Endocannabinoid System and PTSD
Hi everyone, as an individual living with CPTSD as well as a medicinal dispensary worker who has done extensive research in this area, I would urge anyone looking for HELP to look into cannabis as a method of treatment. The endocannabinoid system is a series of receptors throughout our body that plays significant roles in symptom management and maintains homeostasis throughout. Those with PTSD have a deficiency of anandamide, a "happy hormone" that's molecular shape is mimicked by THC as well as other cannabinoids within the plant. This can help significantly to stop flashbacks, symptoms (seriously, from nausea to sleep to appetite to pain) and overtime the body adapts and begins to produce "anti-depressant-like molecules". All this research can super quickly be found online. especially through leafly. You don't have to smoke it, but I do urge people suffering severely from symptoms or from the disorder itself to find comfort in cannabis as it doesn't come with the side effects of all these other pills they try to shove at us
Posted May 29, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC