Experiences - Smoking Weed and Depression

[baller747]

Everytime swim smokes weed, he goes quiet...and I mean real quiet. Swim is not a loud mouth but is a some what talkative person...when hes not high. When swim smokes weed and gets high he doesnt talk at all. He feels kind of anti-social and likes to be by him self when he is high. He also thinks really hard, so hard that he gets depressed about certain things.

Is there anyone else in swims position?

[Nature Boy]

Many people experience this to some degree. Afterall, cannabis is an introspective psychedelic drug. If it really results in depression however, you should simply cease use. What exactly do you get depressed about? This thread is quite vague.

[baller747]

Well I think too hard. Right now I am 18 and out of high school and dont have a job. When I blaze I get depressed because I don't have a job and I've been out of school for 5 months already. I get depressed about the fact that I didn't graduate from high school. I get depressed about random stuff too.

[guldenat]

Originally Posted by baller747

Well I think too hard. Right now I am 18 and out of high school and dont have a job. When I blaze I get depressed because I don't have a job and I've been out of school for 5 months already. I get depressed about the fact that I didn't graduate from high school. I get depressed about random stuff too.

It sounds like the marijuana is simply bringing an important issue to the forefront of swiy's mind. I think this will most likely continue when swiy smokes until either the situation of school (and other depressing things) is rectified or swiy comes to terms with it. I will have to agree with NB, it is probably best to stop for now - I'm sure getting depressed is not swiy's goal when smoking.

[baller747]

Thanks guy, but it's not easy to quit because when ur unemployed and sitting at home all day...theres nothing to do but blaze.

[90%.]

try smoking a different type of weed. their many strains of marijuana that make swiy act different when smoking it. some are energetic, couch lock, talkkative. swiy just might be smoking some dank ass shit.

[marek_gen]

if swiy is depressed swim would advise not to smoke weed,
this is because if swiy is depressed the chance of a bad trip is increased

[corporate_gre]

Swim's advice is to get a job then when you toke up it's more of a release, more of a reward for a hard days work than something that's mandatory to do out of boredom. Swim was unemployed for 2 years after leaving college without graduating and swim smoked almost 24/7 and it lacked in meaning. now swim has 2 or 3 in the evening and it's mostly good times

[humdroid]

A little weed can not only stop Clive feeling pished off, but can also facilitate various ideas in Clives head, which address and offer ways of dealing with the source of pished off ness.
Clive thinks daily smoking of weed is naff.
This is because, weed, being weed, inevitably runs out, the supply dries up, then the depression hits BAM!!!

[dyingtomorrow]

SWIM was depressed his whole life, and found marijuana in junior high as a cure for depression. I never heard of it causing depression to be honest. It was an imperfect cure, but it worked and made SWIM functional where he otherwise wasn't. Then SWIM found heroin, something more effective then pot and that actually made him want to be alive and participate in society, but that is a whole other thing.

[humdroid]

Originally Posted by baller747

Everytime swim smokes weed, he goes quiet...and I mean real quiet. Swim is not a loud mouth but is a some what talkative person...when hes not high. When swim smokes weed and gets high he doesnt talk at all. He feels kind of anti-social and likes to be by him self when he is high. He also thinks really hard, so hard that he gets depressed about certain things.

Is there anyone else in swims position?

Tony the pony was a chatterbox, naturaly, and the party bore/fool on booze.
He has had depressive symptoms since he was a baby, he never stopped crying.
Weed can raise anxiety like symptoms, but Tony finds, if he lays down, and shuts up, and just lets his thoughts go by like cars on the road, he can introspect, and this can be useful.
Oh yeah, thoughts can arise that initially give Tony's heart a reason to pound, but it only pounds if Tony responds to these thoughts with fear.

Tony never cried on weed, but he did find more crying and anger fits happened during breaks or stopping weed, if he had abused it, and used it too much.

[Blu_berrytoke]

Swim used to have a very similar problem. Swim is naturally outgoing, and every time he smoked, it enhanced his outgoingness if anything. For a period of a few months however, swim would not be able to stop thinking about problems. 18 and still in highschool cuz he got fukkd out of a few credits, no job, no money, no place to call home, and the most expensive asset swim had/has is his 30gb video ipod lawls. When you have problems like these, thc tends to bring it all to the forefront of your thought process, and obviously tends to bum you out. Even if you're sober and think about these problems, it probably doesn't make you feel that good.

Swim found that the only real solution is to get something done. Accomplish something, make a list of shit to get done and then do it. By the time you get close the end of the list, swim guarantees that smoking weed will once again be very enjoyable. Swim still has pretty long list, but just the fact that he's slowly crossing things off makes swim's highs much better and gives swims brain the opportunity to think hard about other more interesting things. Swim doesn't ever get depressed when he thinks hard about good things, so simply clear some worries out of the way. Good luck

[Sippin40oz]

Something that swim might want to consider is that smoking alot might cause you to be a bit lazy about your situation you know? So instead of getting out their and trying to improve your life your sitting round worrying about it. I know to most heavy smokers walking to the fridge is a major mission in itself not alone getting a job!! The smoking might not be causing you to be down but giving it up for a while can definitely help you in the long run!

[BudGreen18]

SWIM dos'nt get this problem with bud, but (i know its off topic) acid really brings out the depressant thoughs and memories in him. In my personal opinion, LSD, mesculine and other psycadelics are very similar to weed on the way that it acts on your brain. Swim has been smoking with a friend before and the friends started getting very emotional and started crying, when he asked her what was wrong, she said ''its just theres so much shit in the world, in my life, stuff from my past' and things on that level, so I have witnessed weed inducing temporary depression. But weed acts on things that are already there, and depression is a major emotion that occurs in about half of the population, so like most other feelings weed intensifies the feeling that is already there.

[Pavelo]

SWIM agrees.
One time (first and hopefully last) when he dropped LSD he didn't have a bad trip, he had a sad trip...
Just sitting and wondering why he is so mean to ppl, what he needs to change et cetera.

[C Geezy]

SWIM doesn't really like weed that much for this reason. Usually he either gets stupid high where he just feels like he fried his brain and is now retarded, or he's just really lazy and either eats, sleeps or stares at shit for a while. Not that fun iswimo

[VitaminK22]

Swiy needs to change his lifestyle, once swiy gets a job and starts earning money he will begin to feel like hes standing on his own 2 feet, he will gain self confidence and eventually swiy will realize that he cant let weed control his brain. Just remember, swiy smokes weed because he wants to, not because he needs to.

Swim used to be exactly the same, when he first started smoking weed he just left school, had no job and felt like he wasnt living, just existing. When swim went to chill with friends he would go real quiet when hes high, which made him feel out of place. It was like 1 long uncomfortable silence and he couldnt think of anything to keep a conversation going.
Once swim started his job, all of this gradually changed