does weed affect mental health

brownsuga21 · (#1 (**permalink**))

jst interested to find out all yo'lls views on weed, cannabis, bless-bless, mariguana woteva the high is still the same. being a student social worker i hear all sorts and believe very little of it but ties in nicely with dawn of the new mental health bill.

ADLayD · (#2 (**permalink**))

hey brownsuga

whats the new mental health bill???

i've read that bood can start you off with mental health, and its advised on askfrank not to take it if you have mental health problems running in the family.

personally i think it does affect your brain, i've been having it regularly for about 9 months now, and i've become really slow. that could be because i dont really use my brain no more, but i've not become mental!

facetygal · (#3 (**permalink**))

Yes it does affect mental health. It can make u paranoid, ur reactions and speech can become slow. It could make u violent, ur health may deteriorate as it can work as an appetite suppressant. The list is probably endless

Peacemaker · (#4 (**permalink**))

Yes it does. You haven't even begun to see the effects of that stuff. It causesPsychosis for starters in some people. In about 20 years or so, you'll probably find that alot people who have smoked alot of the stuff in lifehave Parkinson's disease as well. It's not verywise orhealthy taking anything that even slightly affects your neurotransmitters.

brownsuga21 · (#5 (**permalink**))

ADlady: see BLINK (black information link) website for in depth info v. interesting as it some believe its going to target us BME especially males as they are said to b @ the highest risk of havingmental health probs

brownsuga21 · (#6 (**permalink**))

so yur saying it can cause both mild and profound effects short and l/t?

but again doesnt that depend on you mental capacity 2 cope. facetygal

ADLayD · (#7 (**permalink**))

brown suga whats bme???

brownsuga21 · (#8 (**permalink**))

my bad, Black minority ethnic groups, social work jargon

ADLayD · (#9 (**permalink**))

brownsuga21 wrote:

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my bad, Black minority ethnic groups, social work jargon

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oh ok then

ADLayD · (#10 (**permalink**))

can you tell me what mental health problems is?

because my dad says he has mental health problems to show that he is unfit to work so he doesn't have to pay maintenence for me and my sisters. my mum says that he could just go to the doctors, say that he's depressed which is ment to be a mental health problem? is this true? i thought that they'd be chained to beds, or theycould be dangerous to themselves or others? whats the proper definition for depression? because if what my mum says is true, thenhalf the country has amentalhealth illness, which doesn't sound right to me!?

chicano cable hot wired news network · (#11 (**permalink**))

who cares ..... it good for me and i dont have to take that dumd medication

Peacemaker · (#12 (**permalink**))

brownsuga21 wrote:

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so yur saying it can cause both mild and profound effects short and l/t?

but again doesnt that depend on you mental capacity 2 cope. facetygal

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Nope. That's thereason peopleuse to justify their continuance of the drug. I.e it won't happen to me attitude. Same can be said for E's and speed.

facetygal · (#13 (**permalink**))

brownsuga21 wrote:

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so yur saying it can cause both mild and profound effects short and l/t?

but again doesnt that depend on you mental capacity 2 cope. facetygal

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Mental capacity to cope with what exactly? I know I can more or less cope with anything that life throws at me mentally, I can be pushed to a very high limit. But if I take that shit long enough the defenses that I have to deal with things mentally will start to weaken. Also a person could have underlying problems that they know nothing about. They start taking that shit the problems will surface to the forefront, ona mental and physical level.

facetygal · (#14 (**permalink**))

ADLayD wrote:

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can you tell me what mental health problems is?

because my dad says he has mental health problems to show that he is unfit to work so he doesn't have to pay maintenence for me and my sisters. my mum says that he could just go to the doctors, say that he's depressed which is ment to be a mental health problem? is this true? i thought that they'd be chained to beds, or theycould be dangerous to themselves or others? whats the proper definition for depression? because if what my mum says is true, thenhalf the country has amentalhealth illness, which doesn't sound right to me!?

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There are different levels of mental health which ranges from people walking around aimlessly talking to themself, or for the more extreme where they do need to be locked up for fear of hurting themself or the public. Yes it's true anyone can say they have mental health problems, but the way it will actually be confirmed is by a mental health social worker doing a full assessment on that person. If the social worker confirms u have a mental health problem u will then be branded for the rest of ur life, and it will go on all ur records. So if ur mum wants to prove ur dad is lieing she can sayshe wants him to have a full psychic evaluation. Normal doctors cannot diagnose a person with mental health, and out of sheer laziness will instantlysay the symptoms a person has iseither stressed related or depression, then sign a prescription for happy pills. Thats why a lot of mental health people go untreated because no one bothered tocheck them properly.