Probably need to repeat this study with 72 additional individuals treated with a placebo to compare against the cannabidiol group. My guess is that just thinking that you are doing something about your anxiety and sleep issues will result in decreased anxiety.
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#62I have some current experience with my adult daughter suffering with severe anxiety. I started looking for over the counter treatments and found studies that used magnesium glycinate successfully as a treatment and it has worked wonders for her.
She takes a 300 mg tab and in 20 minutes she's completely calmed down. It only lasts for about four hours but the effect is amazing.
The downside is it can cause diarrhea when taken every four hours but if she eats a couple bananas a day (for the fiber) that's not an issue.
She's also been experiencing auditory hallucinations (hearing voices) and I found a study that showed CBD helping with that, so I got her to start taking that too, and it's worked amazingly well for her to deal with that. If it also helps with anxiety that's all the better for her.
Her birth mother was diagnosed as schizophrenic about a year after my daughter was born so my daughter is probably dealing with that too, but the drug the doctors gave her mother 35 years ago (haloperidol) didn't work near as well as the magnesium/CBD my daughter is taking and the side effects were vicious. That shit turned her mother into a slobbering zombie.
I took my daughter to a mental health facility yesterday to get evaluated and we told them she was taking the magnesium glycinate for anxiety and CBD for "the voices" and they didn't tell her to stop or prescribe any pharmaceutical drugs for her. They just told her to start "Mindful therapy" sessions with a doctor there.
I've been smoking herb for about 46 years pretty much daily and have never felt anxious, but I've known a few people who have. I've attributed that to all the reefer madness that's been shoved at us for so long, but it could be it affects some people differently than I and all my herb smoking friends.
I don't feel any effects at all from taking CBD, but I don't have any of the symptoms it's used to treat effectively and it could be I have plenty enough in my system from the weed I smoke anyway.
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#63Probably need to repeat this study with 72 additional individuals treated with a placebo to compare against the cannabidiol group. My guess is that just thinking that you are doing something about your anxiety and sleep issues will result in decreased anxiety.
Anecdotally this study confirms what I already found out on my own, CBD capsules helps my body relax with none of the anxiety that THC can trigger.
No doubt other people are having the same realizations, CBD capsule prices have gone through the roof.
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#64Stupid question but I’ve always wondered this - I hear Cannabis is used for anxiety relief but doesn’t smoking marijuana induce anxiety? Everyone I know who has smoked weed agrees with my experience - they’ve encountered some level of anxiety and paranoia. So, how exactly does weed help in reducing anxiety? Edit: Follow up question -> Is weed used to treat anxiety during the high or when you are normal (and have gene…
In my experience, if I smoke a very small amount of weed (like literally one hit) it can relax me and make me less anxious. It slows things down, and can just generally numb some of my underlying anxieties. However, it doesn't take much for me to cross that threshold where it can make me extremely paranoid. Usually this is what I call the "will I be stuck this way forever" threshold, where I get stoned to the point w…
Interesting, I was wondering about the paranoia and anxiety comments. Outside of once sharing a blunt and once trying a vaporizer, 2-3 drags on a joint was the maximum of weed I ever took and I never experienced anxiety from it.
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#65Probably need to repeat this study with 72 additional individuals treated with a placebo to compare against the cannabidiol group. My guess is that just thinking that you are doing something about your anxiety and sleep issues will result in decreased anxiety.
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#66I haven't tried just CBD for sleep, but a few years back I couldn't fall asleep to save my life. A friend suggested smoking cannabis to help, and when I would I had the best sleep of my life.
You had the best sleep experience of your life. That doesn't translate to the healthiest sleep of your life. You were just very unconscious. THC is well documented for the unhealthy effects it has on your sleep cycles.
I'm sure it was healthier than the 2-3 hours of sleep I was running on before.
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#67Probably need to repeat this study with 72 additional individuals treated with a placebo to compare against the cannabidiol group. My guess is that just thinking that you are doing something about your anxiety and sleep issues will result in decreased anxiety.
Anecdotally this study confirms what I already found out on my own, CBD capsules helps my body relax with none of the anxiety that THC can trigger. No doubt other people are having the same realizations, CBD capsule prices have gone through the roof.
You can try the experiment on yourself. Find capsules of flax seed oil that look like capsules of CBD oil. Have someone place a one-to-three week supply of each in separate envelopes and take them twice daily. Score your anxiety level each morning until all the tabs are gone. Estimate your average anxiety level each week. Then ask the person to reveal the envelopes to you and see if you can find a measurable difference between the treatments.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve had chronic insomnia for over 3 years. The day I started CBD, was about 4 months ago. Right before that, my option was to try Ambien that I had to pry off from the doctors hands. I’ve not had the guts to try it after hearing it messes with your brain and causes you to have suicidal thoughts. So I tried CBD after a quick research. First night, I didn’t feel a difference. I did feel a bit sleepier but I thought th…
Where have you read that CBD increases the amount of deep sleep? I have looked into this quite extensively, and never found any information that suggested that.
Joe Rogan
https://youtu.be/Pjeb9kOSJ2M
I think it was this but it could’ve also been some online article.
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#69I have some current experience with my adult daughter suffering with severe anxiety. I started looking for over the counter treatments and found studies that used magnesium glycinate successfully as a treatment and it has worked wonders for her. She takes a 300 mg tab and in 20 minutes she's completely calmed down. It only lasts for about four hours but the effect is amazing. The downside is it can cause diarrhea whe…
Very interesting, I have noticed a major (albeit fun) experience of mania from CBD, followed by extreme rebound anxiety after cessation following a period of taking it for a while.
THC-heavy strains on the other hand, seem to have no bad effects.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anecdotally this study confirms what I already found out on my own, CBD capsules helps my body relax with none of the anxiety that THC can trigger. No doubt other people are having the same realizations, CBD capsule prices have gone through the roof.
You can try the experiment on yourself. Find capsules of flax seed oil that look like capsules of CBD oil. Have someone place a one-to-three week supply of each in separate envelopes and take them twice daily. Score your anxiety level each morning until all the tabs are gone. Estimate your average anxiety level each week. Then ask the person to reveal the envelopes to you and see if you can find a measurable differen…
To be really sure it would be a good idea to have one person enclose the tablets in the envelopes and a different person to administer them to you.
But I suspect that there might be other factors here that might influence your study design. Mostly because neurotransmitters are super complicated.