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Post-traumatic stress and cannabis
Post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD is a fear condition that is developed when a person has encountered a sudden stressful condition. PTSD hinders the fight-or-flight response of the human body that helps to decide immediate action after facing any stressful condition. Post-traumatic stress and cannabis
It is fairly normal to feel afraid after facing a traumatic situation; however, prolonged signs of fear and anxiety are diagnosed as PTSD later on. Patients diagnosed with PTSD display startled, stressed, or scared emotions even when there is no danger in the surroundings.
Signs and Symptoms
Speaking of signs and symptoms of PTSD, it is not necessary that all PTSD patients were initially exposed to a dangerous event. Experiences like the sudden death of a close relative, childbirth experience, war, and conflict may also trigger PTSD.
It is said that those who have problems like depression, anxiety, problematic childhood, toxic inmates are more susceptible to develop PTSD after a traumatic experience than others.
Common symptoms of PTSD
Mostly, PTSD symptoms occur within 3 months of the traumatic event. However, in some cases, the duration increases to 6 months or years. The recovery rate also varies from person to person.
The common symptoms of PTSD are:
The incident repeats itself through memories, flashbacks, nightmares, and hallucinations.
The sufferer goes into isolation and starts avoiding thoughts, situations, places that may remind them of the trauma.
The sufferer faces problems in showing affection and excessive emotions to others. The person may also experience physical symptoms like increased heart rate, an outburst of anger, muscle tension, and nausea.
The sufferer faces problems in showing affection and excessive emotions to others. The person may also experience physical symptoms like increased heart rate, an outburst of anger, muscle tension, and nausea.
Awareness about cannabinoids has led us to think if PTSD can be treated with Marijuana? Well, there are researchers that have looked at CBD as an anxiety and stress-reducing agent in traumatic situations. Although results are inconclusive to make a final statement, many PTSD patients continue to report its benefits.
The science behind the treatment is the reduced activity in the amygdala- a part of the brain that sends the fear signal. It is said that the use of medical marijuana/Cannabis may reduce the activity of these signals and hence gives a therapeutic effect to a stressful body.
A study also reflected that those with a low dose of THC in their body had less fear experience after witnessing a stressful situation than the ones who didn’t.
This brings the hopes up that further research may discover more treatments related to medical marijuana/Cannabis.
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