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I think Weed gave me mental health problems

I think that weed may have given me mental health problems. Firstly i understand its impossible to prove cause and effect however some of this stuff may be interesting/ useful to some people reading.
I developed depression soon after smoking weed with my friends one night. Although I never smoked it again, ever since that point I developed severe mental health problems and I have developed some other disorders along the way.
About two years ago I smoked only a few hits of weed and I felt extremely strange and particular anxious. I didn’t think anything of it but soon after I was diagnosed with severe depression and generalised anxiety disorder. It’s impossible to prove cause and effect but I had never suffered with depression befor this point and I used to be so happy and excited. I completely changed over a few weeks.
Fast forward two years and I have every symptom of severe depression as well as a dissoaciative identity disorder( which I’ve had for a few months), as well as psychosomatic pain disorder(which I’ve also had a few months). Also a few weeks after smoking weed I developed a condition that affected my joints but that eventually went.
However, after smoking the weed I did notice that some pain in my body stopped. For example for about 3 months before smoking it I had eye pain that could not be explained by doctors. I went for loads of tests and had my eyes checked at a hospital and they couldn’t detect any problems. A couple of days after smoking weed my eye pain was resolved.
I ultimately will never know whether these things wouldn’t have occurred whether or not I had smoken. However, I do strongly believe that the mental health stuff was linked but maybe not the other stuff.

This is because before smoking that night I was a completely different person, I was excited,energetic, hopeful and extremely motivated with high achieving goals. A few days after smoking I started to become severely depressed and started questioning the world and it’s just gone extremely downhill since that point. The new disorder I have is where my mental state causes severe physical pain throughout my body.
This is probably a rare thing to happen if you smoke weed, however I would of loved if I read a post like this before I smoked. I had plans to study at oxford and start up my own business, and I was predicted all A’s and A*s in my a levels( I also achieved all A*s and A’s at GCSEs). Now I am in so much physical and mental pain that I am unable to keep a job and have to rely on my parents to do everything for me.
I have read similiar cases of things like this happening but it’s so heartbreaking. No matter whether smoking caused this, didn’t cause this or only partly contributed it has changed my life forever.
Reply 1
Original post by tommywell2000
I think that weed may have given me mental health problems. Firstly i understand its impossible to prove cause and effect however some of this stuff may be interesting/ useful to some people reading.
I developed depression soon after smoking weed with my friends one night. Although I never smoked it again, ever since that point I developed severe mental health problems and I have developed some other disorders along the way.
About two years ago I smoked only a few hits of weed and I felt extremely strange and particular anxious. I didn’t think anything of it but soon after I was diagnosed with severe depression and generalised anxiety disorder. It’s impossible to prove cause and effect but I had never suffered with depression befor this point and I used to be so happy and excited. I completely changed over a few weeks.
Fast forward two years and I have every symptom of severe depression as well as a dissoaciative identity disorder( which I’ve had for a few months), as well as psychosomatic pain disorder(which I’ve also had a few months). Also a few weeks after smoking weed I developed a condition that affected my joints but that eventually went.
However, after smoking the weed I did notice that some pain in my body stopped. For example for about 3 months before smoking it I had eye pain that could not be explained by doctors. I went for loads of tests and had my eyes checked at a hospital and they couldn’t detect any problems. A couple of days after smoking weed my eye pain was resolved.
I ultimately will never know whether these things wouldn’t have occurred whether or not I had smoken. However, I do strongly believe that the mental health stuff was linked but maybe not the other stuff.

This is because before smoking that night I was a completely different person, I was excited,energetic, hopeful and extremely motivated with high achieving goals. A few days after smoking I started to become severely depressed and started questioning the world and it’s just gone extremely downhill since that point. The new disorder I have is where my mental state causes severe physical pain throughout my body.
This is probably a rare thing to happen if you smoke weed, however I would of loved if I read a post like this before I smoked. I had plans to study at oxford and start up my own business, and I was predicted all A’s and A*s in my a levels( I also achieved all A*s and A’s at GCSEs). Now I am in so much physical and mental pain that I am unable to keep a job and have to rely on my parents to do everything for me.
I have read similiar cases of things like this happening but it’s so heartbreaking. No matter whether smoking caused this, didn’t cause this or only partly contributed it has changed my life forever.
You don't break your brain after smoking weed on one single occasion. It's possible, however, that it may (along with other factors) have had a part in exacerbating existing conditions.

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Reply 2
Mate your brain isn't broken, thats a *****y way to reassure someone man... But i agree, smoking it once wouldn’t give you depression. After a few months of very frequent use maybe, years perhaps. More and more studies are being done, especially with new legalisation, so hopefully we’ll know more soon. It sounds like life hasnt been the kindest/fairest, i guess it only goes up from here on ay? I've struggled with mental health- anxiety etc and its only become very apparent since ive been a daily smoker- BUT I had subtler signs of anxiety when i was younger, i think i & the world had less understanding of such issues, theres so much more awareness now. My environment has also changed alot, like im basically living at my boyfriends and went from seeing a lot of friends daily to very little group socialising, so to be honest, i think its a loss of confidence and lack of practice... You forget how to act when youre in isolation, i never struggled with speech but ive recently developed a delayed response in speech, so my brain mixes up words or squashes two words i was deciding between like i was sad/angry = i was sangry or i spend ages trying to recall a word, whilst being able to perfectly define it... & it feels like thats probably attributable to all my weed consumption 😭

Self-help & improvement has really helped me to understand myself & therefore other people. Get to know what triggers you & what gets you out of the existential void i call it. If its friends, tv, drugs, family, pets, maybe not stimulant drugs tbf, ayahuasca for some deep deep emotional healing- but deffo avoid everything that messes up chemical balance pills, dizz, coke, amphetamines.

Learn to love yourself & find a purpose, keep busy n healthy- whats the point of being sad. Controversial but i like to think its a choice, tell yourself to come out of the mindset & you might be surprised. Ive been able to snap out of some really *****y times- again only speaking from experience but wishin the best man 💜 good luck
(edited 4 years ago)
My memory has definitely been affected by all the skunk weed, even a year after ceasing to use it. This is likely because my brain isn't fully developed, may be the same case for you. There have been studies done suggesting that it inhibits teenage brain development.

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