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pot causing depression?

I agree that pot can give or take away depression. I made a difficult decision recently, I have a bit of social anxiety problems (but I don't take any pills or anythying, just bud) and I don't have many friends where I'm living now and the only friend that I have would invite me to smoke, but then he'd fuck with my head right after we did. I'm not really good at socializing and I haven't been watching so much TV or listening to hip hop so he was really making me depressed with all the shit he'd talk about me. I felt like I just didn't have anything to say to this guy and after he insulted me the last time that we smoked I had to choose weed over him. He would invite his friends (whom I didn't get along with) and they'd just try to fuck with my head trying to make me say things.

I still smoke and I feel a lot better now when I do it, but I am NOT this guys friend anymore. He ruined my experiences, I started in Puerto Rico where I was living and then when I came here to New York this dude is trying to make me look like a pussy just because he feels like it. I'll be whoever the fuck I want to be and I'll smoke weed, regardless. I don't need nobody trying to bring my self esteem down with stupid ass mind games. So yeah, I now smoke every once in a while with my girl, but nobody else since I'm moving soon.

In a month I'll be back in PR and I'll be with all my friends smoking it up and having a lot of fun with our video games and whatnot. Yeah, life is good, just not in NY for me.
 
I know that after I smoke the next day is kind of lethargic, then I have more emotional energy for the next two days. Back when I was angry at the world, people would always comment on how aggressive I was. Then after I had worked through most of the anger I would swing into very low troughs sometimes, but that was because I was not yet facing the underlying sadness that was causing all the anger. Now in the days after smoking I swing between very cheery and occasional low hours, but the swings are pretty small. So you could just be amplifying emotions that you need to pinpoint and deal with.

You could also be feeling guilty about your usage, either because you feel like others are judging you for it (get over it) or because an objective look at how you're using it shows you that it's taking over too much of your life (cut down).

If you're smoking everyday, maybe there are other effects too, I could see the cumulative lethargy building up, but I've never been an everyday smoker so I can't help you too much there.
 
I think maybe taking an asprin, or ibuprofen with your smoke might help a) depression b) lethergy.

Many of THCs actions are mediated by prostaglandins which are released as a 2ndary effect of CB1 receptor activation, and they have been shown to produce behavioural inhibition and in vitro neurotoxicity. Taking an antiinflammatory with the THC blocks the prostaglandin synthesis.
 
I was depressed long before I started smoking weed, and since temporarily quitting, I've returned to being depressed.

I think heavy weed usage is attractive to depressed people. I don't think weed itself causes depression. Just my opinion though.
 
Weed has made me a totally different person, before i started smoking like a year and a bit ago i used to think life was dull, had alot of friends yeh most of them were on pills or weed, so i figured hey why do they seem to be happy neva have down days, thats one of the reasons i started and als coz i had alot of problems controlling my anger.....now after smoking heavily for about a year now i am a totally changed person (still got anger but it seems to be all closed up inside me when i am stoned i find it is really hard for anyone to make me loose it). sorry im probably ramblin a bit arent i, just a bit stoned lol.
Oh yeh and now near enough all my mates smoke pot :)

Sorry i think i went totaly off topic there :\
 
After four years of daily usage of me; anxiety, paranoia and depression has started about 2 months. I usually start to cry and thinking about suicide when I smoke weed. I love weed, but I can't fight with my stupid mind. I have to quit immediately, I know. But I can't. Fuck depression. :(
 
weed causes euphoria. you get used to it if you smoke alot, and when your sober, your not in your normal state of euphoria you have gotten used to, so you feel deppressed
 
^^^ I think the topic was to do with feeling depressd WHILE intoxicated on weed.

Anyways, personally I CANNOT agree more. I have been smoking almost a year, around once or twice a week sometimes less. Till a couple months ago, weed was A LOT of fun, nothing made me happier gigglier, it was great......then i took weed more "spiritually" and seriously..and then CRASH....everytime i smoke up...i get real bad thought loops paranoia...NO EUPHORIA at all, just a lot of negativity .
NO matter how hard i Tried, the first hakf hour of smoking up was always negative, paranoia, bad thoughts:(
Somehow i still smoke though:\
I would recommend two things that have worked for me....
Smoke no more than 2-3 hits off a regular pipe......and try smokin shwagg...this mite sound weird, but to me shwagg relaxes me and puts me more at ease.OR if you use benzos mix the 2

my 2 cents :D
 
I'm just gonna say this. When I was smoking a bunch of weed, I was depressed, but the thing is it's a double edge sword. When you're not smoking any, you're thinking about getting it or how you can get high. When you're smoking, the high is good, but once you come down you're depressed. At least for me. So it's a vicious cycle.

Now that I havent smoked in almost 2 weeks, I feel awesome. It's like the life has been breathed back into me. I have no urge to smoke. Try it and see what you think!!
 
What's good about this thread is that all the personal accounts are real. No one is here making bullshit stories, there is no reason to unless you are totaly anti-pot. This is not the case, though. All of the individuals on this thread and the others are avid smokers who aren't afraid to speak of thier personal experiences.

And so, with this, we can see the variety of experience which people have linked to the infulence of pot. Some people report depression, some report a cure for depression, some start out fine and get depressed then become fine again. Each person dealt with or is dealing with the depression. If pot becomes a tool in this then that is fine, even if it brings the depression to the surface. This is all fine, but pot should not be seen as the cause of the depression.

Depression is always a sign or signal of internal conflict. Pot may or may not make that conflict more evident depending on whether or not you focus your attention on it. Either way, high or not, that conflict should and will eventually be worked out.

I have been depressed many times, and I have felt the influence of a high on that depression. I continue to preach (and it is starting to feel like preaching) that pot only allows for a relaxation. That relaxation allows for an efficient focus. Therefore when you are high, you allow yourself to focus intently on your underlieing thoughts if you are looking inward to those thoughts. If you link pot to depression, then you automatically set youself up to be depressed: You expect the depression to happen and in doing so you focus on it efficiently when high. When you focus on it, the reality and emotion of that depression fills you so much that it seems to encompass all that you know. Its like being trapped in a virtual world, forgetting that all you have to do is take off the VR glasses to see the world you once knew.

Objectively dealing with depression is no harder than this. A depressed state is mearly a state and all you have to do is switch states. BUT, there is a reason you've put yourself into that state and it is so that you may see clearly, right in front of your face, what conflicts you incorporate in your thought. Fix the conflict and the depression discontinues because you do not need that signal any longer.

Going back to pot: I emphasize that pot is not the cause of the depression. You create the depression so you can show yourself what problems you are creating in your life.

-Zoad
 
zoad you successfully said some things that i couldn't put in words.

i was really depressed for about a year then i started reading about what depression was and i realized that it truly is just a state of mind and that once a person becomes depressed they become addicted to the depression and thats all they can think about, hence feeling more and more depressed

i see so many of my friends feeling so depressed but yet they do absolutely nothing about it. they just sit around and bitch to other people about how bad there feeling.

weed (and drugs in general) have helped my depression because i had just lost my deeply loved girlfriend and my bestfriend was turning into a total idiot so i became depressed. then i started smoking pot and hanging around new people and oddly enough it made my life better because it changed a lot about me and helped me realize who i was.

if your feeling depressed change your surroundings. and if that means quitting pot for awhile then so be it. i rather would be sober then feel depressed as fuck
 
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well i have been a pot smoker for around 8 years and have been a daily smoker for the last 4 and have found that not all of us suffer depression directly related to smoking have a look at your environment. Are u using other drugs as well? I am currently going through a depression spiral and have related this to the use of other recreational drugs and the stressful events going on in my life. When i smoked weed and didnt use other drugs i didnt get depressed at all. hope this will help.
 
I personally think pot can cause depression because smoking too much over too long a period of time really clogs up your system. I find it makes me sluggish. I suggest a break from smoking and perhaps a focus on detoxifying your body (i.e. Hard workouts, lots of water, vitamins, healthy organic foods, et. etc.)
 
^^ AFter a heavy smoking binge, I do feel "toxified", sluggish and just clouded.

So i stop fer a couple weeks, then start again...

Moderation is the only key
 
I've been reading all these threads about cannabis causing anxiety and depression. You think it will never happen to you and then it does.

I think I've suffered from depression even before I started doing drugs and all for a little why cannabis fixed it in a crappy DIY sortoff way.

I smoked pot last night for the first time in ages, and I havent felt so good in a long time. Today,my depresseion is 3 times as bad.

So just be careful :)
 
i want to take back what i said. pot was not causing my depression, it was bringing to the surface wat was already there. after taking a short break from smoking and quiting tobacco all together it gave me some time to reflect on what was making me sad. it definitly was not pot. i now smokepot again just not as often. perhaps once or twice a week, even less somtimes.
im feeling much better now that i can think about my problems ad work on them with a clear head. this thread definitly helped. thank you all.
peace
...cat
 
when i first started smoking, i did notice i would feel depressed somewhat when i wasnt stoned.. now i dont really notice it unless i dont smoke for a long time, and then a get severe depression as part of the pot withdrawls
 
Regarding the whole deepressant issue, can we please make the destinction between a mental and physical depressant?

Xanax slows the mind down, ,definitely. Ever had deep conversations on Xanax? Heh heh...

420 def slows one's mind down. Sativa, indica, it doesn't matter. Want proof it slows ya down? Stop smoking for a few days(about 1 week).....then sit in a room, and watch a friend blaze by him/herself. Then get philosophical on him/her...... heh
 
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