why is it for some people...

how come weed will make some people feel good and happy and for some it makes them paranoid and depressed?

I've pretty much given up on weed because it makes me paranoid. i just wish i could experience being high without freaking out.

i wonder if people who cant enjoy it have some underlying mental and/or emotional issues?

 

yeah i think it has something to do with underlying issues and personality. sort those out and you should be able to have a nice, mellow high.

 

yeah, i guess its pretty simple... i learned in psych today that if u get high when your depressed, you get a depressed/anxious/paranoid high... if u get high when ur happy, well... you get a happy high. which kinda makes me wonder about myself, cause im high right now and im paranoid, and depressed, and thats how it has been for the last month or so. whatever.

 

It all depends on your state of mind and happiness prior to smokin up. And, one of the biggest factors is who your hanging out with. If your chillen with people who are sayin "oh shit, cop!" at every white car they see, then yeah that will make you paranoid. Try smoking at different times during the day. Just switch it up a little bit and it might help. I hope this helps, peace =]

 

mindsate, setting, and doseage... same with all psycoactive drugs

 

for me its gotta be mostly my setting. if im at a friends house where no parents are home, and some good friends are over, (aka no chance of getting busted) i wont have one paranoid thought. but sometimes if im smokin all alone with my parents right upstairs ill get paranoid bad.

 

about 90% of the time i can have a good happy funny relaxing high anyplace anytime, but occasionally i get myself into weird mind funks and i get not so much paranoid but reaaally depressed and upset.. once i got so mad at the fact i use the computer it was weird..

 

I swear, I came on here to make the exact same thread!

Crazy.

I'm usually mellow, and pretty obnoxiously high.

I think I only had one or two 'bad trips' though.

 

lol the first thing they should have taught you in psych is that not everything is textbook because this is the human mind.

Smoking weed has never once made me depressed... when I used to smoke even if I didn't feel myself and was like idk if I should smoke today, I would just roll a blunt and smoke it for the fuck of it... I would end up in a really happy mood. And there are people out there like me; some are my friends.

 

well , when i first started getting high, i would be on lunch break at school, and was worried about toomuch shit to enjoy myself and got right paranoid. it sucked for me because everyone else was so mellowed out. but you know i got over all of that. one time i was with a very good friend of mine and it was just me and him and he just let me be totally myself and it felt so good. nothing had to be said between us, i just knew that i could relax and it was amazing. i love him for that. ever since i just learned to relax a whole lot more and it is sooo much more enjoyable, in my opinion.l learned to just go with things and not sweat the small things that happened

 

um? first off, most of the things in that book are bullshit... i understand that just as well as you do, i completely agree. however, im saying that i can relate to that theory, and i happen to know quite a few other people who can too... im not saying that if your depressed you just go into deeper depression when you smoke... i mean, alot of times when i smoke i end up solving problems that im going through... however, thats mostly because weed forces me to face them, and allows me to see things in different ways.

but i can see what your saying, that everything isnt by the book, and mj is one of those things... its different for everyone, and there are alot of different factors that contribute to how your going to feel when your high. i just learned that in class... whether its true or not, i know it seems to be true for me, so i thought it was interesting... just giving some advice, thats all.

 

Yes I wasn't trying to like insult you or disprove you for no reason, just illustrating how the human mind can vary so much.

 

oh i know man... there's truth in what we both say. its hard to pin down what its gonna do to a given person.. it just varies so much by who the person is, etc. you're completely right. im just saying that she could be a "texbook case", ya know? in a lot of ways i am, thats the only reason i would suggest that. but your right, most people arent necessarily like that.

 

Everyone has different highs for different reasons. I'd say its about as understood as a black hole. If working out your subconcious doesn't give better highs, try smoking with different people in different places with different kind of tree from different methods of blazing, etc etc. If nothing seems to help you enjoy your high, maybe you're just not wired to smoke and should stop.

 

like everyone eles said, it's all their state of mind, but with harder drugs like meth and heroin, a bad state of mind could be deadly