Posted by kid_A on July 22, 2001, at 22:28:05
In reply to Re: Effexor XR Marijuana Use » Edward, posted by Elizabeth on July 22, 2001, at 13:11:20
> > I don't think there's much point in taking antidepressants if you smoke pot every day. It makes you more depressed.
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> I think that, like most psychoactive drugs, marijuana has different effects on different people. I can understand why you'd have a very negative attitude about mj if you feel it made you more depressed, but please realise that not everybody has the same neurochemical makeup as you. Some people get more depressed and/or anxious on SSRIs, tricyclics, benzos, and many other drugs; that doesn't mean that these drugs are "bad" (even if it would be possible to ascribe moral attributes to an inanimate substance).
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> -elizabethWhen I used to smoke pot, not regularly, not enough that I ever even really purchased it in any quantity... I would -always- get depressed or have really bad racing thoughts about why this or that was wrong and what am I going to do, sort of like my real life, but just on pot, which made it no fun at all...
After being on Geodon for six weeks (plus fxr, though I doubt at 75mg that is doing anything for me yet)... The occasional smoke does not make me freak out the way that it used to... Geodon really helped calm out the spikes in my thoughts, and has a real calming effect for me when it comes to general paranoia and erratic mental states... I could never get into pot on a long term basis though, it just sucks your will to do anything... for me at least.
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