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madgeXR

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i've been advised to not smoke pot when i'm sad to pick myself back up. "it will stop me from finding healthy ways to deal with sadness later in life, or when the situation is to big to be cured with weed". this makes sense to me, but i can't completely stop using pot when i'm sad. so how can i solve this problem? i would like to find some sort of compromise. thank you for your time.
 
usually in the end.. when its all said and done.. i felt even more depressed after i got high and came down..

marijuana is not some wonder drug that makes everything better.. marijuana enhances feelings/thoughts.. and if you're feeling down.. its only gonna make it worse
 
+1^

It's my policy to never do drugs when I'm down, its just sets a pattern for abuse
 
^ Yes! I knew a guy who did the same thing (used to date him actually).. he was like, psychologically addicted to pot. He smoked everyday, in particular to deal with depression issues and he was either misrible or just a stoner-zombie all day. Not fun.
 
i have used pot when sick or down and it can help you take in all the factors creating the illness and deal with them on a practical basis (that's where you come in). Anyway this means nothing if you're just floating around in a cannibinated bubble all day. But used moderately, I've found it can lift my spirits AND let me get some needed off-schedule rest. But like I said, if you're just straight down - and you feel ganja is contributing to the problem through excess, take a break.
 
the healthy thing to do: find a productive, engrossing activity to distract yourself with
the compromise: find something productive and engrossing, and get stoned before you do it
what i do: have about four beers before smoking
 
Another thing to take into consideration is the quality of the herb you're using.
 
Maybe that works for some... myself, I can't smoke or enjoy grass, or almost any drugs if I'm genuinely worried or sad. Usually if I'm unduly depressed (meaning my mood has little to no basis in reality) I may take some t. Johns Wort and try to go biking or similar. Grass is a very enjoyable drug, but I can't see using it to merely "feel good"; its something that's best used when ones mood is already good (or when ill).

"A perfect debauch requires perfect leisure" - Charles Baudelaire
 
double ewe said:
the healthy thing to do: find a productive, engrossing activity to distract yourself with
the compromise: find something productive and engrossing, and get stoned before you do it
what i do: have about four beers before smoking
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hahaha!

tree said:
Another thing to take into consideration is the quality of the herb you're using.
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why? if you're getting high to alleviate your sadness/depression/anger, why does the quality of what you're smoking matter?



maloxx said:
It's my policy to never do drugs when I'm down, its just sets a pattern for abuse
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same here.
 
jezushmfchrist said:
usually in the end.. when its all said and done.. i felt even more depressed after i got high and came down..

marijuana is not some wonder drug that makes everything better.. marijuana enhances feelings/thoughts.. and if you're feeling down.. its only gonna make it worse
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On the contrary, when I am down, if I smoke... it gives me a reasonable approach into seeing why I am sad and helps cheer me up in the long run.
 
Mr. Tambourine Man said:
Maybe that works for some... myself, I can't smoke or enjoy grass, or almost any drugs if I'm genuinely worried or sad. Usually if I'm unduly depressed (meaning my mood has little to no basis in reality) I may take some t. Johns Wort and try to go biking or similar. Grass is a very enjoyable drug, but I can't see using it to merely "feel good"; its something that's best used when ones mood is already good (or when ill).

"A perfect debauch requires perfect leisure" - Charles Baudelaire
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beautiful, great quote
 
Cannabis can make the negativity spread all over your mind. I recall this happening once when I was not even feeling very bad. If you are sad or lonely, cannabis does not get rid of the problem; cannabis just puts a high on top of it.
 
it usually helps me see a good solution to my problem, cuts down barriers that I cant see normally. I love it :)
 
I'm been depressed lately due to my high school life coming to a end soon. But I been smoking pot and let's just say it makes things worse and makes you want to try harder drugs. For me I thought weed would make me look at things differnt but for me it just makes me look at things slower .
 
Pot and depression can be a messy thing. I've been struggling with this myself. I used to be on all sorts of mood stabilizers and anti-depressants, quit them all cold turkey and switched to pot every day and psychedelics on week ends. a few years later and I can tell my brain is getting tired. I think it's not very healthy to use pot for depression because soon enough there's nothing you want to do but smoke weed when your feeling down. Whenever I get pissed off or disappointed about something, or if I feel really uncomfortable my first instinct is to smoke. It never really helps the problem, just makes me groggy and forget about it for a while, to wake up day after day and see that the problem is still there, and getting worse because I've been putting it off. I quit pot for a month a few months back and I'm pretty much back to the same habit I had before. Right now I'm trying this only smoking on the week ends thing, and it's working out well so far. The world is intense, and hard to deal with sober. I know if I could maintain a daily meditation practice it would help a lot but it takes so much discipline!
 
I used to be very depressed and used pot to help. But after LSD and having a break from pot for 6 months I was fine. I now smoke pot evenly at all times really.
 
i smoke everyday and it helps keep depression at bay... even if you smoke all day all the time, mood should be fairly stable as long as you're eating well and exercising...because even without drugs, you'll likely be depressed from simply being unhealthy..add the drug, further neglecting health, and you get more depressed....now if you're doing coke all the time, it makes sense that you're getting depressed....but i'd like to understand how cannabis could directly cause depression. i can definitely relate to the depression caused by a break after heavy use, but it seems this is purely psychological, since dopamine and serotonin levels are unaffected by cannabis use. my depression on a break is related to less interest in food...but i just force myself to eat like usual and it goes away within a day.

i wouldn't listen to people who tell you cannabis is unhealthy...more than likely they don't have any knowledge to back their statements...you might as well be listening to the DEA.

if you find it hard to take a break from cannabis but you really want to, then do it. verbalize and internalize ("all right, i'm done with this")...whatever your wording is, stick to it... only you have control over your life. remember that.

you can't respect yourself if you don't control yourself..because without self- discipline, there's really no value in anything and life becomes meaningless.

peace
 
maloxx said:
It's my policy to never do drugs when I'm down, its just sets a pattern for abuse
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Thats my rule with alcohol and all drugs other than weed. But if I have a hard day or need to clear my head I might have a bowl or two. Having said that, I rarely smoke anyway and go weeks at a time without weed.
 
madgeXR said:
i've been advised to not smoke pot when i'm sad to pick myself back up. "it will stop me from finding healthy ways to deal with sadness later in life, or when the situation is to big to be cured with weed". this makes sense to me, but i can't completely stop using pot when i'm sad. so how can i solve this problem? i would like to find some sort of compromise. thank you for your time.
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This is good advice. Using any intoxicant for escapism with a lot of frequency is psychologically unhealthy at best, and the prerequisite for poorly developed coping mechanisms which result in many expensive & ineffective rehab junkets later in life. Another thing i've observed over the years, is that as people get older, the incidence of marijuana induced anxiety increases, and if pot is a major component of your coping mechanism, and ceases to work, you're gonna have some problems. This can lead to both or either general dissatisfaction with life, and more serious drug abuse. I personally don't like to smoke when i'm down, as pot tends to make me dwell on things, and if i've got a bunch of negative stuff going on in my life, its going to be an unpleasant and unproductive experience. I'll just be stuck thinking "I'm sitting around stoned instead of actually dealing with all these problems.... etc"
 
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