Marijuana against depression

I'm not sure about the 'weed helping depression' thing. Could'nt hurt to try though.

 

It depends on the persons mindset and how they interact with cannabis.

I find that cannabis intensifies emotions, or sometimes nullieifies.
A person who is depressed may become nullified and even more depressed... why? Because they are using a substance to substitue for a solution to the depression. Which is a change in mindset.
Now, a person who is depressed but is willing to change or somehow comes to an epihpany while high, may just change.

It really depends on the person and the reason they use it.

Are you going to use cannabis as a crutch to help you walk? So be it. BUT, if never let go of the crutch, your legs will find it hard to support your weight.

 

And to add, i used to be super depressed, like suicidal depression with self mutilation and so forth.
I can say that cannabis helped me not want to go through with it until one day i said "fuck all depression shit"
But that took a while and a change in setting as well as mindset.
I meditated for a year straight, everyday pretty much.
Like a 24/7 natural high but with a little buddah for the buddah type mind. hahaha
 
Cannabis can be an amazing tool in aiding, but dont use it as your only solution.

 

Sativa for depression absolutely, i had deep, dark depression from age 16 and at 23 i finally was able to help myself out of the hole and now im 28 and a fairly happy person.
 
Upon showing my 215 doctor my bottles of Prozac and Zoloft and explaining that i felt relief after a few hits of a friends homegrown super silver haze he did not hesitate to give me a recommendation. Now granted i do still get occasional "seasonal depression" it is so much easier for myself to overcome
 
Most people will tell you/you will hear that it does not treat depression, i believe it effects everyone differently because i have known it to help and not to help others but for me it helped 100% and for me, SSH and Romulan were life savers....literally (Romulan is wonderful for anxiety IMO) now im not saying that it is a end-all-be-all cure, but it felt like it for me...i was stuck in an environment not totally beneficial to my mental state but i would escape every day on my bicycle to a spot out in the woods near a local lake and while it is a gorgeous area i could  not be happy...upon introducing daily herb intake i could feel my mental state improve weekly
 
Its not instant, but it helped me greatly and you have to have a strong desire to want that change, i battled depression and hard anxiety for a long time and cannabis was the "step" that helped me out of my hole and honestly without it i truly believe i wouldn't be alive today, don't consider it a "crutch" as in you need it to walk, consider it as a "crutch" as in your leg is disabled but will eventually heal.
 
And i dont even partake every day anymore, 3-4 times a week at most. if you do try it, i pray it helps you as much as it did me

 

See with me, weed has always affected me badly when I'm in a bad place and affected me well when I'm in a good place mentally, so I wouldn't use it that way. Then again, I've never been depressed for a long period of time.
 
Hey man, it's guaranteed to have less side effects than Prozac, so keep on keeping on.

 

ANYTHING is better than anti-depressants...i was once prescribed prozac, zoloft, w<span>ellbutrin and lastly effexor, all of them gave me night terrors that woke me to panic attacks, weight gain, effexor gave me IBS, spiked blood pressure, migraines, ZERO sex drive and zero appetite (wonderful right?) try to get your mind right before medicating, i would do anything...put on some good music, watch cat videos (srsly) just something to get a chuckle at first than immediately inhale...</span>

 

Those side effects would cause depression in me

 

Don't use it thinking it will solve all your problems because it won't and if you continue thinking this way your life will get worse. But if you use it to inspire ideas, and make you motivated to do something about your depression then yea it can be "magical" I speak from my own experiences. Don't expect it to suddenly change you tho, expect it to change your thinking and hopefully in a good way to push you to overcome things... If that makes any sense..

 

A little cannabis, some direct personalized intent and imagining everyone around you running around naked scratching their ball sacks screaming we are nuts!!!  should help your depression

 

try cymbalta.

 

Heard that antidepressants are like zombie pills, turn you emotionless?

 

to me its the strain...ive notice some buds will have me whistling some buds do not. "Lifesaver" - Holds its name, it is one hell of a lifesaver. It definitely brings you out of that frustration and hate and brings you to a smile and whistling the rest of the day. "Green Crack" - its good and all but does not leave me whistling but got a nice body high.  

 

 
 
Not so much emotionless for me, for the most part the best way i can describe it is like a mental "fog" kind of like that groggy just woke up feeling and then once all the side effects kicked in it was rage that i was taking all this crap and made me feel worse in other ways.

 

a good place to start in your research for the right strain would be leafly, they show each strain and what it can and cannot do. Not all strains are in their listing. I know I use it allot to pick the properties I want in my medication.
 
Cheers

 

 Exactly. the only way to really do it right is to know the strain that works for you and grow it yourself or have someone growing it for you. just getting weed on the street will not cut it when it comes to cannabis as medicine.