Posted by bleauberry on August 31, 2018, at 7:03:37
In reply to MMJ and anhedonia, posted by beckett2 on August 27, 2018, at 22:24:06
MMJ is both good and bad for anhedonia.
In the short run - the first 1-2 hours of consumption, anhedonia can indeed become much less. But as the effect wears off it turns into a couch potato thing and then the anhedonia is maybe worse than before.
So it's a timing thing. You time your consumption for your activities.
That said, I know a guy who suffered years with treatment resistant depression. He was a lost cause. After they let him out of the hospital he was still suicidal. Someone offered him a joint to smoke. That was a life changing moment for him.
To this day that guy is perfectly normal -psychiatrically - and engaged in productive life. But to stay that way he requires high doses of MMJ. He smokes all day from morning coffee to bedtime and he also consumes a lot of edibles. His eyes are not red and he isn't high. His tolerance is extremely high. But so is the beneficial effect. He has no depression or anhedonia as long as he stays on high doses of MMJ all the time.
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