Quit Marijuana Addiction

There is no point in analyzing how the problem started or how bad your condition is. Once you have decided to quit addiction, the only thing to plan and think about is the future and how you will go about the process of healing. You will need to build your will power too particularly, to handle the withdrawal symptoms.

Turn to family, friends: No matter how guilty and embarrassed you feel about the situation, it is family and friends who will finally stand by you in your mission to get over addiction. Don't worry about being rejected or reprimanded. Bear it and convince your family and friends that you genuinely wish to get over your problem. Love, support and emotional bonding will work wonders. Whenever your confidence dips, your loved ones will help you pull through.

Once you have decided to quit, you may need to go to a rehabilitation centre so that professionals can monitor and help you. Simultaneously, you must cut all ties with old friends who were party to your addiction. Any places or events that served as triggers for your addiction should also be listed and avoided.

Support group: Find other people who have a addiction and are trying to get rid of it. Look for support groups in your area, if you have any friends who also have the same addiction problem, try and cajole them into quitting marijuana and getting help along with you. However, ensure that they do not function as triggers and prevent you from getting over your addiction.

If you can't find or choose not to join some sort of local support group, they arent always for everybody and sometimes people dont always agree with their religious beliefs, at least try to find one online, having a place to get advice, share how you feel and connect with others who are going through the same will really help your recovery.

New Age therapies, hypnosis and music with subliminal messages may help in de-addiction. Also, take up different kinds of hobbies and go for entertainment options that interested you before you started the addiction. Exercising regularly will boost your confidence, your immune system and will power.

No withdrawal symptoms can hold you back if you are determined to give up. Reclaim your life with confidence and joy.

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When you read about the risks of marijuana these days, the media often focuses on psychosis and schizophrenia, which is fair enough as these are horrific conditions to have to live with. But as the pro marijuana movement frequently point out, the risk of developing these conditions isn't that great, even though marijuana use can increase your risk of doing so by up to 40%. There are however far many other things particularly in regards to your mental health, that marijuana can cause or make worse. Take anxiety and paranoia for example, cannabis can make you a far more anxious and paranoid person, not necessarily to the extent that you may have to be hospitalised for it, although in extreme cases people are, but it can make you just a more anxious and paranoid person in general. The same goes for depression, marijuana can cause or exacerbate depression. Then there's the effect it has on your memory and cognitive abilities, I know from firsthand experience that smoking cannabis can really damage both. I never heard voices from smoking cannabis, but I have experienced all of the other things I have just mentioned quite severely, and let me tell you they are not nice, they are enough to make you suicidal and your life utterly miserable if you experience them to the extent I did. Do you really want to be more prone to anxiety, paranoia and depression, with a poorer memory and impaired cognitive and learning abilities. These are things that allot of people who smoke cannabis, particularly if you over do it on the really strong stuff, will experience to a certain extent. And there are allot more people who will experience these things than those who develop schizophrenia, cannabis is proven to damage and change the brain permanently, which can affect your mind and mental health in many different ways, full blown psychosis is just the tip of the iceberg!

That's the thing with the effects it can have on some people, even if it doesn't cause full blown psychosis, which in the vast majority of people it doesn't, it can still increase the symptoms of psychosis and mental illness, in a far higher number of people than just those in which it triggers schizophrenia. It's like the woman who did that test in the BBC's should I smoke dope documentary, when she had a high dose of THC with no CBD, which is like allot of the weed most people smoke these days, it never triggered full blown schizophrenia in her, she didn't hear voices, but when she did the standard test that doctors do for diagnosing psychosis, she scored a significantly high score. So the high THC low CBD type of cannabis that most people smoke these days, can significantly increase the symptoms psychosis in allot of people, even if it doesn't trigger full blown schizophrenia. There's was further evidence to support this in the BBC's horizon documentary on cannabis, when they showed the brain scans of heavy users of cannabis, having similar changes in the brain to those who suffer from schizophrenia.

They are just some of the effects cannabis can have on the brain and then there's the permanent damage it also does to the lungs. The damage cannabis does is so much more and far more wide spread than just schizophrenia.