oxycont1n said:
i disagree. people with depression are prone to also have anxiety and weed is noooo good for anxiety.
I deal with anxiety and was also a guinea pig for a few SSRI/SNRIs that only made me more agitated to the point where I couldn't bear being on it at all...
Pot in a small but noticeable amount has been an immense help in dissolving agitations and sativa especially also has such an uplifting and positive effect on my mindstate that I stopped going to my doc who prescribed SSRIs, SNRIs, and benzos but still has clearly no clue.
All I'm saying is if someone wants to become zombified by an SSRI/SNRI because they feel like they have no other option... they should consider looking into the benefits of cannabis in small doses.
It can be addictive as well, especially for someone deep in depression, but at least nobody needs to taper to stop getting high as people have to do to get off the pills pushed by the pharmaceutical industry, who lobby the FDA to allow unsafe pills to be marketed because they say they're safe knowing that they haven't really done enough testing to know for sure.
What do doctors do? They treat
symptoms, instead of trying to isolate the CAUSE of symptoms and work to actually heal a person. They're not interested in extending your life, they're interested in burying your pain so you can keep up with life. That's why antidepressants, and pretty much all pharmaceuticals are so popular; some people just can't afford psychiatrists on a constant basis and they go to a doc who is too busy to look for underlying causes and simply prescribe the pill that the pharmaceutical industry makes available for them to treat such symptoms.
I have seen a lot of people who are as dependent on socially-acceptable pharmaceutical substances as a junky is on heroin, and it rubs away some of the pain but otherwise doesn't do their life an ounce of good.