antidepressants + weed???

i have been dignosed with severe depression and and just started taking zoloft will that conflict with my smoking?are there any problems with smoking and being on anti depressants? thanks in advance everyone get back to me

Shouldn't be.

Side note: when I got off my SSRI (Celexa) smoking helped me with the side effects. I'd gotten off it previously without smoking and it sucked. But the smoking really helped.

Not to talk you out of the zoloft - antidepressants can be very effective - but I prefer the depression to the side effects of the drugs.

Once you get on antidepressants its hard to get off and they usually end up making you more depressed.

I'd just stick to weed and fight it.

i read something somewhere that said every depression med has been found to increase suicidal thoughts even in people who didn't have them to begin with. and there are all kinds of side effects to anti depressants. be careful.

Screw the Zoloft....been on it for 16 years and I hate it. They put me on it for OCD.....the only reason I still take it is because it screws with my head when I don't take it. Tell your Doc to shove it. I smoke when I can and it is much better. :)

dont take this the wrong way im one of you "depressed" people
but taking medicine is going to fuck you up bad
just because your not comfortable in your own skin dont mean
other people like doctors should fuck with your head even more
using them manmade chemicals
once you start taking them meds and you stop
the chancers are greater that youll be even worse

my life was and is very difficult
but with th eright exercise and books and good food
and dont forget the bomb ass indo
depresseion is drug companies idea of marketing
do you think our ancestors were depressed like we claim to be
hell no they were busy fucking and working and getting drunk

fuck a depression
its all in your head

Try a natural anti-depressant like 5-HTP, no side effects, non-addictive, and it works in like a day...not weeks like that bullshit. I think anything you can get from a doctor is a bad idea, its all synthetic crap that will make it worse in the long haul.

thanks guys i cant really come off because of my parents they think i need it
but ill try and talk them out of it anyway i dont really even want it

If you really don't want to take them,and parents are forcing you; Just throw it and say you took it.

There's nothing wrong with going on anti-depressants. If it helps you get through your day then take it. This doesn't mean you have to take it for the rest of your life, it just means right now you need to keep going. There should be no shame in taking prescription drugs.

And yes, in some people, those pills can make on even more depressed. Just monitor closely your behaviour and don't do anything rash. Not everyone is the same though, and the depressed ones who take the pills and end up more depressed, is a very, very small number.

I have been on Effexor for several years, and a couple of months ago I decided to try and get off of it. Things didn't go well and suicide was in my thoughts daily. Depression doesn't hurt just mentally, it hurts physically as well. I decided I needed it so I am now back on it and things are stable again.

Some depression is only a temporary thing, until you figure out why you're depressed, but in some cases, like me, no matter what kind of life you live, that lack of seretonin is in my brain, so I need those meds. to get the flow of seretonin flowing again. The less flow, the more depressed you get.

I would be more than happy to use cannabis and cannabis alone to treat my sickness, but it is illegal in my case, and I can't go out every break at work and smoke to cheer my mood up again. I was smoking 10-15 times a day just to keep my going, and like I said, I'm at work 9hrs a day, so I can't just go out and smoke. I'd rather take a small pill once a day to keep me going.

Just keep a close eye on your mood and don't listen to everyone when they say you don't need it. If it helps, then take it.