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yongbaek

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Okay so I started smoking when I was 13 and was instantly hooked for 5 years, then i quit cold turkey after moving away from all connections at 18. I smoked once in a 7 month period and had an awesome high, very laughy and euphoric.
Went through some rough times and after moving back to where my connections were I started smoking again, only after quitting for 8 months it made me extremely depressed and still does four years later. When I smoke I think about the stupidest shit, my flaws my downfalls, what other people think about me. I get extremely depressed to the point of thinking about suicide. What psychological issue do I have that is making this happen?? My life is better than it has ever been, I'm never depressed until I smoke. I miss being able to smoke it was awesome, it ruined my childhood but I still miss the ritual and the high.
 
yongbaek said:
Okay so I started smoking when I was 13 and was instantly hooked for 5 years, then i quit cold turkey after moving away from all connections at 18. I smoked once in a 7 month period and had an awesome high, very laughy and euphoric.
Went through some rough times and after moving back to where my connections were I started smoking again, only after quitting for 8 months it made me extremely depressed and still does four years later. When I smoke I think about the stupidest shit, my flaws my downfalls, what other people think about me. I get extremely depressed to the point of thinking about suicide. What psychological issue do I have that is making this happen?? My life is better than it has ever been, I'm never depressed until I smoke. I miss being able to smoke it was awesome, it ruined my childhood but I still miss the ritual and the high.
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http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...e-only-drug-that-you-CANNOT-use-all-your-life

Unfortunately, your glory day's are over homie. It happens to the best of us.
 
I wouldn't say you have any psychological issues. You might be feeling anxiety for a reason or another, only you can know the cause.

Let's not forget that this depression state can occur after stopping anything, either it be a drug or not.

Edit... *shaking my head* at chee$e's post. Keep generalizing bro.
 
You probably don't have a psychological disorder. What do you mean by getting depressed? It sounds like you are just feeling self conscious. Why do you feel you have flaws/downfalls? Maybe you just need to accept these things as part of what makes you who you are. I think cannabis is just bringing out some things that you regularly keep under the surface. I bet if you deal with these things and come to accept who you really are as a person your experiences will improve. If not, I am quite sure it's your lack of tolerance that is making your highs so introspective.
 
Chee$e said:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...e-only-drug-that-you-CANNOT-use-all-your-life

Unfortunately, your glory day's are over homie. It happens to the best of us.
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I disagree. The thread you linked to was clearly about paranoia and anxiety ruining the high in users who use long term. The OP is asking about depression AFTER quitting. And the same thing happened to me, OP. I used weed for a few months every day then stopped, and was really depressed for about three weeks. I started to get better, then I smoked weed a few times, and it bought me to a really weird place, and for a while weed was like poison for my mind. I would get lost in this horrible, depressed place where I felt really slow and stupid and just had nostalgia for the times when weed was good and thought I'd never be the same. However, que a couple weeks later, I'm out of my slump completely, weed has become fucking awesome again, and I'm feeling positive about quitting in a couple of weeks.

Knowing that that mindset isnt permanent and it can be reversed gives me some strength and I think I'll make it through without smoking next time. I know it sucks but you just have to suck it up and resist smoking weed for a while. You'll soon notice you have more energy and feel happier and more yourself again, but first you have to go through a pretty shitty period of feeling down and probably lethargic while your brain gets use to not constantly having its cannabinoid system tapped. Exercise and eating well will help a lot too, and if after three months of sobreity (at least how long it will take to feel normal again with your amount of use, but if you're lucky it might happen sooner) then you should look into using a nootropic like Piracetam. I found during the down days caused by weed a dose of piracetam significantly perks my mood up and makes me feel a lot more alert, although I've never used it consecutively enough to observe a consistent effect.

Good luck OP, don't listen to the pessimists who have paranoia when smoking - unless that becomes the main issue, that isn't a problem that you or I have to worry about, and probably never will (I expect the two problems with weed use are somewhat mutually exclusive)
 
A lot of people are quick to blame weed.

However I've been smoking for years with no problems except for tolerance .
I know many who are the same as me too .

Have u ever thought that ur just prone to depression ?
Or have u abused other drugs in the past ?

Also another reason could be the distribution of your cannabinoid receptors . Each persons distribution of these receptors is different . With different distributuion of these receptors a different high is experienced .
You could just be an unlucky one :(
 
A lot of people are quick to blame weed.

However I've been smoking for years with no problems except for tolerance .
I know many who are the same as me too .
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Weed messes with people chemical balance, for some it may create issue.
A lot of people are quick to ignore that weed can be problematic for some just as much if not more then any other drug, I'm glad you can enjoy it but its not for everybody .
 
When I smoked before, I had a LOT more issues to obsess over and get depressed about. What I'm wondering is why does it effect my thought process differently now than it did before? The issues I think about are definitely issues I think about all the time they just seem so much worse if I'm high. I don't get paranoid at all, I just get down about stupid things about myself and my life that are actually better now than they have ever been...
I thought it could be a chemical imbalance from all the years of smoking, and going through puberty completely high from age 13-18 every single day... I smoked daily for those five years and was fine, I'm still really smart it didn't effect my brain like everyone said it would.
I try to smoke a little but even one hit and im blitzed, my tolerance is REALLY low, as soon as i hit it once I'm stoned- maybe i should try eating it?
 
it has to be tolerance IMO, or you're smoking a different strain (very likely) that is more prone to make you think about yourself and life (sativa dom). The high changes quite a bit once you've been smoking for a few weeks/months and it's much more comfortable. If i quit for a while and get really high I will become very introspective, self-conscious and paranoid but it goes away after the first few times.

I'd like to see some proof of cannabis causing a chemical imbalance. Sometimes it makes me anxious but there's at least some evidence and reasoning behind why that happens.
 
I think people are a little quick to blame mental illness on a chemical imbalance, whether it be caused by drugs or not. Granted, drugs may complicate the issue but the good news is there's no evidence depression is even caused by a chemical imbalance in the first place.

Unfortunately the SSRI companies have led us all to believe otherwise in order to sell their drugs. In any case, it's a gross oversimplification of something really quite complex. Trying to take drugs and supplements in an attempt to 'fix' such an imbalance is going about it the wrong way IMO. Whilst antidepressants can be useful, I think looking at other areas of your life is probably more realistic. I can't say it enough, CBT can work wonders, even for serious depression and anxiety, as can exercise and healthy eating. I know it's a cliché, but a problem solved is a problem halved - in other words it helps to talk to people about your issues and to express how you feel.
 
Chee$e said:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...e-only-drug-that-you-CANNOT-use-all-your-life

Unfortunately, your glory day's are over homie. It happens to the best of us.
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Allow me to just say that Cheese here is quite mistaken, which is exactly why i closed that thread he created. In fact if you read the thread you will find a number of examples of bluelighters who HAVE gone back to smoking weed after a long time and it was great.

It sounds to me that perhaps some underlying anxiety is causing you to get too introspective instead of just enjoying it. I felt like this alot after i had to move back in with my parents to recover from a nasty addiction to MDPV.

Try to spend some time working on those internal issues and then give it another shot.
 
Well I had been addicted to oxycodone, hydro, then methadone for a few years and ive been clean for about 6 months now- still seems like yesterday... and the last time i tried smoking (after being completely clean from everything) it still hit me the same way- but youre right it makes things i think about anyways only making them seem way worse. I guess if i can get past those thigns i could enjoy the high but it seems like once i get past one thing there is another thing look down at.
 
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Allow me to just say that Cheese here is quite mistaken, which is exactly why i closed that thread he created.

Try to spend some time working on those internal issues and then give it another shot.
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How would you know he is mistaken, maybe its an assumption...but he could be right.

You could be right too but to be honest neither do you know any better.

No one knows how it will effect the OP but a lot of people do reach that point where marijuana is no longer a valid option....for some it just continues to be a negative experience and continuing to attempt using a substance that results in impaired mental health seems rather irrational...thats just my take on it. I don't know why people(even though I fall into this category) feel its necessary to take risk with a drug resulting in bad times.

IMO, you closed a thread that was worth a valid discussion but instead from the high horse perspective you drop your opinion as if the response of others isn't valuable.

Your bias has shined through one again....
 
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yteek said:
How would you know he is mistaken, maybe its an assumption...but he could be right.

You could be right too but to be honest neither do you know any better.

No one knows how it will effect the OP but a lot of people do reach that point where marijuana is no longer a valid option....for some it just continues to be a negative experience and continuing to attempt using a substance that results in impaired mental health seems rather irrational...thats just my take on it. I don't know why people(even though I fall into this category) feel its necessary to take risk with a drug resulting in bad times.

IMO, you closed a thread that was worth a valid discussion but instead from the high horse perspective you drop your opinion as if the response of others isn't valuable.

Your bias has shined through one again....
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You misunderstand. I at no point have said that everyone will react the same way to weed, in fact that is what i pointed out by closing that thread. The thread was basically an argument for weather a person can smoke weed all their life and it will be okay. But such an argument is pointless because EVERYONE REACTS DIFFERENTLY TO WEED. There is no way to know if weed is going to loose its magic for you when your 20, 30 or 50 if EVER.

When i said Cheese was mistaken it was because he implied that pot looses its magic for EVERYONE at some point, which is untrue. There are plenty of people who, as you may or may not have read in that thread, have neevr had a problem with weed ever. There are such a verity of experiences, and there is NO way to know how its will effect you.

My only biased and my reason for closing the thread is when anyone suggests that a substance will have a certain effect on everyone. Such suggestions are ignorant.

The reason i pointed out the positive experiences was to point out the fact that there are obvious examples to disprove Cheese's theory: that nobody can smoke weed all their life.
 
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