Paranoia and panic attacks after smoking weed

That's exactly what happened to me including the calling an ambulance on myself part. it didnt happen til like a good 2 months after i started smoking it. still to this day about once or twice a year i have a random little panic attack for no reason. And it's been 11 years since i last smoked on that day. crazy time that was.

wanted to say thank you to all this hole pot thing ben going completly crazy and feeing like iv ben dieing iv attempted suiside numerise times. for me the parinoid and the feeling like haveing a heart attack never stoped every time i smoked and every day i dident well every day i dont and still happening 3 years of this every day periods i wont sleep for 2 mouths strait. the brown is the worst drug to us if you want to smoke weed destroys ur feeling and frikkin soal and never feel the same smokeing weed in and out of rehab i hope tomarow bying my first bag will be ok. first bag in 2 mounths. praying for the weed to f****g work. to all thaT POSTED ILL TAKE UR THOUGHT AND IDEAS IN HOPE TO MELLOW ON THIS JOINT TOMMAROW. feeling like a melting snowman if you get it cold, alone, dead. if a snow man was alive of course. with a frikkin baloon for a heart and more presher f*****g pumping into it every second faster and faster till the point feels like about to fkin (pop) well never mind u get the picure f*****g sux thx

 

True it all depends on your brain ! if you have fear from something like whats god why are we here or... and or your worried from something the weed makes it double

mate.. everyone who has played with xanax when it comes to anxiety knows, it is not the answer! you cant live on that stuff so as soon as you come off it, you'll have much bigger problems to deal with...

I wanted to share my long lasting panic experience and how I got over it. But first ofall I wanted to tell everyone to ignore these trolls telling us these panic attacks will never endbecause they do end and all they are doing is trying to feed the panic.So to start off I did want to reaffirm that there are not too many people posting on these forums after theyare panic free since after the panic does end life resumes and people just tend to carry on and forgetthe trauma they went through. So to start, I have suffered panic attacks in the past that have lasted maybean hour at most but one night my friend had given me some pot candy and I had that and a bit of vape as welland I started a terrible trip (I dont think it was laced since it was from a trusted source) anyway,it was like I was awake but envisioning terrible nightmarish things in my head and I could not stop. I thought I had broken something in my head and I was now damaged. I was shaking, extremities were cold, head did not feelright kind of like I was awake but asleep in a nightmare. This went on for about 6 days. I missed work, felt like Icould not eat anything, lost 8 pounds from 180. But no matter how bad this crazy feeling gets remember, there is an endto it and I will tell you how I beat it and I hope it helps you too.

1) I wish I had done this from the beginning, but the longer you dwell on the feeling and pay attention to it andfeed it by staying in the same place (home, room, etc.) the longer it will last. REMOVE yourself from where you arebut go somewhere relaxing. Listen to calming music or the sound of rain (I recommend rainymood website)

2) FRUIT PUNCH GATORADE I dont know why but I read somewhere that this helps and it does although not immediatly.

3) EAT I forced myself to eat 2 scrambled eggs and 2 oranges with a glass of milk and sat by a fire and pet my cat and imagined a rain coat with water rolling off of it, thinking that the water was the stress that could not touch me. This helped a lot. I have heard that imagineing anice cube works too.

4) EXERCISE Yes this did cause a bit of discomfort because the rapid heart rate it produces reminded my brain of a panic attackand threatened to induce another one but try to push through it because in the end it will help you sleep which if you were like I wasyour body is craving. I would wake up in cold sweats already in the midst of a panic attack and having little sleep before I started to exercise.

5) I need to reiterate this. You need to remove yourself from all sources of stress. If its not a matter of life or death then itcan wait while your mind repairs itself. As long as you can relax, go stay with a friend or relative or book a very relaxing hotel suite.

6) Know that this paniced feeling is only temporary but the key to getting rid of it is distraction. My theory is your brain becomes hyper-aware ofeverything and is freaking out because of it and it just needs to be calmed down for a period of time and the longer it is calm the more defence fromthese panic attacks you build up.

My attacks were especially bad probably because I had quit pot and caffeine at the same time and my brain did not like that at all. Hang in thereand know that you will be OK. And I think it goes without saying but if you are on any psychoactive drugs that are not prescribed by a doctor and you thinkthey might be the cause then now is a really good time to quit. After you have been exercising a while you start to realize that it feels better anyway.I think it is fair to also mention that I did talk to god during my panic episodes and ask him to help, although I am not really a religious person butI know how terrible and desperate the feeling of panic can be and I think talking to god does help. Good luck.

Thats right playazzz game on f**k the police

This is really great advice-- For some individuals, the world of enhanced perception, analysis etc. can be very intimidating for a variety of reasons. It's important to realize that you're not weaker for experiencing distress or panic in this state. ANd I'm not just saying this to make you feel good. The reality is that cannabis effects people in vastly different ways and a variety of factors are at play. I've come to this knowledge after interviewing several thousand people on the subject;.. -- really!

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I really appreciate your taking the time to share your experience. I agree with most of what you said. I'm a bit concerned however with the reliance on "distraction" as a tactic to make the panic subside. I've been working on this subject for some time and I think that relying too heavily on distraction may simply push the source of your anxiety back into the subconscious. Cannabis can be used as a powerful tool to help us image out AND iron out our anxieties. Rather than escape, we can disarm our fears by challenging them to staring contests and experiencing their limits first-hand.

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Laced With: (PCP) A.K.A "AngelDust" It describes how I felt, when I smoked angel dust mixed with marijuana, except my trip was worse. & I read another comment saying "not to do it again" "you'll keep thinking about it" I completely disagree, it all depends on the circumstances & what you're doing at the time.

I love weed ....f**k the world and let's get high ...WEED...Om Namh Shivaya...

I had the same experience bro I smoked 2 bowls of a mini pipe reletively fast then I started drinking orange juice and eating chips then I felt like I was having trouble swallowing (no homo) my heart rate was crazy my face got pale and yellow my hands and feet got cold and started getting dizzy but I tried to stay awake I drank cold water and covered my hands with a blanket so the coldness would go away honeslty I thought I was dieing slowly and my heart was going to stop at any second now im deciding if I should smoke to see if the same thing happens but I dont want to go through the same thing again .... I dont what to do help

Hello someone please help me i am so paranoid right now and i want to get out of it i am only sixteen and i don't want to die nor to hurt any one. Please help and yes i was smoking but i will never do it again how long does it last?

I've been a pretty frequent smoker for a few years now. I started getting grade A bud last summer. Half the time I was feeling like my throat was closing up, trouble breathing, rapid heart beat etc. I even went to urgent care once and got nothing but judgmental looks. I talked to a friend who is studying to be a nurse, avid smoker and victim of panic attacks in the past. I told her my symptoms and she said she dealt with the same issues when she was having ASTHMA ATTACKS. That's exactly what it was, I had been having asthma attacks every time I smoked. I went and bought an inhaler and everything is on its way back to normal. I cut back to not smoking much now, the paranoia sets in still but at least i know that it's not just in my head.

1) 4 or maybe 6 years ago, i had a bit of weed brownie. Hadnt done any kind of drug prior to that. It gave me a 3 hour panic attack. It apparently changed something in my brain.

2) went to see a shrink 2 years after the fact because i was still having pannic/anxiety attacks.

First 2 shrinks wanted to give me pills to sugar coat the problem, i wasnt having that, so i fired the first 2 guys. the 3rd one was better because he did not try to prescribe me pills , instead we talked about the issue at hand. i saw him for 6 or 7 months, at the end what really clicked in my head was this, i asked me what was i really afraid of , i said that im going to have a heart attack from the all these panic/anxiet attacks i'm having. And he said to me we are all going to die sooner or later. I dont know why that clicked in my head. That was the last time i saw him. After that things got alot better.

3) I started to exercise, the panic/anxiety attacks got better over time. they stopped happening everytime.  but i wasnt cured from them, I stopped having pannic attacks, but i continued to have GAD(generaliezd anxiety disorder) 

4) i got into a relationship, two years into the relationship i noticed i stopped having Gad. I said OMG im cured. in the third year i broke up with the girlfriend a day after my birthday. A few week went by with out insident. Then the whole anxiety disorder came back. I became a hypocondriach at the same time.  Now during my anxiety disorders they went super bad, but bad enough to get me thinking the worst of my fears, and i would constantly have this worry look in my face.

5) I made new friend we became close , but she and i wernt dating. she would come over every weekend and all we would do is watch movies, anime, tv shows. We occasionally go out to venues.  I felt fine , with no worries at all, this lasted about a year. She then said one day that she started dating someone. Since then, i sorta went back to my whole anxiety thing , i over think things , my face started to feel funny , all the quirks that anxiety gives you were coming back. As i write this today i still have GAD but verry minimal , where i can hide them from showing, but i feel very anxious inside. 

6) Who has had an experience like mine?

I had been smoking since I was in the seventh grade. Of course back then it was really low grade weed. More recently friends and I picked up a more high grade type of weed. It was good for a while until I started thinking friends were out to make a mockery of me, People were out to kill me...etc. it even got so bad as acting a plum fool in public. To a diagnosis of "schizophrenia". Has this happened to anyone else?