I dont do illegal drugs, it was just something i was thinking of doing at the spur of the moment. I thought it might be fun.
Id imagine the patients you speak do it to feel better to mitigate the horrible side effects of the drugs they take. Antipsychotics can make a person apathetic, vegatative, and deadened.
Psychiatry is one of the worst fields of medicine compared to others. They are way behind the times and it doesnt surprise me people turn to other drugs to self medicate.
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Originally Posted by nottrustin
I have told my therapist that i wanted to go smoke a joint, for example, theres nothing there that would cause me distress, so hes not going make an issue about that.
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I will give an example but know I know this is probably not the case for you but an issue we deal with. We have patients who suffer from depression and psychosis. They will come into the hospital so sick because they have not been on their medication because it doesn't help them only marijuanna does. Mj makes psychosis worse. So they come into the hospital for a few days gets stabilized on their medications and do not use mj. They feel good. Then shortly after discharge they start smioking again and then stop their meds because they still feel good. So do in a short time they are back in the hospital and the cycle repeats itself over and over. Now some of our clinicians will just remind them how how song their meds is contributing to their issues. The clinician who velieves in saying it as it is will say if marijuanna works so wonderful for you why do you keep coming back for tratmebt?[/QUOTE]