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I didn't really mean depression or mental illness... best example I could think of is my cousin. He had an alcoholic mother, and an abusive father. They were poor and lived in a shitty neighborhood. He was still sharp as a tack and didn't have a single mental problem that he or any of his family knew about. All I know is he didn't do well in school and every time I talked to him, he'd just be either quiet or only talk (when asked) about the things that werent going right in his life. Adventually he started to just cheer up a lot, even got better grades in school, etc. He's going to the University of Michigan now (which takes at least a 3.7 GPA I think?), and I just asked him a few years ago what changed (because I knew nothing with his home life situation had changed). He said he started smoking pot... told me it was the only thing he really ever legitimately had fun doing. It kind of gave him the ambition to do things to make his life better for himself. He got a job so he could buy weed when he wanted to instead of just when a friend had it or something, he started smoking when doing his homework so he could concentrate better and that's when his grades shot right up.
The same thing happened to me but in a different situation kind of. I wasn't ever really depressed and I don't have any mental problems, but I knew I wasn't enjoying my life, at all. I started smoking, my grades got better, hell I even went to school more often because I got more sleep, etc.
I see where it isn't going to help at all if you're in need of other treatment... but I hope ya get what I'm saying. I never really meant, either, that having a rough life would be an excuse to do NOTHING but smoke weed, but from personal experience, when I was having rough times and I got high, it made a lot of new things fun that I really never enjoyed before. Like that's when I started listening to a lot of music, picked up a guitar, started riding bmx again, etc.
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