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Depression and weed

gurner

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I am a clinical depressive and have got it under control where i live with it, I've been smoking weed for about 5 years on and off but the last year it triggered depressive thoughts in my head and I've had to cut down alot(as oppose to everyday) I ask if this is true for other users out there if, through everyday use its triggered depressive thoughts at all (even for non-depressives)
 
Do u use any other drugs amphetmaines and uppers or any psycadelics ( spelling ? ) I sort of turned a corner bonging - wen i smoked i got all the adverse effects especially with friends, notice the singns mate dont ignore em like most people do and me ! If things are still bad wen uve cut the weed go see ure doc - anti d's aint that hard too get
 
shit u must be on them already im a bit pissed jus read it over again jus keep seeing ure doc weekly and have someone to call wen things get bad
 
i will sometimes get depressed thoughts, if i smoke early in the day and not smoke at all the rest of the day. also if i go a whole day without smoking, i have the tendency to have thoughts start racing in my head and the thoughts can turn ugly pretty quickly.


thankfully, some of this has gone away because one day when i was on mushrooms i relized that smoking pot is just another stage in my life and as i get older my pot use will go down.
 
I sometimes get the classic "What am I doing with my life? Where's my future going? What do I have to show for being alive?" type of thoughts when I smoke alone.

The funny thing is, and I'm aware that this is probably just me, but I only seem to get it when I smoke alot of shotties over a short period and lying on my bed watching tv at 2am with big ass glazed over eyes, I dunno, I just tend to look at myself in a different way then usual and I get into a train of thought of criticising myself and thinking of all the bad qualities to me.

When I smoke with friends and/or use stronger smoking methods (blunts etc) my mood tends to shoot through the roof and I get a big confidence boost (I'm a pretty shy person) -- last night I even called my girlfriends sister, pretty much a stereotypical mother-in-law, a shallow carcus and told her to never speak to me again. And usually I always take what she says ("you're not good enough for my sister" etc) with an embarassed look.

So yeah, to round up, try different smoking methods and if that doesn't help, just try to cut down your pot use to a social aspect (of course, if you don't already) and only get high with some good friends and not with yourself. And if it's still that bad then you're just going to have to consider whether or not it's worth it.

But then again, I haven't been diagnosed with any type of problem so I don't know anything for sure, this is just some personal notes.
 
thanx guys Ive been trying to keep it to just just social now and its getting better, things are getting better(new job etc) so maybe twice a week for now and then i'll try to goto once a fortnight even
 
Yea buddy, just cut it back to an occasional thing. I got these same sort of depressed thoughts when I was smoking weed; it really became synonymous to me with lazyness and inactivity, which is not good for a college student trying to be an engineer. It slows down my thought process. Some people just aren't meant to smoke pot everyday. Take a break and see how good it can be for your life.
 
its true - you can feel a bit bad for a couple of days but then you'll feel sparkly and a bit more on the ball.
 
I'm not depressed while smoking. But smoking everyday keeps me depressed when sober.
 
It's never really made me depressed or even brought many of those thoughts in my mind besides one time. I was out smoking with friends and my grandfather passed away and I kept thinking about him while I was smoking, it did change my state of mind from normal to depressed.
 
Ive been smoking for like 5 years since i was 13. I started doing buckets (g bongs) and doing them daily from 15. I had no problem, did them all day at school and everything, no problem.

From about the last New Years when smoking I've started to get depressed and paranoid. Some times but not all the times that's why I keep doing it. It fucks me off so much. Don't really talk when I'm fucked with friends, cut down alot with them. We only smoke buckets, and have a very high tolerance but this is really getting to me. It fucks me off so much because I love it but I hate it and still want to do it every day. I also get this feeling too:

The funny thing is, and I'm aware that this is probably just me, but I only seem to get it when I smoke alot of shotties over a short period and lying on my bed watching tv at 2am with big ass glazed over eyes, I dunno, I just tend to look at myself in a different way then usual and I get into a train of thought of criticising myself and thinking of all the bad qualities to me

I eat alot of pills too, started when I just turned 16, most weeks anyhing up to 12 usualy. Sometimes speed. Too wake me up after being stoned I tend to drink also, maybe 4 nights a week, sometimes its like I have to drink to socialise. I really dont want to cut down, but I think I might have to? Any suggestions?
 
when i smoke i dont necessarily get depressed, i just get really bad thoughts. i view the world in a diferent way, everything seems kind of lame and cheap. but if you remind yourself that you are just stoned and if in a bad situation get out of it as quickly as possible, you should be ok.
 
When I smoked weed on a very regular basis, at the time I didn't consider myself depressed, but I was definately a different person to who I am today. For me, weed makes me feel as though the best thing I could possibly do with my day is smoke more... and now when I look back to my stoner days I think jeez, I must have been depressed.
I don't necessarily get any bad thoughts, but I don't get many good either. So pretty much I was just neutral.

Maybe just cut down even more, if you're not getting many positives from smoking weed it may not be worth it anymore. It would be a small price to pay for happiness. Then again maybe you're just going through a bad patch... in that case I would probably just try to ride it out.
 
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I am bipolar or however you spell it and i actully like smoking weed when i am depressed cause it helps me but it might be different with you
 
My friend did e for his first time and he was depressed for like 2 weeks after...

I've never gotten despressed from drugs.
 
I get a little depressed when I smoke, just not to the point of being upset at anything. Mainly I do it because my day job is so stressful, if I DON'T I can't sleep, I come home wound up and can't come down. I HATE drinking, and I'm tire of pills...so weed it is. I have learned to cut back to after 10pm if I want to smoke, and then I only smoke like two or three times a week. I think you'll be just fine. You regulate it like YOU think you should.
Good luck!

-Pill
 
I used to smoke everyday, and it started to really effect me negatively.
I had 3 yrs this month since the last time I used it, up until a few days ago when I tried it again. It was just like old times, I just got kinda depressed and other than the slight buzz it wasn't very fun.
Basically I got kinda paranoid too, the things that start going through my head when I smoke just make me depressed and a little paranoid. I think some people don't have this problem from long-term smoking, others do.
I'd say just take a break. Personally I think after the experiences I've had it's probably best for me to just never touch the stuff again even though it used to be so fun at first. I'd recommend you just stay away for at least like 12 weeks and see if things change. Good luck.
 
i used to get depressed a lot before i started smoking weed , mostly out of boredom i think. weed is like a magical cure for boredom and makes me look at things differently so originally it helped my depression. but after smoking all day every day for long periods i began to notice i felt depressed when i wasn't high. but i never considered this real depression because i would still feel happy and blissful when i was high and to me getting to feel euphoria and bliss, even if just for an hour a day made life worth it even if i felt crappy when sober. now i only smoke twice a day and i try to enjoy the time i have to spend sober as best i can. often times i'll find myself having a good time perfectly sober but i think daily smoking has caused my natural sober mood and outlook to be slightly depressed because of the constrast with being high.
 
I've been smoking almost everyday for like a year now(mostly alone)and although I want to stop i keep going, like i really want to smoke but sometimes once i'm stoned I'll be thinking that i really want to stop.
If i'm depressed weed can lift me up(music is more heavenly then it normally is) and I'll forget about all the shit, or it'll make me analyse every little thing and when i'm around others í can get a sense of their hidden motives and like be able to sense wierd shit.

things can seem pretty lame, fake and shallow too, but its a kinda love and hate relationship right now. I think i'll always be smoking it>all for the music! and its also just cool chillin in the coffeeshop with mates.
Brow of Calm

and be wary>weed is totally addictive< ;)
 
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When i smoke weed it keeps me happy. When im depressed it brings me up so i keep on smokin to keep my depression away... and it works.
 
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