Depersonalization and permanent anxiety after smoking weed!

Hello if i was you i would not smoke anymore because it can cause you to have severe andiexy. i Have the same symptoms that i got from smoking weed. It wont do you any good and it practiclly ruined my life. So if i was you i would stop or i could ruin your health majorly.

I was reading that thinking, i doubt weed can cause that, then i saw you said you took .5mg of xanax? Theres your answer bud. Alot of drugs are known to cause panic attacks when mixed with weed, but weed alone shouldn't, although weed alone can cause panic attacks, it usually happens your first few times (If it does, never did for me), but if your smoking for a couple of years without any negative effects from weed, i think you may be fine =), just gotta watch your lungs, can't fill them up with smoke all day and be sitting around.

Hi, I'm 19 years old and until this point had been a regular marijuana smoker for 2 years. I was a heavy user until about 3 weeks ago when I suddenly started getting severe panic attacks. God, it was the worst feeling ever. My muscles tightened up, I was sweating uncontrollably, sever nausea, and a general state of terror. I had thought it was food poisoning. I had a constant state of nausea for the next few days, especially when I left my house. Finally I couldn't take it and went straight to the doctor. 3 blood tests, 2 urine tests, a stool sample, and an ultra sound all revealed nothing, showing me to be in virtually perfect health. So, after a week and a half of bed rest, I was feeling a little better and decided to try smoking again. Again I got a severe panic attack, this time while driving home (yes I smoked and drove...). To be honest all I wanted to do was be in a safe place like home where I would feel more comfortable. It has been 2 weeks since then, more blood and other tests still showed me to be in virtually perfect health. I still suffer from constant anxiety and nausea. I don't particularly want to turn to prescription drugs because I have heard all bad things. Is there any natural cure for cannabis induced General Anxiety Disorder? Does it go away in time. I'm sort of panicking so if anyone has experienced this and learned a way to get rid of it I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Hey, I am 30 years old and suffered a bad trip from smoking blades(hot knives)  one night when I was 19. Previously before this I had smoked weed easily a hundred times prior in many variety of ways. Of course, people who have not experienced this bad trip, cannot relate to this but it DID in fact happen to me. I was a VERY laid back guy that had a great upbringing and had really no major issues that would throw a major loop into my life. The incident itself happened when I was away at school living in dorms and my roommate and i were smoking these blades right before we went to bed. My roommate took off and I realized I was still full of energy and tried laying down. I started feeling REALLY disconnected and looked down at my hand and it looked weird. I tried to just chill and nothing would calm me down. My heart was racing and I could not relax. I can't remember exactly how I got to sleep or even if I got to sleep that night but remember feeling REALLY anxious the next day and just could not relax at all. I was having panic attacks off and on the following months and they slowly went away, however, the weird/depersonalization feeling remained. To this day I feeling I am still feel anxious and edgy alot of the time but b/c I have a laid back mentality I can almost live a normal lifestyle. I also have sinus and head pressures that may or may not be related. Dizzy spells sort of like vertigo among other things. I have 2 kids and beautiful wife and great career. Things are good but I am going to move towards putting this in the past. I have been doing a lot of reading lately and think I really have to add more exercise to my life and remove caffeine. Start focusing on healthy lifestyle and see how things go. Will keep you posted. Please contact me if you feel your story is simililar to mine and we can chat. Take Care :)

I used to smoke pot a few times a week when I first went to college. It was fun and all, but after a few months, it became too much of a habit, and I started getting paranoid and nervous all the time. I immediately stopped smoking pot, and drinking all together. After a few months I started to feel better. I tried going back to smoking again and told my self that there is nothing to worry about, and should just have a good time with good friends. I still got paranoid. I then stopped again for about a year. 

Hey, I'm in the same boat as others when it comes to the fear of the thought of this being permanent.
We all just want reality back the way it was. I understand that. I find it frustrating and irritating, being stuck in this state of mind.
I also have many symptoms of anxiety and depression. Like the feeling of impending doom, and that I'm dying. But I keep on waking up, and I'm thankful. I just want to feel better. I've been this way since May, and sometimes it gets to be too much, and I start crying. I've smoked weed a few times in my life, but never experienced anything bad. What are all the exercises and techniques used to get better? That's all I want.

People only get paranoid because you can get sent to jail for it, cannabis is harmless..

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I'm pretty scared right now and dont know what to really do.

I'm 19 and have been smoking weed for a few years straight and loving it. I went on vacation for a little over a week and didn't smoke the whole time i was on vacation. So I get home sunday night and on monday august 15, i was with a friend and was excited to start smoking again. I took one really big, massive hit and got pretty stoned and was feeling fine for a while until i started feeling really woozy. My heart rate started going crazy, my hands and feet were tingling, my chest had a lot of pressure, my left arm went numb, i felt very nauseated and anxious and it felt like i would maybe pass out. Very scary feeling! I tried to calm myself down and about after an hour of the same feeling, i asked my mom to take me to the emergency room. only when i got to the hospital did i start to calm down. they ran just about every test on me and everything came back fine except a really low pottasium level.

Well i thought that if i just start eating better and get more pottasium that i'd be fine. NOW THIS IS WHAT IS WORRYING ME.

I got out of the hospital monday night and the next day, tuesday august 16, i woke up feeling pretty okay, just a little weak, but started off my day like normal.

and then out of no where i started feeling really anxious and nauseated along with strange vision, like everything is kinda dreamy or sharp looking. It wouldnt go away so i decided to take a nap after a while. when i woke up a few hours later i still felt the same anxious, nauseated feeling. I even tried to hang out with my friend to see if I would stop feeling anxiou but that didnt help. It finally went away a few hours before i went to bed and it was such a relief. BUT the next day, wednesday august 17, it pretty much happened the same way. i felt really crappy, anxious, and nausteated for apparently no reason. I kept asking myself why i'm feeling anxious cause i have nothing to worry about but it didnt really help. I went to the family doctor that day(and by this time the anxiety feeling was gone) and they did a few more tests, and i tried to explain the axiety feeling i was having but they said not to worry and call back in a few days if I still feel the same way. well i had to go to work right after the doctors visit and i felt fine for about thirty minutes and then it hit me again. but this time it didnt last as long as the other times, maybe an hour and a half of it and then it went away. I felt pretty okay for the rest of the night, ate a good dinner, had a happy-tired feeling and was glad to go to bed.

AND NOW about an 2 hours ago, i woke up suddenly out of nowhere feeling very crappy, anxious, nauseated, shaky, heart racing with a weird and scary dreamy feeling along with weird vision again. I felt hot one minute and cold the next and tried to just go back to sleep but couldnt. like i said, It has now been about two hours and i'm feeling a tiny bit better but still a little anxious.

So in summary, ever since that one hit of weed, and after that first big attack, It seems like i've been having anxiety problems. It's an off and on pattern, I'll feel fine for a while, and then really shitty for a while. I havent smoked since that one hit on monday so that's why i'm scared that i'm having these affects even though its been a few days.

From what i've read, I now have some kinda of disorder that'll take a few months to get back to normal? that makes me worry even more because only a few days of feeling like this is horrible so I dont know if I can handle several months. I guess in a few more days if i keep feeling like this then i'll ask my doctor about seeing someone about anxiety disorders or something BUT IF ANYONE HAS ADVICE FOR THE STUFF IM SPECIFICALLY GOING THROUGH THEN PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REPLY OR EMAIL ME.

i know what your all saying, i started smoking weed at age 15 and im now 18, i always use to be able to smoke large amounts of weed and just feel good, but about a month ago i got done smoking and started have a panic/ anxiety attack, i was pacing back and forth in my house not knowing what to think, i couldnt think straight and when i tried to make things slow down i couldnt, my breathe grew shorter, palms got all sweaty and i thoguth for sure it wasnt going to stop, it felt like i did not know who i was anymore like i couldnt controll my own body functions. it sucked and its weird because I LOVE WEED I love everything about it but this made me stop smoking for about a week, i smoked again after that and again i got a very unusual feeling in my body, i have smoked a few times since then and i am still experiencing mild anxiety attacks. i think im going to have to give up smoking weed for a while, and try it again in a few years. its only for the best. 

I am a pharmacist and there are two points I would like to make: First of all, cannabis has different effects on different people. It all comes down to body chemistry and because of this, your boyfriend probably should not consume cannabis. This concept is exactly what we see in a clinical setting with medications and why a patient should take one, but not another. This leads me to my next point: Cannabis should be legal for medical use only because it does have profound effects in many patients where some legal medications may not. In this sense, people receiving it should have it prescribed by a doctor who in their best clinical judgement believes the benefits to outweigh the risks. It is human nature to want what we can't have and for thousands of years, it has been evolutionarily novel to experiment with mind-altering substances. I strongly believe in legalization and control from a healthcare professional's standpoint.

before you read this, just for reference, im 17. the storys long, but its pretty relevant. read it all if you want, or skip to the last paragraph. learn from my mistakes haha

so over the summer i smoked weed pretty heavily. it started as a "weekend thing" as i didnt want it to f**k with school too much. then i slowly began to get into smoking at night, usually a little before i went to bed. eventually it turned into an ALMOST every day thing. i remember days where i would smoke on my way to school, get out third period, smoke then, go back for fourth period, go out for lunch, smoke, go back for 5th period, get out 6th period, smoke, and then come back and finish off my last two classes.

i was literally going at school stoned ALL DAY. i loved it, didnt want to stop because it was nicer than the reality that i couldnt face at the time. so this went on for a little while, i would match with friends, driving all over town, paying for gas out the ass (even though i literally drive a car made out of plastic) dem saturns...

one day my dad had decided to secretly drug test me. i had a physical coming up, and he said "hey we need to go down to the lab for a urine test, doctor needs it for your physical"

at first i was like alright, i mean, i honest to god thought my dad knew i smoked weed. my mom knew, i was surprised she didnt tell him. i did suspect it was a drug test also, and before hand i told him straight up "you know, if this is a drug test, it really is unnecessary, you could just ask me, i'd tell you. if this is a drug test it will come up positive for weed." he still denied that it was a drug test out of fear of my reaction. I also told him that i hadn't done, nor will i ever do any other drugs. those showed up negative anyway. its always been my philosophy to stick to weed, and not to do anything hardcore like cocaine, or meth.

so this led to a very sneaky ambush conducted by my dad, i had come home only to be attacked out of the blue. i would have called it an intervention or whatever, but what were they really intervening? psychologically i had never been better. at times i can be quiet, i have friends, i just don't see the need to be super outgoing and loud, so its not like i was a loner or anything, but weed had turned me into more of a social kid, i was going to parties, macking on bit***s, haha it was actually getting to be pretty tiring doing all this running around town and sh*t. anyway, the deal my dad had come up with was that he would randomly drug test me, and if he ever caught me again, he would sell my car, get rid of my phone, i'd be forced to move in again with him (i had been living with my grandparents to watch over them, they're in their 90's, and my grandma has alzheimers, it was more freedom, but it was a lot of responsibility) so before any of you come here saying "wow this kid doesnt know how good he has it" get off my penis, you don't know how gay it was basically being the primary caretaker of one 90 year old woman who has alzheimers (she thinks she's in her 20's. i know better) and a now 93 year old man, who has had one hell of a medical history these past 5 years.

so after my dad had ambushed me, i decided "well f**k. i need to take a tolerance break anyway" its only about 3 more months till i turn 18 anyway. i stayed legitly sober for like 2 weeks before i remembered legal. cheaper than weed, and the stuff i had actually been smoking got me higher than weed. there were a couple nights where i had overdosed, it was bad, i couldnt control my breathing, i was having heart palpitations (irregular heartbeats) i couldnt move correctly, and i felt like i was tied to a chair and sinking in water, or that i was being dipped in concrete before it hardened. basically i couldnt feel anything. had anybody found me that night sitting in my car, as stoned as i was, they would have almost immediately called an ambulance, because even in the mirror, i looked SO screwed up. not to mention i wouldnt be able to talk anyway.

i got through the night. basically forced myself to get up, and in order, remove my keys, disconnect my ipod from the stereo jack, put away my pipe and the cloud nine, pull the door handle, open the door, close the door, lock my car, step, step, step, step, all the way to the front door. from there i got inside. it was one hell of a struggle.

i had gone for 2 months smoking cloud nine, i had been careful not to overdose again too :)

my dad stopped over one day, and he found an empty packet of el diablo, another type of legal bud. he went home and did his "research" because thats what he does, and soon after i was told he didnt want me smoking it. of course, i would have expected that type of response from him, and i definetly agreed that it was dangerous as hell. i argued back a little bit, using stuff like "hey, its legal for a reason" and "even if i got caught by a cop, they would probably just take it away cause im not 18"

he took whatever legal i had anyway, and left. he came back the next day and this is roughly what he told me

"i would rather you smoke weed than this sh*t you've been doing. at least weed isnt necessarily known to kill. but if you get caught, and end up in jail for a night or two, i am NOT busting your ass out"

this surprised me, my dads cool, its not like i've really had a problem with him at all. i knew he didnt condone it, and i couldnt possibly ask him to. even i didnt condone the ACT of smoking, because it is putting foreign materials into your lungs. but i liked the high.

now here's the paragraph that matters

after this, i hit up one of my best friends looking for an eighth. first week went well, i LOVED being able to smoke actual weed. it was so nice. second week was great too. part of me thought i was over-doing it, i had gone from sober-for-two-months to my original going to school stoned all day. at least over the summer i had built up my tolerance over a longer period of time. im sure the fact that i had bought a triple perc had something to do with it too. third week, well *now* whenever i smoke, depending on circumstances, i'll be thrust into semi-paranoia. i would become so introverted, i would be reviewing every action i make. and after a while of this, my mind comes to the conclusion that-holy f**k. i'm f*****g retarded. i have some form of autism that is f*****g with me. my mind would over exaggerate on some memories, i would think things that i normally wouldnt think, thinking back on this i wasnt really scared, or anxious, it was just a moment of intense thought. thinking of why im thinking like this, why i act the way i do, what could i do to fix all of this. i really hated it. it even got so bad as to me finally just saying f**k it. i cant live like this knowing that i have some mental disability, i was HONESTLY planning a suicide stoned, what if people were just being nice because they felt bad for me? i thought of this girl that i talked to a lot, she was really nice, i just kept thinking sh*t sh*t sh*t sh*t sh*t! she only talks to me because she feels bad that im retarded and don't even know it! i even turned to a few of my best friends, like damn people must be so ashamed to chill with me. i eventually got into thinking about some big conspiracy, what if my parents paid off everybody to treat me normally. i have to say, after that whole episode earlier today, part of me doesnt want to smoke. part of me does, i just want to have a happy high instead of a high like that. those thoughts are still down there, im not actively thinking about them like when i was earlier, but its just gnawing on me. what if im honestly retarded. this girl that i've been talking to a lot, couple of best friends, my family, everythings fake. i keep telling myself that its just because i have a low tolerance for weed right now. but sh*t :(

i don't think i'll stop, i may cut back a bit, try and get my tolerance back. weed is a one of the only things that really "keep me going" right now.

just wanted to share my 2 cents... maybe more like 2 dollars. this could probably be considered a short story haha.

HELLO MY NAME IS JUAN I AM 21 YEARS OLD AND A PARENT OF 1 BABY GIRL

A ABOUT TWO OR THREE YEARS GO I WAS HANGING OUT WITH SOME FRIENDS SMOKING MARIJUANA. I WAS NEW TO THE DRUG AND I GUESS I ABUSED IT OR SOMETHING BECAUSE OUT OF NOWHERE I START PANICING AN I STARTED TO FEEL VERY WEIRD.......SO THEN A FEW MONTHS PASSED AND I WAS STILL OK UNTILL I GOT A NOTHER ATTACK AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE THEY TOLD ME THAT I HAD ANXIETY AND PANIC ATTACKS. I FELT SO WEIRD DIFFRENT FELT LIKE IF I WAS A ZOMBIE OR SOMETHING MY HEART WOULD START POIUNDING HARD ILL START SWEATING CHILLS WOULD COME AND GO ALSO FELT LIKE PASSING OUT BUT WHAT I SUFFERED THE MOST FROM IS RINGING NOISES IN MY EAR THAT WOULD ONLY GET LOUDER AND LOUDER..SO MY MOTHER STATRTED TAKING ME TO A PSHYCIATRIST AND I WAS GOING TROUGH THERAPY AND STUFF BUT IT WOULDENT WORK... I STARTED TAKING MEDS BUT JUST MADE ME FEEL STUPID AND DROWSY.....TILL I MET A FRIEND AND HE HAD TOLD ME THAT HE WENT THROUGH THE SAME THING AND THAT WHAT WORKED FOR HIM WAS NOT TAKING MEDICATION AND GIVE HIS LIFE TO CHRIST.SO I WENT TO CHURCH AND PRAYED AND ASKED GOD FOR HELP AND HE DID I PROMOSED NEVER TO DO BAD AGAIN... MONTHS WENT BY I WAS FEELING GOOD ENJOYED LIFE DEPRESSION FREE TILL I STARTED DOING BAD AGAIN THEN THEY CAME BACK BUT NOW I CANT BE OUT OF MY HOME WITHOUT BEING SCARED NO IM REALLY THINKING IS THIS GOING TO BE PEMANENT OR WHAT CAN I DO ANY HELP PLEASE....

I know this is 4 months ago but if it have not dropped yet which i think it has. I would say your going trough withdrawal of the weed and i read your whole text and so you would ask me why would i feel withdrawal if you went to a vacation and didnt do the smoking. its very simple when you enjoy your self and know that when you come back home you will get that smoke everything is fine and even the vacation could cause you to not think about smoking at all. And now that you came back smoking the weed you had a bad trip (maybe smoked to much?) and now i cant remember if you said you smoked after that but if you did i would bet that you were thinking about that bad trip the whole time and it just dug it up and threw it at you. 

I'm 17 turned that a few days ago, i have been smoking weed not that much though maybe once every week or so and i have been looking into the different symptom's you can get (note im from sweden my english may not be the best) and to be fairly honest i have been looking up all these symptom's and i find that the weed causing these things like depersonalization, anxiety etc. is not permanent although i believe once you get that bad trip you just got to get out of it, the weed will not harm you in any way except for the ones who might have a similar disorder already so i would advice everyone who has a problem to get them self's checked up and then to the anxiety which everyone seem to have problems with anxiety can be caused by alot of things for example you just got a bad trip and then you feel different the morning after than you get the idea rolling turning into som kind of placebo effect? this is just a theory i made (keep in mind its a theory) but i dont believe that a plant could cause you permanent damage especially not the something as the brain. Nausea - many of you here are all time smokers some for more then 3 years which means that you have an addiction and now dont get me wrong an addiction does not have to be bad (well they are but addictions you can live with) so the nausea and anxiety you're feeling is probably the withdrawal from the weed. Im just here to calm some of you down. 

and i dont have any experience like some of the "hardcore" smokers here but i can recognize myself in some of the text's and i think you do to even if you are reading this and just found the site. just relax (sorry for the no punctuation in the text im really tired) 

- Fellow reader of the interwebz

Thank you so much for posting that comment it really did work and I'm going to turn my life towards god