dishonestresponse t1_ixv1ni5 wrote
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Just based on my own experience, start cutting back on drinking and smoke as much weed as you want. Alcohol is not helping your depression. In fact, it's most likely making it harder for you to get out of your depression. I wish I would have realized this sooner. You probably already know all of this but I know I still appreciate reminders sometimes. Best of luck. Depression and addiction can be a bitch.
MarmaladeMarmaduke t1_ixxb88q wrote
Thanks. The drinking was honestly never really my thing but I'm on probation currently so I can't indulge the weed and I absolutely need something to relax after work so this is the year of being an alcoholic for me. I'm not addicted though. I don't have any booze currently and won't be able to get any for a week and I'm fine with that even though I've been drinking a half gallon a week for about 8 months straight. I don't think I get physically addicted as easily as some but I get mentally addicted easier than most.
StoopidHippie t1_ixv2pwm wrote
Absolutely! The herb will help you, the drink will destroy you.
garry4321 t1_ixv8qe1 wrote
Not necessarily. There are tons of weed smokers wasting their life away addicted (yes psychological addiction IS still an addiction) to smoking weed. I’ve known tons of stoners just wasting their lives high in their parents basement. Couldn’t go an hour without smoking.
DonaldTrumpIsTupac t1_ixvbtsy wrote
Maybe those guys just suck as people anyway, with or without drugs.
garry4321 t1_ixvcq00 wrote
They aren’t bad people, they are just pissing their lives away addicted to weed. Weed is helpful for some people, but saying that weed is the solution for everyone is dangerous and incorrect.
The fact that they need to smoke and will literally mould their days and activities around getting high is just sad. They would be doing so much better if they just quit and didn’t have to be high 24/7.
I say this as someone who smokes weed too. I’m sick of stoner culture and the whole “weed is the ultimate cure and has zero negatives” lie that stoner culture pushes. Weed is a drug like any other. Sure it may not be as physically dangerous, but it still can fuck up people’s lives.
hayseed_byte t1_ixwjfd6 wrote
Anything done to excess is bad.
If they sat in their mom's basement drinking grape juice, I wouldn't say the grape juice ruined their lives.
Or if instead of getting high, they sat down there playing minecraft, I wouldn't say minecraft ruined their lives.
garry4321 t1_ixwk3y4 wrote
Yes, but grape juice isn’t a drug that physically gets you high, so that’s quite a false equivalency to compare juice to a literal drug. Grape juice also doesn’t have scientific evidence of it interacting negatively with lots of mental illnesses.
What I’m saying is that the whole stoner culture of acting like weed is some cure-all and is 100% helpful and better for everyone to be doing; is just plain dangerous. It’s a drug, and like any drug it has negatives and DOES ruin lives. Maybe not as much as other drugs, but we need to stop pretending it’s a perfect substance.
idigclams t1_ixvmzsh wrote
This is the hard truth. People who are assholes are assholes, in which case drugs and booze just help them be bigger assholes. At least someone smoking weed in their parents’ basement isn’t likely out robbing people for a fix, or drunk driving, or killing their own kids to appease some imagined demon - things people claim they have done because of an uncontrollable physical addiction.
browtfareyoudoing t1_ixvva7c wrote
Yeah weed isnt the smoking gun that is their bullshittery lol
They definitely don’t need to fuck around with the hard stuff though.
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