By Jason Barker, Zia Fitness & Wellness
After years and years of Doctors putting me on the next latest and greatest pill from Big Pharma, 13 different ones in fact, I had just about given up all hope in finding ways to control my CPTSD symptoms. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a result of an extreme psychological injury which results from ongoing or continued trauma over which the victim has very little or no control, and from which there is no real or perceived hope of escape. This kind of accumulation of trauma separates CPTSD from the better known Post Traumatic Stress Order (PTSD) in which trauma typically involves a single event or a group of events of limited duration (witnessing a tragedy, being the victim of a violent act,short term military combat are just a few).
All the pills did that Doctors prescribed to
me just add unwanted side effects and
increased the occurrence of my symptoms
like:
• Difficulty falling or staying asleep
• Self-harm
• Irritability or outbursts of anger
• Difficulty concentrating
• Hypervigilance (on constant “red alert”)
• Feeling jumpy and easily startled
• Loss of interest in activities you once
loved and life in general
• Feeling detached from others and
emotionally numb
• Sense of a limited future (you don’t
expect to live a normal life span, get
married, have a career)
• Avoiding activities, places, thoughts,
or feelings that remind you of the
trauma experience
• And now for me with the Medical Cannabis
and having been able to treat my
CPTSD with it for a couple of years, the results
have been like night and day…and to finally
have access to a natural medicine. As it is
for many who now utilize Medical Cannabis,
my condition will always be with me and no
Doctor can change that. But I do now have
a reliable and trustworthy medicine that
can relieve multiple symptoms at once and
make some almost disappear completely,
it does so quickly, and still leaves me able
to function and continue with my day. And
this one plant is giving me multiple options
in treating my symptoms ranging from the
benefits of Canna Juice, high THC flower,
high CBD flower, blending different kinds of
flower, high percentage concentrates, and
edible options. The enhancement Medical
Cannabis has provided to my life & the
knowledge it has provided me, has now
enabled me to start achieving my own goals
once again. I now use my college education
in Fitness and Wellness to work for myself
and to help serve other suffering patients.
• “Cannabis is the single most versatile
herbal remedy, and the most useful plant on
Earth. No other single plant contains as wide
range of medically active herbal constituents.”
~ Dr. Ethan Russo
