Does weed make you depressed?

I saw the South Park episode where Mr Mackey tries weed and LSD, and he said "marijuana makes you feel depressed and low". Is he talking about while high, or a longer term effect?

In the pot culture, I've been finding alot more depressed people than in the sober culture. My dealer is depressed. Half the smokers I know are depressed. People on this message board are saying they are depressed.

Of course, it might not be the weed that makes you depressed, i'm aware of that. The depression might be a symptom of the fact that you're doing something "bad" and illegal. Or maybe smoking weed is a symptom of depression, someone felt they needed to do something bad and illegal because they were depressed.

Is there a psychological connection, or is this simply a coincidence?

yea it makes me depressed. until i smoke a bowl.

Weed helps me tremendously with bouts of depression. I have used it with amazing success for years now. It centres my mind on a plan to overcome the negative emotions and motivates me to keep on keepin on. It filters out the self doubt/self loathing that accompanies depression and filters out negative thoughts that cycle and infest the mind.
I am taken away from the emotional connection and to the logical root of the problem It helps me to analize the root issue that caused the episode.
It helps with my anxiety in much the same way.
It refuses to allow my mind to fester in a negative state. It rises above all that and can see itself with a sense of sympathetic detatchment.


However if you ask our government about it they say it CAUSES the depression in people. They believe this so much that it is stipulated in my medical exemption application that it will not be approved for use by persons with a history of "serious mental problems like depression..."
So I must pretend I dont use it to treat the issues they claim it causes or they will deny me it all together.

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Originally Posted by FunkyMonkey

It filters out the self doubt/self loathing that accompanies depression and filters out negative thoughts that cycle and infest the mind.

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At this point, you sound like weed helps you ignore your problems, like booze.

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Originally Posted by FunkyMonkey

It helps me to analize the root issue that caused the episode.

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And then you sound like you're the only one on earth that knows how to properly deal with emotional stress.

So which is it?
:p

Stop being so arrogant. You asked for info and I offered it.
You cant expect to come on condescending and have me elaborate any further for you.
Im not here for your entertainment. I was trying to help you understand by giving you some insight into my own experiences over the last 15 fuckin years.
We're talking about how I deal with depression and you want to pick apart my post for a laugh?
You appear to be more interested in some fucking game. I dont play.
Fuck off.

Its like this, weed makes me more happy when Im sober.... but when Im high i lose all my self confidnece for some reason.

See, Like when im high and I look in the mirror(I usually smoke in my bathroom, so its always there and its like the whole wall lol), I find something thats wrong with me physically and I get really self conscious about my looks, so then ill try to work out or cut my hair, or brush my teeth or whatever im feeling negative about i try to do something about itas if its not there. Then i realize its still there and i get semi depressed until i find something else to do.

when im not high, but i have weed, im really happy and usually social, because i know either way what happens good or bad, Ill have some bong rips to look forward too.

So no it doesnt really ake me depressed, but while im stoned im more self conscious than usual and lose my self confidence. But not all the time, sometimes i can just chill without even caring bout looks or stress or whatever it is, but i have to have music in order to do that.

EDIT: BTW I am 17, and i guess part of my life right now is trying to look good all the time for girls, so maybe that plays a factor

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Originally Posted by WeBB15

Its like this, weed makes me more happy when Im sober.... but when Im high i lose all my self confidnece for some reason.

See, Like when im high and I look in the mirror(I usually smoke in my bathroom, so its always there and its like the whole wall lol), I find something thats wrong with me physically and I get really self conscious about my looks, so then ill try to work out or cut my hair, or brush my teeth or whatever im feeling negative about i try to do something about itas if its not there. Then i realize its still there and i get semi depressed until i find something else to do.

when im not high, but i have weed, im really happy and usually social, because i know either way what happens good or bad, Ill have some bong rips to look forward too.

So no it doesnt really ake me depressed, but while im stoned im more self conscious than usual and lose my self confidence. But not all the time, sometimes i can just chill without even caring bout looks or stress or whatever it is, but i have to have music in order to do that.

EDIT: BTW I am 17, and i guess part of my life right now is trying to look good all the time for girls, so maybe that plays a factor

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its like you read my mind. Big ups to that man, you couldn't of hit the jackPOT any harderrr...

yeah not having weed makes me depressed..but if I have it...hell naw mang

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Originally Posted by FunkyMonkey

Stop being so arrogant. You asked for info and I offered it.
You cant expect to come on condescending and have me elaborate any further for you.
Im not here for your entertainment. I was trying to help you understand by giving you some insight into my own experiences over the last 15 fuckin years.
We're talking about how I deal with depression and you want to pick apart my post for a laugh?
You appear to be more interested in some fucking game. I dont play.
Fuck off.

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LOL chill man, sorry I didn't mean to sound like that.

A lot of deppressed people try to self medicate with pills, pot and or alcohol. I don't think it is a coinincidance at all that a lot of stoners are depressed.

It only depresses you in the sense that when you don't have it, you're in a state which is not normal for you. Most of us are used to being high most of the time. If we're not, we're just not feeling normal or not feeling the way that we'd like to be feeling, and that depresses us. Also it's the fact that marijuana sort of supresses negative behaviour and negative thoughts, and when we're not high, we're very vulnerable to those feelings. Also, as somebody else mentioned, it has to do with just having weed period. I know that when I don't have weed and have no way of getting it, it puts me in a bad mood because I'm deprived of something that is very important to me. It's not that I rely on it or anything, but it gives me something to look forward to when I wake up in the morning, and simply put waking up and not having it or knowing that I can't get it, puts me in a bad mood. Just my 2 cents.

No. But stupid threads like this do. :)

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Originally Posted by 1e64102e

No. But stupid threads like this do. :)

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Amen, motherfucker!

its been a LOOOOOONG time since ive been with out but when i don't got it im depressed i can' tgo to work with out smoking my self out lol

in started smoking weed as an anti depressant !!! works fine for me ... of course whenever i dont have it for a few days i go back to my normal depressed self like i was before i started smoking

either use pot or unknown pills the doctors try to push on you so i would stick with pot

ok yea weed definatley makes me depressed, like ever since i started smokin, whenever something goes wrong i just get all depressed and shit and i always feel like im alone and have no friends. nature is my only friend. i like to smoke a couple bowls and walk in the woods and just enjoy the peace and comfort and naturalness or nature. and then i come back to the real world were everyone is yelling and bitching and pretending to be someone their not and it makes me so sad i wanna cry.

im not depressed at all. i am a little bored when im not high but not depressed. weed makes me love life to the fullest. for me when im high every little thing is so awesome. it makes me happy.

Yeah dude!
the only time weed makes me depressed is wen i dont have any....
like now. :(

im out too. but i found a bowls worth by looking in all my empty bags and pickin up crumbs. yay

i allready done that this mornin. now im really out!

my cuz should have some, ill have to give him a call and speak nice to him!

Just hang out with chill people. I think weed can make you look @ whats wrong with your life a lot more deeper then when your not high. Highschool years are tough for a lot of people, all the hormones, girls, being popular. Fuck that shit, it's all bullshit. Just be yourself. I ditched a group of good friends to hang out with the so-called cool kids, and when I look back @ myself I realize how much of an a-hole I probably was to some of my best friends. I just wanted to be @ every cool party, and hang with the hottie females. After highschool I think is where all the fun begins, you should definately find your comfort zone by then. When I look back @ it all I don't really have any regrets, maybe I could have learned a little more, and smoked a little less.

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Originally Posted by IntrepidS

It only depresses you in the sense that when you don't have it, you're in a state which is not normal for you. Most of us are used to being high most of the time. If we're not, we're just not feeling normal or not feeling the way that we'd like to be feeling, and that depresses us. Also it's the fact that marijuana sort of supresses negative behaviour and negative thoughts, and when we're not high, we're very vulnerable to those feelings. Also, as somebody else mentioned, it has to do with just having weed period. I know that when I don't have weed and have no way of getting it, it puts me in a bad mood because I'm deprived of something that is very important to me. It's not that I rely on it or anything, but it gives me something to look forward to when I wake up in the morning, and simply put waking up and not having it or knowing that I can't get it, puts me in a bad mood. Just my 2 cents.

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THIS MAN JUST EXPLAINED IT ;)

also if you are depressed before you smoke... when you come down you will feel even worse because you are used to feeling so up... which is the explination of come down depression... kind of a perspective depression...

think about this... have you ever ran out of weed (no biggie) like always... and gone to your hookup and they are out... you feel fine, till you can't locate... its based around the same concept

it's called mental dependancy... it happens... don't be nieve... when im in a long relationship i build a mental dependancy to sex too... it seems our human nature is one of dependencies and habitual activities