Paranoia and panic attacks after smoking weed

First off I would like to tank everyone who made a post. I've had all the classic problems that everyone here has had to a "t". I started smoking young and quit for football and started smoking again after high school but stopped again because of the paranoia. Well I recently moved to Cali and started smoking again because its basically leagal here. Well I had a bad expirance where I was started smoking with people from work and a week after we started smoking we decided to go out. The plain was to get really messed up on weed and alcohol and go to a strip club but from the beginning I had horrible parinoia. I thought they were making fun of me and laughing at me so I didn't say much the whole night. I have quit for two weeks now cause I'm terrified of a it happining again but after reading your post I put everything you guys have said here to he test and tried it yesterday and it worked! I just relaxed and it went away! It should have been a bad trip but it wasn't. My gf. Was yelling at me and I just laughed at everything and had a good old time even when I saw the cops taking her to work posted down the street I didn't care and its all thanks to everyone here.
My advice to everyone is to work your way in to smoke with new people and to have the right mind set before you smoke. And I noticed that I became slightly paranoid when I was by myself. Always think positive and you will have a great high

I used to smoke all the time when I was younger and had a lot of fun doing it. I must have smoked around 100 times. One day at work we all took a few hits before leaving our lunch break. All of a sudden I was standing there thinking where the bleep am I? Then I'm like oh yeah I'm at work and I'm really high. So I go to help someone lift a cabinet into place and things start to spin just a little, enough to make me go WOAH!! I was like dang this is my first day of work (lol) I can't go freaking out on everyone. I was trying to act normal and found myself sitting on the floor cleaning it. Finally I went to tell my dad I need to go chill in the truck, and being a father he knew instantly and simply said, "You smoked too much didn't you?" So when I walked outside all of a sudden I felt like God himself was reaching into my body and pulling my soul out. I honestly thought I was going to die and I felt God's presence. It was probably the weed, but I went to my truck and prayed for a good long while. It finally passed but after that I would get the same feeling. This horrid panic filled dread that my soul was going to be snatched away by God. It would come randomly when I hadn't smoked in months even.

After a while I figured I would try it again. This time nothing happened. Just a little panic but it went away after two seconds. Then I tried it again and the same thing. Then I tried it again after a year and finally I enjoyed it. Two nights in a row. I was finally able to control the feeling and let myself enjoy the experience once again.

The whole year and a half of panic attacks, mainly the first month or so, changed the way I looked at a lot of things as well. I felt like I had actually died and had contact with God. I can't help how I felt, that's just the way I really felt and it changed me. I appreciated life more as if I had been pulled from a burning building. I dunno if maybe God did that to me for a reason, or if I was just high and thought that he was doing it. I do however feel way closer to God in a weird way. All I felt was that he was going to kill me. I dunno how that could be so spiritual. I don't understand it at all.

I had it happen to me it was my first time and I didnt know what to expect. i was thinking is this how its supposed to feel and started to think it was lace etc. And we were watching Friday and my friend was playing with a rubicks cube. Well this is the weird part when he flipped the cube I suddenly could not see I was trapped in my horrible thoughts. The thing that stands out to me is a kept on saying f**k and no I seriously thought I was dying or losing my mind. Also that maybe I was going into a coma losing a grip on myself. But they moved me to the hallway and i had major deja vu and hallucinations. And it felt like my mind was twisting it hurt in some way but since i was high i cant really describe much. But before that i couldnt see nething. Then i kind of started to get better and said that i really needed to go to the hospital. So they called my bro and his friend, then they took me to the hospital. I was paronoid and was like i must be dying they are going to take me to the desert and burry me. Then I fell asleep or went unconscious idk. When we got to the hospital they wanted me to sign in and i looked at it like i cant do that. Then i dont remember anything else until I woke up in my friends room the next day.
I will never try ANY drug every again no matter what.

I forgot I kept on repeating the words "help". I so badly wanted help it was horrible to be stuck in my mind in that condition for god knows how long. It felt like it lasted forever and that maybe i was leaving this world idk. But my friends say i was twiching it still scares me, but ifeel almost back to normal. I just need to know that i can go back to the person i used to be.

last night, I had the strangest reaction.... I smoked some hydro ya know just thinkin i would have a little trip like the times before but after only one hit I started coughing, and i couldnt breathe. It was getting really really hot, and i still couldnt breathe. We went outside where there was air, i started seeing the little gray dots, my vision was going, i had a ringing in my ears. i stood up when they said we were going inside..... we got inside and i climbed up the stairs and collapsed on the couch. I NEEDED water, bad. The guys i was with went in their room and chilled for i dunno how long I felt like i was in purgatory, thinking to myself this is death, this is agony. Then i thought i was in a book like hey this isnt so bad, its like a story. and then i tried the its my imagination and what i think will come true..... haha then it got worse. I wondered how long it would be before i died. How long it would take to starve, what my parents would think when i didnt come home. I thought they were right. It was like being in an anti drug commercial. i started speaking, asking for water at first whispering, then getting louder screaming for some water, then i screamed at the top of my lungs give me some f*****g WATER. so they came in he put his hand over my mouth and was like shhh my parents are home you need to be quiet. I started screaming CALL 911. Over and over getting louder. someone finally splashed water on me, my only thought was, thats all i really f*****g wanted was some dammed water. After that i got up drank some water from the sink. and went downstairs, and found them outside. two bailed. i still couldnt breathe, i thought everyone was out to get me. i was twitching all over. I couldnt eat. so i just laid there, they chit chatted and i just wanted them to shut up so i could die. i kept asking to die. What i truly learned while high, was you learn peoples true characters when your high. I was like a whole different person. I didnt believe in a god. I didnt believe in anything but eternal purgatory of my life's dreams, like a de-ja-vu or something. it was scary, i still feel as if i wont be the same or i will wake up and be back there. I wont trust them, not ever again. that was death. I am never doing pot again. f**k hallucinations, f**k dying, Water. was all i needed.

A couple years ago my fiance and I used to smoke all the time. Pretty much on a daily basis and could function normally, but now that we've gotten careers we don't anymore. He said he was listening to Howard Stern one day and heard about this legal stuff called K2 so he called a head shop and they said they've got something comparable. He went and bought this stuff called Warlock Intense Incense which looked and smelled exactly like pot, only was legal (crazy!!). He had tried some yesterday and said it felt exactly like pot so I decided to try. After 2 or 3 bong hits I felt high. Then, all of a sudden, I started to feel like I was tripping. Time felt like it was standing still and I felt like I was outside of my own thoughts. My heart was pounding through my chest and my heart rate was fast. Everything I looked at seemed like it was a dream and when I tried to concentrate I started freaking out. I immediately got up to the kitchen to get some water and told him I was freaking out. He seemed to be completely normal which made me feel even more freaked out because I thought I was having an allergic reaction to it. I felt like I was going to feel this way forever.. how was I going to go to work? should I go to the hospital?. He kept telling me that I was just having a bad reaction and it will pass. We laid together in bed and my legs started twitching really bad and I got really cold. After about 2 hours (which seemed like 10) it started to pass and I began to feel normal again. I'm glad I didn't go to the hospital or call anyone, but I will never smoke again.. even if it is legal.

All I want to know is what the freak is that thing supposed to be in the green widget next to people's comments?

For the person who posted a comment on 5/12/10 13:13 ('Guest'): You've said one of the smartest things on here. You said u never smoked again. I'll never agree with people doing crazy things to their own bodies in the first place by taking mind altering substances unless they need something to stay alive or to take away something like terminal cancer pain. I don't smoke anything and never have and pretty much don't drink alcohol either. I get high on life. Saves money, too.

I am 18 years old now, and have been a stoner since 14, but today I had my first proper panic attack. I love smoking weed, I find it broadens my perspective on things and I see things from a very 'clear' and un-polluted manor. I went to my friends house and they filled me a huge purey bong. After the initial hit i felt fine for 5 minuets, but then everything started to go horribly wrong. my friend was playing a game on his phone, and the trippy electro music from that really didn't help. I began to become extremity adgertated, and then the fast heart beating started. After reading all the other comments this appears to be very common. I thought i was going to have a heart attack, which made things even worse. All of my friends where laughing, all extremely high, so i tried not to kill their high, but i was so sure something was going to happen to me. It was like i wasn't there, and i felt very similar to when i have previosuly taken extacy. i remeber resting my head in my hands, and thinking my face was made of a liquid, and i was able to push through my cheeks. the fast heart beating lead to shaking, and by this point i had to go home, I felt confined in the room and needed to walk. Up untill 30 minuets ago, i wasnt sure what happened to me. I can honestly say that having a panic attack was the scariest thing i have ever been through. I love weed, i think the world would be a better place (a lazy place though) if everyone was high, but i dont want to ever go through this experience again.

You need to stop. The reactions are a sign from your body, just ain't right for you... Quit.

legit. same thing. tried ex once, horrible experience there though. i hated it. but now every time i smoke, i have panic attacks...

It's been 24 hours since I smoked blueberry Greenspice and I still feel weird and out of it. It was my second time. I don't smoke weed. Last night I lost control of my body and mind and I felt every single heartbeat as my heart raced to 200 miles an hour. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I started shivering and praying God because I felt I was going to die, and I wanted to be dead so everything would stop. I panicked and went to the bathroom even though I felt like I was made of electricity and I was floating. My mind was playing a thousand songs at the same time and also pictures of everything I have seen in my life. Really weird. I am still shaken. I've had synesthesia since child and this amplified it. I was drifting in and out of consciousness while being totally aware of it.

The words you are reading do not describe a millionth of what I really felt, and I'm sure what you guys have written also cannot explain the severity and intensity of what you went through. It was like a bad dream that felt awesomely good. Everything was slow and fast. A second lasted an hour and everything was like a loop. All the sounds were amplified and as I shivered, it felt like a giant was shaking me. It was the best thing I have felt and also the worst thing. My buddies are smoking Greenspice right now and the smell is almost triggering a panic attack but I am convincing myself to just enjoy the ride, which has lasted too long. I want to feel normal again and I know I will be back to my "old" self soon once my body processes what I smoked. I'm watching movies and talking to my buddies. But this feeling of being in a dream and awake simultaneously is getting old honestly, lol. it just feels too damn good.

But anyway, remember this is a mental state triggered by chemicals. Be it marihuana or spice incense. You WILL NOT go crazy or stay in that weird state forever. Just enjoy the ride. It'll be over soon. Do NOT analyze it. DO NOT compare it to your sober self. It's a parallel world. Just enjoy it and smoke less next time. God bless you all. =D

i smoked pot about 2 years ago, my problem was i smoked creeper stuff so i finished a whole joint by myself. well about 15mins later i started getting tunnel vision and my neck was tingling like crazy! im prone for getting panic attacks so i guess i was in for it from the start. after i started pacing back and forth i thought bugs were all over my cloths so i striped down and ran into the woods, it was the worst 3 hours iv had in a long time. it took my friends 2 hours to find me! when i was in the woods alone i thought their were bears and wolfs around me so i huttled in a ball and sat their. all said and done i dont think il smoke again unless i have a very comfortable environment to do it in. ive actually found that pills are much more comfortable for me, i get prescribed xanex and Valium and get an awesome relaxed high from them! like if i go to the night club i pop 2 or 3 Valiums and it looses me up a lot without the paranoia

Thank god I found this. I had a panic attack after smoking last night. I only took three hits but the second one I almost choked on, coughing and wheezing. I think that's what started it (not to mention I was running on like 3 hours of sleep). We were planning on driving to a burger place, and before we left I kept thinking I should stay and go to bed or something, but I went anyway. The high started out great but I started to panic in the car (tight spaces are not good). I talked myself in and out of panic for a good hour or two. But one thing that helped was when we got to the burger place, I got out of the car and walked around a bit. Changing temperatures is good too, anything that can remind you of reality. I've never had an experience like this before with weed, but I have had a panic attack before. I feel like having one while you're high just takes the normal attack and perpetuates it until you sober up. Which can feel like forever when it's happening, and then you start thinking it will never stop, you'll be like this forever, or you're going to die. It's a terrifying experience and I'm not sure if I'll ever want to smoke again. Just thinking about this experience might trigger a new one. However, I'm fine this morning, but my body feels so exhausted from the stress of it.

Man I went through the exact same shiet! it was the most scariest feeeling i had ever felt. I swore i would never smoke pot again after that. When see things around you but have no control over what you are doing it is ever so scary. I ended up in the hospital that night and it was the only way to snap out of it. even though it was just for 4 hrs it felt like days. I so glad i found this forum because i thought it was just me that was reacting this way. Now i don't feel so alone. for all who are curious about getting really high. i suggest you don't because that feeling of dying is not worth it.