Some personal views about Bipolar+Cannabis

Hello fellows! Im new here, 24 years of age, from Sweden and have a bipolar disorder since 3 years back. Sorry about my english grammar but I hope you understand all of it.

Im now gonna tell you some personal views of Marjiuana and Bipolar disorder.

Maby some of you know that many many people have tried cannabis for there bipolar disease. Some do it illegal and some can do it the legal way.

However, I´ve read alot at internet that many bipolars that tried cannabis, eventually goes into a manic state. Some studies has showed this aswell.

I got curious about the drug and started to do personal tests.

For once, I noticed that when i was hypomanic, and when i smoked Marijuana it DIDNT help. BUT, when i smoked hasch I calmed down. Let me try explain:

Here in Sweden its hard to get good marjiuana like everyone wants. So often I buy hasch. For like 3 weeks ago there was some good marjiuana in the area. I bought quite alot and i smoked it for about a week (the same weed). I started to feel hypomanic. I got worried. Many thoughts in my head. You know how it works.

I started to smoke more and more to try calm down but it didnt help (like for many ppl). When I had smoke all of it, i wanted to buy more but my "Bush Doctor" just had some good hasch. 5 min after my hasch join i felt really calm. It was a HUGE different from the weed. It felt good in my body and i started to feel safe. Thoughts like "This is alright, i can fix this hypomanic episode, dont worry" started to raise. Other times when i get hypomanic i always get really negative thoughts, so this time was clearly different.

The thing is, when I smoked hasch i can alot easier change focus. I can watch a movie, go for a walk, focus in the now without all these negative and hasty thoughts. Sometimes when im high on hasch i can "fly away" with my thoughts (like i normaly do) but when I realise that, i can easy change focus and stop those thoughts. Without cannabis (hasch) I cant.

These topic was about my hypomanic state. When im sometimes depressed good marijuana works great tho.

And I dont take any pills. Just cannabis.

Any thoughts about all this?

Hope it was an interesting topic for some. I donno, still abit hypomanic atm but its under control. Now im gonna go out for my goodnight joint.

Take care! And sorry about my bad english.

Hi 88Chris

I read your post and in my experience with a lot of my friends who also have bipolar I have never heard of weed or hash calming their manic episodes.

About a week ago a buddy of mine was bragging how nice his crop has become, but after he had a few puffs of his joint he completely flipped out and nearly ripped his front door off when his key got stuck in the door. Being a much bigger guy than my friend I was able to help his girlfriend and little brother restrain him. According to his girlfriend it happens every time that he smokes weed.

So its possible that it has a different effect for every individual.

I have a family member who was just telling me this past week that she smokes marihuana for her bipolar. She always seems mellow. I personally have never done any recreational drugs and don't intend on trying any. But ...interesting info.

Hi

You are certainly not the only person with BP who smokes weed and also not the only one who appears to have a good reaction from it. However what I would say is that there is evidence of it precipitating and making worse mental issues and can cause psychosis in some ppl. If you continue to smoke it would be worth bearing that in mind and keeping a look out for worrying symptoms and signs

Cracked

I smoked alot of weed as a teenager and it always calmed me down . I stopped smoking for two years and only took meds. even my xanax doesnt calm me the way rhe weed does. I had an extremely bad mixed episode triggered my a miscarriage and I started smoking again alot of the time it helps especially at night I cant take sleeping pills cuz I still have to wake up in the middle of the night with my son . but ive noticed sometimes a type of weed sends my anxiety thru the roof and sendd me into a hypo mania and if im n a mixed state or hypomanic its not good when I dont have it. idk if its good or bad I heard both sides and if I could get meds to work better I wouldnt use it.

Where I live marijuana and hash are legal (-ish, but that's a longer post and off topic as well). However I did stop smoking already months before my diagnosis, because I noticed after I smoke I feel stupid the day after. Cognitive impairment alright. I felt like there was a fog in my brain, slowed down. Every time I smoked the same happened and I was so upset with it I just stopped.

88Chris, the problem with having illegal suppliers is that you don't know what you are buying and what they put in the stuff. Here I go to a shop and pick the sort of weed I want; I know whether it's indica or sativa and which strain it is. Back in my homeland what I was buying was just "weed". And from how I remember some of my highs, that weed had more, ahem, special ingredients to it.

It would make for an interesting study.
The biggest problem is with being illegal in many places, there's no regulation. You never know if there's something special in it and such. That also makes it hard to do a study finding how well it works on a general population or varying degrees of bipolar/other illnesses. Or what the common side effects are.

I can't really say yay! or nay. If it works, go for it? Always be careful.