Depression and aniexty

[420MissHighTimes420]

So I've had post traumatic stress disorder and I went on Zoloft, and it wansn't strong enough so I went on Prozac and it helped, but I stopped taking it because I was sick of being on so many meds (I was on Streterra aswell but I stopped that aswell)
I smoke everyday like 2+ times a day, and I feel like it helps my depression (and sometimes my anxiety, but sometimes it will make that worse) while I'm high but after wards I feel like shit, it's like pot fixes me, but unfortunatly I can't be high all the time. My shrink tells me that even though when I'm high it helps, that smoking so much will actually make my depression worse. Is this true? Should I stop toking?

And can you get perscribed to thc for depression?

Thank you any advice is appriciated.

420MissHighTimes420 Reviewed by 420MissHighTimes420 on 05-01-2007. Depression and aniexty So I've had post traumatic stress disorder and I went on Zoloft, and it wansn't strong enough so I went on Prozac and it helped, but I stopped taking it because I was sick of being on so many meds (I was on Streterra aswell but I stopped that aswell) I smoke everyday like 2+ times a day, and I feel like it helps my depression (and sometimes my anxiety, but sometimes it will make that worse) while I'm high but after wards I feel like shit, it's like pot fixes me, but unfortunatly I can't be Rating: 5

[make it legal]

I'm really not sure. It doesn't make it worse for me at all, in fact it's the opposite. It makes me feel generally better, even when I'm not high.

[Matt the Funk]

You can get a recc here in socal for depression and anxiety. I read somewhere that it actually doesn't worsen depression. But who knows, could have been a false statement.

[420MissHighTimes420]

You can get a recc here in socal for depression and anxiety. I read somewhere that it actually doesn't worsen depression. But who knows, could have been a false statement.

Yeah I hate it there is so much bullshit online and even in books ... I never know what to belive anymore it drives me nuts. Everytime I find something I find something that says the oppisite... So I figured I'd ask you all what you feel like.

[thcbongman]

I been battling depression and anxiety for years.

Really you don't need of those prescriptions and stuff. Part of it is in your mind. You have to overcome your fears by facing them.

The other side of the equation is to eat right, exercise, meditate, and keep yourself occupied. If you stuff yourself down with a bag of chips and a few cheeseburgers, and don't do anything afterwards you are going to feel like shit.

[420MissHighTimes420]

I been battling depression and anxiety for years.

Really you don't need of those prescriptions and stuff. Part of it is in your mind. You have to overcome your fears by facing them.

The other side of the equation is to eat right, exercise, meditate, and keep yourself occupied. If you stuff yourself down with a bag of chips and a few cheeseburgers, and don't do anything afterwards you are going to feel like shit.

You are so right ... I know that exercizing releases endorphines so I should do it more ... I do eat right, although I wish something would cure the munchies!

The only problem with facing my fears for me is the from my PTSD all I did was think about what happened to me over and over agian it played in my mind to the point where I would almost black out to everything else and basically be trapped in that memory ... That thankfully stopped although I still have reoccuing nightmares (it was three years ago)
I just try not to think about the things I fear when it comes to my depression ... Like not woring about my past or caring too much what people think about me. I feel like I need to just let shit go and move on.

[thcbongman]

One thing you have to realize what mistakes you made in the past is done. You can't ever forget them no matter how much you try. Rather, these events are now insignificant in the point of your life right now. How you react to the past will define your future. Let these roots makes you the best person you can be.

The other thing is to let yourself be you. Don't let others define you, define yourself. This is when you start tasting happiness. Everyone has a degree of self-consiciousness. You have to keep pushing your boundaries, each and everyday.

Wake up and have breakfast, live another day in this world of beauty and suffering. That's life.

[420MissHighTimes420]

One thing you have to realize what mistakes you made in the past is done. You can't ever forget them no matter how much you try. Rather, these events are now insignificant in the point of your life right now. How you react to the past will define your future. Let these roots makes you the best person you can be.

The other thing is to let yourself be you. Don't let others define you, define yourself. This is when you start tasting happiness. Everyone has a degree of self-consiciousness. You have to keep pushing your boundaries, each and everyday.

Wake up and have breakfast, live another day in this world of beauty and suffering. That's life.

Thank you for that advice that was very well said ... I want to give you one of those reputation point thingys but I don't know how to just know it's there haha and I really like that you said that you can't let others define you. I need to remeber that, I always need validation from others to feel good about myself and that needs to stop.

[thcbongman]

Your welcome, I'm always here to help out my fellow cannabis.com members, as they would help me when I need advice.

One Love.

[birdgirl73]

420MissHighTimes, have you ever heard of a technique called Eye Movement Desensitization Response (EMDR) for PTSD? It's worked very well for a couple of people I know. Clinical psychologists have been using it for well over 10 years now with good response. You might look into that!