[mirimir]

Be careful using weed to mask depression. It does work, in my experience. But tolerance can develop over time. It's nowhere near as dramatic as addiction to tobacco or heroin or benzodiazepines. Yet there is the risk.

Also, dogma and accepted practice notwithstanding, "depression" is a morass of symptoms, not a well-defined disease/condition. Testing treatments is hard, because symptoms subjective and placebo effects are huge. And worse, GPs tend to cluelessly prescribe popular SSRIs/SNRIs, and those can make bipolar folks seriously crazy. As in psychotic. homicidal and/or suicidal. Especially younger patients, apparently. So be careful!

[rmetzler]

The author had withdrawals from her medication which wouldn't happen with marijuana. At most you won't sleep that well for a few nights and then experience vivid dreams. And often a sativa strain works well to give the patient motivation to exercise, which seems to be basic but important when fighting depression.

[DanBC]

I wanted to point out how dangerous your post is.

There's a well known risky time during treatment for depression in people with suicidal ideation. Those people get more motivation, and are more able to do stuff. But they still have strongly negative thinking and suicidal thinking. They are more able to kill themselves, and many do.

> motivation to exercise, which seems to be basic but important when fighting depression

There are two links in this thread to the science that show exercise probably isn't that useful to treat depression.