For a long while, I assumed everything the government has ever thrown at me about weed is bullshit, given the fact that most of what they tell me about everything is bullshit. However, it appears (at least in my case) something they've said about weed is fairly dead on. I've been smoking weed casually for about a year and a half now, with varying degrees of intensity over that time period. It's really been absolutely inconsistent in every way, and I can't say I've enjoyed it as much as taking a vicodin or something similar to that. Even getting drunk is more consistent.
In fact, there's only one thing that is consistent: Morning blues. By that I mean I wake up the night after smoking, and I feel like shit about myself. I hate where my life is going, I don't like who I am, I'm insecure about the way I look etc. Now I'm not sure if it's merely the contrast of being high and feeling normal, but it's undeniable that weed has something to do with depression, as I am typically quite happy/content with my life unless smoking weed on a regular basis or after a good days smoke.
My question is, do any of you feel depressed when smoking weed on a regular basis? If so, were you depressed before smoking, or if you take breaks do you notice you feel more upbeat or content with your life when you're not smoking weed? Any other info would be cool as well, like if you smoked alone or with friends, how you smoked it etc etc.
It's well documented fact that marijuana use can cause intense feelings of depression, anxiety and paranoia. You seem surprised.
At 3/5/10 05:18 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: It's well documented fact that marijuana use can cause intense feelings of depression, anxiety and paranoia. You seem surprised.
Only because of the other things I've been told about weed that are lies. That's the shame about the DARE program in America. They tell truths with lies and once you find out they lied you disregard everything they say.
used to smoke it for about 4 years, towards the end of that period i was depressed all the time, paranoid like fuck and basically agoraphobic, gave it up cold turkey and got over all that shit
feelin fine
and its a good bet that if youre getting the morning blues after 1 and a half years of smoking, within a year or two youll be getting the all day blues day in day out
At 3/5/10 05:25 AM, axlisbak wrote: and its a good bet that if youre getting the morning blues after 1 and a half years of smoking, within a year or two youll be getting the all day blues day in day out
I already had that from weeks of smoking all day. Then I stopped for 3 or so days and I noticed my mood getting progressively better. I decided I'd smoke yesterday to try to get through a part of a game that was pissing me off (Stupid, but it worked.... I don't get how I'm better at games while smoking), and I noticed that I started to feel down like I did before. I'm pretty sure the culprit is weed, but I'd like to know more about it before definitely saying that's the case.
For now, though, I'm quitting. I KNOW I have no ambition while smoking, and I don't need that shit in my life.
That usually happens to me. Most of the time, being high is much better than the real world, and that's is probably where the depression comes in. That is why I give my self a reason to smoke, for example, to celebrate winning something. Your high will feel much better and you wont feel like shit when it starts to fade.
Strange I've never been depressed when I smoke weed I'm always wanting to go out places and chill.
At 3/5/10 06:25 AM, drknes wrote: Strange I've never been depressed when I smoke weed I'm always wanting to go out places and chill.
He means when he wakes up the next morning.
At 3/5/10 06:26 AM, imightbeamonster wrote:At 3/5/10 06:25 AM, drknes wrote: Strange I've never been depressed when I smoke weed I'm always wanting to go out places and chill.He means when he wakes up the next morning.
oh I see stupid of me to skim through the posts lol.
OK so after reading the full post here's my 2 cents.
I've never felt depressed after smoking for so long but I have notice that when I go sober for a while everything is different but that's because marijuana make apathetic.
Do you take any anti-depressants or any other kind of meds if so that may be getting effected by the use of marijuana but I really wouldn't know what to tell you.
You usually smoke weed when you've got nothing else to do. Fine if you're leading an otherwise productive life and doing things in your spare time. But when you've got NOTHING AT ALL TO DO so you smoke weed ALL THE TIME, you notice how boring it is. You feel depressed at how you're not going anywhere with your life. And you blame weed for steering you there.
It's not the marijuana, it's that you're not doing anything and you've been training your brain to associate feeling high with feeling depressed about life. The mild paranoia it gives people kicks in at that point so you're fearful of using it again.
Weed is similar to alcohol in that even if you feel good while "under the influence" of whatever, if you did it for no real reason then you're bound to feel depressed when you wake up. However, if you smoke week once a week on a weekend if to even just celebrate you got through the week fine, you'll probably not be as depressed.
THC, like alcohol, is a drug. Like every other drug, you can become dependant which will only damage you and make you feel depressed.
This too will pass.
Memento mori
At 3/5/10 05:18 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: It's well documented fact that marijuana use can cause intense feelings of depression, anxiety and paranoia. You seem surprised.
Yeah and later you're going to lose your interest in wimen, all you want is weed.
So which it will be girls or weed
Drink coffee instead of smoking
MEDIC!
At 3/5/10 08:00 AM, Grizzli wrote: Seeing how cannabis is a depressant, yeah i would imagine so.
A 'depressant' is not a drug that makes you upset, it slows down your body's reactions (opposite of stimulant).
I would agree that weed does not make you depressed. If you don't have a job or a girlfriend and you're failing at school and you don't see your friends and you're spending all your time and money smoking weed; that makes you depressed. If you're not happy where you are in life, then you think about it when you get stoned (or drunk) and it upsets you deeply. But getting stoned all the time is more a symptom of a depressing life rather than a cause of depression.
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At 3/5/10 06:46 AM, Evark wrote: You usually smoke weed when you've got nothing else to do. Fine if you're leading an otherwise productive life and doing things in your spare time. But when you've got NOTHING AT ALL TO DO so you smoke weed ALL THE TIME, you notice how boring it is. You feel depressed at how you're not going anywhere with your life. And you blame weed for steering you there.
Definitely is the subject of my depression, and probably a major contributer to it as well. Not happy with the direction my life is going, but I'm much more patient about waiting it out when I'm not smoking weed for whatever reason.
It's not the marijuana, it's that you're not doing anything and you've been training your brain to associate feeling high with feeling depressed about life. The mild paranoia it gives people kicks in at that point so you're fearful of using it again.
Thing is, I feel fine about doing absolutely nothing but play video games and chat online with people when I'm not smoking. It's when I add weed into the mix I start feeling like shit about myself. Maybe I have some underlying stigma that isn't something I'm really aware about, but to me it seems like (at least to an extent) the drug itself contributes to depression.
what jesusbukkake and evark said, thats without a doubt the most useful info youll get out of this topic. if you know that its the pot alone that is making you depressed or exacerbating your depression, give it up. or just ignore the advice like i used to and just delve deeper into it and make things worse.
the french have a saying: if youth but knew, if old age but could
I smoke quite often and sometimes I have days where I ask myself deep questions,
like:
Why do I live?
What is the meaning of my life?
You laughing at me? YOU LAUGHING AT THE BEST!
tbh I think your depressed. and i dont think weed is the culprit, I think your trying to pin the blame onto something, and by pinning it on weed and believeing that it will make you better if you stop is working as a placebo in some effect.
Depression is a funny illness. go see your doctor.
Echos of what Evark said
From my perspective, I was already depressed all the time. I woke up and didn't like the way I looked, the way things were going, or anything. When you already have depression, weed is awesome, it really doesn't make depression any WORSE. Just an escape for a few hours, leading to laughter about life and even sometimes great epiphanies about how to make oneself happier.
Only when I had stuff to do but blew that stuff off because I was high. But that only happened once.
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At 3/5/10 01:51 PM, Canas wrote: Echos of what Evark said
From my perspective, I was already depressed all the time. I woke up and didn't like the way I looked, the way things were going, or anything. When you already have depression, weed is awesome, it really doesn't make depression any WORSE. Just an escape for a few hours, leading to laughter about life and even sometimes great epiphanies about how to make oneself happier.
This is true. On occasion, I would get some sort of mind blowing idea that I thought would change me if I used it. 9/10ths of the time I try it in public and realize that weed logic =/= good logic. They sure are great ideas at the time, though. I have an entire folder full of stupid shit I think up while high and write down. Mostly short story ideas about time travelers and being part of a nation that is locked in a mall and... God, it's embarrassing the things I've come up with.
I still think alchohol ruins more lives then weed will ever.
I smoked ganj through out high school, and never had the "morning blues".
Now that I'm going to university, I hardly ever smoke it anymore.
I only noticed paranoia after like the first month of smoking it, now a days i'm 100% fine with it. shame about your case .
b
Im pretty happy with all the post here too, everyone seems to have an idea what they're talking about.
b
All I can say is that if you hate weed so much, stop smoking it.
Would you drink liquor to the same degree that you smoke weed? Imagine having four beers every time you get high, that would make you an alcoholic easily. No wonder you feel like shit in the morning.
It's really not something that is supposed to be enjoyed several times a day, it doesn't work that way. It throws the entire potency off and it fucks up your serotonin.
Weed makes everything better. Everything. When you aren't high, everything is back to normal. Everything sucks again. It's pretty simple logic to see why you would be depressed with the real world when you wake up. My solution? Don't smoke as much. My other solution?
Waaaaaaake and baaaaake
At 3/5/10 02:16 PM, Canas wrote:
Waaaaaaake and baaaaake
My oven isn't working so that wouldn't really work. Thanks though.
durp.
Yeah I came to the conclusion of taking a break from it for awhile and just smoking with friends. No reason to sit around and smoke when I can enjoy myself just fine with a Mountain Dew and a good game/movie.
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