New Medicine For Ptsd Coming Soon

[reddevil1111]

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/...rst-ever-medication-for-ptsd/?test=latestnews

 

[marc and honey]

Yea that's great. it lost me when they said pot has shown to help. So they are going to do more research to make something similar? It sounds a lot like the pen that can write in outer space. Don't spend millions of dollars reinventing the pencil

 

[reddevil1111]

The point is the benefits of the use of pot without the nasty side effects or long term damage of using the stuff. Its the wheel but one that wont go flat.

 

[Jimmy1]

As a former addict, if I were to read that back in the day, it would just cement the idea that pot was good for me, despite all the carcinogenic stuff you get when you smoke it.

 

[steviebeegee]

MDMA Ecstasy for treatment you would end hugging your therapist!!!!!

 

[JarHed]

I'd wait till all the data is quantified. It's still more of an idea than a treatment. It's barely different than just self medicating by smoking pot.

I smoked a lot of pot. It makes you feel good. That's fine for what it is, just like a drink makes you feel good. That doesn't make it medicine. I quit smoking pot because it has way too many side effects and the smoking part.

No one will convince me to the contrary that it will be anything more that what it would be, a bandaid on the problem. I disagree with their statement that people can't get therapy for PTSD. If you can't you're not trying hard enough to get it. Sorry, it just ain't that easy. Get therapy, work at getting better, take meds if you need to, do the work and stay the course and guess what you'll get better. I hate when someone that has a grant from university to pursue an idea like this comes up with these statements.

 

[steviebeegee]

why do the treat holocust survivers with LSD
ive tried most recreational drugs going to raves which was forbidden in the army at the time
we used to go out to night clubs usually half dozen of us squaddies and wake in the morning with sore ribs from laughing but once to ptsd set in had to knock it on the head, just stuck to pot and alcohol didnt really care what it was doing to my body as already felt dead inside and no self presservation. sometimes i wished i never woke up then i would beleive i hadnt done the selfish thing. yeah we all have our good time and loads of bad times.

 

[Jimmy1]

Stevie, I am hearing you on that one. The beast dug it's claws in they reckon during my last weeks of deployment, probably one body too many, one ied too many, or even the mortar or rockets, who knows.
The only way I managed to sleep was to find the black gate and go buy some illegal Jack Daniels, f*cking wrong I know, but when you are not in the bad lands, you have to be able to get some shut eye.
When I got home it did not take long to develop full blown PTSD and a full blown alcohol and pot addiction. Your right, you feel dead inside and sometimes I still do today.

It gets better mate and you are better off without the self medication. It will kill you.