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KindBuddy

If they won't help my health problem, then I will take matters into my own hands. Hey Guys, i'm new to CheapTalk and this is just what I have been looking for. I just want to vent on this topic, "Marijuana + Depression." Nothing I feel helps me get through the day more than a couple bowls of some bud. I wonder if it would be the same for those who make the laws if they had the same problem. I have a chemical embalance and then can keep evaluating me and giving me different pills and still nothing will work. I have been using Cannabis to treat this problem for quite some time now. I'm getting sick of this, it's tiring day after day going through evaluations and tests. It's really starting to get to me, I need your guys help. Is there anywhere in the continental United States that always medical marijuana for people suffering from depression. If not states in the U.S, then how about in other countries. I'm looking to get away from all this and go somewhere where I can live my life in Happiness and not have to be afraid of hidding the treatment for my sickness. Anyone have any input or some help for me or if anyone wants to discuss this topic with me, please post! Thanks for your time!

Peace & Love - Eric :smokin:

 

Beenimon

Hey man sorry about your depression. I've been through that and I know its tough. Let me just give you some advice. Talk about it. I see a phycologist once a week to get me through my troubles and it helps a lot. I'll also say that weed does help, but its only a temporary solution since (at least in the US) you can't be stoned 24/7. I even had to take a leave of absence from my job at one point since I was so depressed. I guess what I'm tryin to tell you is, as much as weed helps, you need to be able to find the root of your depression in order to really solve the problem. I hope that helps. If you need to talk, I'm sure everyone on the cheaptalk board is here to help you, but you might need to talk to a physciatrist or physcologist to really give you some real help.

KindBuddy

I've been thinking about seeing someone and I talk alot about it with my girlfriend and sometimes that makes me feel alot better. Maybe a phyciatrist is what I need, i'm gonna look into things and find someone to talk to cause I can't go on living like this you know what I mean. It's good to know I can talk to someone who has been through the same thing. Thanks alot bro! I'll talk to you later.

Peace & Love - Eric :smokin:

poolman950

hmm well I seriously doubt you'll find a doctor who will prescribe marijuana for depression...and in any event, it's probably not a very good idea to use _any_ recreational drug to self-medicate for depression...while there's a myriad of substantially more sever drugs you could be abusing for this purpose, using marijuana as a means of "treating" depression just results in you avoiding the issues that are perpetuating it.


Here, consider these two points of mine :


1. Genuine anti-depressents help you overcome your depression by specifically working to restore the chemical imbalance responsible for it. Their use, especially in combination with effective therapy (which I strongly reccommend) serves to help you truly conquer your depression by attacking it both on a chemical level and on a psychological one. Although it might take time, personal investment, and perhaps some bitter emotional struggle, this path is by far the most thorough and healthy way to treat your problem.

2. Marijuana, on the other hand, is completely ineffective as a means of genuinely curing your depression. On a psychological level, it only serves to facilitate avoidance of the issues you have that need to be resolved through a more confrontive medium, ie therapy or self-contemplation. On a chemical level, it does absolutely nothing to resolve the imbalances responsible for depression.


I don't mean to preach, or sound like I'm opposed to marijuana use (which I'm not; in fact you could go as far as to say that I encourage it). It's just that I was in your exact same position for a long time, except that I didn't realize I was using marijuana to self-medicate until recently. If you use it for depression, you're just hiding from your problems, and, while you may not be damaging your health, you're preventing yourself from conquering your problem. Please try to take what I had to say in consideration, because marijuana, if used as you're using it, can really hinder emotional development.

KindBuddy

I'm just really confused about what I should do, let me let you guys know how much your post mean to me. Just the fact that some strangers are willing to help me with this problem is amazing and it can really show how great some people can really be. I'm going to start looking into the therapy thing. How about the smoking cannabis, do you guys think that would still be ok after I recover from this?

Peace & Love - Eric

 

poolman950

You shouldn't have any problem if you continue to smoke cannabis...just make sure you start lightly. If its something you do say, once or twice as a week (as opposed to everyday) then it will almost invariably change from being something you do to feel normal to something you do as a special treat and to have fun.

howdooyoodoo

if i'm ever depressed all i do is usually smoke a bowl or two and then i get happy, the only thing is, if i don't have any and i get depressed it really sucks cause you get used to having bud to smoke if you're down and now you don't so theres not really anything you can do. Of course if i absolutely can't get any i'll result to drinking a bit (not too much so i'm fukkin pissed) and that usually cheers me up a bit.

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KindBuddy

I smoke on a daily basis about a gram to 2.grams a day. I usually feel the same way when I don't have any bud or I don't have any money for bud. Today was a better day tho, I hung out with my girlfriend and just watched movie and it wasn't feeling depressed at all. Now im home talking to people that can help me feel better, so so far today has been a great day!

Peace & Love - Eric :smokin:

Faerywings

Hi and welcome to the site. I understand your problem with depression, believe me I do. I have struggled with depression since I was 3 feet tall. In fact I had a bad breakdown tonight over something really small. I understand that it can only take the small things to set people off too. I've seen all sorts of people and taken all sorts of pills. But through this whole ordeal I have found that I myself am not only my own worst enemy but I'm also my own best medicine. For years I went on believing that I was so depressed no one could help me, that I would never be happy, that I didn't deserve to be happy because I didn't deserve anything...yadda yadda yadda....You know who was filling my head with all of this the whole time? Myself. Hence why Iam my own worst enemy. Well, about a year ago. I said to myself one day- stop it, just stop! My life wasn't as bad as I let myself beleive it was. I was able to wake up in the morning and that alone told me that the perivious day didn't kill me. And I wasn't about to let the one ahead kill me either.

When you let one thing in your life go to sh*t, it startes a chain reaction and usually ends up making you unbearably unhappy. But at times like that there is only one thing you can do. Keep your head up and tell yourself its okay. Well, I guess thats two but anyways. You are probably the one telling yourself that you are depressed and that you are sick with a chemical imbalance. This is true and all, but learn how to out smart it. Wake up every day and instead of seeing that morning sun and thinking 'maybe I'll survive today. Maybe I'll get through it.' open your eyes and greet the sun and think 'here is to one more day that I'm going to overcome because its not going to overcome me.' be your own friend. I know I probably sound like a shrink, but then again I probably should because I've been to so many. But guess what? They are all paid to tell you the same thing. Self-confidence is key, earn it. Once you tell yourself that you can do it and you can survive, you'll beleive it. Just like you let yourself at one point believe that you were depressed.

I hope I can help you. I understand just how you feel because I live with it everyday too. Smoking a moderate amount can help too. I smoke about once a week or so and it helps me so much. I can keep my life in a realistic perspective and not feel sorry for myself. I feel for you and I'm here for you. My i-m name is Prozakstar85 if you ever need to talk. Good luck man. Stand tall and shake the sky!

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Immacumalated

Sorry dude, that's just propoganda. I don't buy it. There isn't some magic switch in your brain that you can turn on by taking anti-depressents and all your problems will dissapear. It's not simply a matter of correcting a "chemical imbalance", the root of the problem is spiritual in nature. Unless you actually figure out what's causing your depression, your only masking the symptoms and not making the slightest bit of improvement.

Anti-depressents are just straight up, psychoactive drugs, they work by putting you in such a drugged out daze that you just don't care what happens. Sure, it would be nice if you could go to the store and buy a nice big bottle of happiness and peace of mind, but it doesn't exactly work that way in reality.

Sometimes it does help me to smoke a big fattie when i'm feeling down just to get a different perspective on the situation. And 99% of the time i just realize how much of an idiot was being and then go on with my life. It doesn't MAKE you happy, it just helps to see things in a different light.