My husband had just turned sixty when he passed away.
We had over forty years of marriage, and I was not ready to go without him.
I was slipping into a deep depression to go along with the grief I was feeling. I went to the doctor to get some help, but he wanted to give me antidepressants. I wasn’t interested in taking a bunch of medicines. I was more interested in just fading away and being with my husband again. That is when the doctor sent me to a grief counselor. The counselor had a large group of men and women who were going through the same thing I was going through. We talked amongst ourselves and basically tried to soothe each other. I didn’t want to be soothed. Then, after the third session, I was talking to another woman who was about my age. She was telling me that she had talked to her therapist. He had prescribed medical marijuana for her. She said the medical marijuana had not only eased her depression, but it helped her to cope with the grief. Once she got the marijuana she felt that she was finally able to release the depression and realize that she would always grieve for what she lost, but she could also go on with life. I talked to my therapist and she agreed with what my new friend had told me. It took a month for my depression and grief to be dealt with, but thanks to legal medical marijuana, I was able to take life one day at a time, and I am once again enjoying life.