Paranoia and panic attacks after smoking weed

All I have to say is WOW...and not in a good way either. I hardly ever smoke and I hadnt smoked in almost a year. Last night my brother and his girlfriend were over and we got around to smoking some of my brother's medicinal weed, he even warned me that it was some very strong sh*t but i didnt care like a dumbass. I gave it 3 big hits and everything was cool until i started to feel like i couldnt move. i was listening to my bro and his girl talking and they would ask me questions and i was struggling to answer but they hadnt noticed a thing. all of a sudden i found the will to move and i said i was going inside to get a water bottle but i was just lying i just wanted to get the f**k out of there. i went to the living room, sat down, just spacing out until my hands and feet started feeling so cold and numb, so i went to my room to get a blanket and everything started moving around me like in semicircles like i was about to faint, all my movements seemed like they were in slow motion too i went out my room and luckily my bro had stepped into the kitchen and i called out his name i had never felt like this before in my life, i grabbed his shoulders and told him i felt terrible. he told me to calm down then his girl walked in and they took me to the living room where my breathing started to shorten more and more and my brother was screaming to his girl, "HE's SUFFOCATING!!" she grabbed me by the head and sat me down and told me to follow her breathing, to take long deep breaths. that kind of helped a bit and then my mind just started tripping out on me, i came to the realization that this wasnt normal and that i was about to die but i was too scared to say it out loud. i started feeling worse again and i told my brother to call an ambulance, i repeated "calll an ambulance" what mustve been like 30 times" nd then i just told him to grab my hand nd to not let me go because i felt like i was physcally there but like my mind and soul where slipping away i felt so sad that it had come down to it and i was about to die over something so stupid, i kept on looking at my hands and they were so pale and light, and i kept on saying "look at my hands, theyre so white" then somehow i worked out in my mind that my blood pressure was too low so i started screaming "bring me candy, anything with sugar" so they brought me some and i told my brother to call my friend's mom, who's a nurse. she arrived in a matter of minutes and was taking my blood pressure when it appeared that i had finally calmed down, i finally found the courage to say what i was truly feeling, i was talking to them and telling them how i felt that my mind was going out and that i was going to die. that was one of the creepiest moments i have ever experienced in my life, the way they looked at me when i said that it just felt like a confirmation of what i knew was happening then i felt like a moment of enlightenmnt where i thought to myself, "i kno im about to die and if im not dead yet it's because death is giving me the chance to call my loved ones and let em kno that i love them" thats when i feel i reached the peak because my eyes started tearing and i was repeating very loudly, "im dying please god, im dying" and i screamed a my brother to give me my phone i had to call my girlfriend to tell her that i was sorry because we're getting married this year and that i hadnt planned to die like this all of a sudden then i called my mom on another phone and told her the same i told them how much i loved them but the whole time i was screaming these things but i could barely hear my voice and my heart felt like it was slowing down slowly one beat at a time, my whole body and my heart beat felt like one, until i felt what you could consider the last heartbeat, it was like a loud gong and i felt it ring throught my whole body i wish i could explain it better it is a feeling so surreal so depressing so dooming . the whole time this was happening there was also an other part of my brain that was telling me not to give up that i couldnt die right here like this so i just grabbed my brother's hands and i told him to never let go of me to please keep me here in this world, i swear this whole thing felt like out of a movie but at the same time it felt like this was the way i was supposed to die, with my mom and girl on the phone and my brother next to me. somehow i started to calm down a bit when i saw that i wasnt dead, soon after that i started to get sleepy but i was scared to go to sleep until i finally knocked out without knowing it. According to my brother i was like this for 4 hours. im just so glad it;s over because i was so scared i was going to remain in that state forever. i think my biggest mistake was allowing my mind to wander into those depressing thoughts and not willing my mind to think about something else or focusing on simple tasks. All i kno is i NEVER want to go through that again, it's so hard to translate that experience into words nd im convinced that that is what dying might feel like, so cold, depressing, desperate, all those somber and doomed words you can think of...

ok so i just want to share this experience of a bad trip i had. It happened about 3 weeks ago me and my friends decided to smoke up in my car and in all honesty had way to much 8 vaporizer hits each and everything was ok for a long time while we just sat in the car and pondered life and laughed about random c**p but my friends decided we should go for a walk somewhere and that's when it started to get bad. we made it to a golf course and walked down though it not talking no sound, nothing and half way into this walk i swear i could hear my friends plotting to kill me or something and i looked at them and it looked like they were whispering something to each other i was convinced they were plotting against me planning to kill me it was F***ing scary so i made up some lie about my legs hurting and wanted to walk back to the car and they kept telling me it was just a little further which was creeping me out big time but i insisted so they said go back and will catch up with you at the car so i went walking back to the car and while thinking about all this crazy sh*t i stopped and realised i had gotten lost somewhere in the golf course so now i was thinking bout being killed and how the f*ck i was gonna get out of here so i stumbled around trying to stick to foot paths as much as possible and what felt like an eternity which in hindsight was only about an hour i finally made it to a main road and heard my friends so i yelled out to them and caught up with them and i was still getting bad vibes from them and they looked angry to me but i kept going any way and we finally made it back to my car when they both said lets go down this track for a walk and i said " nah man i really got to get home i've got class early tomorrow lets just go" so we ended up getting into my car and i drove them home and went back to my house. we started smoking at 10 o'clock... i was home by 12:30 it was retarded. i am still convinced to this day they were planning something weather it be good or bad i dont know but i believe i made the right choice not to go down that path to find out.
P.S i still hang out with them but i am never getting that high ever again

I started smoking weed back in 2009 & the whole summer thats all i did. then in 2010 i decided to smoke weed with these guys i just meet. i had my friend with me so i was very calm & just wanted to smoke. After i took like 3 hits, everything slowed down so much. we were playing music & all of a sudden the music went way & all i could hear was my heart beating super slow. When i try to describe what i seen, people look at me like im stupid; but i see like the fish eye vizion? & when people talked to me, it's like their voices were a few feet back, but in a diffrent direction. after we were done, i was freaking out, but to myself. i didnt want them to think im weird.. But when we got back to my friends house. i went crazy.
The next morning, my friend told me all that happened. She told me when we got to her house that i was sweating & twitching bad. I kept yelling "take me to the hospital, take me now!!" & trying to take my clothes off because i was "on fire". The only thing i remember from that night was getting into the car & hitting the blunt once. A few days later we found the guys i smoked with & they laced the blunt with cociane & ecstasy. ever since then, i have not been able to smoke like i used to.

I used to get panic attacks all the time. I was freaking out because my heart was beating kinda fast and I thought I was having a heart attack.
This is normal, I continued to smoke marijuana andd the panic attacks went away after a couple of months of smoking.
As for the paranoia, all drugs can cause paranoia. Whether it's cocaine, alcohol, tobacco, and of course weed.
Unfortuneately there is nothing you can do about the paranoia except stop smoking of course. If you don't like it, then quit. You will have a happier more fufilling life.

I went through the same exact thing. I actually found out what caused it and after it stopped. Basically, your mind goes into an altered state this of "being high", and the thing is that if you are not accepting of being "high" and if you get scared then you are going to have a panic attack. During my panic attack my sister went online and read something basically saying that if a person has too much self-control and if they don't accept it and let go then their mind and brain are literally going to trip out.

"Another type of memory which is strengthened is that for emotion-laden events. Strong emotional responses, such as grief, fear, guilt, etc., often arise under marijuana. These are responses to remembered events, responses which might normally be suppressed. Usually the person's sense of identity is functioning, so he can either accept the emotion and be a part of it, which is usually therapeutic, or reject it, which may produce dissonance and anxiety. "Bad trips" are sometimes caused by emotions or pressures which threaten the person's self concept or his sense of control. While suppression processes are usually not too effective as defenses, distraction is, because of the mobile flow of attention under marijuana. For this reason, movement such as dancing, running, exercise, showers, etc., will usually change the emotional tone. "

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/general/mjeff1.htm

I had some of the same experiences, but the worst one every was on my first 420 celebration. Me and my friends (4 others, not counting me) chipped in and bought an ounce. We smoked it all in under a few hours and it was the scariest thing ever. I felt like i was fighting between heaven and hell. Everything was shaking, and sounds seemed to echo and were kinda distorted. Like I couldn't tell if a door being opened was coming from the left or right. I had weird thoughts where I had to look straight up and to the right(up because that's where heaven was and to the right because it was the right way to go.) I saw something like a frame around my vision and the upper half was a blue sky with clouds and the lowwer half was flames burning. I would only see it if I stopped talking to my friends and started zoning out. It felt like someone had a band around my head, or like all the blood was going to my head. 

OMg the same thing happened to me i felt paranoid and i was at a party with flashing lights and it was very scary. i feel like im gonna be stuck like that forever and all my friends are having fun and they did not know what i was going through thats why i quit smoking weed.

Bro I use to smoke blunts after blunts at least 5-6 blunts back to back in aabout three hour an no problem go on the road an do what ever. One day I smoke an I got peraniod has hell thier was a voice in my head tellin me to kill myself tellin me just kill Urself I was like what the f**k is going on scared the sh*t out of me I still smoke a few times after same thing happened but ling story short I fine that play ps3 help I play 2k11 an that help I smoke on on off now not so much anymore cause it still happen but I always find that when am around my girlfrend am fine I smoke 3 4 blunts for the night an am ok but i can't go outside don't trust anyone lol. Nah am seriously hope this help

Ever since I smoked legal weed I haven't been myself, I feel like I'm in a diffrent world and I do not feel normal,i feel like im always high like i cant really explain it but it's the worst feeling In the world, someone please tell me what do they think is wrong, && if other people feel this way please comment!!!

Aha, you smoked Big Brother's weed and now you are his.

Do not attempt to use your mind for any selfish purpose.

He will return control to you when he is ready.

 

Maybe you have "Depersonalized" or "Derealization"? It's very common for people to get this after taking certain drugs, weed being one of them. I myself too got this, Depersonalization the first time I tried weed and Derealization the second time. However, every time I stopped thinking about it (the feeling) only then would it start to subside; almost like when it didn' t cross my mind anymore. I actually read somewhere that if you think about it then basically your body will simulate the same feeling as a way to test itself to see if it's still scared; almost like to "master the feeling". Check it and see if it fits.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

I just read about this and I totally believe this is what I have is there a way I can get ride on it? It's the worst feeling

Well, I'm pretty sure I got rid of it but like I said it's only because I kind of stopped thinking about it. But from what I've seen, there aren't really specific ways to get rid of it but it is curable in the sense that it can leave. Due keep in mind that "freaking out" and stressing out about it will make it worse or will at least make it stay.

"...that it is only a side–effect of excessive anxiety and will pass as soon as the body learns to relax. Once the body returns to a normal level of relaxation it then has the opportunity to dispel some excess chemicals. ... The quickest way out of this disconnected feeling is to really accept it for the time being and have faith that it will pass shortly. Shrug your shoulders and relax into it. You can take this relaxed attitude to it because you know that you will return to normal when you move out of this period of anxiety. It is a phase you are moving through so be patient with yourself while you are in it.

What really moves people out of this sensation quickest is adopting an attitude that all is well. And it is. These unusual sensations of depersonalization are just a nuisance‚ but it will pass. Not feeling connected to yourself in this manner is solely due to the anxiety in your system and it is then reinforced by your constant checking to see how you are feeling. It is like you are over analyzing yourself all the time and that can make you feel even more strange. I appreciate how uncomfortable it can feel but don’t worry about it‚ it will leave. "


http://www.cureyouranxietysite.com/anxiety-articles/depersonalization-unreality-depersonalization%E2%80%9A-derealization/

http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/index.php?/topic/20892-the-holy-grail-of-curing-dpdr/

No one is taking me serious when I tell then about what I might have, I honestly don't think I can not think about it

It's not exactly about not thinking about it, but rather it is about not fighting it. Because right now you are concerned about getting rid of it right? Well that is exactly the problem. Every time you try to get rid of it you end up fighting it, and when you fight it you end up causing stress and anxiety which is the exact thing that caused it in the first place (the thing that is fueling it). So it is important to "accept it" and to "let go"; stop thinking about is so much, you're putting too much of a focus on it. Realize that you have it and realize that everything will be okay, it is temporary. After you do that then it should subside after awhile, and if you don't then it might stay until you do or until you relax.

Now that I think about it I think the keyword is "stop FEARING it". That was probably the trigger and probably still is.