Blank Mind , having troubles thinking and sleeping after smoking weed.

Hi, I just stumbled upon this chain of posts after googleing "blank mind," "marijuana." I smoked marijuana one time (11 years past) and I have experienced the "blank" feeling. I couldn't tell how much time was going by, was late to everything, felt catatonic yet acted outgoing. It was awful. I had panic attacks, couldn't sleep, did not feel like myself, felt disconnected from emotions/myself/people, depressed. It has gotten better over time. I would say acknowledging it helps, taking good care of yourself and not being stressed out, not doing any illegal substances. I always thought the weed might have been laced with something.  

Quit smoking 12-24-14... (4 days now) im going out of my mind not sleeping!!! Maybe 2-3 at the most before i wake up and just toss and turn. I never imagined this would be happening. I did get heavy on smoking, causing this issue for myself. Not eating, crazy dreams and the lack of sleep moat of all. Hopefully this passes soon. Im so ready for a steady sleep regiment!

I'm going to address the lack of sleep and the issue people are talking about as far as feeling "blank" minded or dissociated and lacking clarity. I have this issue of feeling blank or dissociated or like time is passing too fast when I'm smoking heavy strength buds at high frequency for a long time, but not when I stop. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the hell was going on but then I realized I'm still smoking and worrying about smoking. I would try to address it by achieving the maximum fitness and best eating habits possible. I would get in great shape. But I couldn't shake the effects of being a daily smoker and this crazy feeling of depression and lack of being present. I couldn't have my cake and eat it yoo. I had to quit smoking. You have to stop entirely, cold turkey. If after two weeks of complete quitting you are having serious mental focus and dissociation still, I do the following things. What is interesting is that by the time you realize you're completely better and back to the real world you want and rembered, you also realize you never left and never actually had the problems you thought you were having. You just forgot what which one felt like. When you stopped smoking, your brain couldn't tell if it was back to normal or not. (Afterall, you smoke weed every day then you enter into a completely altered reality as part of your brains routine) Then you yourself start to question things and confuse your self. Your brain couldn't subconsciously make the smooth transition back to reality the way you remembered reality. Because of that, you became aware that the transition was not made and start to doubt things and feel like time is passing weird, like you're not connected to society, etc. I do these things and it fixes me to the point that I couldn't remember what that weird state of confusion even felt like. I was just normal again. Get up early and take an .5 to 1 hr walk alone as the sun rises and if you can then as it sets. Just walk. Get that adrenaline going and just go with the flow. Get in tune with sun rise and sun set. What were things that worried you while you were smoking a bunch? Try to work out anything that way making you weird while smoking a bunch. Like contact your and family just to say hey and see how their day was. No other reason. Be social. Try to make a new hobby or friend group or something that you really like. Get a new thing. Read some books that are easy and enjoyable reads and just lose yourself in it. I'm talking Harry potter easy. By the time you get all that in I promise you're going to wonder how you got so freaked out in the first place. As for the sleep issue - the lack of sleep will pass. I'm two days in, this time. In 3 hours it will be 50 hours of 0 sleep. Strangely I feel decently. It's weird for me because I have gone through a few periods where I'd smoke for a year or more, EVERY day, probably 10 to 20 times a day. (Volcano vape). Then, I'd quit cold turkey after a drunken night where I smash my pipes and declare myself weed free for at least a month, sometimes 6 months. I'm 26 now and this is probably the 4th time I've declared I quit and actually stopped smoking. This time is weird though. I'm talking 0 sleep. Not a f*****g second of it. The prior times I'd have restless nights but I'd still fall asleep and get a couple hours. However, I'm also at a totally different stage in life now. I have complete confidence I will get some sleep tomorrow and be basically completely normal sleep wise after a week. I know you all are going to sleep too.

I have had the same problems, i read this page whilst going through some troubles thinking clearly myself. The issue could be you that have problems in your life & when you smoke you forget about it all, but it builds up in the back of your mind without you realising. It manifests into problems thinking clearly because you sub conciously suppress unwanted thoughts so often you then have to try & think about other things. Deal with all if any your issues in your life, take a load off your shoulders and think about any problems you may have been putting off. Get back to reality simply by being you! Weed is there to heal, not to abuse! Smoke less weed, confront any issues you may have, and live in peace! I hope this helps anyone who reads this, you can have peace of mind again! •Psychiatrists create more problems than they solve, & so do most pharma-meds! •If you're feeling like you shouldnt smoke that joint, then don't :)

It also helps to simply acknowledge any troubles you may be going through. Get in touch with your emotional side, think about how things make you feel.

i am also suffering from this desease.what can we do to feel normal again? please reply me fast this means the world to me.

I got like this from one Smoking session. Had smoked weed once before and should have seen the signs that I can't handle THC very well. I was slightly giddy but shaking like mad. This was when I was with my boyfriend. He was in a band so easy access to weed. Near the end of our relationship I felt my depression coming back (something I had struggled with before). When we broke up though, that's when it hit me really hard. It felt horrible. I was so desperate that I decided maybe a spliff might make me happy again, but only worsened how I was feeling a lot. So now I was even more depressed/anxious and depersonalized to the point of madness. And on top of that paranoid af. This was over a year ago. If only I had read this post then lol -_-

The feeling is like a living hell and what makes it worse is the lack of clarity in the mind, therefore much harder to overcome this feeling. And it's even harder when attending school and seeing people.

I'm doing alright now though and have got this far without any sort of medication. It's hard but you have to get through it without meds, it's the only way. Do lots of exercise, eat right, write things out, get a new hobby (like guitar), but whatever you do, you must keep going. If you're going thru this and reading this, lots of people have gone through this and it is absolutely horrid. But it will get better, only if you keep going. And try your best not to take meds, you have to listen to your body and mind, not suppress it. If something is on your mind, write it out, or tell someone. If anything, make this your life goal, to get back to a state in which you feel normal again. Keep going out, keep living, and think positive thoughts x

one day i smoke weed and got super high and thts my first day and stupid frnds offers me actually and its wz a bong i tken 2hits and my brain feels like am going to die So its been like 7mnths and same feelings like am on high

Would love to get more info on the self awareness stuff

I've encountered this myself. I've smoke weed plenty of times over the course of 10 years, not constant. I smoked one night after I've already been up about 24-30 hours. Ended up staying awake for 5 days. Absolutely restless, felt to tiredness whatsoever. On top of that I started to lose the grip of reality. Paranoia kicked in. Even resorted to the bible and upon opening it, my brain completely changed the text to it. As if it was no longer available. This making me think I landed myself in Hell. I felt depersonalization, couldn't stop my racing thoughts. Couldn't even control what thoughts popped in my mind. Scariest f*****g thing I ever been through.. it isn't permanent. When I went to the hospital they pink slipped me, misdiagnosed me with schizophrenia even after I told them I was sleep deprived. It's been a year since you've posted this, I hope you've returned to normal and that you haven't succumb to suicide or something else

Hi mate seen your post and your not the only one ive had this for 3 and a half years now. Its getting to the stage where the only cure is suicide. I went from being heavy on weed at 14. I inhaled dehodrant cans, took a few drugs and then one day i woke up and i wasnt there i felt like a walking dead the only thing that works on my head is my eyes. I have no emotions no feelings i do not want to do anything at all i havent left my room properly in 3 years even thoe i have a job but as soon as i finish im home and physically cant engage in any activists or occasions as my head just wont let me. I have lost feelings for all of my family and my girlfriend of 4 year. I am still with her as she is helping me get through it and can understand the way i feel. My family thinks im joking and dont understamd one bit. Ive been to over 50 doctors appointments. Physicatries. Counsellers and they do not no what im suffering they put it down to depression. I stopped smoking weed for 1 year and no change i still felt like a zombie like id left my head. It feels like im asleep but im awake. My right eye is blurring. Opticians said there is no problem with my eye and its as strong as my other eye but i know its fading. My smells amd taste have gone. Its like i have gone and physically left my body. When im reading and writting and when in working out maths questions its like im a 5 year old. Ive always been top class and had good grades and now im a living dead. I could go on for days telling you mate. I wake up every morning hoping i didnt wake up ive had this for neallly 4 years im now 19 ive got to see a new physiciatries soon and if there isnt a cure then i cant go on likes this my life is wasting away

Hey, I wish you hadn't began taking all those medicines to combat this side effect from weed. Recently, I got high for the first time and afterwards I could not think or feel any emotion (I am an A student attending University classes and have a history of PTSD, depression, and anxiety) Although the affects of THC did combat my depression and silence the voices of my anxiety, it came with a price because I took way too much. I am now 3 weeks in and have just began hearing a little bit of the "voices" of my anxiety in my head beginning to come back. See, THC remains in your system for the max amount of 3 months and there is no real way to flush it out of your system than just waiting the three months and steering clear of weed all together. The high can "resurface" during the first month for some people and for others this may be different. For now, I am going to stick to taking CBD, a legal compound found in weed that gives a calm and relaxing feeling for up to 3 hours when inhaled. However, I have heard that if you mix cbd with thc (with the right ratio) then it could be safe without such overpowering side effects, but of course the ratio would be something drastic like 20:1 in order to avoid the high but still benefit from the chemical aspect of THC. If you are interested in finding CBD the website I use is ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** posting of web addresses is not allowed*** Please read our Terms of Use they have different forms of cbd for everyone including creams, vapes, herbs, gummies, and capsules. I hope that I was able to help whomever gets to read this, I know how difficult it can be. Sending y'all good vibes!

You falsifying you're own sensation bye taking weed , you miss programmed you're brain, drugs cause dramatic and immediate decline of you're intellect and reduce the ability of repair itself, it's like you want to fake you're mind or exercised the rules that make it function normally.

Bro this sh*t is happening to me I thought I was the only one or I was tripping out

Hey, i myself believe I'm going through the same thing. I smoked for about 3 months straight with no days where i didnt smoke in those 3 months. The first few months felt actually pretty good. I loved the experience of being high, it was very enjoying. It also comforted my anxiety very well. Anyway, the last month of the 3 i started feeling differently. I believe weed triggered depression for me. I was still able to communicate while high tho. This depression stemmed form family circumstances and weed had me overthinking everything. Its like each time i smoked it got worse and worse. I went to see a family doctor and i was made an appointment with a phychiatrist. Now, the last 20-30 times ive smoked weed, its like i lost my identity. And while high, my mind went completely blank, making me not so fun to be around. I was just sitting there thinking while everybody else was talking. It is so bad. I haven't smoked weed in id say close to a month now, but i was smoking less and less because of my screwed up head. In school, i would sit there and put headphones in while everybody was socializing, because i just couldnt. Its like impossible even to hang out with my once were best friends. My mind just goes blank with me not knowing what to say to the people i could have conversations with for hours. Now when im alone, again, its a whole lot of nothing that goes inside my mind. Im not the person i used to be. I watch things like movies and TV shows for entertainment but i dont really have any emotions. This is so frustrating. Like i have zero emotions like im so dull. And with this happening, i find myself thinking about depressing things making myself more sad. I went out with a few buds to play ball and i was conversating well for about 20 mins then its like my mind just went blank out of nowhere. Now again, when im not talking, people tend to think i dont care about them or im just a mute. I miss how i used to be a year ago and if i had to go back i wouldve never started smoking weed, but i dont really blame myself as like i said, when i first was smoking, it was a great  time.