Cannabis Update for Patients with Schizophrenia
Cannabis Update for Patients with Schizophrenia
This presentation by A. Eden Evins, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine at Mass General was part of Schizophrenia Education Day 2018: Progress in Schizophrenia. The Department of Psychiatry provides free educational programs featuring Mass General clinicians for patients and families facing a variety of mental health challenges. Learn more about these programs: https://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/about/patient-education/?display=programs
I think I know the deal here. I have server bipolar 1 disorder. I use cannabis to treat my bipolar and I truely truely believe that it helps me, if IO do not sleep I will go manic, it is an inevitability. Cannabis gets me to sleep every single night without fail. I get full night’s rest, I dream vividly (most say they don’t dream) and I wake up feeling refreshed. I find cannabis also calms me in times of high stress and seems to elviate the severity of elivated or low temprements when they are present. I live a reasonably healthy life and do a lot of creative stuff and skating, I grew up in a tough household and I become bipolar at 15 before I even knew about cannabis and one of my manic delusions was "cannabis will save the world from ending" haha, it’s uncanny!
Problem I have is that healthcare proffesionals won’t listen to me, they keep at me about how it makes me worst and how I should smoke it less and even stop, when I have tried to stop my sleep gets sooooooooo bad, one I quit for ages and I could never get decent sleep I ended up staying away for 7 days. But if I use cannabis just as I take the rest of my medication, moderate, controls, steady amounts, not getting blaze out my skull all day, but just enough to feel it. I’m fine, I live my life normally and get on with my days. If I take it every now and then or stop or Take a load one day and then stop for a week and ect. then I it doesn’t work as well. Just like if you did that with the REST OF YOUR MEDS! SEE MY POINT! If you treat canabis as a medicine it acts as a medicine, if I just stop talking my meds, like these people in these studies probably did with weed, then they will get bad… BECAUSE YOU ARE TAKING AWAY THEIR MEDICATION!
I also must stress, cannabis must have THC, CBD and the one everyone tends to forget CBN as that the one that really helps with sleep. I hope one day I can chose the type of cannabis right for me in a control form off my doctor, so people don’t have to make me feel like a drug addict anymore. Legalise it… Across the whole planet. Please, keeping it illegal abusive.
Why isn’t this up
Broccoli sprout is the new study
I was a daily user but decided to quit. On day 5 of being sober I started having auditory hallucinations. I tried smoking again but it just made it worse. A year later I’m still hallucinating and I’ve been sober for 8 months. IDK wtf happend, maybe my brain tried compensating for being without weed and royally fk’d up.
I’ll vote against medical weed in my state just because people suck and are trying to leave out the skizofrenics from it.
At this time, the medical community is in a way still convinced that an apple does not have both an inside and an outside. Our reality, in case you did not notice, is always confined to the "Now" or the "Present", and this is the case even though we are constantly moving across a dimension known as the dimension of Time. The "Now", is the inside of reality. The remainder of dimension of time, is the outside of reality. Expand your mind with drugs such as cannabis, and you can unfortunately spill over into the outside. Those who already have spilled over, will do so even more if exposed to cannabis. But meanwhile, the medical community thinks nothing of the existence of an outside, and thus puts the blame entirely upon what exists on the inside only, and there is absolutely no way in the world that one can change that due to their ongoing OCCD (Obsessive Compulsive Certainty Disorder.) personalities.
hello everyone i’m Thomas by name i was having Schizophrenia for 3 years, i was hearing voices randomly, when cooking i can just shout out loud because i heard a voice , i was misbehaving, i was calling random people , i couldn’t read or write, i was useless for 3 years, my family tried all medical procedures and treatment to get me out of y disease by non worked, my wife heard about one herbalist called Dr Osusu, she said her co-worker told her about him and she gave him a shot and email him.. drosususolution@gmail.com, he replied and asked some few questions about me. he told my wife she was at the right place and that my case hasn’t gone too worst, and that i was lucky,my wife did as she was told , he waybill the herbal medicine through DHL to me, i started taking the medicine on Sunday eve, by Thursday 4 days after my should system changed like everything changed inside me it was like a dream, we went to the doctor and everyone was shocked how come.. how come that what they were asking …. please for those of you who has Schizophrenia email::drosususolution@gmail.com believe me you will testify to other just like me
This lady is a horrible public speaker
Weed is not good for schizophrenics period. Weed brought mental illness and delusions of paranoid.
Close minded conservative- she’s brainwashed. I bet when she goes home she lights the candles for the bath and the reiki music. Wake up people. 👎
Mental illness for what I experienced may not be purely a disease. It may be caused by evil spirits. For what u see in Chinese legends of God’s. There are a lot of ugly characters even infamous character like mad monk. But as far as I know mad monk is not the only one who is mad. Ugly God may harms human out of jealousy and hatred causing them mad. Lustful gods are common. Even the imfamous Jiang Tai Gong is suspected to be a very Lustful character who see sex valuable.
If it works for you it works for you, if it makes it worse it makes it worse, it is going to be different for everyone.
Everyone, pay attention to these studies. Also, remember sick people are often in hospital or disabled. That is, all of your friends who say smoking pot is fine…well, they are the ones who survived it.
Rehan Shah it has been 5 years since my last hospital visit. And all thanks to the CBD.
Knowledge is power wisdom is what
I cannot recommend THC for everyone people must understand how it effects them on an individual level. What is right for some may not be right for all. I can however state that CBD has been a huge life saver for me.
Hello Guys,
where you buy the cbd ? I’m from Germany and my dad got schitzophrenia. I must help him
I’ve been on CBD for about 2 months – I’ve had one day of bad experience. True, labels do not say much but cannabidol and the milligrams. But I buy from a knowledge and trusted seller near my work. All products I bought from there has calmed my schizophrenic symptoms, anxiety AND increased my sleep hours from 4 to 7-8 hours. When I am on my prescribed medication – I wake up with grogginess, but with CBD I wake up energized! Research is very limited. What I take has no THC.
2 main ingredients… she loses..
Thc can’t induce schizophrenia.
Weed is not good for schizophrenia in my opinion weed makes you hallucinate, this make worse if it works it will be works me in the first Time😎
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I am convinced that smoking pot brought on my schizophrenia. The paranoia was always there when I was high. I don’t know if the stress from the paranoia caused my illness but I am sure it made it worse. I have had 2 major breaks in my life. Both times I had a lot of outside stress but the first break, was shortly after I stopped my heavy use of the drug. I smoked about 1/4 to 1/2 ounce a week for about 4 years. I do not recommend smoking pot and dont feel its a good way to treat the illness of schizophrenia.
great share!
I once suffered from hallucinations. I admit partly it is my habit to delude. After injection and medicine treatment. I recovered. Recovery is partly individual commitment. Now I have one problem is I keep quarrelling with spirits. And I have the tendency to feel autistic like money thought, shame and mumbling. I keep talking to myself after I once tranced.
Schizophrenics should be given a choice between mandatory church attendance or life in mental asylums. The problem is demons in their minds. MAGA!
Which studies of CBD as an antipsychotic does she think were negative? And what was wrong with this early trial?
http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/30/marijuana-compound-treats-schizophrenia-with-few-side-effects-clinical-trial/
it helps , all strains are different
How much did the pharmaceutical companies pay you to do this lecture? I have decreased my antipsychotics by 50% because of cannabis and hopefully will be pharmaceutical free soon. It works better than the horrible medications I have to take from Big Pharma. Imagine how much money the pharmaceutical companies would loose if cannabis was legal to have and grow. Who is to profit off her speech?? It is from a hospital psychiatric unit. I know first hand from pharmaceutical sales agents that doctors get commission on writing scripts to these horrible drugs. It’s time the masses woke up to this bad business being done.
Wait this is on the rise. If its not a virus why is there so much more now.??? I dont consent !!!! Do you know that frequencies can cause this here let me tell you. This is owned by the USAF US 6470214 RF hearing effect for skull penertrating sound.
Us 3712292 inducing sleep
US 3884218 inducing and maintaining stages of sleep in a get this "human being",frequency following Response Microwave. Obummers brain intiative April 2 2013 to map brain ect… 100 million funded his initiative. Went to darpa and the cia’s Sciencetific intelligence Division. US patent 003951134. Satelliteterrorism3.blogspot.com
Try that and see if thats what your feeling
I take Cannabis Derived CBD daily as a person living with schizoeffective disorder. It not only takes away all social anxiety it takes away my depression and manic episodes. I have remained out of the hospital and had no delusions or psychotic Breaks. I should mention I also use high THC cannabis both smoked and ingested in oils in a 1:1 ratio. I declare bullshit on your presentation. You used Synthetic Marinol
in your trials a drug not tolerated well by many who it was administered in the aids epidemic where by whole plant cannabis was tolerated well. I do not see how you can say those who used hashish develop schizophrenia later in life then those who use skunk. Hash is concentrated is greater in strength. This is fear mongering
No increase in the onset of schizophrenia in the USA population throughout the last 30 years. I encourage everyone reading this to look up Dr Grinspoon he tells the truth. Cannabis is a life saver for myself and many others and CBD is the future of antipsychotics.
This woman is embarrassing. How the hell did she become a doctor?
This sounds like scare tactics of weed mania in the fifties brought on by religious fanaticism.
I like how all the negative comments are from people without schizophrenia, how about they try keeping their mouths shut for a change. Typical arrogant pothead losers…
Schizophrenics
I think they’re the most destructive element to society and the violence they impose on others demands that western governments must change the way in which they deal with them
Schizophrenia…. is there some medical test that can prove this disease?. No there isn’t, therefore there exists no disease called "schizophrenia". These labels are stigmatizing and being done for profit.
Cannabis started my schizophrenia.