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I'm 22 years old and been smokeing weed for 7 years now.. I have exprienced these same "panic attacks" caused by smokeing weed on numerous incidents.. The times when I felt these anxiety attacks was only when I smoked "cush" or "white widow" ..or anything that was extremely more potent then the regular strain of weed I would normally smoke. If your going to smoke strong weed with High amounts of THC you have to be in the right state of mind so nothing would trigger your anxiety.. This means to be with the right friends your comfortable with and smokeing in an environment your use to being in. And best is to keep busy by distracting yourself with an activity that keeps your mind off the anxiety.. You have to literally convice yourself that "weed can't kill you, and that your exprienceing a panic attack and nothing serious".. Keeping that in the back of your head while exprienceing this would reduce the affects and eventually make you feel more comfortable in the state of mind your in.. I also would suggest taking lighter hits and spread them out more.. There is no reason to over-do it.. Don't let your anxiety take over... Your in control.. Take my advice I've had this problem and learned to get over it.. Any help or questions I would be glad to help
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I'm 17.
Here's my story..
I didn't smoke pot that much, probably a few times a month. One day when I was with my
Ex-Boyfriend and his friend we decided to smoke, my ex-boyfriend smokes but his friend doesn't so we shared
a Joint together, I took a few hits, I was really high. I remember turning too him and telling him that I was really high,
and that I didn't like it all at. I was sitting down, and the next thing I remember I was standing up and walking too
the end of his room, nothing seemed real, and everything kept repeating, like they were saying the same things over
and over again. I was freaking out, the only thing that I could think of was that it was laced and I was in a really bad
trip that I was never going to come out of it, which freaked me out even more. I kept telling them too call 911, we just left
cause they were going to take me back too my house which wasn't far away at all. Then I kinda came out of it, I really
didn't know what had happened, then after that I was fine, I didn't want to go home, cause I didn't want my mom to find out,
so we were just going to go back to his house, then when we turned around too go back too his house, we ran out of
gas, so my ex-boyfriend left to go back to his house to get another car, and his friend stayed with me, Then I started freaking out again, I didn't know what was wrong with me. The only thing I could think of was that I was going to stay like that forever. I was in the middle of the road like freaking out. Then my ex-boyfriend came back and picked me up and brought me back to my house I couldn't even talk because I was so scared, then when I got to my house I saw my mom, and I kept telling her to call 911, but I have pretty bad anxiety anyways, and I told her that I had been smoking pot so she knew I would
come out of it and be fine. I was still freaking out when I was at my house, I was shaking so bad, and my heart so
beating so fast. I laid down, then after a little while I was fine. It was the most scariest night of my life! I was really
embarrassed too because of what had happened. I haven't smoked pot since and I plan on never smoking it again!
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I as well have experienced these "panic attacks" after smoking pot and then for months afterward. It is a very unpleasant feeling in your heart and focusing on it only makes it worse. My personal opinion on it is that it is completely mental. there was nothing physically wrong with me, in fact I had myself checked and checked only to find nothing wrong at all. But when i finally came to the conclusion that the pains where A stress/ anxiety related problem, it was only fair to classify them as something completely controllable in my mind. I slowly allowed myself to relax more and spent a lot of time exercising and enjoying the small things in life. With a positive outlook on things my problems began to dissipate.
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Wow. I am glad to know that I am not the only person that has had these issues after smoking pot. I am a 21 year old girl who has never had a panic attack in my life, but after smoking too much pot one night out of a bong, I felt so out of control I wanted to jump out of my own skin. It was one of the scariest things I've ever encountered, and it just made it worse that I knew there was nothing I could do to feel "normal. Everyone else was laughing thinking it was funny until my face turned white, and I almost passed out. Needless to say, I learned my lesson and will probably never smoke again, but people need to know that these type of things can happen, and it is scary!
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I started smoking marijuana at a young age it must had been thirteen or so. The first time i did smoke I loved it the feeling was awesome i had no paranoia, all that happened was i started slacking off in school and just would eat and goof off when i did get stoned.Sooner than later I started to use other substances of drugs, but at the same time i only really enjoyed just smoking weed nothing else. After about a year and a half, one day it was normal as usual just smoking at my friends house when i took a hit off the pipe and got this horrible feeling. It overcame me so quickly that i didn't know what to do with myself. I started to panic and was scared all my friends would worry something was wrong with me. Finally i told my friends i was tired and was going to take a nap in my friends room. As i layed down i felt like my heart was about to burst out of my chest, my body felt so heavy that it seemed like i couldnt raise up. The back of my throat was so dry that i thought my throat was closing and was going to stop breathing. I remember calling my mom and telling her i was having a panic attack but at the same time was so afraid to tell her why. I remember this feeling lasted for the rest of the day and night. I went to the hospital eventually and they ended up telling me i had high anxiety. Little though did i tell them it all started happening when i smoked weed. Hands down one of the most scariest experiences of my life. I literally thought i was dieing. I also tried smoking again after that but the feeling was all the same but not as nearly as worse as the first time. I decided to quit smoking weed because the feeling became too intense. I will occasionally but with people im comfortable with and know the way i get when i do smoke. For people who get these side effects i personally dont think you should continue smoking weed. Mainly because you never know when someone can literally think their really dieing and makes the situation out to what its not at all.
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Holy sh*t my parents got me to feel so guilty about smoking pot so i started getting panik attacks too. Before i would smoke everyday and have no worries haha. SO i recomend to parents to pretend to be really concerned an they will have crazy ass panick attacks. All of mine caused a constant shaking in my lower body and my heart was off the charts!!!!! i truly thougt i was dying the first time so i just accepted it... man that was deep hahahahaha. Im gunna smoke some ganja today for the first time in 2 months it gunna be great unless i get a panik attack.
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Hey guys. So last night I was with one other friend, my best friend, and we were smoking some pretty decent weed out of a hookah set. We were using smaller coles, but then switched over to a pretty big coal I brought over. This made the stuff burn a lot hotter, and made the back of my throat tingle a good amount, it wasn't too enjoyable. I probably only took about 7-10 hits before a wall hit me and I was tripping out. Suddenly, I was feeling as if my throat and my chest were clamping up. It felt like the back of my throat was swelling up, making it harder and harder to breathe. After a little while I was freaking out because I thought I was dying and I was going to suffocate... Soon it felt like only small teeny amounts of air were passing through my throat, and I tried making food to "unclog" my throat, but as soon as I popped a single piece of popcorn into my mouth, I couldn't even swallow it, I almost choked. I was even starting to choke swallowing on my own saliva. There was one point where I swallowed, and then my mouth wouldn't open to breathe again for like 10 seconds, and I thought that was the end of my life. Suddenly I imagined being in the ground looking up at my own funeral and seeing everyone looking down at me and then I "saw the light". I thought I was done. I didn't say much to my friend because I didn't want to sound stupid, and there was NO way I was going to go to the hospital and do time for smoking pot. I was thinking if I wanted to sleep it off, but I didn't want to suffocate and die in my sleep. But I thought it was only a matter of time before I would just stop breathing and slowly die. But somehow I feel like I saw death and it seemed very peaceful and not something to be scared of, but the feeling was terrible. So I started walking around and I just went to lie down, suddenly getting very tired and my mind was wandering when I was in bed. I don't even remember the trip I took, only the end, where I saw some kind of vacuum that was clogged up, and a hand came out and pulled out the stuff clogging the vacuum, and I instantenously woke up, shot straight up and I was breathing normally again, and was able to eat and drink again. I'm still a little and paranoid as if I still feel the throat swelling... I thought maybe I was allergic to the stuff I was smoking, but it had never happened before and I'm only allergic to penicillin, so that wasn't it. My heart was beating so fast I was so scared. I'm debating whether to give up pot because I don't want to feel like that, but I also feel like it doesn't happen all the time... I don't know...
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i smoked weed for yrs,and like everyone thought it was cool,i soon changed my opinion after the paranoia,anxiety attacks,panic attacks, depersonalization and psychosis.check out the latest fact not fiction on weed . let me know your opinion after you read this article please.


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ever since i stopped smoking weed,im a completely different person, its changed me so much, im always paranoid,feel really dipressed and get the occasional panick attack :-(
it all started when i was getting stoned with my mates, then one nyt i randomly fainted..................ever since then i cnt go near it, if i sit wiv sum1 hu is smoking a joint i will get panicky and feel lyk im going to faint, its like i get a black out its the worst feeling ever and no1 seems to understand me, they make me feel like im being a weirdo.
i just want to be myself again ..........................dnt no ow to get rid of this horrible feeling.
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i am so happy i found this!!! i have being goin out of my mind with worry. ive been smoking weed since i was like 14 im now 21 i smoke a good bit an have tryed other drugs a good few times an ive never had a bad experince. until a few weeks ago i was smoking KING B a legal high that i got in a head shop. at 1st i thught it was g8t i couldnt stop laughing an really enjoyed it. then one day i couldnt go 2 sleep so i smoked a small bit of joint was happy out an was about to go 2 sleep then all of sudden i flew out of the bed cos i thought i was having a hart attack i was so close to calling an ammbulance i thought i was goina die!!! scaryest expericne of my life, i could hear my hart pounding i felt weak an i was so cold. i was by myself to make it worse an i eventually calmed down 2 hours later. i thought it was all in my head later that day thinking back on it. i went smoking again a few days later a few mates an it started happening again but this time i thought i was biting my tongue ( i wasnt ) an it happend again the next time so i decided im never again smoking i felt like i was goin crazy!!! then it started happening to me when i wasnt even smoking, i just started freaking out, i thought i was goin crazy an felt so distacthed from the world!! then today i was at resturant with a friend an i felt it coming on so i left, got home an started crying cos i thought i was defenetly goin insane!!! this trips last for up 30mins an im shaking with fear an the cold by the end of it. i was telling my friends an they were telling me they had the same thing happen to them an they also knew people who it happend to. for some it lasted up the month others just a week of getting this attacks once a day maybe a bit more. i really felt like i was going crazy. UNTIL i started lookingit up an relised its an anxiety attack an it can be fixed :-) knowing what i have has mad me feel alot calmer. im not smoking weed again for a long long time if i do smoke it ever again. thinking 2 much about it brings the attack on i think. its the worest feeling in the world u feel like your goin crazy, ur goina die an ur completely alone. sorry this is really long but i think the more you understand what happens and that your not the only one helps you calm down ALOT :-)
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i have been high three times in my life.. the 1st time i was perfectly okay until i had to go to class and leave my boy friend and my best friend then i started freaking out i couldn't think straight i was shaking my heart felt like it was beating hella fast and really loud everything around me felt like it was going to the rythm of my heart beat i felt like i was going mentally insane or something i decided i HAD to tell someone so i jumped over to a seat across from mine and talked to this guy i knew who smoked weed i was like "im not ok" and i explained everything.. he just told me to breathe and i did and i kept talking to him.. the time felt like it was moving really slowly.. it was the worst feeling of my entire life but i felt fine after like half an hour.. that day i stayed the night at my best friends house the next day me her and my boyfriend smoked out of a bong and i was really high i didn't freak out and i felt good.. the 3rd time i got high i was smoking REALLY REALLY good stuff but i only had about 4hits of it i wasnt with my boyfriend but i was with my best friend and about 4 of her family members.. we went out in the woods in their van and smoked as soon as the high set in i started having a panic attack and i was jus sitting there "omg im not okay im not okay theres something wrong with me" and i made my friend feel my heart and i was like "Breena my hearts beating really fast its really loud and fast" and she was like "thats impossible weed makes your heart beat slow not fast" and she was like here feel my heart and i was like okay then she said she needed to pee and got out of the van.. i jumped out of the van too and tried to follow her.. she just called me a freak and i went back into the van and we started to drive to my house cuz i wasn't aloud to stay the night on the way there i was still freaking out then my boyfriend called and the first thing my friend said to him was "YOUR GIRLFRIENDS FREAKING ME OUT" later i got home and jus went to my room so i just talked to him until about 11 then i told him i was going to bed and he went to bed.. i woke up at 2:30am and sat up in my bed thinking i was still on the phone with my boyfriend i was like "Ricky are you there? Ricky?? whered u go?" and i grabbed my phone i didn't know what to do so i called his house and his grandma answered all i said was "is Ricky there?" and she said "why are u calling so late?" and i said "i don't know" and hung up.. i watched a little TV then went back to bed the next day while baby-sitting i started having another panic attack while baby-sitting so i called my boyfriend and he just told me to breath and acasionally i would stop being able to so he told me to calm down and i would start again eventually i calmed down by pace-ing back and forth threw my kitchen and counting in 4's from 4 to 100.. ever since then whenever i hear a lot of voices all talking at once or i start thinking about weed i start to start having panic attacks and i really havn't felt normal since then.. i don't know what i should do but i only really feel better when i'm on the phone with my boyfriend.. i really thought i was the only one with that problem though of having panic attacks from weed so i figured id look it up... school really scares me now though and i don't look foward to it
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I had a horrible panic attack last night after taking hit after hit out of a bong. We smoked it so fast and kept passing it back and forth, I tried to lay down and chill out while getting online but out of nowhere my body started shaking and I convinced myself I was going to die. I was paranoid and felt like everything was unfamiliar. I could tell that I was acting normal to others but to me, everything felt backwards and unusual. I was shaking and refused to lay down, so when I got up to walk to the living room, I couldn't even tell I was walking. My mind and body almost felt disconnected. I told my friend to call 911 but they assured me that I was fine, so I called my mom and went home where she laid in bed with me and we talked about life, hahaha. Although, it was one scary high, it definitely was a great learning experience for myself. I highly suggest that if you have OCD or panic disorder, that you really control yourself when getting high because this will probably happen to you.
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i smoked about 2 grams yesterday. i didnt feel it for about an hour. i went to go take a piss outside my door, and when i turned around my friend was laughing and his face looked really weird. i started to freak out and went to lie down. i managed to keep myself pretty calm, the high was weird though, everything felt like a dream and i was practically passing out. i was sorta drifting in and out for a couple hours. what i found calmed me down was to watch a movie. you get SO into it you forget your alive. it could have just been really strong weed, and i was really high, but i dont know, somehting didnt feel right.
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wow. i swear i thought i was the only one who has experienced something like this. bcuz before i started smoking, everyone i ever knew who smoked experienced joy, and laughter, munchies and all that good stuff.... but not me. so about myself, im an 18 year old female who just started smoking about 2 months ago. ive smoked about 10 times since then... but i seem to alwaysss experience paranoia(its gotten better tho). but heres my story of when i had my ultimate panic attack it was probably the 5th time i smoked. i was with a really good friend who i care for n it was the 2nd time we smoked together(the first time i experienced major paranoia as well), i think the paranoia was very much related to how i was feeling. the thing is when im with her, i feel responsible for us. and i care about our well being. but each time we smoked we would smoke with the drug dealers down the block(yes we're 'friends' with them, but i dnt trust them sooo much, i barely know them) so i think that caused my worry.

but anyways here's the story..... it was me, my good friend, and 2 of the drug dealers.. we were gonna smoke bubble gum kush for the first time... first off i was meeting one of these guys for the first time, and alsooo we were smoking in front of a random persons house.. like, what a way to begin my paranoia.. but i trieddd to ignore it n relax when deep down i knew it was in the back of my mind... so we start smoking, and the seconddd it kicks in i had extremeeee paranoiaaa. i told them i didnt want anymore n they looked at me like i was stupid. so they continued to smoke n finish the blunt, mean while my thoughts were going crazy.. i felt like i had to get out of there. i wanted to leave but i didnt wanna seem annoying.. but finallyyy we started heading to the chicken spot to eat. this is when everything took a turn for the worst.....

i sit down and i start feeling my heart beating extremely fast that i can actually hear it, i feel like my hands are sweating, and im shivering. i start feeling exremely worried but i wasnt trying to kill their highs and i was trying to stay calm n keep it to myself. but i became very worried for my health that i turned to my bestfriend and told her i felt really bad n i honestly felt like i should go to the hospital. ohhh and i felt like i had to throw up as well, weird i know.. but yea anyways she just looked at me n became angry, saying that we couldnt go to the hospital cuz then her brother would find out we smoked(i was sleeping over her house)... and i just told her that i didnt care that i honestly felt like i was about to have a heart attack and i didnt wanna die, and that i would take the blame for everything. but she just continued to get angry n told me i was fine. but i didnt believe her n to this day i still feel as if i were about to die, it felt too real. it made it worse that were in a public area so i asked her to come to the bathroom with me, and thats when i even put myself on my knees and begged her if we could atleast go home. (oh and btw her high is like the lazy non caring high), but finally she said alright we could go home. the walk home which was only 3 blocks felt like forever. my heart woldnt stop beating fast, i felt like my chest was tightening. my mind was going wild, saying maybe the weed was laced but then i would wonder why everyone else was fine and not me. i even started praying to god.. lmao. i felt sychotic. i kept repeating to my friend that i felt like i was gonna die and i cnt believe she would dare say this but she was like "stop, if u keep saying dat ur gonna die, its gonna really happen" wowwww, wtf was that for. that made it even worse, cuz then its like my mind would purposely make me wanna say it and believe it and everytime mind did say it right at dat instant i felt so worseeee like i was about to collapse to the floor... finally we got home n i felt like i was racing to my death, i felt like once i stopped moving n layed down that i was gonna just pass out n never wake up. i even started telling myself maybe i deseved to die for doing hat i knew was wrong... then i layed in the bed and began trembling and felt as if i were having difficulty breathing. but finally after a long period of struggle, i was able to fall asleep. and i felt fine the next morning..

it was a horribleee experience. i know i didnt make it sound thaaat bad, but to actually be there n feel what i felt was so horrible. and i use to feel like nobody could relate cuz everytime i tell ppl i become paranoid when i smoke they pretty much laugh and cnt understand why... but yes like ive said it has gotten better, i just tell myself its all in my mind and i just have to learn to control it.. but i still pretty much always experience the paranoia, even if its just for the first 20 min of my high... but neverrr like i did that day. now usually my paranoia just consist of me becoming suspicous of everyone and wanting to get out of my current location... :/ but yeaaa dats my story n thanks to everyone who took the time to actually read it, i know it was pretty long :) & i hope my story helps some how and gives u a feeling of not being alone on this. and im just sorry for what u had to go through, i know its a very scary situation to be in. and you just feel so hopeless.... but yea take care everyone.

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