Smoking helped me go through my depression because it always pick me up and makes me think better of myself. At first I thought weed was part of what caused my depression but I was wrong, well maybe just a bit. Part of my depression was because I was feeling lonely and at first I thought, well smoking doesn't help at all because it makes me want to socialize even less right? Wrong, with time I realised that I was my only problem, the ideas I make of myself and the fear of being rejected/not being good enough was the real problem that I had to work on to make my social life better. When I'm high I don't feel as lonely because I start talking to myself in my head and boost my self esteem thinking, hey why do you worry so much, you're a good guy you should think better of yourself, go out there champ and I'll be more laidback not caring about what people think of me as much and find it easier to socialize, aslong as I don't smoke myself retarded of course then I will just feel like dozing off lol. So the reason I said it both doesn't help and help at the same time is because, it makes me think better of myself, worrying less and such, but at the same time it also makes me not care being alone as much anymore once I'm high so it's a 2 sided blade, it's a good picker when I'm feeling down but I've come to realise that it's not a solution to my problem and I will have to get out of my comfort zone and work on myself in order to make my social life better! And I have since then, things have been been better overall since I came to realization about what I just wrote, and of course it happened when I was high, because all the positive ideas come easier when I'm high since I can leave all the negative aside for the moment
Well that was my 2cents!