I smoked weed a few times and it never done much then one time I smoked some medical weed and at first I was fine then I started talking and it sounded really weird in my head which caused me to freak out, soon after that I left my friends and started walkin home alone, someone hunk a horn at me which made me even more scared bcz I thought to myself that this never happened until I was high. I went home and layed down to go to sleep, after that my heart started racing so I jumped up I felt like I was (trapped in my body) and I was scared of myself, I had weird head feelings the day after and days after, I never felt the same but after a while I got over it and felt normal. Then I ended up trying it out again, once again it didn't do anything to me for a while until I smoked some strong ish and it had me tripping out again, this was recently so I still have anxiety but I kno I will eventually forget about it and get over it, once i do I will NEVER smoke weed again, it's (not for me)!
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Smoking dope is to anxiety what fuel is to a fire. Smoking dope makes you paranoid. Stay away!! If you don't, it will not be long before you start suffering from anxiety without even having smoked anything. It is NOT a road you want to go down, believe me.
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A few weeks ago (maybe even months) i started smoking marijuana every now and then, nothing major then once at band practice i smoked more than usual and had a panic attack.. i felt like i was gonna pass out and i went really light headed, and the noise of our band playing seemed to effect me as well, in a way which i cant explain but it was a surreal feeling.. i sat down for the rest of band practice and was really shaky and that seemed to be the end of it..
now a few weeks ago we did a gig in my local town, since that attack and this gig i had only smoked marijuana very lightly and infrequently (maybe twice?) and while at sound check at this gig i had that same attack, felt like i was gonna faint, very nervous etc.. between that sound check and the actual gig i was very nervous, didnt feel myself.. felt almost drunk? since that gig, I've been nervous literally 24/7, get nervous about anything and have had another attack in an exam. Sometimes i feel really dumb, and like i can't focus or engage into situations properly, or process things as naturally as i used to, i forget easily now and i'm just not myself.
I'm tried taking stressless and kalms but i dont feel like they're having much effect, and im going to go see a doctor about this.. what else is there i can do?! :(
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This pretty much happened to me. I'm 16, and I did a little weed a few times. On the last time, a few months back, I had a panic attack, my first one. It lasted about 20 minutes and I was able to calm myself down by watching some TV. I waited it out and it was all good, and for a good month or so I was fine, except for some little random dizzy spells that were not really a problem. Then a couple weeks ago during a math test, I had one. I knew the feeling so I was able to calm myself out of it really quick, so it only lasted a few minutes. Ever since, I've had dizzy spells, numbness, light headedness, and weird tingling and sensations all over my body. Although, I've only had about 2 more full blown attacks. Getting to sleep is hard because I always think about it which causes it. It really is annoying.
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another way an anxiety attack from pot can occur is if ur very baked and u forget to breath enuff it causes ur heart beat to go up or even low blood sugar which can make u passs out so if u experience these problems make sure ur eating and that u take sum good breaths not to much tho i have experienced these problems my self 1 time i thought i was gonna die and that i was laced little did i know it was low blood sugar 1 time i even started hallucinating and passed out but i looked up the symptoms and it turns out thats wut happens when ur blood sugar is dangerously low it can happen to any bodey especialy if ur skinny and ar on medication
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Hey I stumbled along this post. I've dealt with much of the same experiences you have. I used to smoke bud just about daily, as I was a freshman at college just livin' the high life. It was a lot of fun, and me and my roommates would all smoke together and go out and longboard or just BS around, you know -- the usual stuff.
Anyways, after about 7 months of heavy smoking, it was finals week and I took some concerta (ridalin) because I thought it would help me focus for my pre-calc final. I really wanted to do well. So anyways I took a 20mg pill and I didn't sleep at all that night, I just stayed up studying, and I didn't eat much either. I took another 20mg pill before my morning final and went and took my test. I aced it, but afterwards I felt kind of shaky. I just shrugged it off, like yeah, that's normal. So then I went and had a little victory smoke sesh with my roommates and friends and we went and smoked a glass blunt and a joint or two. I hadn't smoked all finals week, so I got super high. Then I started to get a little paranoid about being caught. The next thing I knew my heart was pounding insanely hard and fast, and I was like "guys, I'm done, I'm too high" , so I just tried to relax. But I kept thinking about my heartbeat, and it seemed like I was getting higher and higher. So I'm like guys I'm going back to my room.
So I went back to the dorm and then things took a turn for the worst. I started shaking and my heart was just pounding. It felt like I couldn't be still, even though I just wanted to so badly. I was starting to freak out, from all the adrenaline (no doubt) and I'm like alright maybe I can go run this off. So I went outside and started running, just running, to nowhere in particular. But I couldn't escape the thoughts of paranoia, and now my breaths were getting even shorter. So I started walking and I just felt crazy. I walked for blocks down this street trying to clear my head, and my body, but I was just getting more paranoid. Then I got to this crosswalk and I had a crazy experience, it was like I lost control of my thoughts and they started racing a million miles an hour, just like omg this is insane, im dying, wtf is happening, my heart is beating too fast, etc. and then I had like an outer body experience, the only way I can describe it is like I was viewing my life from third person, or it was like I was able to consciously thing "wow my mind is going crazy" while it was going crazy. That sounds weird, but that's the only way I can describe it.
Anyways, my friend called me, and he knew I was in trouble and I tried to back and sleep, but I just had this general feeling of restlessness, like I couldn't sit still. So he drove me around in his car with the music and we went to a park so I could try and calm down. It didn't really work. I was super close to checking myself into the university hospital, because I thought I was honestly going to die. So I ended calling my parents because I didn't know what else to do. I was still tripping out, and 10 hours later I drove home on the interstate. I couldn't even listen to music because idk it just was 'too much' for my mind. I drove super fast like 90mph the whole way.
Anyways that was the worst day of my life, and things continued to get worse. I ended up having panic attacks where i couldn't breathe and sh*t, and I just felt impending doom and I would just start crying. Too add to it, I started experiencing other physical things besides racing heart.. my chest would get super tight, my head and neck would get tight, and it would feel like my head was just constricting. I went to the ER one night and they gave me xanax. I went to a counselor and a dr and they put me on anti-depressants. I started on prozac, but that just made me feel even worse, and depression. I went through a month of pure f*****g hell. I itched on the inside, things went to fast and to slow, I felt no connection to anything.. Finally, I got a prescription to lexapro and it's done miracles for me. I've got my life back, and I've only had one minor panic attack -- when I woke up pretty hungover with the spins and my heart pounding. I was able to control it though, using breathing techniques and positive thoughts.
Just wanted to share. I thought I knew everything about marijuana.
Know your sh*t, don't mix bud and prescriptions, everyone reacts differently. And if you have anxiety, don't smoke anymore. And don't research anxiety and your symptoms on the interent, you will only get more paranoid hearing everyone else's stories.
Peace and good luck to everyone.
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hi,
WELL, im 28 and have been smoking weed heavily from the age of 18 and have recently quit.
It all started when I went on a road trip to meet a friend, we ended up doing mushrooms. this was the second time in my life and all was fine, had a blast, came back home, and about 10 minutes after walking in my door, my heart started racing, I started pacing, thought I couldn't breath. It was horrible, I ran next door and had the neighbour calm me down. It lasted about 30 minutes. THought that was weird
ANyway, went on with my life, continued smoking pot.... then one night after work, I came home, as usual, put a movie on and lit a joint. Half way through I thought about my panic attack a few weeks prior and started to feel the same thing happening. This one was TERRIBLE, pacing, racing heart, my whole body was vibrating, hot cold, literally thought I was going to die. I was going to call 911, but phoned a friend instead and he came over and talked me down. THis was the worst thing I had ever felt in my life. THis was about 2 months ago. I stopped smoking weed, terrified this would happen again. But.... now I am plagued with anxiety and Mini panic attacks. I'm not thinking straight, almost like I'm not really here. Things like busy stores, bright lights, even smells would trigger anxiety. Hard to focus, someone could say something and it didn't even register in my head... that is so frustrating. Also felt it got worse after a night of drinking. last week i walked in to work and had an attack and actually had to walk out. Thats when I decided to go see a doctor.
I told my doctor that this would happen after smoking weed and now it seems to be happening at any given time. She explained to me that a small percentage of people have this reaction to weed, it causes a chemical imbalance. She assured me it's treatable however can take up to two years to get totally back to normal. She gave me a prescription of adavan for the bad days and a prescription for cymbala. This is an anti depressant, I have done some research on it and have decided not to go on it. I'm going to try and get over this myself.
I find just keeping my mind busy with hobbies. i ride horses, and never have anxiety while riding or by solving problems like crosswords or taking something apart and putting it back together , I'm a mechanic.
I hope to god my brain goes back to normal, some days I just don't feel like me, almost feels like I'm acting like me as crazy as that sounds. I am so glad that I found this thread, makes me feel like I'm not alone. I will never touch weed again and hope you all don't as well. I live in BC to boot and the weed here is so potent it's ridiculous.
Good luck y'all
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im so glad i found this site. i thought i was the only one feeling those anxiety attackz. Thankz everybody , i hope we can all get over this torturish BS .. its soo hard , but we can do it .. Lets be positive PEACE OUT , ONE lOVE
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Here is my story.
I am 17 and have had social phobias and anxiety issues my entire life.
After trying many different meds, my parents took me to a naturopath. When she couldnt come up with any fixes, my uncle told my parents about how weed has helped his ptsd and anxiety. They did not want me to try it, but my dad was finally convinced by my uncle to try it once.
What a diffrence! I was free! I was me!
My dad now grows it for me to be sure there are no chemicals or pestisides in it.
This has changed my life. It has given me my life back!
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Thanks for posting this i'm pretty sure i have the same thing, but i smoke weed a lot. You we're probably paranoid about trying weed and that's what triggered you having anxiety. People say it's supposed to "chill" you out, but really if you have anxiety problems weed would be a hard thing for you to do everyday or even maybe once it depends on how paranoid you are about it. I am still working on controlling it... id LOVE to be on pills for it but i don't think they would prescribe them to me because of my age. They usually will only give them to people who are 17+ and they don't really even like giving them to 17 year olds unless necessarily. Before when i didn't have my anxeity well controlled when i was sober id get chest pains when id take really deep breaths and i could feel my hear beating and just the sound of heart beats now give me anxeity or thinking about it. And i'll also get were i get super cold.. cover up then get super hot.. very annoying. I usually take a bath and get better :) But when i smoke weed... doesn't matter how much it can happen at any time and when it does it feels like i'm dying! I feel like my heart is literally beating out of my chest and reality was a lot different... everything felt different like if something touched me it would feel like magnified by 10 if you get what i mean? like i would feel it more then i would sober. The first time it ever happened to me was my 3rd time smoking weed... i was okay for a little bit untill someone sprayed axe on my boyfriend and had a lighter. I'm afraid of fire and then i began feeling weird... everything went quite and i got a pain so terrible in my chest i thought i was having a heart attack. i screamed so loud at the top of my lungs i'm sure i've never screamed that loud before. after a while my boyfriend calmed me down and i fell asleep. :D see.. not a heart attack, or i would of died. Just a bad anxeity attack on weed.. the weed makes it feel a lot different. After a while you learn to deal with them.. i actualy had one two nights ago alone though i took two hits and bam.. i started shaking and feeling a little bit of chest pain but not as bad as it usually would be so i think i'm taking controll of it but it's still the worst feeling in the whole world. If you're paranoid what weed will do to you DON'T DO IT!! and you can be not paranoid about it and still get this after a while. I've read about it happening and know someoen who i's happened to. I hope this helps some people! :)
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Hey you guys,
Around September last year I was coming back to my Home after smoking at a friend's house, after 3 months or so of no weed. We hit the ice bong, and I maybe had 2 hits before I felt really weird and said I had had enough. Immediately I began to fill very paranoid, first I felt like we were being watched through the windows, and that I could not trust the people I was with.So I start waking home and the whole way I felt as if the walkway in front of me was stretching so that I would never get there. I felt like I was walking like a robot and that the police would get me. I finally got home, but had to go pass the front desk assistant. I felt as though I smelled and look high and that she would rat me out to campus police. I got to my room and couldn't open the door for what felt like an hour. I finally got inside and tried to turn on my computer, with no success. I tried to turn on the music on my phone but I couldn't turn on the screen. At this point I started to really freak out. I had nothing to focus on but my thought and body. I felt as if my heart was missing beats and I couldn't breathe. I sat under my bed and tried some breathing exercises, but for the life of me it didn't seem to work. Finally I called my mom and told her I was freaking out on weed and to calm me down. She couldn't and I ended up in the hospital where I was so out of it they nearly put me in the psych ward. I love weed, don't get me wrong, but ever since that experience I have had more respect for it as more of a experience then a drug. I tried shrooming a few months ago and I realized that drug can seriously open our mind to the information that we normally over look, like the number of bumps in the wall and the smells of a crowded room. I think what happens to us who endure these anxiety attacks is an overload of info our brain is used to ignoring. I one does not learn to overcome and direct this focus, that weed and other hallucinogenics will forever be only a high or freak out to them
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its normal for a person to have anxiety but panic attacts are all in your head , you have to block those thought and if you did have them just calm yourself down by thinkin you are not in danger , i am goin thru this and there is hope <3
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So here's my story too:
I'm 18 and I used to smoke once in a while and nothing would really happen I would just feel light and happy. But I decided to try something more heavy so I tried a brownie and the first time was funny, I just laughed and had a great time with my boyfriend. The second time I tried it though it was another story. I felt like I couldn't feel my jaw and then all of the sudden my legs started feeling heavy. My vision was choppy and I couldn't really hear what anyone was saying. So I told him that it was time to go home. But I started freaking out, I puked, and then I passed out in the street. Someone called 911 I ended up in the ER and I don't remember much but I remember getting home and sleeping. The next couple days were a haze but then it was better. 2 months went by and everything was fine but then I had alcohol in Mexico and boom since then on I've been having panic attacks, depression, and agoraphobia. But I've learned to manage. I keep calm and replace all bad thoughts with good memories. That and I'm therapy and trying to get a Service dog to help with my symptoms. Remember don't stay inside because it'll only make it worse.
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I'll start off saying that I'm 18 now and haven't smoked weed in almost a year now. I tried it for the first time in my first year of Jr High and I loved it. I got into the habit of smoking it a few times a week and then eventually everyday, once, twice or three times a day.
This didn't cause any problems for me until I reached the 11th grade. One night, I was out getting stoned with some friends and I was cool for about 10 minutes. I took a massive panic attack, (first I'd ever taken), and it scared the sh*t out of me. After going through all of that I promised I'd quit. The next day, however, I passed it off as something the drug had been laced with and decided I wasn't going to quit, only to experience another panic attack that same day.
I later went on to find out that one of the friends I had gotten high with the first night had also experienced a panic attack, although not as severe.
To the point: I've smoked weed since then and all I've experience were feelings of being way too stoned because I took massive breaks in between doing it. This leads me to believe that it could be the grade of sh*t you smoke, seeing as how where I'm from the weed that travels around is always from somewhere different. Also, everyone reacts differently to things and there are many other triggers to anxiety. Your anxiety could have just built up to it's limit and then you pushed it over the edge, who knows. All I know is that I've tried it since then and it hasn't had the same effect, funny how things work sometimes.
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Your post is excellent, I focused on being "pissed off" at my anxiety and it was enough to snap me out of this spiral. I'm not a drug user, but of the blue I began having panic attacks a week ago. They weren't focused on anything, which made them especially frustrating. How do you rationally deal with fear of fear, which is totally irrational to begin with?
I don't think that approach would work for everyone, but for me there is a difference between being "pissed off" and angry. The feeling of "pissed off" is more productive and a confident call to action (as you put it "bring-it-on") than idle anger. Its the kind of mental trick I use to fight physical pain during a marathon, "bring it on, make it worse, I love it!"
There's no feeling like a panic attack, its like your reality is on fire everything good, every good thought you can muster burns away into a caustic emptiness that is filled with idle, inward facing panic. Then once the panic attack is over, there's the mental fatigue, that fear of the fear returning. All you can do is try to stay neutral, but there's this creep that keeps you sliding toward the spiral.
Instead of waiting, try isolating the anxiety, talking trash to it, then dismantling it one irrational iota at a time, savoring every little whimper as cycle breaks down. Then hope for it to come back, just so you can go another round with the anxiety, ripping it apart.
Hopefully this helps someone else as much as it helped me. I'm going for a run. Have fun curb-stomping some demons.
I don't think that approach would work for everyone, but for me there is a difference between being "pissed off" and angry. The feeling of "pissed off" is more productive and a confident call to action (as you put it "bring-it-on") than idle anger. Its the kind of mental trick I use to fight physical pain during a marathon, "bring it on, make it worse, I love it!"
There's no feeling like a panic attack, its like your reality is on fire everything good, every good thought you can muster burns away into a caustic emptiness that is filled with idle, inward facing panic. Then once the panic attack is over, there's the mental fatigue, that fear of the fear returning. All you can do is try to stay neutral, but there's this creep that keeps you sliding toward the spiral.
Instead of waiting, try isolating the anxiety, talking trash to it, then dismantling it one irrational iota at a time, savoring every little whimper as cycle breaks down. Then hope for it to come back, just so you can go another round with the anxiety, ripping it apart.
Hopefully this helps someone else as much as it helped me. I'm going for a run. Have fun curb-stomping some demons.
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