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Originally Posted by Stuartstucliff
The phanastasio, does weed make it more likely to get a bipolar episode? People have told me not to do it bc of a bipolar family history
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I don't think it does actually, no. I don't know that I'd recommend harder psychedelics or dissociatives if you have any psychotic episodes with Bipolar, or any other psychosis, because those really can exacerbate the symptoms. One of the issues with a lot of psychiatric disorders which involve psychosis is that disassociation is one of the underlying issues of the disorder itself. Adding onto that isn't really a good thing.
With weed, on rare occasions, I'd have stronger reactions to it, especially if it was top notch stuff, but schwag just gave me a nice relaxed feeling and didn't really do much to affect my mind.
I do need to get my own diagnosis reevaluated for certain, now that I'm at the age where it should be apparent what's actually going on, but I do have several close friends who are Bipolar and smoke pot on the regular. It doesn't trigger any manic or depressive states, they cycle as they normally would, and it actually seems to relax them. I'm not a doctor, but that's just my experience.