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Why do i feel hopeless without weed?

buzzmarlie said:
This worked for me:
Make some Tom & Jerry strawberry flavour hash-cakes, make sure you put a good 1/4 in, after all you are making 12 cup-cakes. Bake & allow to cool. Eat 5 of them one after another! Get very dizzy and dis-orientated. Puke violently non-stop for about an hour until all the muscles in your neck and torso are throbbing with pain due to the wretching. Then pass out. When you wake up the following day you may still feel nauseous, just sip some water and slowly eat an orange.

Hey presto, I now no longer want to go near Marijuana of any description! I even gave my last 1/2 oz to my Dad!
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haha, that sucks.

I always feel a bit mopey when I decide to take a break from weed, but sounds like there's more to this than a simple case of "oh god i miss weed".

If you've just moved to a new place you should get out and about and meet people, maybe take up a few hobbies, start exercising regularly etc to give your day some structure and excitiment which should help lift your mood.
 
good advice about going to the gym, finding activities to occupy yourself, dealing with depression, etc.

one other thing i noticed is that this may be sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy you've set yourself up with. you believe that marijuana is the solution to your problems, and thus that not having marijuana will cause you to be unhappy. it's going to be a hard association to un-learn at this point, but if you start looking at marijuana as a treat or an enhancement, rather than a necessity (i promise, it is not a necessity), it will be a lot easier to deal with its absence.
 
Go play laser tag with your friends, go to a movie, get some good books, exercise, start playing pool, go to a concert... just do something. It's the best way to kill boredom, I swear. =D Use that money from your new job/the money you would normally be spending on weed to have a good ol' time.

Also, do all those things with close friends who don't smoke. That way there will be no temptation to toke up when doing one of the aforementioned things.

Above all, it's gonna take time. You've previously used drugs to kill boredom and slight depression/anxiety, now you're going to have to find other ways. Don't give up, it's very possible.
 
Moonmixer said:
Go play laser tag with your friends, go to a movie, get some good books, exercise, start playing pool, go to a concert... just do something. It's the best way to kill boredom, I swear. =D Use that money from your new job/the money you would normally be spending on weed to have a good ol' time.

Also, do all those things with close friends who don't smoke. That way there will be no temptation to toke up when doing one of the aforementioned things.

Above all, it's gonna take time. You've previously used drugs to kill boredom and slight depression/anxiety, now you're going to have to find other ways. Don't give up, it's very possible.
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A lot of the time smokers don't have any friends that don't... TIME TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS.
 
Horrux said:
A lot of the time smokers don't have any friends that don't... TIME TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS.
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Yeah seriously, that's where I'm at right now.

I don't want to "ditch" my pothead friends, they're still friends and we get along well, but I need to meet some new people I can relate to who I can hang out with without feeling tempted to smoke.
 
Fohat said:
Yeah seriously, that's where I'm at right now.

I don't want to "ditch" my pothead friends, they're still friends and we get along well, but I need to meet some new people I can relate to who I can hang out with without feeling tempted to smoke.
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For me it came down to not seeing the potheads anymore. It didn't matter either way, since when not smoking I realized we had surprisingly little in common.

Seriously, I feel that pot is one of the most damaging drugs out there, ESPECIALLY because it appears on the surface to be so benign and is so socially acceptable. Only heroin is worse IMO.
 
^ It is pretty damaging that is why I said do some other drugs on ocassion sometimes. Weed is not highley addictive (It is pretty addicting though) all drugs are better enjoyed and better for your health when used ocassionaliy.
 
Horrux said:
For me it came down to not seeing the potheads anymore. It didn't matter either way, since when not smoking I realized we had surprisingly little in common.
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Yeah I've kind of noticed that too :(

It sounds pretty despicable but we really act like junkies with eachother. One of us will invite over the other and we'll pretend to be cheerful but really we're just like "when's he gonna whip out the bud/call his dealer/why isn't the dealer here yet?"
 
Fohat said:
Yeah I've kind of noticed that too :(

It sounds pretty despicable but we really act like junkies with eachother. One of us will invite over the other and we'll pretend to be cheerful but really we're just like "when's he gonna whip out the bud/call his dealer/why isn't the dealer here yet?"
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I have friends like that... eventually I realized a couple of them weren't like that, and capitalized on it by hanging out with them way more, and it worked out well.

Weed is not highley addictive (It is pretty addicting though) all drugs are better enjoyed and better for your health when used ocassionaliy
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Also, dats da trufe. =D
 
double ewe said:
good advice about going to the gym, finding activities to occupy yourself, dealing with depression, etc.

one other thing i noticed is that this may be sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy you've set yourself up with. you believe that marijuana is the solution to your problems, and thus that not having marijuana will cause you to be unhappy. it's going to be a hard association to un-learn at this point, but if you start looking at marijuana as a treat or an enhancement, rather than a necessity (i promise, it is not a necessity), it will be a lot easier to deal with its absence.
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thats so true. for years i believed that marijuana was a necessity. i didn't see how i could enjoy life or get by without it.
 
Dont let your life revolve around bud, let bud revolve around your life.
 
I thought my anxiety was better but i actually think its way worse since i quit......

and depression is obviously way worse

also i have like fucking social anxiety now... everytime i go out in a public place it feels like im getting panic attack.......


I dont believe marijuana is the solution to any of my problems... I just LOVE it..... the way it makes me feel the way i sleep the way i eat.....

oh well...... ill get over it...

atleast the terrible nightmares stopped and i can sleep at night
 
I'm going through the same thing right now. On Tuesday my parents found out about my oxy "habit" I developed over the past six months or so...and are now drug testing me.

I've got 11 days until I go off to college. For so long I relied on OC and weed to relieve boredom, stress, anxiety, and mild depression.

Now I can't do either of the two things I love most. Almost all my friends are elsewhere as they already started school about a month ago, I have no job, and little motivation to do well, ANYTHING, at this point.

Concentrate on one day at a time. Look at every day you go without smoking as one step closer to freedom. Freedom to enjoy life sober (although even I feel like this isn't possible at times, it clearly is as many others have already stated).

This is something that will take time. Don't expect things to be better right away. Hang in there and good luck. <3
 
Doing something that keeps you busy, like exercise of some kind, can be a great help IMO.

I use to smoke a big one, then go rollerblading at night in the city, headphones blasting Techno... So I don't do that anymore, coz the "magic" element is missing. Weights thought, that's fun.
 
Horrux said:
Doing something that keeps you busy, like exercise of some kind, can be a great help IMO.

I use to smoke a big one, then go rollerblading at night in the city, headphones blasting Techno... So I don't do that anymore, coz the "magic" element is missing. Weights thought, that's fun.
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It's tough when you were basically stoned all day every day, because the "magic" element is then removed from your whole life upon quitting. :\

BTW, rollerblading after blazing & listening to techno sounds awesome. :D
 
Yeah the reason I mention weights is that, if you keep it up, your brain will release a pleasant amount of endorphins (similar to morphine) after the workout. That is a VERY healthy high and a damn pleasant one at that. Of course you have to do it hard enough and long enough that it does kick in, which might take at least a couple weeks before it does.
 
because you are addicted and have forgotten how to enjoy life without bud, your entire social circle is potheads who's only social activity is smoking, or you were unknowingly self-medicating for depression (and i'm in no way saying bud is a bad treatment for depression, i think it's perfectly legit unless it's making you anxious and paranoid) and now have no help with that issue.

these are just possibilities btw, not saying these necessarily apply to you.
 
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