{"componentChunkName":"component---common-build-question-tags-template-js","path":"/question-tag/depression/5","result":{"data":{"allQuestion":{"edges":[{"node":{"id":"Question_6893-markdown","title":"Would like to know the best type of weed for depression & anxiety. ","slug":"would-like-to-know-the-best-type-of-weed-for-depression-anxiety","content":"\n_____________________\nIn discussing mood disorders, I like to separate the discussion into two parts: symptom relief and alleviation of the possible underlying cannabinoid deficiency that may be contributing to your depression and anxiety. \n\nFor immediate symptom relief of depression, the sativa and sativa dominant strains such as Jack Herer, Blue Dream, Green Crack, and a host of others work. However, if you also have anxiety, Sativa's have been known to increase this felt sense. For anxiety, strains like Grand Daddy Purps, among others seem to work. You will have to find the strains that work for you and one may work better at one time and another may work better at another. The terpenes in cannabis also contribute to your sense of well being and I would investigate aromatheraphy as a less expensive and perhaps more effective way to get the terprenes into your system than smoking weed. \n\nTo alleviate the chronic condition of depression and anxiety, I would suggest taking a high CBD/low THC tincture to start 2-3x a day, but base your dosage on the recommendation of whatever brand of product you purchase. We have found that CBD patches and different ratio patches 18:1 or 4:1 patches work as well. These modes of administration allow for consistent bio availability and thus allow your body to work full time on helping you get better (Contrasted with smoking, which only gives your body 3-6 hours of bioavailability). We have seen a lifting of mood within a day or two, but sometimes longer.\n\nOn another note, moderate exercise, meditation, and watching what you eat (start taking an Omega 3 supplement and avoid processed foods) can also help with mood disorders.\n\ndneice","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_6874-markdown","title":"I have...anxiety induced OCD and depression and joint pain. What products are best? ","slug":"i-have-anxiety-induced-ocd-and-depression-and-joint-pain-what-products-are-best","content":"\n_____________________\nEveryone reacts to cannabis differently so you will have to find the exact CBD/THC ratio that works for you. Depending on your comfort level with cannabis, you could start on a 1:1 ratio tincture. Also, if you are going to smoke or vape, finding the right strain is important. I would recommend a tincture for daily use and then finding a strain(s) that work best for whatever acute symptoms you are experiencing.\n\ndneice","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_6839-markdown","title":"I don't feel anything","slug":"i-dont-feel-anything","content":"\"I recently started vaping Satvia to feel better during the day with my depression. However, when I take 2 hits from my vape, while making sure to take it into my lungs, I typically don't feel any different. Am I doing it wrong? I have only tried the Alchemy Awaken and Bloom Farms Satvia.\"\n_____________________\nVaporization can be a safe, discrete, effective method of utilizing cannabis. However it is not without its pitfalls. Devices for vaporization are of variable quality, as are the substances being vaporized. I would enlist the help of an experienced friend who should be able to tell if your inhalations are sufficient and large enough to have a medicinal effect. You may also want to try a whole plant sublingual tincture. No inhalation or devices are required. Try a few drops and wait about a half hour and apply more if needed.\n\nandrewvanmd","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_6763-markdown","title":"Can CBD be taken with Celexa?","slug":"can-cbd-be-taken-with-celexa","content":"\"A young autistic man with anxiety and depression who has had a tragedy in his life (death of his mother) is taking Celexa for depression. Wonder if adding CBD tincture would help; problem is all have some amount of THC and that seems contraindicated. \"\n_____________________\nNo it is not contraindicated. I would suggest a whole plant preparation of CBD rich cannabis (with a small amount of THC).\n\nandrewvanmd","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_6674-markdown","title":"what is the best edible for depression","slug":"what-is-the-best-edible-for-depression","content":"\"what is the best edible for depression\n\"\n_____________________\nI might suggest that you read this article that we just posted:\n\nhttps://www.hellomd.com/health-wellness/top-marijuana-strains-for-depression\n\nThe article talks about strains that are recommended for depression. You would ideally find a sativa, which is uplifting, but most manufacturers of edibles will not tell you what the strain is whether it is sativa or indica. \n\nEach person is variable in how they react. The best advice i can give is to go low and slow with any product you try. I personally love the Kiva Terra Bites woith espresso beans. I find them uplifting.\n\nThis represents my opinion only! I hope this helps!\n\npamelahadfield","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_6670-markdown","title":"family member suffering from schizophrenia since 19","slug":"family-member-suffering-from-schizophrenia-since-19","content":"\"1. My nephew has been battling schizophrenia since he was 19. He also has bipolar disorder. He's now 30 years old. He's been smoking marijuana since that time to cope with the symptoms. Unfortunately his lungs have become so inflamed, that he's developed a severe case of bronchitis and coughs constantly. Are there any alternative options to smoking, that would be easier on the lungs? Right now he says he cannot literally live without the marijuana, but unless he stops smoking it, he will lose his home this month.\n\n2. During these past 11 years, he's also grown more and more depressed and anxious. He's on many medications, including antipsychotics, and currently added antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds in the past 3-4 months. Can you recommend any types of cannabis that could alleviate the emotional suffering?\n\n3. He lives in Minnesota. If he were approved for medical marijuana through your consultation, would he have to travel to an approved MM state to purchase the marijuana recommended? If so, could he bring that purchase back to Minnesota? Then for each subsequent refill, would that require another trip back to the approved state?\n\n4. In addition to marijuana, would you recommend cognitive behavioral therapy? We're wondering if a mixed approached to care would help. \n\nThank you for your time and knowledge on this serious medical matter.\"","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_11536-markdown","title":"What strain do you recommend for depression that would be least likely to cause binge eating?","slug":"what-strain-do-you-recommend-for-depression-that-would-be-least-likely-to-cause-binge-eating","content":"\n_____________________\nI would recommend a sativa, Harlequin, which has a 50℅ THC and a 50℅ cbd. Which helps with depression and anxiety\n\njak2\n_____________________\nI would suggest that you try out a few different Sativa-leaning strains. Generally, I would look for strains that have a euphoric, energetic effect rather than a calming effect. On the binge eating side of things I would suggest that you ask for strains that have a higher THCV content. It's been said that THCV can help suppress your appetite. That being said, every strain effects everybody differently so I would recommend that you try a few!\n\nadams","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_11459-markdown","title":"As a Women with PTSD, yes please answer the previous question ","slug":"as-a-women-with-ptsd-yes-please-answer-the-previous-question","content":"\"As a Women with PTSD; I have been having an awful time. Started with a high CBD. Worked great , for only 3 weeks,  now I have severe depression. Tried a little up on the THC , nothing, tried tapering of my Meds... usual stuff for PTSD and depression..had such bad time, ended back on Meds . Because I am on SSI And State insurance, I am unable to find therapy to work on this horrific bought (symptom wise) , again with  PTSD and depression. If I was a Veteran, and don't get me wrong ! I soooo, very appreciate everything our Vets do and did for our safety,. But there is not a group or organization that will help. Women like need more help in different areas, and I thank you for your products.\nIn making this long story even longer- :) Have any suggestions , So novice on the whole concept. I like the CBD for getting out of my head. But need a pick me up .AM energy. Haven't been out to socialize in MONTH's. Something to  help keep the thoughts quite at night. \nThank you\nLooking forward to learning more about \" Siva \"\"\n_____________________\nI'm so sorry to hear about your experiences with PTSD - and of course the lack of appropriate resources to address it. As a fellow non-veteran woman with PTSD, I've also found I had easier access to pharmaceuticals than to therapy and I understand your frustrations. It's also difficult to find a medication only temporarily successful. While it's unclear to me what ratio of high CBD medication you tried first, and what the small increase of THC equated to in terms of ratio, I suggest trying something in the range of 4:1 - 1:1. Unless of course you have a very low tolerance to THC, in which case you might want to stick to 4:1 or above and stay at a low dose initially. We find that it's very worthwhile to try a couple different CBD rich medications with a bit of range on the ratios so that you can assess what may work best for you. This can be costly and it's worthwhile to take advantage of sampling events, sales, free gifts and donations where you can.\n\nYou bring up a very good point about how many patients have to troubleshoot before they find what ratio, dose, and delivery system works best for them. It's also important to consider that your dosing needs can potentially change over time as you develop a tolerance or as your body and wellness experiences change. I encourage patients not to give up and to work with advocacy organizations to request medications providers, dispensaries, and delivery services to offer more free samples so this process doesn't become financially taxing for those who are on a fixed income.\n\nWe also find a lot of benefit to taking notes of your experiences with various cannabis medications so that you can better suss out which options may be most effective for you in the long run. This \"note taking\" may also include your experiences with pharmaceutical medications as well as diet, exercise, and other natural medicine modalities - it's all about allowing you, and any caregivers or health practitioners you engage with, a full picture of your experience with wellness and health.\n\njessicapeters\n_____________________\nWe are sorry to hear of your challenges. We are very sensitive the struggles of PTSD as many of our customers come to us with concerns.\n\nAs @jessicaPeters has so eloquently laid out, patients often have to troubleshoot on their own and a journey of experimentation is ahead of them. Unfortunately, due to regulations, we can't recommend a serving size or a particular product, but what we CAN do is give you a few recommendations that our customers with PTSD have reported success with, along with the tip to check out the work of Dr. Phillip Blair, MD. Dr. Blair is a champion of CBD use for PTSD and has seen success with several of his patients. As an MD, he has much experience with serving sizes as well as potency both of which can affect your personal experience with CBD You can read more about Dr. Blair's work with PTSD and CBD here: https://elixinol.com/blog/cbd-oil-ptsd-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/\n\nMany of our customers like CBD Hemp Oil Capsules (newly on sale, found here: https://elixinol.com/product/cbd-capsules/ ) because it's so easy to control serving size as well as the CBD Hemp Oil Liposomes (https://elixinol.com/product/cbd-capsules/).  If you feel comfortable doing so, please don't hesitate to reach out to Dr. Blair through the Elixinol website for guidance on CBD. Good luck with your journey.\n\nelixinol","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_11360-markdown","title":"Is there a strain that helps with depression?  ","slug":"is-there-a-strain-that-helps-with-depression","content":"\"I had a traumatic brain injury 28 years ago and have struggled with depression since then.\"\n_____________________\nHi there, sorry you're struggling with depression....I know that is really tough.\r\n\r\nYou may want to explore high CBD tinctures as they can be used quite successfully to treat anxiety and depression as well  \r\n\r\nI really hope that this helps you find some needed relief.\r\nPeace ~\r\nDenise\n\ndeniseb\n_____________________\nfor my depression /anxiety, I want to take Cannabis capsules or drops and NOT smoke. Can you recommend options?\n\ncjs280457","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_11273-markdown","title":"How to relieve the symptoms of medication withdrawal? ","slug":"how-to-relieve-the-symptoms-of-medication-withdrawal","content":"\"In conjunction with starting the use of cannabis to help with PTSD. I started to taper off my medications for depression and anxiety. With my doctors approval. Now that I have completely stopped the medications both (Celera and Klonapan). I am having horrible withdrawal symptoms. I also stopped using the Estrogen patch that I feel I was on for just to long. I have upped my Vitamin D to the prescribed amount. I just tried a tincture that has a higher THC in the evening and it made me feel awful. I will try a lower dose tonight, I used the full dose my first time. I did not realize that I would be having this amount of withdrawal symptoms, my doctor said just to stop that I wouldn't have a problem. It has been about a week and still not doing well. I use a vape pen with high CBD one dose, twice a day. Any suggestions to help me out. I feel , all the general symptoms of medication withdrawal. I guess it just shows how long I have been on these medications and how I need to be patent and In the long run get my body regulated on healthier alternatives. Thank you \"\n_____________________\nWith all respect to Dr. Olson,  I've seen this following syndrome in my practice called Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome.  Here is a helpful article you can look at and also bring to your own MD.  The authors of this very well made article suggest against abrupt discontinuation of SSRI, SNRI's and other anti-depressants.  I want to stress that this has just been in my practice and Dr.Olson also probably has just as much if not more experience than I in this matter.  I offer this article humbly:\nhttp://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0801/p449.html\n\ndrpark\n_____________________\nYou might be having SSRI (Celexa) withdraw symptoms. I could happen if you were on a high dose or even a mild dose. If a mild dose you might want to try waiting it out a day or two more and see how you do. If you were on a higher does or can not tolerate the withdraw symptoms, you might want to restart your Celexa. Restart at half the dose you were on. After a few days, or when you feel better, you might want to try again to taper off the Celexa. this time try cutting back on the dose by 50% each week (4-6 days). If you continue to feel ok, keep cutting back on the dose until you are off. If the withdrawal symptoms develop again, go back up on the dose you were on that didn't give you withdrawal symptoms and try again this time tapering the dose ever 2 weeks. The same issue can happen with the Klonopin. If so, try the same slow taper as mentioned above.\n\ndrpinto\n_____________________\nI have successfully removed many patients from SSRIs but the benzodiazepines are a whole other story. I usually encourage patients to be on high-dose CBD (~28:1) twice a day (10-15 drops twice daily) for one month before you start to withdraw from your either medications. SSRIs you can typically abruptly discontinue but save all your leftover pills because in about 4 to 5 days your body will want more SSRI medication, so give it a pill, if you need another pill the next day you can do that also but then try to stay off the medication for approximately a week, your body will scream for more and that's when you give it one or two pills but you will notice this is a sub therapeutic dose so your body will be tapering off at this point and it typically only takes a few weeks for you to be off the SSRI completely.\nBenzodiazepines should never abruptly be discontinued because they cause horrendous side effects.\nBenzodiazepine should be reduced by one dose per month. Please don't try to discontinue the benzodiazepines any quicker than that or you could cause more depression. You will eventually be off the benzodiazepines. You must be very careful with your THC intake because if you go high on THC you will increase your anxiety. Until you are well stabilized off the benzodiazepines you must concentrate mostly on high CBD Cannabis to keep your body calm but you don't get the full effect of CBD cannabis for approximately 3 to 4 weeks. Since you are prone to anxiety and depression, You legally can carry a high CBD/ low THC spray with you but when you are driving you must carry it in the back of the car like an open container of alcohol. If you feel anxious, one spray of the high CBD cannabis (8:1 to 18:1) should have a nice calming effect.\nMost people are vitamin D deficient and many doctors only measure the inactive form, 25-OHD, but they should also measure the active form that is excreted from the kidneys, 1,25-dihydroxy Vitamin D, since the inactive form maybe low but the active form maybe high and you don't want to overstress your kidneys. \nVitamin D is necessary for the human body to function normally because in the human body it is a hormone not a vitamin and hormones are necessary to create new healthy cells.\nIf the vitamin D blood level is low in your body, it negatively affects many systems, such as your muscles and blood pressure. With low levels of Vitamin D you may experience thyroid disease, chronic pain with muscle & joint aching, kidney stones & even calcified heart valves, high blood pressure, depression, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, an increased risk of migraine headaches and even a significantly increased risk of breast cancer with a greater risk for metastatic disease and death. \nThe laboratory ‘normal’ for Vitamin D3 is 30-100 (30ng/mL is rickets level) but for optimum health the blood level must be 55-100. Do you want to be just ‘normal’ or would you like to go for optimum?\nThe kidney clearance function for Vitamin D must be monitored so the larger amounts of Vitamin D are not overwhelming the ability to clear any excess Vitamin D from the system and this is the level of the active form of Vitamin D. \nFor a healthy patient with normal kidney function and vitamin D deficiency, I recommend a large dose (called a bolus) of vitamin D3, approximately 40,000 international units to be given with food one time per week  plus 5000 International units of vitamin D3 per day, repeating the sequence for up to four weeks and then do a repeat blood level. For accuracy do not take your vitamin D right before the blood test and do not do the bolus the day before or the day of the blood test. You should notice a significant sense of well-being once your blood level of vitamin D3 is above 55 ng/mL but there is no benefit in going above 100 ng/mL.\nIn order to sleep as you're going off your other medications, please be aware that you may need to keep your CBD: THC ratio in a 2:1 balance in order to sleep without anxiety, so if you have had more THC in the evening you may need to take a higher dose of CBD to balance the ratio of CBD to THC.\nI know this all sounds technical and it sort of is but you can do this because I've had great success with other patients and if you still have questions you can always send your questions and we will give you an answer.\nIf you do have further questions, please don't send those questions as a response to this posting since the posting will only allow us to answer one time, then you must submit a new question.\nGood luck, this may go a little slow but it is well worth the journey to get you away from dangerous, addictive Western pharmaceutical drugs.\n\ndrolson","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_11232-markdown","title":"Depressed parakeet ","slug":"depressed-parakeet","content":"\"Sadly, one of my two parakeets recently passed away after being a loving companion for the last 6 years. My remaining parakeet seems depressed and is just not his usual outgoing self. Do you think Treatibles could help him get through this transition?\"\n_____________________\nI am so sorry to hear of your loss.  Losing a loving companion is tough on everyone.  \n\nAnxiety and depression often go hand in hand.  This study shows that CBD exhibits an anti-anxiety and antidepressant effect in animals:  \n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24923339\n\nThese studies show that CBD produces anti-depressant-like effects:\n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20002102\n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26711860\n\nlisag","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_11134-markdown","title":"I have been taking klonapan and Celexa in the evening to help relax I have PTSD and Depression ","slug":"i-have-been-taking-klonapan-and-celexa-in-the-evening-to-help-relax-i-have-ptsd-and-depression","content":"\"I want to now use this Anxiety Relief Tincture as a replacement. I just currently started using a vapor pen in the afternoon only. With a higher CBD and non Psychoactive. So far working well. only need one does and all is good. I want to get off all my synthetic meds. What is your opinion?\"\n_____________________\nI would recommend talking to your psychiatrist/doctor regarding tapering your medications as the cannabis begins to relieve your symptoms. It is unwise to stop medications abruptly, especially if you are on high doses for long periods of time as seizures or worsening symptoms can occur.\n\ndrb","image":null}}]}},"pageContext":{"limit":12,"skip":48,"numPages":7,"currentPage":5,"id":5187,"name":"Depression","slug":"depression","country":"US"}},"staticQueryHashes":["3949754563","4179947113","4202924991"]}