Dealing with chronic mental health drawbacks is like riding a rollercoaster.
There are afternoons where you’re riding up a peak at lightning speed, & others where you’re in free fall. I did my best in university to function without medication, however I no longer had that privilege once I hit the workforce. Suddenly my once-manageable anxiety attacks were truly paralyzing me & making it rather challenging to function at my job. When your actual work performance is directly affected by your mental health, you’re put in a fairly difficult game of limbo making an attempt to function weekly while feeling like broken pieces haphazardly held together with masking tape. Once I was able to discover cannabis in my mid 20s, my anxiety & depression problems started to slowly improve. I experimented with marijuana flower buds, cannabis edibles, & concentrates such as hashish & wax. I hastily managed to learn that indica strains are better for my anxiety & depression issues compared to anything else. Despite awful fortune with a handful of popular indicas that I find at my local cannabis dispensaries, I tend to prefer indica strains of cannabis much more than sativa. Beyond the type of strain I go for, I also prefer cannabis flower products over anything else. I honestly feel like they give me the fullest spectrum effect compared to any other cannabis product available. However, cannabis flower products vary considerably in quality from a single store to the next. Even unusual batches of the same strain from the same grower can vary in many ways. As long as you get a fairly good idea on what strains your body responds well to, it’s easier to experiment with the newer strains you haven’t tried. You compare the genetics of the brand new strain with a single you’ve already had, giving you a fairly good idea of what to expect.