What would you do?, Cannabis V.S. Ant-Depressants Options

[turntabletux]

1st off, I don't need health freaks tell me how bad cannabis is and whatnot..I know the facts! 2nd, I'd like to hear from the people that are or have taken anti-depressants.


All my life I've had issues. I've had a shitty childhood, school days, hell I had a shitty birth. I was diagnosed with both manic and bipolar depression when I was in middle school. I don't need to go on, because that's not the point, I always say someone else out there has it off worse than me.

Anyways I've been through 5 or 6 anti-depressants and 2 sleep aids. I finally started smoking cannabis in high school, about junior year. I like cannabis 1,000 times more than popping pills. When I took the pills I felt fake all the time. I felt like everything was forced, and my days would rely on if I took a little yellow, white or whatever color pill. Half the time I felt worse than if I didn't take the pills, just because I felt fake happy, the pills are making me smile.

I've been smoking cannabis everyday all day for the past 3 months, and it's been the best 3 months of my life. I've found out what I want to do with my life, overall I've learned more about myself. I started doing my homework, and better in school all together. It also helps me sleep really well.

As much as I love marijuana, I am not stupid. I'm always tired from coming down, takes a lot of money, and it makes me stupid. It doesn't lower my IQ or anything, but once in a while I'll just say something so stupid. Like repeat something someone just said to me. And it puts me in bad positions, for example; I wake and bake and my brother calls me for a ride because he's sick. I just don't want to be an unreliable person.

So if you were in my shoes, what would you do? Would you give the pills another shot. I know a lot of people on CB are against marijuana. Thanks for reading my novel!

[erinn]

I know a person who has ADD and they dont take their pills cause they dont like things that alter their personality. And I understand what you mean about finding who you really are when you smoked. [I do occasionally]

Have you tryed switching on and off of them? Taking the pills when you dont know what's going to pop up and smoke when you know your not going to be responsible for things (such as picking up your brother).

I'm a big believer in trying then making decisions. So what I would do is if you really want/need to get off of cannabis, then try it for a few days or a week or something. If you really cant do it... then I guess we just made our decision haha.

Oh and as for saying stupid things... we all do it [influenced or not] I do that when im too tired let alone after i smoke.

Hope you can figure this out and i hope i helped in some way.

[Rachel]

Well as much I support cannabis and whatnot, I don't think you should be using it to bury your depression. It's too easy to cover it with getting high and forgetting about shit that brings you down. Although it helps manage your pain right now, in the long run it will make your depression worse. I'd suggest trying a different drug while cutting back on the weed. Once you are happier, or more stable, then you can toke when you want and hopefully not depend on it to escape depression.

[viugiufgjhfhjfhg...]

The most reasonable option seems to request a revision of your prespcripted medication, supposing that the side effects that you experienced from taking it are unexpected.

Marihuana doesn't really make you feel better, but rather works as an analgesic psychoreactive. Considering your medical diagnosis and that you have no control over the THC dosage that you have been putting in your system for 3 months, one could say you're walking on the razor's edge as far as declaring that Marijuana is actually "helping" you.

I would ask for medical advice on the subject. If THC is actually better than the combination of pills you were originally issued, then you more than likely will receive a prescription for a cannabinoid approved for medical use.

That way you'd receive the medication you need in a controlled dosis that shouldn't harm your overall condition; as well as you won't risk getting into problems with the law.

[turntabletux]

The most reasonable option seems to request a revision of your prespcripted medication, supposing that the side effects that you experienced from taking it are unexpected.

Marihuana doesn't really make you feel better, but rather works as an analgesic psychoreactive. Considering your medical diagnosis and that you have no control over the THC dosage that you have been putting in your system for 3 months, one could say you're walking on the razor's edge as far as declaring that Marijuana is actually "helping" you.

I would ask for medical advice on the subject. If THC is actually better than the combination of pills you were originally issued, then you more than likely will receive a prescription for a cannabinoid approved for medical use.

That way you'd receive the medication you need in a controlled dosis that shouldn't harm your overall condition; as well as you won't risk getting into problems with the law.

Yeah, I have been walking on a thin line lately with marijuana. Especially lately, I've been abusing it. I've had no energy to do anything except sleep. I will talk to my doctor soon. Thank you for your input.

[deletethisplease]

anti-depressants f**k you up bad... cannabis ^_^

[oXMuhNirvanaXo]

Ok, I started smoking weed last November. It made me feel the same way you are feeling right now. I felt so stupid sometimes. Like one time I was putting the wet wash in the dryer and forgot to turn the damn thing on. So, I slowed down and it made me even more depressed because I didn't feel high anymore and then I started thinking again. It sucked over all. I would say that you should toke everyonce and a while and go back to the pills. That's what I would do.

Oh, My friend. She needs weed. That's all she ever talks about thinks about and pretty much breathes half the time. She needs it to sleep every night. Wuith out she will be up all night thinking/wanting more weed. Sad really. She dosen't know how to control herself.

[turntabletux]

Ok, I started smoking weed last November. It made me feel the same way you are feeling right now. I felt so stupid sometimes. Like one time I was putting the wet wash in the dryer and forgot to turn the damn thing on. So, I slowed down and it made me even more depressed because I didn't feel high anymore and then I started thinking again. It sucked over all. I would say that you should toke everyonce and a while and go back to the pills. That's what I would do.

Oh, My friend. She needs weed. That's all she ever talks about thinks about and pretty much breathes half the time. She needs it to sleep every night. Wuith out she will be up all night thinking/wanting more weed. Sad really. She dosen't know how to control herself.

Yeah I have been smoking so much that my tolerance is really high. I too need it every night to sleep. The past week I haven't smoked because I had more important things to use my money for, and I haven't been to bed before 5 a.m.

I try not to talk about weed so much, but I think I do anyways. I like to make sure I do at least one productive thing every time I smoke lol. Although I usually just settle for popcorn and Ducktales Thanks for the feedback!

[Stefanny]

What is Cannabis?

[turntabletux]

What is Cannabis?

Cannabis is just the actual "marijuana" plant name. There's Cannabis-Sativa and Cannabis-Indica. One gives you a bodily high and the other will give you more of a "stoned, saying stupid things" high.

Cannabis

[*Uronacid*]

man tony... you sure know a lot about weed. xD

[turntabletux]

man tony... you sure know a lot about weed. xD

not me

[KissMe2408]

hm.
I've had to take anti-depressants for about a year and a half.
I hated taking them at the time, they really just sucked,
and i know the feeling of feeling like your emotions were fake
and what not. I really had no idea what to feel after a while.
I gradually just weened myself off of them. Replaced
the depressants with exercise to kick endorphins up,
and changed my diet around as well, i felt better with healthier
foods actually which suprised me. But got in touch with spiritual
side as well, which actually pulled me out of the major depression
state. I felt like i actually delt with it, instead of hiding in it.

Took up drinking for a while though, kkinda like you taking up
cannabis. I mean, you feel better and crap, but it's just
as fake as the pills. I mean the pills were horrible for my
system, changes ur hormones and shit around. I hated it.
And drinking, well, obviously wasn't good. Eventually stopped that.

You don't want to be dependent on marjiuana. If you can, try to
get off of that. But i mean, i know the feeling of not wanting the
pills anymore. I def do. But i've tried other alternatives such as
drinking and it really didn't work. What helped was just
changing my lifestyle, taking things step by step to work out
my issues, and actually talking to God helped a lot. Know that
might sound dumb, have no idea if you're a christian or not.
but that's what helped me.

I'm sorry, btw. about taking all that crap,
I know the feeling.

[ah, they also foudn out i had lyme later on, which probably
caused a good deal of the depression, or atleast to the
deepness of the depression]

[turntabletux]

hm.
I've had to take anti-depressants for about a year and a half.
I hated taking them at the time, they really just sucked,
and i know the feeling of feeling like your emotions were fake
and what not. I really had no idea what to feel after a while.
I gradually just weened myself off of them. Replaced
the depressants with exercise to kick endorphins up,
and changed my diet around as well, i felt better with healthier
foods actually which suprised me. But got in touch with spiritual
side as well, which actually pulled me out of the major depression
state. I felt like i actually delt with it, instead of hiding in it.

Took up drinking for a while though, kkinda like you taking up
cannabis. I mean, you feel better and crap, but it's just
as fake as the pills. I mean the pills were horrible for my
system, changes ur hormones and shit around. I hated it.
And drinking, well, obviously wasn't good. Eventually stopped that.

You don't want to be dependent on marjiuana. If you can, try to
get off of that. But i mean, i know the feeling of not wanting the
pills anymore. I def do. But i've tried other alternatives such as
drinking and it really didn't work. What helped was just
changing my lifestyle, taking things step by step to work out
my issues, and actually talking to God helped a lot. Know that
might sound dumb, have no idea if you're a christian or not.
but that's what helped me.

I'm sorry, btw. about taking all that crap,
I know the feeling.

[ah, they also foudn out i had lyme later on, which probably
caused a good deal of the depression, or atleast to the
deepness of the depression]

Yeah, I've been trying to change my diet as well. You were diagnosed with Lyme Disease? My good friend was diagnosed with it about a half a year ago. He had a tough time with it too. Thanks for the input!

[elaboratedream]

first off, if you're bipolar, they shouldn't have you on anti-depressants in the first place... you should be on mood stabilizers.

I'm bipolar and I know how horrible meds can be. They got rid of my hypomania and in doing so got rid of my personality.

You'd be surprised how common it is for people with bipolar to resort to drugs and alcohol as a form of self-medication. I admit, I'm one of those people.

I find that cannabis can in fact help me be more stable (in addition to being hella fun), however, daily use is getting a bit excessive.
try to limit yourself to some extent and work on managing your moods without it.

[Kontroll]

Yo, pass the dutchy from the left hand side and smoke some good sensomelia.

[falsetigerlimbs]

I have been taking anti-depressants since 8th grade, and I'm now a sophomore in college.

My senior year of high school, I started smoking pot regularly. I felt great at first - really calm and happy all of the time. But then I became really depressed and tried to commit suicide.

Since then I have gone through various binges of different drugs, and whenever I do, at some point I end up falling back into a depression.

If you have any kind of chemical imbalance, narcotics just don't help at all. It's not safe. Anti-depressants are a lot safer, and as soon as you find the one that works for you, you'll feel so much happier than you ever could have been from smoking weed.

I really hope you take this advice to heart. Not only did I attempt suicide, but I ended up at a mental clinic. All because the drugs made me imbalanced. It's not worth it.