I've had very positive effects from CBD (low THC) for depression, and "...lifting mood, providing motivation and enthusiasm for life in general."
I started taking small amounts about four to five months ago, sometimes daily, sometimes not daily. It's dose dependent, and you'll need to discover what works best for you.
Acknowledging that anecdotes are useless, I'll just say this about CBD: I credit it for inspiring me to clean up my living quarters. I've been fighting depression for a long time, I'm fucking sick and tired of it, and I'd gotten a little run down and hopeless that there'll ever be a decent cure.
But since I've been taking CBD, I ripped out my nasty old apartment carpets, I installed new floors in my place, I repainted my walls, I threw away boxes of junk and accumulated stuff, I bought a Roomba, I started cleaning and making my bed again, I bought new clothes, I started regularly taking care of hygiene... I can go on and on (depression really really sucks) I smile more now and I talk to people. I've made new friends. People have said to me -- hey, you seem happier. I've been really really fucking miserable for a long time. I'm an introvert, and CBD has helped turn me outward a bit.
I know this might sound like bullshit; but all these changes are uncharacteristic of me -- I hate home do-it-yourself projects -- these are new behaviors. CBD has helped me to better cope with clinical depression. I'm not saying I'm cured -- but I'm better. I'm not saying it'll help you -- you're different.
I also think (and I've no science to back this) that CBD may have accumulated in my system to some extent. That is, I seem to need less of it now than I did in prior excursions. I take less, it does more, if I take too much now, it causes problems. If I now take as much as I took when I first started, reality can get strange. By strange I mean .... I feel some derealization .... out of body shit ... sometimes this is pleasant, often it's not.
Everyone says CBD doesn't cause you to "get high" because it has "low THC..." But in my experience, it certainly does cause different effects than THC I can describe as mildly psychedelic. It's an interesting compound. So I'm careful now with it. I dose more modestly.
The only way to know if it'll work for your own peculiar flavor of depression, though, is to take the leap into it. It's expensive af, of course, and taking it is a dynamic process. It's been quite a journey for me, and I recommend it for us sad fucks blinded by mindless depression. I don't sell it, I know no one who does, I've no interest in it except as a personal experiment in an attempt to alleviate longterm and persistent clinical depression (and of course generalized anxiety).
Edited by sthira, 04 January 2018 - 02:47 AM.