I discovered this sub while searching for weed and anhedonia relation. I know medical weed is used in a variety of issues, so I was trying to find positive relations of weed aliviating anhedonia, and was completely taken aback by the experiences of people here, who claim that weed has caused them anhedonia and depression.
This is not my experience, I already had PDD (persistent depresive disorder/dysthymia) before I started smoking, and as I tried diferent medicines across years, weed has become my only solution for doing stuff. The medicines keeps me from roling over and ruminating sure, but they don't help with anhedonia.
So even doctors warned me weed can cause psychosis or help develop schizoprenia in concurrence with my disiase, I've made(or tought so) the active decision to put my life and mental health on the line in exange for having at least a little enjoyment in my life.
After a little over a decade of depression, i don't have hopes for getting better anymore, just for coping and trying my best not to make my life worth being destroyed again. So i really tought weed was the answer here. But now i'm discovering it might be worsening my symptoms(??)
There is plenty information already available here for anhedonia and quitting, but most of it seems from another perspective, the one of being fine, smoking, and being depressed bc of it.
For me I was ill, smoked, and fell better for it. The ONLY issue i have materialized about weed is the fact that i NEED it. I can go a day or a week fine without it, but only because my therapy focuses on dealing with the fealings of emptynes, and bc I know that in however much time I will be able to smoke again. Because if i don't smoke i don't feel joy in doing things, and I also can't see myself in 1 or 5 years, so trying to cope with being depressed for 2+ years leads me to a path of self anihalation. I already don't think life is worth it, but because of the crutch i can enjoy the small things and moments at least, i'm afraid of loosing it all when I stop.
Edit: to clarify my query. Most people here seem to agree that weed is bad for anhedonia, i just wanted to know if that is a fact for everyone, or just for neurotypicals.