serverly paranoid after quiting smoking weed

I would say its psychosomatic everyone and god won't help. You tricking your body into thinking someone is helping you when in reality its not god but yourself. It just gives you hope and something to rely on(not saying thats bad). Ive been smoking for awhile and have only gone what you gone through once and until i started reading into these forums i found myself bugging out even more. People stop blaming weed for your problems, your brain is far more stronger than any drug and can trick the body into some crazy sh*t. I was depressed for years, through middle and high school and college. I can say the sh*t i conjured up with my mind that freaked my body out and it reacted in a really bad way, to the point of me being suicidal. Medication didnt help nor did hours of therapy. If you believe your different your are going to be different. Staying inside and locking yourself in a room has got to be the dumbest thing i have ever heard. Stop feeling sorry for you self and live life, weed has nothing to do with it. You cant do the same routine that you were doing when smoking and continue it, that will f**k you up. For example my body had so much energy that i was not used to it and freaked out. I used to drink 6 cups of coffee when i smoked heavily and now i can barely handle one, ill start having "panic attacks" and freak out, ill have to spend hours in the gym to get rid of that feeling. Man i can go on about this sh*t but long story short this generation is screwed up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself when you made it this way, not anything else or anyone else. You make your own decisions and everything that happens is a cause from what you did. Own up and take responsibility for your actions, your brain is powerful and if you feed it with this BS everyone is saying god help you because you'll never get better. BTW the biggest problem for people is how weed makes you think deep and i mean deep about things and this disturbs people, a lot of people. You can make yourself freak out hard when your high, and ive seem some screwed up sh*t from some people. Like thinking they are going to die and make themselves actually believe it when really nothings wrong. Ive had someone call 911 and cause a whole screwed up situation. If you cant handle it stop smoking or take small hits so its not so intense but if you continue and you know its bad your making big mistake and thats most peoples problems. Im sorry if this doesnt come off nice but all of this is really psychosomatic, like i said your brain is stronger than you think and can really get in some deep trouble. Its all about perspectives of the world because this place we call earth is different for every single person. This is why some people can handle all the drugs in the world because they are strong minded and know whats going one. Please dont freak yourself out, its continually going to get worse   

also if you were smoking up to a gram a day and went cold turkey thats a really bad idea. ease off of it so the just like any addiction. People forget that coffee (caffeine) is also a drug and people have tremendously bad withdrawals if they go cold turkey. THINK PEOPLE AND STOP BLAMING IT ON OTHER sh*t. Its all in your head man

 

Hello Bro my name is Joe, I am a 22 year old dance major at a texas university. I love smoking weed, started in high school, and continued when I started college. I was very happy when I started, well actually the first 3 years. But after my 3rd semester in college, I started thinking people were against me, especially everyone who I was dancing with. It affacted my training alot, I was able to focus as much as I use to. I broke down a few times infront of people. Because I was not able to focus I would tell people to shut up in the rudest ways during class. Well I stopped because doctors and the people around me would tell me that it was the weed that was causing me to think such things, and they also said that the weed was making me feel different. Anyways I stopped, and for a while I started being affraid of weed because I thought I wouldnt be able to control myself, and because I was brought up catholic I thought a demon was going to come in my because I was high. Anyways the point is that I stopped. Things went great after that, I auditioned for a new university and got in, and now Im great. However after I started in this new university, I wanted to smoke weed so bad, so I told myself if I smoke it was going to be a challenge, and I thought by me being okay and in peace during my smoke out sessions was going to make me more mentally strong. So i started smoking again, my mind was good :), but I did slack of in school, i wouldnt do my math hw, or work out, because I hate both. I stopped smoking during the summer because I went back to my families house. I waited a little and didnt smoke until 3 months into the fall after I returned from my families house. I can say that I sometimes feel the same way, paranoid, a little crazy, I have all kinds of thought, but everyone is actually going through the same thing, we have the power of controlling what we think, and what we do. So i make sure that if i smoke im in peace, that i do my homework and things get turned in on time. I was smoking alot for a while, and I did not smoke today, I guess my body got so use to it, that I feel a little paranoid right now as im writing this. when people at the library laugh, i think they are laughing at me, but its all in my head i know that. I hope this helps and i hope this is easy to read.

If you ever read this... you said you had to do this for a long time... could you be more specific? it would be really helpful. I'm glad to hear you're better.

Dawg,

run, every single day.
* regular aerobic exercise 4-5x a week (google "target heart rate" and learn how to properly do aerobic exercise)
* drink sufficient water throughout the day
* be sure to eat balanced, nutritious food

If you want to return to your old life, you need to push yourself. You got yourself into this, you need to get yourself out.
I know its been 11 months, but how are you doing?

Yep, I think it's the Brain getting used to reality. when Negative thoughts start entering in to your head, think about something positive. I am as paranoid as they come at the moment, if it helps, try and Imagine the worst possible outcome, and then you would realize, Hey! it's not that bad! in my case, the worst case senario would be some gang come knocking on my door and kick the **** out of me, or even kill me! ha! that would be better than feeling constantly paranoid all the time!

Hope my experience and advice can help someone. Thanks.

Hey Guys. Been smoking for a good few years, on and off, but recently been facing challenging times with serious anxiety and slight paranoia. I guess I've been less paranoid than most of you guys but the anxiety I've been having has been extremely intense, so much so that at times I'd really feel like exiting my 6th floor apartment via the bedroom window. Luckily I managed to cling on. Guess I should tell you the details of my stress I think are important, but whats more IMPORTANT is the fact that I've, seemingly, successfully kicked my troubles in the nuts and sent them off.Firstly, I should say that after I quit my job in March I sort of went into, what observers of my behaviour might call, a pretty serious depression. Spent basically all of this March and beginning of April in my place with friends, getting heavily stoned all day on some pretty high grade sh*t. After me and my friends decided to stop spending so much time together, as things became pretty intense and less enjoyable, I gradually came to the conclusion that I needed to stop weed, as my anxiety attacks got more frequent and more... psychotic, I guess. I somehow managed to keep serious irrational thoughts from entering my head, because I've had trouble with that sh*t before and have a pretty decent firewall for whats real and whats not real, but unfortunately, the anxiety manifested into negative realities bombarding me repeatedly, until I could think about anything but deathly and morbid and tragic sh*t over and over. f*****g extreme episodes man.Anyway, things like being on the bus or in the shower after going to the gym would push me into a serious and dreadful anxiety and I'd have to get off the bus and walk around a Very crowded Mong Kok (I'm a half asian half Irish dude living in Hong Kong) and I wouldnt be able to get home. I'd be walking around town with screaming negative thoughts in my head. I suppose the difference between me and some of you guys is personality, which might swing paranoia into an aggressive anxiety. I guess most people are more peaceful than me, which is why my head wouldnt really be caught up in a fear of people, but rather an intense urge to attack and shout and scream and take my clothes off and run. Should be noted, though, I always kept the sh*t inside my head. Always succeeded to retain the idea that there was something wrong with MY mind and I better deal with it without getting myself into trouble. Anyway, I guess thats about as much description of my type of troubles as is necessary.So, I did sh*t tons of reading and research on the internet, as I normally do anyway, being very inquisitive but having no place in any academic establishment, due to problems with authority and my constant skepticism. But yo, I came up with quite a few theories of how my anxiety was existing. I guess Ill just list them. Keep in mind, I'm totally aware that the thought itself, of me crushing my anxiety via proactivity, is what got me straight. I understand that I'm not any PHD and have no credentials to say what is or isnt the case. I was just on my own and had to try seek the answer. That or commit myself.- serotonin imbalance. Too much dopamine from seriously over-eating junkfood and digital stimuli made me fcking lazy as hell, and possibly decreased my baseline serotonin. whatever about the science.  I didnt go to the gym at all in March, which is screwed for me, since Im a dude who does 5-6 days a week usually. Being physically active and mentall confident are pretty closely related concepts to serotonin function. And I think I read somewhere that serotonin imbalance is rooted in the factors of schizophrenia and anxiety. I personally think the two are sort of cousins, schizophrenia... along with paranoia too I guess.  If serotonin was the problem, then what helped was that I started taking in more tryptophan, via whey protein. Tryptophan is a precurser for serotonin, meaning if you load on tryptophan you'll atleast have the building blocks to create serotonin. But yo, don't over load on the sh*t. Thats dumb as f**k and could f**k you up. Im talking about taking two scoops of whey throughout the day, and eat clean and LESS. Have boring but healthy food to try balance your serotonin and dopamine. (why mention dopamine you ask, I read somewhere the two sort of dance together in the body. they react accordingly to each other, in ways)I also got more sunlight. Net said that'll help with serotonin, and tried to get more excerise (also a helper). It might have been all placebo, but it actually did a nice bit to ease the choas.-Purify the body. I just wondered if my body needed to flush sh*t out. I can tell you, once I actually made a conscious effort to drink a slight excess of water, about 3 ounces every 20 minutes or so, I sh*t out so much. CLearing my body actually changed my mental state so much. Serious, try to just flush your body of all the sh*t and purify abit. I got the idea from my sister who is a serious yoga nut. -Emotional secrecy can f**k sh*t up if its too much. I felt like I was dealing with so much sh*t on my own, that I just wanted to break and cry and tell somebody everything bugging me at the core. I wrote to siblings living in ireland and poured out my heart. Cried like a b***h in my room while writing the emails. Tell you what, after crying and completely surrendering, I was left with nothing but a clear head. Problem was though, I still smoked a bit and the sh*t came back a couple weeks later. 

-Get mental solitary ground and establish independence and security. I know it's a long shot, (though I beleave this is just a basic way of describing all my other sh*t in a less scientificly direct way) but me spending time on my own, and keeping stressful or otherwise negative influences outside the door for a little while, gave me time to prioritise and sh*t. I know it sounds unrelated, but insecurity seemed to me like a fundamental part of the problem, even though it was dressed up in tangents. If you get the f**k off weed for a little while, backtrack and identify what really f*****g matters to you in unstoned life, you've got a a decent chance at overcoming these kinds of issues I think. Yo guys I know, and I said previously, my ideas might be total sh*t and I've gained from placebo, but try out my approaches if you have nothing else in mind. My anxiety was f*****g bad and it wasnt going away on its own. I did that stuff above and havent smoked a J in a little while and it seems like things are coming back to normal at reassuringly quick pace. Its f*****g refreshing and invaluable to feel normal again.I really hope my sh*t helps. I wasn't even going to write here, was just lurking, but leaving people hanging when I have a hand to lend just isnt in my nature. ANyway people, take care. Hope sh*t works out for you guys

Introduction
I too had the experience of hearing voices when I smoke cannabis. These experiences started happening a couple of years ago. I have smoked weed for about 4 years continuously before I started to hear these voices. At first I thought I was being watched and people were psychically (telepathically) speaking to me and I was very paranoid. These voices fooled me into thinking that they were voices were from my neighborhood and that people did not condone the fact that I was smoking weed. But later as these experiences continue to occur (these voices never ever ceased after they started) I realized that theses voice could not have been the cause of some mental illness like schizophrenia like doctors or other try to diagnose me with. These voices have a negative energy to them and would degrade me, manipulate me, and feed me lies – I will give you examples later on. After living with these voices for some time, I realize the nature of these voices and what they wanted to do to me. I would like to share my experiences with others that are experiencing this occurrence.
I thought for a while that I was the only one experiencing something like this after smoking marijuana but after googling “I hear voices when I smoke week” I notice others experiencing this phenomena. This was totally mind-blowing. The voices I hear are not coming from within, I figured this out early on. I came about this deduction since I can speak Vietnamese, since it’s my native tongue, however these voices that are infiltrating my mind could not speak Vietnamese or understand it. Also these voices total about 10 different entities (I can’t tell the exact number but this is the approximate number) all with different vocabulary, personality, and logic. This did not make any sense to me, I was hearing all these different voices and they did not seem to be coming from me so where??? My family started to notice how I am in constant battle with these voices and so I went to see the doctor to figure out what was going on with me. The doctors honestly did not have a real answer for me, they all said that I have schizophrenia. So I did my research into schizophrenia to see if I did have the right diagnose. After viewing a few YouTube videos on what people experience while having schizophrenia episodes and reading up on schizophrenia online through medical websites it did not compare to my own experiences and to that of others who posted online. I realized what I had was not schizophrenia. So my journey began.
The Cause/Trigger
I often times asked myself why this happening to me. What did I do to deserve this treatment? I figured out what was happening over time and this is what I figured out. The trigger for the voices is because of smoking/consuming Cannabis. Somehow the activity of smoking/consuming cannabis on the regular changes the chemistry of your brain. This allows for your mind to be vulnerable for invaders to attack your mind telepathically. By smoking/consuming cannabis over a long period of time – a period long enough to change the brain chemistry and affect your energy levels (vibrations/aura) for these invaders to attack your mind. So those who smoke for recreation may have not experience hearing these voices and often times dismiss them as paranoia and associate paranoia as cannabis side effect. These voices are a separate phenomenon from what we consider paranoia, I will explain this in more detail later in the next section.
I came to realize this fact by my own experiences, let me explain. I smoked weed for 4+ years, this changed my brain chemistry. I started to hear these voice constantly once they started. These voices did not speak to me right upon their arrival into my mind but laid dormant in the back of my mind in the silent observing my life and seeing how I live. Then these voices set a strategy together before they began any form of communication with me, this was probably 2 weeks upon arrival before they started to communicate with me. These voices will be explained more in the next section as to origin and other background information. After living with these voices for months, my family took me to see a doctor for treatment. As mentioned before the doctor diagnose me with schizophrenia and prescribe me mediation. The doctor prescribed me with Zyprexa. After taking medication for about 2 weeks to a month, my voices disappeared. But if I would smoke marijuana again these voices would return. So based on experimentation, I came to understand it was because of my brain chemistry that these voices came to find me. Zyprexa worked specifically for my brain chemistry but I cannot guarantee that Zyprexa will work for you. I tried other medication and Zyprexa is the only one that work for me. So depending on your brain chemistry, a different medication may work better for you.
But there is also the case that medication will not work. If this is the cause continue to read this entire message for the answers you seek to stop or help keep these voices under control. But what are these voices? That’s the true mystery, I will try to lead you a better understanding in the next section. Please continue to read on.
Unknown Forces
So where are these voices coming from? What are these voices? Who are these voices? Hopefully I can shed some light on this matter for you, please read on. One of the first questions I asked when I began hearing voices is are these voices coming from me? Am I a psychic? Here’s what I found out. As mentioned in my intro, I am Vietnamese/American so I can speak and understand English and Vietnamese. When speaking to these voices I realize that these voices could not read or understand Vietnamese so by default I knew these voices did not come from me. So the only reasoning left is that these voice from coming from an outside force. The next question I posed was am I psychic? I personally thought I was hearing the voices of neighbors that lived nearby. So I began to communicate with these voices over time trying to understand how all this was happening to me. I was naïve at this time and I opened up easily to these voices without questioning their origin, since I believe they were my neighbors. This proved to be a mistake. These voices were not my neighbors but impersonated as my neighbors to manipulate me. First thing on their agenda was to make me feel ashamed of my smoking of marijuana and personal flaws to degrade my position as a human being causing me to think lowly of myself and my actions. Also causing me to doubt myself in other ways and overtime reducing confidence in myself altogether until it reached a new low. They will continue to attack all aspects of my life constantly hounding and taunting me throughout the day and the night. This will happen for months non-stop. They will entrap me in situations where it seems like my only options are life and death. I have called cops over to home before because I was suspecting that these voices were going after me to kill me. These voices created elaborate schemes to put in a state of stress and not allow you to rest to weaken your mental state so they can conquer your mind. I figured out that ultimately these voices main objective is to weaken my mind so that I will be subject to their will. This is basically mind-control and after this goal is reached, you will nothing more than a slave to these voices.
So what are these voices and what are their intentions?
After encounters and encounters and 100s of battles with these voices I began to formulate an ideal of what they are. They are negative entities and energies. This is how I view it, I did not invite these voices into my head, they invaded my mind without asking permission so basically I have evil spirits invading my mind (I count about 10 spirits occupying my mind at any the peak of battle with rotating spirit visitors). For all intents and purposes, I consider these voices to be evil spirits that are invading my personal space (mind). These evil spirits can see what you’re doing at all times, hear your surroundings, they can read your thoughts and see images from your thoughts. They use this data collected from you to plot evil schemes against you for their enjoyment. They’re agenda is ultimately to weaken your mind with negative thoughts and energy by constantly bombarding you, then they will try control your mind by manipulation to do their bidding or lead you to fatal situations. These evil spirits use any evil/negative tactics available to them in their arsenal from infliction of fear, lies, to fabrications of false realities, to others forms of deceit. Using the infliction of fear is their trump card. They will use fear in any which way to control you and then cement your fear in with layers of lies and false realities to hold in suspense. They cannot speak the truth. They spend all day coming up with new schemes to trick their hosts into putting their trusts into them. This is what they do day in and night out until they finally find something that works on you. Then once they find that angle they will continue to take on a ride with further stories, lies, delusion to keep entrapped in that reality. You have now enter into their world where they are they masters and control all variables of events in this altered reality. They keep you in state of fears and stress, filling you up with negative energy. They do not feel guilty. They grow in false pride making them into a more negative being. They grow by feeding off energy from you. They are taking away your positive energy, this is reason you feel depleted with energy when you deal with them for long periods of time. I call these exchanges between these evil spirits and the host, battles. I will explain how conduct battles later on.
Who are these voices?
This is the grey area. These voices claim that they cannot tell you their identity. This is a moot point for these voices. The truth is they do not want to reveal their identity so that can hide their intentions. Because once you realize they are evil spirits they can realize their goals of dominating your mind. Over time I realized it was really not important to know who they really are but they want to do to you. All the lies and deceit they throw at you is hide the fact they really don’t have any power over you. You have all the power in your court from the beginning and they are slowly trying to divert power from you over time to weaken your stance. So how do you keep your control/power them? From the previous paragraph, I explained their intentions and their strategy, so by knowing these simple truths all you really have to keep your sanity and control is not to hand over any once of power to these evil spirits. They will not give up so easily and will continue to haunt you but you must remain strong remember what their real intentions and that they want control over you.
Battles
These evil spirit’s weapon of choice is the battle. Within these battles they slowly attempt to build dominance over you, that’s if you allow them to. In my experience, I found out early on that their intention was to destroy me, and I mean to literally destroy me. They took away everything from me and left me in a state of fear and stress. I even lost my job as a result. But after I realized what was happening to me, I came to the understanding that all this happening to me was because I had put misplaced trust with these evil spirits by believing in their lies and deceit. After this realization, the solution was pretty simple, the solution was to take back my trust from them. Once I did this they did not have any power over me and from that point on. However they continue battle me back and forth with me to try to penetrate my defenses and establish a stronghold on me. Fortunately by knowing the simple truth that this is a battle for my mind, I was able to win many battles and remained undefeated, I now consider these evil spirits as just noise. The secret to winning battles is to use divine logic (divine logic is positive reasoning) or truth. Evil spirits cannot overturn the truth, they must accept the truth if you present it. Once you are able to reveal with the divine logic and truth that is missing from their argument during these battles, they will have to accept that you won that battle. Once their negative logic is overturn by your positive logic, they call this a “Debunk”. Be aware, these evil spirits can read your thoughts and know what you’re thinking even before you speak. If you are able to imagine a blank canvas in your mind you can withhold your thoughts from these evil spirits. These evil spirits often times use this power to see your thoughts to come up with schemes on the fly based on where your thoughts are headed during these battles or even off the battlefield. However if you attempt battle using negative tactics as these evil spirits do, the evil spirits will know this and will use this against you. This is mind warfare so I would to help prepare your mental state for battle, please read on.
Mindset for Battles
What kind of mindset must you have when you are in battles with these evil spirits? The battlefield is your mind. In your mind you have all the power and all the creativity that you need to defeat these evil spirits in battle. If you still have not taken back your control, then take it back now. In order to take back the control all you have to do is realize you never lost any power to begin with and it all will automatically come back to you, that’s the power of realizing the truth of what this battle is for, this is a battle for your mind. Once you do that, the battle will start fresh again.
Over time from battling back and forth, I was able to gain my control back and I repositioned myself as the God of my Mind. I have given myself the powers needed from this God position to overturn any battles into my favor by altering any variables necessary to make my win a sure win. I will give an example of this: As God of my mind, I have imprison these evil spirits in a Hell I created in my mind. These is where I house the evil spirits in my mind. My imagining it this way you have the highest possible position to do the most harm to any threat. How does this work? If I am the God of my mind, and these evil spirits are my captives in my Hell, then you have to ask how can a mere evil spirit do anything to a God. Evil spirits have no body and cannot do you harm so their power to inflict fear upon you has no effect. In this realty you can use any power available to you and alter realty, environment, time, and space to your choosing that will most benefit you to a victory. Most importantly when in battle and your enemy is trying bring any angles to you that you do not want to entertain you can say I am God of my mind and I take out that angle and they have no power to reject. This is because you have 100% control of your mind. They know this and they will desperately play by your rules in order to have chance to win over your mind even if they can’t win they will try.
Repeat these words if ever you feel like you given them some of your control:
“I have 100% control of my mind and soul, and I totally believe that is the truth, no force can take control of my mind. I will not allow it. I will not fall for any lies, delusions or any malicious attempts against my mind and soul. If I had lost any power I now want it back. I have 100% control of my mind and soul.”
This is just a script, you can alter it however you deem worthy just as long as you keep the key elements intact:
1. I have 100% control of my mind and soul.
2. No attacks against me can hurt me or hold me in their trance.
3. I never lost any power so I take it back
4. I have no fear.
5. The evils spirits have no attachment to me.

And always remember to remain strong.

Hello wondering if someone could help friend of my mines has come off weed and since then he is now thinking people is out cameras in his house and watching him he even says he has videos of someone who is doing it can he just be paranoid from coming off weed please help this is so worrying

my son smoked heavily for 4 years and stopped instantly, paranoia is a withdraw side effect and seeking medical help is crucial as it can progress to other long term mental illnesses.
my son also thinks people are after him and doesn't trust anyone but his family with the right medication he has made an improvement, small steps but in the right direction.
in regards to an earlier post that cannabis doesn't kill brain cells well that could not be further than the truth . marijuana is mainly hydroponicly grown with chemicals that cause have devastating effects on the brain.
act now and get professional help so you can continue to live a normal happy life.

much strenghth sent to all
louise

Thank you so much everyone that posted. My brother is currently going through this and as his sister I couldnt understand why he is extremely stressed out about someone "following" him. He also speaks to himself and just really seems anxious and has not slept well since his last dab 2 weeks ago. Its so heart wrenching to hear him and think he must be crazy. To all going throught this I am sure once this part passes it gets better. Positive vibes and thank you for this threa

Did mean to flag this sorry! Thank you for your post, helped me see I'm not the only one!

I just wanted to ad my story also hoping that it can help someone. I been reading lots of posts and drug forums but by far this one is more related to what I am feeling. Little bit about my background, I am 33 years old male, I been smoking for 15years of and on. My first ever hit was the greatest one ever. to this day i still never had one like that one. even after I quit for few years and went back still it wasn't as good as the first hit, and it really was one or two hit. any ways back to the present time. I would say that I always had some kinda paranoia when I smoked but it was mostly I was not comfortable in big crowds and shy and stuff nothing really serious. about 6 months ago I started a new job. It was really stressful kinda job. anyways one night I came home after work and i was really tired so I had the same weed that I been smoking for the past week, it was actually still some in the pipe. right after the hit I got so paranoid that even inside my apartment i felt paranoid. I felt like everyone in this job was against me and was trying to kill me. like I been such bad person that even my family was against me. anyhow it was so bad that I quit my job. and I quit smoking for like one month. I mean it was so bad that even cigs trigger the paranoia. well after a month I thought I give it a try again. after I smoked I didn't get as paranoid again. well after a while I thought about quitting again and this time after the couple of days the paranoia started kicking in again. so the past few months I been dealing with this c**p. I smoke week I get little bit paranoid but after hour or so, or maybe after i get used to the feelings again it goes away. so now I am trying to quit again but the paranoid is just unbelievable. for sure when I am busy and I dont drink any kinda energy or cigs its a little bit better. anyways I been working new job. I work in a convenient store and we sell like knifes and stuff so its not helping and also its not helping that I work until 1 am. I am just so confused I dono what to do. actually my boss wants to give me more hours and more responsibility but I dono what to do. I been working so good that he wants to make me a manager and run one of his store for him. My question is that should I contenue with this job regardless how I feel. I mean I feel more threaten now that people can kinda see that I am paranoid and I feel like something might happen because people might feel threaten by my present. anyways I hope it makes sense what I am trying to say. I know theres lota folks in here thats going through same thing or went through same thing. I would really appreciate if I get some insight as to what I am feeling.


I wanted to ad one more story that happend like 3years ago. I had quit smoking for about 2months and I was drinking beer on and off. one day I receive a phone call that one of my best friend for 20 years had passed away in a car accident. after I went to my friends house and we went to funeral and came back. me and his brother and one of my other friend started drinking. it was really just the saddest and confusing day in my life. i was shocked and really felt bad for his brother and his family. so I ended up smoking some weed that day and it wasn't that bad. it was like one am and i couldn't sleep so i went back to the bar and there I met one guy who had some weed and he offered me to go with him and we can smoke and stuff. I felt like he was a nice guy but my judgment was just completely off. I mean i dont know he might still not be a bad guy. that night as you can imagine loosing your best friend. I felt like I didnt care about life anymore whatsoever. so after I went to his house, and this is like 3 am. they were smoking something and as careless as i was i stared hitting the pipe they were smoking. and let me tell you whatever it was I took alota hits. and all of a sudden all hell broke loose. it was so bad I started freaking out and started walking on the street and asking people why me and why everyone wants to kill me omg. anyways the next thing I know the cops were trying to get a hang of me on the ground and they threw me in the back of the car and took me in jail. and there for three days I was a complete nut. yelling and screaming why is everyone trying to kill me and what had happend to me. I thought I died and was in hell. it reallly felt like that. so after I started feeling better and got outa jail after 16days. I mean they thought I was crazy but the medic in jail told me that it was drug induced psycosis and i was lucky to even be alive. anyways man I know it might be confusing what I am trying to say. but my point that night was truly the first time in my life that I had ever felt the paranoia and felt completely crazy. and let me tell you I come from a war torned country so even as a kid I had seen crazy sh*t like lota dead people and regulary seen shooting and you know bad stuff and never been scared. I am kurdish by the way! I been talking to therapist past few months and doctors and all that. they tell me its anxiety. my family thinks its the weed. I dono what to do. for sure I am not angry at friends and family or even anyone in this world. theres no way I would even get mad at anyone. it literately feels like I am the worst person and diserve to die.

I am Indian boy of 20 years
I smoked weed for nearly 1 year and was using CIG for 3 to 4 years
I feel depressed sometimes and panic a lot on small issues
I am very afraid of these symptoms
I have vivid dreams which are intense
I get headache too...
Plzz help me...

Hi, I am going through the same situation with my husband. He was a heavy pot user for 20 years, 24 hours a day. he stopped smoking for the past 3 years ,however he is currently being consume with his paranoia. he think the government is after him and that his cell phone is tapped. His cell phone has a sticker placed on his camera and speakers. He would stay up late night til 3 am with bionulars looking out the window in the dark . And everytime he sees a plane or helicopter , he would cuss and say they following him and won't leave him alone. It gotten so bad where I would have to kick him out of the house. He would accuse me of cheating on him and said I am hiding and lying. He spreaded rumors about me that i was cheating on him , he would follow me to work and call me during my work hours and argue. if the user doesn't come to a realization and stop being in denial like my husband , their paranoia will consume them.