MDMA is just biker speed with a designer "hat" made from two oxygen atoms and a methylene group. It's soul poison which causes permanent brain damage. Stick to mushrooms which are non-toxic.
NO!!! I said for years how much weed helped me and I need it. Every hour I would have my back stinging just needing to hit something over and over. Years and years! I’m free from it! I don’t have anxiety when I don’t have weed because I don’t need it, never did. I have autism and adhd and it made me dissociate for so long I accomplished nothing. I need to get my life back! Stop watching stuff like this to convince you weed isn’t an addiction
Cannabis will eventually make u loose the plot and you will if u start using it become and addict. I can't even start to explain how detrimental it really is. I was a weed smoker all my life. And although it seemed to help, al9mg with Adhd symptoms the paranoia was insane. As well as delusions, it also made me procrastinate more. And become more isolated. So I'd say if u haven't tried it then don't star. I recommended healthy things like green tea, ginger tea, yoga, meditation and breathing. Taking cold showers along with keeping a schedule of when to do things. CBT is a lifesaver. Dont suppress your creativity, just be you. And if ppl can't take it then that's on them. You are fine the way you were born.
I am confused. Heard this podcast while doing boring work. Currently I am at minute 55 and its like the second or third time I hear like exactly the same discussion twice.
Like the moment she is saying that normal people are boring, he says that he finds them fascinating while she questions whether they really exist.
Would be great if anyone could clarify whether I am just dumb (hearing podcast twice in a row without regocenizing etc) or just confused because I didnt fuöly concentrate.
Been a stoner since 17, 5 years and a bit of overdoing the social drinking because i LOVE clubbing and bars but cant do it without it booze. Currently state mandated sober and honestly, the alcohol im fine without and always have been but god damned the weed is rough to go without
Do other medicines consider plant constituents when they isolate molecules to make medicines from other plants? Do other medicines vary in their formulation based on what plant constituents can and cannot be isolated and removed when medicines are made from other plants? How much new stuff are they learning about other plant originated medicines? I'm talking about the equivalent of cannabinoids and constituents in other plants that we derive most of our pharma medicines from.
I'm in the UK, despite the law, I can source what I need when I need with zero issues. Mushrooms grow quite literally in our back gardens here in Wales! I spent a year of one of my A levels studying, comparing and contrasting Buddhism and Utilitarianism, was very interesting and has formed a foundation of my world view.
Omega 3 fish oil tabs have the same effect as cannabis a natural high lifting serotonin nt addictive or illegal here in the Uk only chance i got with ADHD in this country.
Good terpenes to look for, to maybe help you with ADHD symptoms are Caryophyllene, limonene, and Linalool. Alpha-Pinene can also be nice. These terpenes help me keep my ADHD grumpy, lazy, bastard at bay for hours at a time. You could say that cannabis for me is like that therapeutic glass of wine at the end of the day. I'd rather dry vape a small amount of potent cannabis(20% THC and up), than take more methylphenidate before bed. If you are thinking about or are already trying to use cannabis, do yourself a favour, and research the terpenes that can be present in Cannabis. The THC gets you high, BUT, it is the terpenes that are present in the strain you are using that will dictate how it might affect your mood, and ADHD symptoms. Some terpenes can make you paranoid, some can make your ADHD symptoms worse! If where you are buying Cannabis does not post accurate terpene content….find a place that does! Having Cannabis legal, with established producers that are honest with their customers is really important to get the correct medication YOUR brain needs. After doing your research, I would suggest ordering small amounts with different terpenes, try them, and try and note how it makes you feel to know for sure.
Weed does not work for my autism at all. I get super anxiety and feel lost inside. The world becomes ten times scary for me. I have to literally hide myself from the world. I stay away. I'm trying to stay sober because I abuse alcohol.
cannabis is such a game changer, going from shitty fuckin anti depressants that fucked me for a couple years till i found out about medical cannabis it helped my sensory issues and clam my adhd
Dr Shields I have to say THANK YOU!! As a fellow Massachusetts resident dealing with the archaic laws and medical field can be exasperating. Been using cannabis for cptsd, pain, creative sparks, and I find it difficult to find doctors willing to put away the pain killers. lolol I'm wondering if you have any ties to changing the caveman style healthcare on the Cape? They don't even provide UFE but they'll be thrilled to do a hysterectomy. This Mashpee, Falmouth and Hyannis area is failing us all. Thank you for taking care and sharing this enlightening conversation with us 🎉💚 💛 🧡 🩷 It's not easy to have a bunch of energy with chronic pain
I use cannabis for seizures, ADHD/bipolar and arthritis pain. Daily. The pharmaceutical drugs for these things are brutal!!! So I function so much better on pot. Feel better too. I do include CBD gummies when I can afford to.
Cannabis has been extremely important with how I function in my day-to-day. I microdose daily, and my responses to sensory stimulus is decreased, interacting with people doesn't bother me as much, I'm more present and less in my head, and I'm not getting in my own way as much at work. The amount of work I'm able to do in an hour always surprises me when I'm on cannabis compared to when I'm not. My ADD and Asperger's symptoms are also decreased, which is a significant mental and emotional relief for me.
The best thing is the I take an 2.5mg to 5mg edible per dose; significantly less than any medication I have taken, which has gone up to 30mg to 40mg. One edible takes care of my ADD, anxiety, and depression symptoms in one low dose. After self-medicating, I don't want to go back to pharmaceuticals.
I'm AuDHD, have (c)PTSD, am plural (OSDD-1b), and I'm trans (queue the hate?).
I've used prescribed Lisdexamphetamine for 3y now. Accoding to my psychiatrist at a too low dose, since it improves my ADHD symptoms, but doesn't get rid of them. The reason is, atethis dose I can control my chaos, I can push it away (with some effort) to complete tasks, or embrace it for the creativity. At higher doses my creativity is a fraction of what it usually is, and at my normal dose I don't see a reduction.
I started prescribed cannabis a bit less than a year ago. It's been a game changer for my PTSD and sensory issues. I can actually go get my groceries, without using my NC headphones. It's still taxing, and I usually don't waste time, but 10min in my local supermarket, isn't something I dread and have to prepare for anymore.
Unfortunately, officially I should be vaping set amounts at set intervals, which doesn't work very well for me. On days I stay at home, with my girlfriend, and relax, I barely vape at all, and sometimes not at all for a day or two (which seems beneficial as well). But when I'm amongst ppl, especially NTs, or in difficult sensory environments, I vape more, to get the benefits. My doctors seem fine with the idea, especially with my relatively low dose, but I'd have to be careful with what I say to law enforcement, or I could lose my drivers license.
I always used to vape semi regularly, and had a personal rule, that I only made an exception on for when I was in crisis (because it helped with stabilizing again), of only vaping every other weekend, or less, since I noticed ADHD symptoms getting worse otherwise. With Lisdex that effect seems gone.
I've developed a good feeling for dosage, and while at first I was weighing how much I used every day, I now just go by feeling. The dose over the course of a month seems just about stable, sometimes it's a little more, sometimes less. On rare occations (new years) I even vape about 2-3× my regular dose to get a mild high.
Since I can legally drive, after using cannabis, I do. On my regular dose, while clearly feeling an alteration in how my brain works, I can drive well. I seem to drive better on at least a low dose than nothing at all, and on the higher end of my therapeutic dose the only thing I notice is that I tend to drive a little below the speed limit, instead of at the speed limit (or slightly above as is traditional here). Since I drive a lot, I've had a couple of situations where quick reactions were important, and I've not noticed any change there.
I also have an adrenal issue (3-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase is likely mutated) that causes my adrenal system to be wonky, and that I treat by substituting hydrocortisone, my mental state is more varied naturally than anything those two substances ever did. I had to learn to manually regulate salt levels, hydration and in some cases (not enough sleep (I have a sleep disorder)) blood sugar, to ensure I could drive home from work at the end of the day.
I used to do most of this since my childhood, but since understanding my adrenal system (did a deep dive on its endocrinology), I've been doing this more systematically for years now. The weird thing, with the experience I gained, I can, if I'm doing well otherwise, regulate my mental state so well, that I can drive and perform other high demand high reaction-time tasks (that are easier to evaluate on my own) all the way to 50-60h without sleep, if I have to. I will crash beyond that, but I get several hours of warning before that. I just need to always have access to plenty of water, salt (NaCl and a 1:1 NaCl / KCl mixture), coffeine and sugar.
One thing I noticed with my PTSD is that cannabis seems to dampen the hypervigilence. One of the huge problems with environments with multiple sesory stimuli was that not being able to immediately identify a stimulus made my brain classify it as a threat, especially around ppl. With cannabis I seem to have more time to figure out what a sound is, since the classification as threat is slower and more gradual, and so it's easier to focus on it before stress levels get too high.
Hydrocortisone has done wonders to my stress resistance, which was incredibly varied before I started substituting. Since I transitioned and my body stopped trying to make Testosterone, it can't just pull in the steroids in the synthesis chain for that to make hydorcortisone and aldosterone, so those issues got a lot more noticable.
Some days my stress tolerance was close to zero. Anything that didn't go to plan, or that I wasn't prepared for, and it's either meltdown (rare) or more likely shutdown. I still get that if I don't notice stress early enough, and forget to take extra hydrocortisone to compensate. If I notice too late, a higher dose is needed to recover again, since the low tolerance caused more stress. Unfortunately if that happens too often, my body produces lost of non-testosterone androgens, which as a trans woman feels absolutely horrible, so I try to remember. Fortunately taking 200mg of progesterone daily (the steroid my body struggles to produce on its own) seems to help buffer smaller mistakes, in that it uses that to produce hydrocortisone and aldosterone before making its own. My goal is to essentially prevent my body from trying to poduce its own progesterone, since that leads to tons of unwanted side products that can leave me feeling horrible for days if it got bad enough.
So yes, I've been regulating the substances my brain gets to regulate my mental state since childhood, more actively since university, and with actual knowledge of what I'm doing for the last couple of years.
I slighly disagree that you can't give patients free access to Lisdex or other stimulants, yes, for most this is likely a problem, but for a well educated patient, with phamacokinetic knowledge, a background in science, who is careful, I think it likely wouldn't be a problem.
I've started self regulating most of my medications, phasing in my BP medication in autum and out in spring (I have high BP in winter, and low BP in summer), self regulate my hydrocortisone, my estradiol, and my prednisolone (used for when my allergies act up despite taking the maximum dose of my long half-life antihistamine). It took a bit to convince my doctors that I can do this, but in all there cases I have good biofeedback, or a good way to measure the effectiveness, and in the end they agreed that what I'm doing makes sense.
My next project is getting both 50mg and 70mg of Lisdex, since while I'm on my period it doesn't work as well, and also to be able to use the stronger effect when I struggle with finishing things, after the interesting creative phase of a project is over. I tried taking 1½ pills, and while it works well, I'd rather have a known dose that splitting the powder in a pill resulting in two 20-30mg doses. Also, keeping the powder in the pill can lead to mistakes, since I could confuse it with a full 50mg dose.
This B.S. autism and A.D.H.D is over diagnosed, even by professionals and if your "undiagnosed" your even more full of it. Look around 24/7 screens, social media, food loaded with sugar and row after row on every corner in the country energy drinks. Think maybe that has something to do with why no one can pay attention? Then instead of cutting back on screen time and eating better "I need cannabis because I am autistic." Tim Dillion was right their are millions of people in this country pretending to be mentally ill.
I tried joining the study but it requires sending a message in the normal SMS message and I can't seem to send anything there. The messages won't send. I rly wanted to participate 🙁
🤔 I’m still figuring out my neurotype, but what I use cannabis for (nightly) is to get my critical internal voice to shut up for a bit. It really feels like that whole aspect of my thinking modulates, freeing up a much more creative, non-judging, positive and meditative mind. During the day, when I can’t be baked, I can be very high strung. (I had a very intense religious upbringing.) Anyone else experience this?
Can we advocate to use a different name for us other than the word disabled? I was thinking alt-abled. Its feels like along the same lines of neurodivergent.
Water polo what kind of horses did you use ?
I've been addicted to weed and it was definitely physically addicting/addictive for me.
I went out drinking one night and when I woke up, for the first time in months, I didn't have the urge to smoke.
edit: and it has caused me to lose jobs and lots of problems in my life.
MDMA is just biker speed with a designer "hat" made from two oxygen atoms and a methylene group. It's soul poison which causes permanent brain damage. Stick to mushrooms which are non-toxic.
Cannabis heals❤
NO!!! I said for years how much weed helped me and I need it. Every hour I would have my back stinging just needing to hit something over and over. Years and years! I’m free from it! I don’t have anxiety when I don’t have weed because I don’t need it, never did. I have autism and adhd and it made me dissociate for so long I accomplished nothing. I need to get my life back! Stop watching stuff like this to convince you weed isn’t an addiction
I wanna also want to understand why female autists seem more masculine and males seem more feminine. Its so common and cant get my head around it.
Cannabis will eventually make u loose the plot and you will if u start using it become and addict. I can't even start to explain how detrimental it really is. I was a weed smoker all my life. And although it seemed to help, al9mg with Adhd symptoms the paranoia was insane. As well as delusions, it also made me procrastinate more. And become more isolated. So I'd say if u haven't tried it then don't star. I recommended healthy things like green tea, ginger tea, yoga, meditation and breathing. Taking cold showers along with keeping a schedule of when to do things. CBT is a lifesaver. Dont suppress your creativity, just be you. And if ppl can't take it then that's on them. You are fine the way you were born.
Like Miyagi, but with a B ^^ That's what my AUtiHD took away from this [outside my current hyperfocus, that is]
I am confused. Heard this podcast while doing boring work. Currently I am at minute 55 and its like the second or third time I hear like exactly the same discussion twice.
Like the moment she is saying that normal people are boring, he says that he finds them fascinating while she questions whether they really exist.
Would be great if anyone could clarify whether I am just dumb (hearing podcast twice in a row without regocenizing etc) or just confused because I didnt fuöly concentrate.
Been a stoner since 17, 5 years and a bit of overdoing the social drinking because i LOVE clubbing and bars but cant do it without it booze. Currently state mandated sober and honestly, the alcohol im fine without and always have been but god damned the weed is rough to go without
Do other medicines consider plant constituents when they isolate molecules to make medicines from other plants?
Do other medicines vary in their formulation based on what plant constituents can and cannot be isolated and removed when medicines are made from other plants?
How much new stuff are they learning
about other plant originated medicines?
I'm talking about the equivalent of cannabinoids and constituents in other plants that we derive most of our pharma medicines from.
I'm in the UK, despite the law, I can source what I need when I need with zero issues. Mushrooms grow quite literally in our back gardens here in Wales! I spent a year of one of my A levels studying, comparing and contrasting Buddhism and Utilitarianism, was very interesting and has formed a foundation of my world view.
Omega 3 fish oil tabs have the same effect as cannabis a natural high lifting serotonin nt addictive or illegal here in the Uk only chance i got with ADHD in this country.
If you SMOKE cannabis, it can raise your blood pressure as anything smoked affects your CV system. Dry vape, or edibles all the way.
Good terpenes to look for, to maybe help you with ADHD symptoms are Caryophyllene, limonene, and Linalool. Alpha-Pinene can also be nice. These terpenes help me keep my ADHD grumpy, lazy, bastard at bay for hours at a time. You could say that cannabis for me is like that therapeutic glass of wine at the end of the day. I'd rather dry vape a small amount of potent cannabis(20% THC and up), than take more methylphenidate before bed.
If you are thinking about or are already trying to use cannabis, do yourself a favour, and research the terpenes that can be present in Cannabis. The THC gets you high, BUT, it is the terpenes that are present in the strain you are using that will dictate how it might affect your mood, and ADHD symptoms. Some terpenes can make you paranoid, some can make your ADHD symptoms worse! If where you are buying Cannabis does not post accurate terpene content….find a place that does! Having Cannabis legal, with established producers that are honest with their customers is really important to get the correct medication YOUR brain needs. After doing your research, I would suggest ordering small amounts with different terpenes, try them, and try and note how it makes you feel to know for sure.
What about Phylosyban for Autism?
Weed does not work for my autism at all. I get super anxiety and feel lost inside. The world becomes ten times scary for me. I have to literally hide myself from the world. I stay away. I'm trying to stay sober because I abuse alcohol.
I'd love to hear her opinion on dissociatives like ketamine and memantine
cannabis is such a game changer, going from shitty fuckin anti depressants that fucked me for a couple years till i found out about medical cannabis it helped my sensory issues and clam my adhd
Dr Shields I have to say THANK YOU!! As a fellow Massachusetts resident dealing with the archaic laws and medical field can be exasperating. Been using cannabis for cptsd, pain, creative sparks, and I find it difficult to find doctors willing to put away the pain killers. lolol I'm wondering if you have any ties to changing the caveman style healthcare on the Cape? They don't even provide UFE but they'll be thrilled to do a hysterectomy. This Mashpee, Falmouth and Hyannis area is failing us all. Thank you for taking care and sharing this enlightening conversation with us 🎉💚 💛 🧡 🩷 It's not easy to have a bunch of energy with chronic pain
I use cannabis for seizures, ADHD/bipolar and arthritis pain. Daily. The pharmaceutical drugs for these things are brutal!!! So I function so much better on pot. Feel better too. I do include CBD gummies when I can afford to.
Cannabis has been extremely important with how I function in my day-to-day. I microdose daily, and my responses to sensory stimulus is decreased, interacting with people doesn't bother me as much, I'm more present and less in my head, and I'm not getting in my own way as much at work. The amount of work I'm able to do in an hour always surprises me when I'm on cannabis compared to when I'm not. My ADD and Asperger's symptoms are also decreased, which is a significant mental and emotional relief for me.
The best thing is the I take an 2.5mg to 5mg edible per dose; significantly less than any medication I have taken, which has gone up to 30mg to 40mg. One edible takes care of my ADD, anxiety, and depression symptoms in one low dose. After self-medicating, I don't want to go back to pharmaceuticals.
Wonder if mixtures of lions mane mushrooms and progen jelly fish neurology medicine could have positive effects on adhd and or autism
35:26 omg this clip is such a great casual illustration of what autistic socializing is like
I'm AuDHD, have (c)PTSD, am plural (OSDD-1b), and I'm trans (queue the hate?).
I've used prescribed Lisdexamphetamine for 3y now. Accoding to my psychiatrist at a too low dose, since it improves my ADHD symptoms, but doesn't get rid of them. The reason is, atethis dose I can control my chaos, I can push it away (with some effort) to complete tasks, or embrace it for the creativity. At higher doses my creativity is a fraction of what it usually is, and at my normal dose I don't see a reduction.
I started prescribed cannabis a bit less than a year ago. It's been a game changer for my PTSD and sensory issues. I can actually go get my groceries, without using my NC headphones. It's still taxing, and I usually don't waste time, but 10min in my local supermarket, isn't something I dread and have to prepare for anymore.
Unfortunately, officially I should be vaping set amounts at set intervals, which doesn't work very well for me. On days I stay at home, with my girlfriend, and relax, I barely vape at all, and sometimes not at all for a day or two (which seems beneficial as well). But when I'm amongst ppl, especially NTs, or in difficult sensory environments, I vape more, to get the benefits. My doctors seem fine with the idea, especially with my relatively low dose, but I'd have to be careful with what I say to law enforcement, or I could lose my drivers license.
I always used to vape semi regularly, and had a personal rule, that I only made an exception on for when I was in crisis (because it helped with stabilizing again), of only vaping every other weekend, or less, since I noticed ADHD symptoms getting worse otherwise. With Lisdex that effect seems gone.
I've developed a good feeling for dosage, and while at first I was weighing how much I used every day, I now just go by feeling. The dose over the course of a month seems just about stable, sometimes it's a little more, sometimes less. On rare occations (new years) I even vape about 2-3× my regular dose to get a mild high.
Since I can legally drive, after using cannabis, I do. On my regular dose, while clearly feeling an alteration in how my brain works, I can drive well. I seem to drive better on at least a low dose than nothing at all, and on the higher end of my therapeutic dose the only thing I notice is that I tend to drive a little below the speed limit, instead of at the speed limit (or slightly above as is traditional here). Since I drive a lot, I've had a couple of situations where quick reactions were important, and I've not noticed any change there.
I also have an adrenal issue (3-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase is likely mutated) that causes my adrenal system to be wonky, and that I treat by substituting hydrocortisone, my mental state is more varied naturally than anything those two substances ever did. I had to learn to manually regulate salt levels, hydration and in some cases (not enough sleep (I have a sleep disorder)) blood sugar, to ensure I could drive home from work at the end of the day.
I used to do most of this since my childhood, but since understanding my adrenal system (did a deep dive on its endocrinology), I've been doing this more systematically for years now. The weird thing, with the experience I gained, I can, if I'm doing well otherwise, regulate my mental state so well, that I can drive and perform other high demand high reaction-time tasks (that are easier to evaluate on my own) all the way to 50-60h without sleep, if I have to. I will crash beyond that, but I get several hours of warning before that. I just need to always have access to plenty of water, salt (NaCl and a 1:1 NaCl / KCl mixture), coffeine and sugar.
One thing I noticed with my PTSD is that cannabis seems to dampen the hypervigilence. One of the huge problems with environments with multiple sesory stimuli was that not being able to immediately identify a stimulus made my brain classify it as a threat, especially around ppl. With cannabis I seem to have more time to figure out what a sound is, since the classification as threat is slower and more gradual, and so it's easier to focus on it before stress levels get too high.
Hydrocortisone has done wonders to my stress resistance, which was incredibly varied before I started substituting. Since I transitioned and my body stopped trying to make Testosterone, it can't just pull in the steroids in the synthesis chain for that to make hydorcortisone and aldosterone, so those issues got a lot more noticable.
Some days my stress tolerance was close to zero. Anything that didn't go to plan, or that I wasn't prepared for, and it's either meltdown (rare) or more likely shutdown. I still get that if I don't notice stress early enough, and forget to take extra hydrocortisone to compensate. If I notice too late, a higher dose is needed to recover again, since the low tolerance caused more stress. Unfortunately if that happens too often, my body produces lost of non-testosterone androgens, which as a trans woman feels absolutely horrible, so I try to remember. Fortunately taking 200mg of progesterone daily (the steroid my body struggles to produce on its own) seems to help buffer smaller mistakes, in that it uses that to produce hydrocortisone and aldosterone before making its own. My goal is to essentially prevent my body from trying to poduce its own progesterone, since that leads to tons of unwanted side products that can leave me feeling horrible for days if it got bad enough.
So yes, I've been regulating the substances my brain gets to regulate my mental state since childhood, more actively since university, and with actual knowledge of what I'm doing for the last couple of years.
I slighly disagree that you can't give patients free access to Lisdex or other stimulants, yes, for most this is likely a problem, but for a well educated patient, with phamacokinetic knowledge, a background in science, who is careful, I think it likely wouldn't be a problem.
I've started self regulating most of my medications, phasing in my BP medication in autum and out in spring (I have high BP in winter, and low BP in summer), self regulate my hydrocortisone, my estradiol, and my prednisolone (used for when my allergies act up despite taking the maximum dose of my long half-life antihistamine). It took a bit to convince my doctors that I can do this, but in all there cases I have good biofeedback, or a good way to measure the effectiveness, and in the end they agreed that what I'm doing makes sense.
My next project is getting both 50mg and 70mg of Lisdex, since while I'm on my period it doesn't work as well, and also to be able to use the stronger effect when I struggle with finishing things, after the interesting creative phase of a project is over. I tried taking 1½ pills, and while it works well, I'd rather have a known dose that splitting the powder in a pill resulting in two 20-30mg doses. Also, keeping the powder in the pill can lead to mistakes, since I could confuse it with a full 50mg dose.
I'm in Massachusetts and autiHD too!!
This B.S. autism and A.D.H.D is over diagnosed, even by professionals and if your "undiagnosed" your even more full of it. Look around 24/7 screens, social media, food loaded with sugar and row after row on every corner in the country energy drinks. Think maybe that has something to do with why no one can pay attention? Then instead of cutting back on screen time and eating better "I need cannabis because I am autistic." Tim Dillion was right their are millions of people in this country pretending to be mentally ill.
I tried joining the study but it requires sending a message in the normal SMS message and I can't seem to send anything there. The messages won't send. I rly wanted to participate 🙁
🤔 I’m still figuring out my neurotype, but what I use cannabis for (nightly) is to get my critical internal voice to shut up for a bit. It really feels like that whole aspect of my thinking modulates, freeing up a much more creative, non-judging, positive and meditative mind. During the day, when I can’t be baked, I can be very high strung. (I had a very intense religious upbringing.) Anyone else experience this?
It’s also important to sit with the uncomfortable feelings this is how you grow your self reliance and personal fortitude.
Can we advocate to use a different name for us other than the word disabled?
I was thinking alt-abled. Its feels like along the same lines of neurodivergent.