Posted by europerep on March 20, 2010, at 8:11:56 [reposted on March 23, 2010, at 0:34:56 | original URL]
In reply to differing cannbanoid effects TCA/SSRI, posted by linkadge on March 19, 2010, at 6:55:29
hm, this interesting, though I think I am not smart enough to draw any conclusions from this.. I am glad everytime I see someone is paying attention to the "bad receptors"..
this is not related, since the links do not actually talk about cannabis in depression, but in the past I have experienced a significant benefit from it. whenever I told that to someone I got the usual "yeahh, of course, it's an illegal drug, it's supposed to make you think it's good for you", but this approach is just soo superficial..
I had smoked cannabis occasionally some years ago, then I stopped, and I only resumed when someone offered it to me and I noticed how it helped me with depression. i.e., I did know how it was to just be high, and when I smoked in depression, it was very different from it. moreover, at the beginning especially, I myself mistrusted the effects induced immediately after smoking, but surprisingly, the antidepressant effect lasted throughout the following day.. "all of a sudden" I went to school the next morning, feeling rather good, enjoying talking to people, even participating in class - in short, being me again. I did not make the connection between the consumption and these "delayed" effects after months of smoking every now and then, and only feeling better the same day and the following.. in the end, I ended up smoking tiny amounts (0.1-0.2g of weed) even before school. this was surely not the best way of dealing with the depression, but it was the only way I was able to be myself again, in every aspect - socially, but also, during that time, my grades returned to where they were before depression etc.what I find most striking about these effects, in retrospective, is the immediate onset. there must be something different behind its antidepressant effects when compared to regular medication. I so much wish someone would investigate that - and possibly prove me wrong, maybe it was a high and nothing else, but I'd prefer to hear this from the scientific community instead of people having no idea of either depression or cannabis.
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