Whenever someone experiences a traumatic event, they get some sorts of feelings and bad memories. But what if the condition is so bad that you’re unable to actually recover, and you constantly get bad flashbacks due to how bad and shocking it was. While therapy and medications have come a long way in the world of healing, they’re not perfect. Some studies have discovered something else, medical cannabis, as a form of treatment that goes into PTSD symptoms, and the treatment of this.
What PTSD Is
PTSD is basically anxiety disorders that occur due to traumatic events. Accidents, abuse, fights, and the like all can lead to events and symptoms of PTSD. Someone could utilize PTSD as a response to stress for the events, and it may include substance abuse, anxiety, depression, dizziness, and other sleep disorders that can last for a long time with the symptoms sometimes lasting decades in most cases.
The biggest characteristics usually include reliving the event, getting the arousal, and then later the avoidance. Sometimes, they can happen due to dreams, flashbacks, and sometimes reminders of the event. This behavior can also cause anxiety, anger, fatigue, sabotaging, and also self-medication.
Some people can get help for this condition in the form of cognitive behavioral therapy, but it’s not always good for this. Some people may try to use other therapies too, and while it might be successful for the short-term, it may not help in the long term.
Medications and their problems
Some people have looked to use medications to help with this, but they’re not super effective for the condition, but the thing is, there is a risk of abuse, and addiction if you constantly use medications.
Because they’re not always effective, doctors along with researchers have started to look for means to treat PTSD in more healthy manners.
Marijuana and its Help
Marijuana has been the answer possibly to treating PTSD, especially in those who normally aren’t getting the responses they need from the other treatments that are there.
Since the receptors are within the brain and the body, the physical and the mental symptoms are able to be treated.
With more and more states legalizing marijuana, we’re seeing the full gamut of benefits of what this can do for certain conditions, and more and more studies are being conducted to look at this.
Some studies have found that PTSD may be treated with medical cannabis, and it might be available as early as possibly 2023, with it being sold directly into dispensaries, and the classification of marijuana being changed too.
This type of study that's been approved by the FDA is the first one that we’ve seen, as it allows for the researchers to offer veterans cannabis so that they can smoke it. At this point, most of the research has been strictly observational, and we’ll look at whether or not there are possible benefits that come from this.
Some studies, however, have found that the patients that did utilize cannabis had a lot less symptoms, and it also helped with raising the anandamide levels, which is the bliss molecule that’s responsible for helping with anxiety. It also can help to quell anxiety in this too.
Those with high levels of CBD also have been found to reduce the pain that happens due to arousal. THC also may create anxiety, but small amounts can help with anxiety relief.
Right now, we’re still studying about what the benefits of THC and CBD are on the PTSD someone has, but it’s showing promising results for many veterans too.
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