Paranoia and panic attacks after smoking weed

holy sh*t i thought i was the only one. all my damn friends smoke and everytime i try to smoke this always happens. ive tried mannyy manyy times to get it out of my head.. but i always end up regretting the horrible feeling. theres no way to cure this for me all my friends say its in my head but its not just the paranoia thought.. but its the way ur body feels. its the worst feeling ever. WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO US? WE NEED A f*****g CURE OR EXPLANATION.

I got the same thing. I smoked for well over a year, then for the last two or three months I would get real paranoid when I smoked. One day I got real high and thought about it, and before I was even done smoking I was frightened. We sat down in the other room and talked and I sounded like the black kid in the wheelchair off of malcom in the middle because me breathing was weird. It just got harder and harder to breathe, and I got scared and scared and my heart beat faster and faster. Then all the sudden all of those symptoms just shot up dramatically and I didn't know what to do and I stood up and my vision got real foggy. My friend was talking on the phone and didn't notice. Since then I get scared for no reason even when I'm not high and it got me real depressed and not acting like myself. My friend noticed it and says I've changed and I'm not the same, but I haven't really talked to him about it yet. When I smoke or even think of weed I get scared. It's been getting slowly better though. I've continued smoking, and I still get paranoid but not like that anymore.

JUST DONT SMOKE. Lesson learned.
I've been dealing with anxiety for the past couple months because of it.

Ahhh man. This happened to me a week ago (which is why I'm searching this. Ever since I have been totally on edge, and always on the verge of a serious panic attack. Im 20 and I first started smoking when i was like 17 (very rarely). The first couple times the new out of mind experience was so stressful and already being an alert, anxious person made it worse. But when the initial high rubbed off, I really enjoyed the relaxing feeling. As I got to college, I became very curious about weed, and since I was so anxious all the time I found that it really helped (mind the small anxiety attacks sometimes in the beginning). I eventually used this as a way to deal with my anxiety because it made me a non caring, chill human being. I started smoking everyday, and lots of it, almost as much as I could. The next year I get an apartment and start smoking a mass amount of weed like 5 times a day everyday. When my friend turned 21, I would drink before because that would make it even better. Id start drinking like a six pack of beer everyday (occasionally much more).
I just came home 2 weeks ago for thanksgiving break and went back to only smoking at night (major withdrawal) and sometimes would notice that i would get very anxious in the beginning. I would just tell myself "wait 30 minutes for the major high to wear off, and youll be in chill mode" and like after 10 minutes I would be fine.
Then, one peaceful night (a week ago) i had nothing alcoholic to drink, this sucked but i smoked a bowl, which is so much less and intense than would I usually take. I went inside and started to watch a movie and the feeling came on. I told myself what I usually do, but this didnt help. Ive had many panic attacks and I knew that I was having one......for whatever reason. I had to get in the hot shower due to my chills and uncontrolable shaking, but this didnt help. I noticed my heart, which made it worse. I though maybe it was because I worked out earlier, or maybe because I didnt have any alchohol, or maybe the weed was laced. Nothing could take my mind off of it. My heart was going mach 100 speed for 3 hours, way longer than a high even lasts me. I couldnt fall asleep, i wanted to vomit, i wanted to poop, i wanted to die........but dying was what i was scared of. Finally fell asleep having horrible nightmares and when I woke up, I was so relieved. I had no more weed left, which was good, I needed to take a break. That was one of the worst experiences of my life.

But the attacks kept coming the next couple days.....not as bad or long, but always there haunting me and waiting to invade my mind. I started freaking out about maybe having seizures due to my alcohol withdrawal, my mind just couldnt think of anything positive. Not to metion the anxiety effects from weed withdrawal. so I smoked a little res from my bowl (2 light tokes) and the panic attacks just keep coming back, lasting much shorter and less intense, but they are there.

Ive realized there are a lot of factors here. Im stressed being at home, i need a job, and I stopped alcohol, but the main reason is that anxiety will eat you alive. You can have one of the worst panic attacks in your life simply because your focusing on having one, or thinking about a past one. Once your heart stops beating, theres almost nothing to do. Sure relax, but sometimes you cant if your panicked. I have this so figured out, but still, when it comes on it comes on. Its one of the worst things. I want to smoke weed so badly now, but I cant because the anxiety is so fresh in my mind. Maybe I will be able to sometime if i actually settle down, but i dont think i can for now. It really sucks. Fear is the devil. The only thing to fear is fear itself, and knowing that, fear still eats me up.

I had the worst experience with this, i thought i was going todie...ok heres the story. So i was with a couple of friends and we were going to go smoke some weed, i have really never actually smoked before(i did but only took like 1 hit from a blunt). But this time i took 2 hits from a bowl, and at first i was fine and laughing and then a couple minutes later my body started to feel wierd and everything was moving slow, my heart beat was going really fast which scared me so bad, and if this makes since it felt like i was in 2 worlds, the one world was like wat was actually happening i was freaking out and eventually passed out, but in the other world i was watching myself doing this and was like is this real, but i couldnt wake up but i heard everything that was said and heard my friends freaking out, i wanted to tell them that i was ok, but then i couldnt cuz i really wasnt, i wanted to go to the hospital but i kept telling muself that i was fine and didnt need to go, eventually after about an hour my heart slowed down and everything stopped, scariest thing i ever experienced...never smoking weed again

I will first start off saying I am a male and a lot of these stories are like mines...I am not going to give too long of a story and I will try to make this short but I smoked weed multiple times and the first time I smoked it I was fine and just felt a good lazy feeling... than there was this one time I tried Sour diesel mixed wit purple haze in a joint and after a couple mins I started hallucinating. Like everything was moving and hazey, my heart was beating faster, and everytime someone talked it echoed. when my friend asked me if I was alright it went like ...you alright, you alright, you alright!... and I felt heavy and a dizzy like feeling. I would ask my friends if they felt that and they would say no they just feel really relaxed and lazy and like they are sleepy...I would think there was something wrong with me or somethin becuz wen I told them the feeling they would look at me like i was saying somethin impossible and would say you couldnt have been smoking weed you were smoking something else. But i was smoking just weed...and even sometimes when I smoked regular weed and not haze... I would still get the same feeling..everytime I smoke it I feel that same way...like is this normal?? I hallucinate like this everytime I smoked weed since I was 17 and now I am 19...and sometimes when i want to smoke weed this reminder stops me. Someone please reply to this and because i just want to have the normal feeling back...

dude!! im going through that right now. word for word. im really scared. it's been like 5ish months already, and im still scared to death. i feel like im going crazy; my perception of life has completely changed, along with my personality. =/ what happens? will this go away? antidepressants??

soooo did things get better for you? or is your perception permanantly altered? im going through all of that for good now; it wont go away. =/

I had the same experience on Norther Lights on 2 separate occasions. The first time me and a friend of mine each took a hit from a waterfall made out of a glass bottle. IT sent both of us for an internal adventure. For my friend, he was able to fight off the panic that I was a confused robot/human version of myself. I, on the other hand, couldn't get a grip on reality and sent my self into a panic attack. Luckily a friend of mine arrived just as i realized I had been freaking out for about 20 minutes (felt like 3 hrs) and was able to calm me down.

The second time was about 3 days ago. I smoked a spliff in my car of NL and Djarum Blacks, something that I do all the time. It may have been because I used the bottom of the bag stuff that was almost keef but this time I was alone. I'm not sure what actually set it off but it was probably the combo of dealing with my parents and making it into the basement. I think I may have held my breath the whole time from my car to my basement which was about 1.5-2 minutes. When i got into my basement my heart felt like it was going upwards of 180-200 bpm. I calmed myself down but went right back into one when I began worrying about how fast my heart was beating. The next several hours consisted of logical me trying to convince high/panic-y me that I was ok and was not going to die.

Both time it took me a few days to get the thoughts and off-feelings out of my system. I have smoked many many times over the past 2 years and this is the only strain that has ever put me in a panic state

I have had these problems before with smaller panic attacks. Here are some tips that may help when getting high and you start to feel paranoid or overwehlming anxiety. One is think happy thoughts, bad thoughts will just bring you down and get you worried. Another really good method is to listen to music that is calming.(bob marley should get you feelin like every little thing is gunna be alright)Also think like your not even high ( you really didn't smoke a joint, you haven't been doin anything illegal). Trick your self into thinking you didn't smoke weed. When I smoke I just cant sit on the couch meltin being all boring I have to do sh*t and stay active so I won't kill my self. So when your smokin do some fun sh*t and f**k around. Driveing around on my friends quad is my favorite and acting like a stupid kid that I am is while doin it makes it all the better. Now for those who get those panic attack read this. When you smoke don't even think about sh*t it will just get you worried. And when you do start to panic trick your mind by taking that panic feelin and think that it is the best feelin in the world. This will relive the stress from the panic and it will eventually go away. Sometimes just tricking yourself and thinking simple thoughts will make your highs better

This is really late into the conversation, but i went online to try to find someone who related to my situation. I smoked weed for the first time out of a pipe a few months ago. I didn't get high, just buzzed. The next time i smoked it was from a gravity bong (which is known to get you very high.) My friend who i was smoking with, who was an extreme stoner took only 3 hits and said she was high. I, however, after 3 hits did not think i was high so i kept smoking. After about 8 hits she told me i should be very very high and i should let it kick in. We went into the other room and after a minute i started laughing. EVERYTHING was hillarious. I couldn't stop and i was having the best time. Suddenly out of no where i began feeling very heavy and dizzy. I thought i was going to faint. I blacked out 2 times and when i woke up i was lying on the floor. My friend picked me up and told me i needed to just relax and calm down. for about 2 hours i was gone. I was shaking and in and out of conciousness. I couldnt breathe and i swore my arm hurt and i was having a heart attack. my friend kept calming me down. I decided after that happening 3 times i wouldn't smoke anymore.

im 15 and i remember bak in the days, wen i was 14, which really wasnt bak in the days but was a pretty long time ago, i used to get scaredd as sh*t. first time i actually smoked enough to get you high i was RIPPPPPED. i felt like i woke up in a dream and every things was split screen(like in a video game) and i was watching my self in split screen in 3r pseson for the entire night. i was pretty scared im not gonna lie but sh*t was pretty embarrising when i snapped out of it loll. you all need to jus take a f****g deep breath and calm yourself down. ENJOY THE WEIRD FEELINGS embrace thy panic attack. you dont need to stop smoking pot, you jus needa get the right mind set about it and get some positive vibes. stop being pussys and go rip a bowl right now

Hey im 18, and i occurred the same symptoms as everyone else in this thread. I have smoked ganj several times and seem to only have panic attacks when take big tokes this has happened to me before 2 or 3 times and the first time was worst than i had yesterday night hanging out with my buddies. The first time i was smoking and took a really big hoot trying to impress friends but only to see what was about to happen next which was the "worst feeling i have ever experienced" after i sat down in a chair trying to calm myself down but kept on putting my hand on my chest where my heart was and kept feeling my heartbeat it felt like it was going to rip out of my body! i stood up form the chair and saw myself in another perspective and felt like my head was touching the tall ceiling then it got worst and got my friend to pick me up and told him to take me to the hospital but he refused and said i was tripping out but i thought i was going to die after 3 hrs i came back into reality and just will never forget that moment. Last night was very similar except i have smoke a lot more from that time so i was prone to it. The strains could have made the attack worst but i had to leave the room full of friends and girls i smoke with all the time but this time i left and found myself in the bathroom holding my chest feeling like its beating incredibly fast i started to feel dizzy and my legs felt heavy and felt like i was going to fall over and die. i started pacing back and forth throughout the room and did that for about 1hr(felt like ages) and kept trying to get my heart beating by jumping so my heart wouldnt stop. REALLY SCARY I HAVE DECIDED TO STOP SMOKING AND ITS JUST NOT WORTH THE EXPERIENCE FOR ME!

this thread really helped me feel like im not the only one

J

so yeah basically whatever happpened to me, you guys have already described it perfectly in all the posts above, so i know i am not alone in this but for me i stopped smoking for like 2 months now and i thought i was fine until yesterday what happened was i did not even smoke week and i suddenly had a panic attack i dont know if its a panic attack but it basically went like this, i thought my friends were talking sh*t about me like conspiring against me and all and it was like hallucinations like wahtever they were saying wasnt what they were saying and it lasted for 5 to 10 seconds and i just ran away and calmed down later but this thing is still freaking me out i mean how can it happen without smokin weed? i am considering to go to a psychiatrist and i am afraid i might have paranoid or schizophrenia or physchosis or something? But yeah how do i stop thinkin about what happened to me? now i am always scared it 'll happen again...PLEASE HELP SOMEONE WITH SIMILIAR EXPERIENCE..

I am so glad i stumbled across this. For years now i have been experimenting with weed. It seems like everyone does it these days. Its everywhere i go! I dont think i have ever had a normal high. I have had the most terrifying thoughts run through my head i always feel like im going to have a heart attack, ive thought the people in the room with me were going to kill me, ive had a time where my legs got so heavy i couldnt walk or stand so i just sat there and i couldnt talk. literally all i could do was sit, stare and swallow. i had so many thoughts going on in my head and my friends were trying to figure out what was wrong with me and i couldnt even tell them. all i could do was hold their hand cuz i didnt want to freak them out even though in my mind i thought i was dying. These experiences should be enough for me to just be like f**k it and it usually is. But it gets annoying trying to explain to people why i dont smoke, i tell them these stories and they just laugh at me or say the weed was laced with something or that i just need to smoke more often or that its the people im around. but it really isnt. Ive tried it atleast 50 times with different people, its just not for me i guess. I really wish i enjoyed smoking b/c i hate having to always explain myself. and it is dumb that i should have to explain myself. f**k weed im sticking to alcohol.