just started to feel so shitty all the time and when I would get high I would have really negative thoughts… and surprisingly I actually generally started to feel a lot better. i never needed it to function but it still amazes me how much of an impact it had on me outside of it, like discussed in the video. maybe just once or MAYBE twice a week now, haha
Ive been smoking every day for at least a year and a half, and a lot of these comments having been doing the same even longer. But they described a lot how i feel, especially when sober and iāve never thought about it like that. Ive taken small t breaks in the past but i think its time to just stop smoking. There has been positive effects for me because its made me think about life a lot differently. For me it makes things like coding and playing guitar a lot more easy and enjoyable. But at this point, i guess i just used it because theres nothing better to do idk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKN1Q5SjbeI
It’s probably because they’re addicted and a "hit" satisfies the craving. I became addicted in my early 20s and had a marijuana induced psychosis at 25. Believe me, it’s something you don’t want to ever experience.
The biggest debate….rolls ON!
Burn, it with a Chimney to put an Biohazard (BIOODVERTICO) labl on it for sales.
I have no choice, been on drugs for 15 years. Ssri you name it. Smoke a bit of weed and im thinking clearer and head slows down hugely.
Plz do your own research š
Been smoking weed since my 15th birthday (26 now) and going on day 4 without weed. Waking up with chills, and random urges have been the worst of it for me thus far. Hoping itās only up from here.
yāall be scaring us with your weird ass theories but I guess thatās what research is
I used to drink whisky daily and saw the damage it was doing to me. I decided to switch to thc delta 9 gummies . I take a small one everynight and mellow out nicely with no hangover. I feel much better on thc . I am 42 and had never tried thc before.m until this past week. Its great . I have anxiety issues and take buspar , celexa and atenenol . I am lowering my dosage weekly until i am no longer on prescription drugs . I took those three for 15 years and they make me feel sick quite often and dont help with my anxiety. Pills seem toxic .
For the first time in my life I feel nice and mellow all day . Cannibis gummies work for me. Everyone is different . My state just made it legal. I look forward to explore more thc options
Kept me off heroin 20 years. Treats my PTSD, so I can sleep. Each person is different. I use light doses, with correct strains. But, I farmed, with multiple strains available. I worked hard, and learned from my teachers. This is when it wasn’t legal. Seeing the kids with cancer put on weight. Made the 40 days in county worth it.
I have been smoking 10-15grams of weed every week for 6years non-stop.
I am now struggling with alot of mental disorders that ive never had in my life. For those who are going down the same route becareful because one day it will really mess u up mentally 100%
I have anxiety and ADHD, and cannabis got me severe panic attacks. To a point I stopped smoking for some months and now that Iām smoking saliva which doesnāt give me panic attacks, but I got addicted really badly. I start smoking after the gym 2pm and very often I go out to smoke again. At least 5x a day. Not a whole cigarette but 5 strong puffs of it. I donāt know what to do to stop pot for now.
āCannabis withdrawal has only been shown to lead to anxiety and depressionā. He says that as if just shrugging it off. Iām not anti weed, I donāt like it personally, but I think appropriate use in moderation from time to time is the same (if not better) as having a drink from time to time. But you cannot overlook the mental health affects it can have from chronic use. If you suggested that drinking and getting drunk daily was healthy because it mellows you out, youād appear insane, but I know people convinced that getting high daily is good for them.
The prolonged use of cannabis leads to impairments of the nerves and of the consciousness, to indifference, listlessness, irresponsibility, psychological disorders, behavioral disorders, personality change, intellectual and emotional confusion, as well as to anxiety, depression, and the inability to live. Of course, all these forms of appearance are vehemently contended by those who are psychically dependent on it. Cannabis is not as harmless in its effect as its advocates suppose and maintain, for it is a narcotic that gradually causes permanent damages to the psyche and consciousness and also causes permanent impairments to the nerves. Now that cross breeding and the resulting high THC count is super strong people will eventually experience extreme paranoia, and terrible anxiety soon or later. Unfortunately, many people are ignorant in reference to this fact. On the long road to old age people will wish they had never starting using in the first place but that’s how we learn from trial and error. If anything it should be studied for it’s medical purpose only. There is much more to the plant than THC. Cannabinoids, CBD, and essential oils can be isolated and used for a variety of aliments.
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I smoked for the last 3 months like every single day and I noticed that I developed anxiety, which I feel like I never had to deal with before. Also, I could never watch a movie anymore being able to really concentrate to it, I also god hard ‘adhd’ symptoms, which I believe are only there because of the weed. This is my 4th day without weed and I already feel much better (I smoke weed since I’m 15 but since I met my bf I did it every day with him)