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A Journey Through Bipolar & Complex PTSD Diagnosis and How Cannabis Provides Support anxiety cbd depression ptsd sleep thc May 04, 2023

 

Hosted by Candy Dinsmore-Bekaan
Theme music by Matthew DeMeritt

 

 

*Trigger warning: This episode talks about suicide attempt*

 

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Candy Dinsmore-Bekaan interviews Co-Founder of the Effective Cannabis Newsletter, Amy Matthews as she talks about her journey with Complex PTSD, regulating her nervous system and creating the space to allow h...

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Sound Bites Podcast: Cannabis & The Brain with Guest Janice Bissex anxiety brain cbd depression inflammation ptsd seizure thc Mar 11, 2023

Sound Bites Podcast: Episode 213 Hosted by: Melissa Joy Dobbins

 

 

Cannabis, Mental Health & Brain Health

Nearly twenty percent of adults (or 50 million) experienced a mental illness in 2019. One in four adults with a mental illness reports an unmet need for treatment, and this number has not declined since 2011. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in America affecting 42....

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The Endocannabinoid System: Essential and Mysterious by Dr. Peter Grinspoon appetite ecs inflammation memory pain ptsd sleep Dec 28, 2022

This article is shared with the permission of Dr. Peter Grinspoon. This article originally appeared on the Harvard Medical School Blog on August 11, 2021.

 

Many of us have heard of some of the transmitter systems within our bodies, such as the sympathetic nervous system, which gives us our fight-or-flight response. Fewer have heard of the more recently discovered endocannabinoid system (ECS), w...

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