I've smoked weed for 5 years now, and for the past two years I've smoked weed almost daily (all day, every day) with a few 1-2 day breaks in there. It's come time for me to quit and I've gone 3 weeks already with no problem. I've experienced minimal withdrawl symptoms, mainly just heightened anxiety. Over the past week or so I've been noticing some symptoms of depression. I've been depressed before (before I started smoking weed) but it was nothing major. I was wondering if this is because of the weed or just because I was masking my depression to begin with. I read somewhere it takes at least 3 months for the neurotransmitters (dopamine) in your brain to get back to functioning normally. Does anyone have any experience with depression after quitting? Or was I really just masking depression to begin with?
rdizzle12 Reviewed by rdizzle12 on . Adapting to Quitting I've smoked weed for 5 years now, and for the past two years I've smoked weed almost daily (all day, every day) with a few 1-2 day breaks in there. It's come time for me to quit and I've gone 3 weeks already with no problem. I've experienced minimal withdrawl symptoms, mainly just heightened anxiety. Over the past week or so I've been noticing some symptoms of depression. I've been depressed before (before I started smoking weed) but it was nothing major. I was wondering if this is because Rating: 5