Smoking all week and feeling depressed

Cannabis is known to trigger depression in many individuals. However, the reason behind this is unclear, as depression itself can, in many cases, be controlled by the person. If you're like me, you get depressed when you simply think too much. You know, when you just get done with a nice piece of your headstash when you're all alone, then you just sit there and think about literally everything. I have a negative mindset just by habit, a byproduct of me being raised, and combine this with some rather morbid thinkiing among actual events going on in both life and politics... Just gotta be careful, bro.


Blaze satty, blaze with a friend, blaze with your girl, blaze playing guitar or painting or something... but from my experience, one shouldn't indulge when they are alone. :( Try and do something fun when medicating, stimulate your mind with something that interests you. And there is truth in SFGurilla's words; if your depression is persistent even in positive environments, there is another reason besides the pot. If things tend to go wrong, it's not really appropriate to smoke to just feel better... combine that with being alone, and it's just what I said before. :( But since I'm starting to go in circles, I'll just stop right here before I ramble any longer. Don't mind me, haha...

Smoking all day every day is a habit and no longer enjoyment, over indulging with anything is going to have a not so good effect on your well being.
A little of what you like is ok, to much of a good thing is bad for anyone.
So my advice to you dear chap is take it in moderation.

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Originally Posted by 40oz

Its good that you stopped smoking for a little...marijuana won't cause depression but it can help trigger it. Depression is a trickey thing, its like a drug, people react to it differently. Some people get angry, others sad, and others suicidal. When I start feeling the cold fog of depression descending upon and dimming the flame in my soul all I can do is ride it out and know that it is up to me and only me how i am going to feel in this life.

I wish I could give you real advice, something you can do to make the depression dissapear, but it isn't really that easy. Feelings come and go, and as a human being we can decide what feelings to dwell on or try to push out of our minds. My best advice to you is to keep on truckin, and keep your eyes open for love (it is everywhere and it is beautiful), it is the only thing that can light that flame in your soul again. The world becomes what the mind thinks, focus on the good rather than the bad.

Hope this may help. Good luck.

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as a person who lives with depression every day i can tell you that mj doesn't cure depression, it just makes it a bit less oppressive, a bit more endurable.

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Originally Posted by Greenthing

Smoking all day every day is a habit and no longer enjoyment, over indulging with anything is going to have a not so good effect on your well being.
A little of what you like is ok, to much of a good thing is bad for anyone.
So my advice to you dear chap is take it in moderation.

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Well, the depression is gone. And I haven't smoked in three days, so I guess I'll just follow the bolded advice there in a week or two.

It's been a week, I feel great again. I'll start smoking soon. I think my problem (as someone loosely mentioned) was that I wasn't really having any fun. I was just using weed to fill up time.

Thanks for the posts!

Well... sometimes i think the weed-induced depression is a phylosophical one, rather than a clinical one... like... weed makes one realize the uselessness, the emptiness of things... in last instance, everything we do is void, is illusion, as several religions states it... but most time we are not aware of it, so we live without thinking about it, we do things, we believe things, as if they were important. But then one smokes, and realizes nothing is actually important, and it makes one sad.
"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Ecclesiastes 1:18.

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Originally Posted by Euphoric7

It's been a week, I feel great again. I'll start smoking soon. I think my problem (as someone loosely mentioned) was that I wasn't really having any fun. I was just using weed to fill up time.

Thanks for the posts!

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Well done Euphoric7,:thumbsup:
Hope all works out for you, but try to remember not to over indulge.;)

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Originally Posted by Greenthing

Well done Euphoric7,:thumbsup:
Hope all works out for you, but try to remember not to over indulge.;)

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Thanks for the support!

Also, Coelho, your last post makes a lot of sense!

I"ve heard that weed changes the way your brain releases dopamine. From personal experience, low dopamine levels can definitely cause depression. To counter this you could take an L-Tyrosine supplement, which is a precursor to dopamine.

Image:Tyrosine metabolism.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have mild ADD and am on Vyvanse (l-amphetamines, like Adderall); I noticed that it seemed to deplete the dopamine in my brain and I would crash in the evenings. I took L-Tyrosine and the problem went away.

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Originally Posted by Euphoric7

I've been smoking all of last week, all day, everyday. And now as I've totally stopped for a break, I've gotten many of the symptoms of clinical depression. Does anyone have any advice or anything?

It'd really mean a lot, thanks.

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hmm, you are saying you are now depressed because you stopped smoking? I understand that completely. Sad state.

My advise is to drop it. Take charge and drop it. You choose your day so choose it well. If you can't drop it find out why and who is not letting you drop it because it is a bad time. Have a good time. Pot is around and will be there when you want it. It is not required but it is nice to have around. You can make your day so do it. Wallowing in mud is fine for a bit but there are things to do so do it instead. The choice is there with or without the cannabis.

Part of fasting is to learn your strengths. You are the one driving so take a better road.