Would marijuana cause permanent anxiety?

Hey Vangie how u doin!!! I want you to know that im proud of you for making it 3 months!!! I think you need to start doing thing that make you feel accomplished. If you think smoking is gonna make you feel better prob not cause u at were im at and i think that past the point of no return. At three months i was still anxious but not as bas as one month, now im one week away from five months and yes in some situations i have anxiety but generally im much better and so will you be. Now the key thing to getting back to 100% is sell fullfillment and understanding byt those around you. I think i told you to take a deeper look into your life try and seeif you have something thats there just for you that you want and that makes you feel accomplished. You could be blaming everything on weed and genetics when really its much much more than that. A prupose in life is something that can make one feel like a million dollars and thats my biggest struggle right now .. You have your kids and should be grateful for that :-) i would love to have kids. Another thing ur losing hair over stress is better than lossing it genetically at least when u start to destreess it will grow back . I think u need to take the next step wichi include being proactive about getting better and not just sitting and waiting for the depression/aniexty to lift. I was like that for a whill so no blame game.. but its not untill im become proactive that i really begin to see results..

Feel better
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im trying really hard b! i am! it has gotten bettrer for sure! i know that, im just not where i wanna be! my bday is coming up and i wanna smoke...but i dont wanna have an anxiety attack!and i dont wanna be back wehre i was. i love weed so much and since its not in my life anymore im so depressed.stupid for something to hang over me like that i know! im trying to get a job adn back into school. i just odnt have teh motivation.i use to be able to get up and clean teh house adn get everything done! now idont wanna do sh*t! im flad for you that you are stong enough to do all the stuff your doing! im jsut not that kind of person. me and my husband are growing away form each other." im bringin him down with me" where his words!! blah i dont even wantto type anymore

I'm really glad that you're not giving in to temptation even though I'm sure it's very difficult at times. I hate that your husband even says that you're drifting apart too--that's never good to hear and it probably adds pressure. But understand that it's his bad, not yours, and he's behaving very unsupportively. I hope that you continue to let us know how you're doing. Keep us posted!

Vangie its my Bday coming up too, and i also have been thinking about smoking. Truth is I dont want to have an anxiety attack either so I geuss ill hold off. I'm having a day from hell ,,,, really work has been like hells kitchen. ur not alone Vangie.. If ur husbund is tweaking just give him some space.. thats all us men need to come back down to reality. Going against everything i said u can try and smoke but if you begin to smoke all the time uve just waisted three months. once i smoke one time its hard not too again and approaching 30 years old i do not want to be a pot head. PLUS the weed here in canada is like crack

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well happy early birthday. im not going to smoke just for the fact me and the hubby are now seperated adn i dont wont to fail any kind of drug test if it comes up! also yes im scared of hte anxiety attck. i want to go to canada so bad!! lucky ass!! anyways, im not doing good at all agian. i never am anymore. my husband is staying with his parents im staying with mine.....my mom even says im the bad guy! im the bad wife the baad mother, and i have to live with her. i was like i have been broken and put back together my whole life, and during the process of being put back together ive missed peices. im not whole anymore. im not myself. how do i get through this. i dont want to hurt my kids. like i hated my mom and dad for getting a divorce. idont want to, i love him but if im mkaing him depressed to then i just need to get away for a day or two and think. im scared to scared. i dont even wanna smoke now! i just wanna be better. i need insurance i need to talk. i need meds!!! i hate this country so much, im hungry gonna get off

Vangie i think this is way beyong just smoking now :-( as i think in my case as well. You need some help and ur not getting it from all the right people. Ur tone n ur messages feels very low, i really hope you can pull yourself together for you yourself and your kids and the hubbie. GLLL and meditate, oh yeah and get some meds if it helps dont let your whol life all apart cause if this bs

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or maybe we all think like this for a reason. maybe this world that we live in doesn't really make sense and that is why we trip out. we analyze what we do and why we do it and at the end we say things don't make sense because they really don't make sense. we are reacting to our environment under the influence or marijuana. i feel depersonalized myself but not as bad as some cases that i've read on here. but when we are high we are really think of this world on another level. i guess you can say we step outside of the box and look at this world in a third point perspective and examine our behaviors. it opens doors to new thoughts and new ways of thinking. we become so connected to ourselves sometimes we hear voices within ourselves to tell us what were doing right or wrong and why. who's to say that is wrong and not normal. i don't think you can measure normal in this world. we visualize/imagine things as if we have an eye of a god and we feel like we know everything (or atleast i feel that way). Sometimes i feel like everything just makes more sense to be high because it is easier to make sense of things. It makes you think about real life and why we are here and we start questioning the answers to the world and not worry about when the next party is or pointless social gathering like that. I'm not saying all social gatherings are pointless i'm just saying it makes you start asking real questions that effect our life. It brings a sense of meaning to life. Then we come back to "reality" which what our generation feels is the norm. I'm not saying our norms for society are wrong i'm just saying some things just don't make sense when you really look at it. and you probably thinking what is "something." well i can't think of things as of right now but i'm assuming you guys know what i mean considering the majority on this forum have been high and probably had one of those times where you got lost in your own thoughts. so i say why do they name such behavior so negatively. great minds have use cannabis. it's just that our society that we live in this present day doesn't allow us to think freely and accept our "depersonalized/weird behavior" or whatever you want to call it. i admit there are some people that get a little too weird and i don't know what to say about those people. but i'm saying for people like myself (if any) is that weed in moderation is healthy. anything is moderation is good for you. what is moderation? its whatever you feel is sufficient enough to get you on that perfect high that is sustainable for you. considering everyone is different, some people it may take a little bit more or less weed for them to find the right balance.

Hi there, to be honest, that's what the whole thing has been about all this time. Smoking marijuana, the panic attacks, they're all symptoms of a deeper problem. Personally, I had to go to therapy to find out what it was. have you ever considered that?

hey, ive been going through all the anxiety for about a year and a half, dont worry it gets better! trust me! try cognitive therapy! seriously it helps... i read cognative behavior therapy for dummies.... pretty much it teaches you how to start thinking again! good luck and much love!

Hi guys i don't know if this thread has died already but i thought id share a little information that helped me. I can still smoke occasionally and found a method that works for me and allows me to smoke without feeling anxious. I like many of you, had a severe attack from hashish laced with opium. i was actually told about it before hand however i thought since i was already stoned, and had been smoking for like 2 years straight, it wouldn't do much. Anyways it totally through me off guard and i eventually barfed and kept having weird blackouts for 8 hours... And a horrible hangover for 2 days with strong panic.. i was not right in the head for around 4 months and had panic attacks. ever since then when i smoke its just screwed up and not fun.
This will never go away once you get to that point where you blow your mind and subconsciously label weed as the reason for your psychosis. Hopefully you wont be neurotic since your experience i know i have but ive come long ways. whether you realize or not. Weed is not to blame for what happened unfortunately there are 2 different types of people one who are able to smoke as much as they like and never experience anything even similar to us ( like my brother ) and those who are or who have been prone to anxiety/depression. I for one always knew myself well and my default predisposition to certain environments and what makes me tick. And im fine with that. everyone should know themselves and theres nothing wrong with it. i have ADHD was never put on meds and thats fine, same with anxiety regardless of severity. This happened at around 17 i'm 21 now and am able to keep things under-control with the occasional bout of anxiety but i can deal with it, even when i'm stoned. It never goes away sorry folks. but there are methods to deal. what helped me personally the most was a self made program that i kept on religiously for 1 year straight. i was so afraid from these experiences that this incentive drove me and this will be your lucky coin. Don't waste it or you'll never get off your ass.

It boils down to health and confidence and control. whether you want to believe it, your food will determine how you feel. Im talking a fast food im talking years or body abuse through poor diet, fatigue, tiredness it can change. I put myself through a detox program for 48 days and lost 11 kilos avoiding food except for dinner. I did a the lemon detox with lemon,cayenne better, maple syrup. (go research it) Only ate 1 meal of grilled chicken and rice at dinner. After this i spend months researching vitamins, herbs, exercise. Put myself on a program which consisted of basically body building, supplements (high dose omega oils, spirulina,good quality multi mineral, and something called Acai berry) (DO THE RESEARCH). i Stuck with it for 11 months working out 2 times a week and forcing myself to get out of the house and do stuff andcorrect my illness. the change was huge. Ive remained with a certain diet and vitamin/herbs using practice ever since however i don't work out. this is 4 years later and i haven't had REAL issues with anxiety. and confidence picked up through understanding of myself. which helped largely keep under control in situations.

As far as smoking is concerned what helped me was avoiding tobacco entirely and smoking administratively away from social surroundings usually because it sparked introversion and anxiety socially speaking. I bought a glass pipe smokes doses i was comfortable with ALONE, yes alone usually infront of the PC playing games or what not. I never fully agreed with smoking in social atmospheres its totally lame and the vibe is not one i like with everyone all being stoned and stale. its not me. Learn to smoke when you want to relax, before you go to bed, at home with a friend, at times when you wont feel pressured or when you DONT HAVE THINGS TO DO. this is the important one. joints mixed with tobacco goes its a major problem for me, alot of people are aware of it, people who dont smoke cigs you might feel anxious, sweaty, heart races, low blood pressure/sugar. its from mixing nicotine with your weed. its important to smoke weed on a full stomach this is important for blood pressure. Weed isnt suppose to be used for some kind of like fun party thing where every ones high n like duude lets partyyy type of thing not at all! to the contrary. ive been smoking for 5 years off and on months where i do it every day and months where i dont touch it. You need to find a way to know yourself and boundaries/capabilities, social surroundings. Hope this helps guys good luck with it.

This has helped so much. I have been experiencing terrifying anxiety symptoms for so long now and i realize the cause of it now. When I was about 16 I smoked for the first time and it was fine, I didn't feel high or scared just giggly. Then I smoked again and it was fine I felt a little paranoid but alright. I smoked a few more times with no other effects. Then I ate a hash brownie and I felt shaky and weird and like I couldn't stop laughing but I just shook it off as having a good time. Then a few weeks later I ate another one. For a while I felt really giggly and happy but then all of sudden I thought I couldn't feel my hands or my body felt really strange and I started freaking out. I splashed water on my face, I pinched myself, I called anyone I could think of to help me. I just laid on the couch freaking out, thinking I was going to die, convinced something was wrong. Luckily, my friend came over and calmed me down. Anywho, the next night I smoked again while drinking and I got really sick. After that, I didn't smoke for months but then I did again and I went to go take a shower and I felt the same fear again and started having a panic attack. I haven't smoked since and that was 8 months ago.

Now, I am having so many panic attacks all the time for no reason. I will just be sitting there and I will move slightly and my body will feel weird or not okay or not normal or anything and I will start to have a panic attack thinking I got drugged or something is wrong with me or I am going to die. I can't stop them. It is absolutely debilitating. I fear eating and going out with friends or anything, everything feels like an enemy. I feel crazy. I try to reason with myself but I will get another sensation and I'm convinced again something is wrong. I feel anxious constantly.

Any suggestions??

I am from greece so sorry if my english is a little bad....
2 years ago i had my university exams so i was kind of anxious and then i took a stupid tea drops wich is like:
when you drink 8 drops you drink 10 cups of tea. so one day i had drink 8 drops in dinner and 8 drops in afternoon...i mean i had drink 20 cups of tea in the short time of 4-5 hours... at night i felt kind of weird and suddenly my heart gone crazy i was sweating and i could not think and i was afraid.. i thought i was psycho so i made the biggest mistake ever and searched on the internet about shizofrenia symptoms and i saw that one of shizofrenia symptoms was panic attacks and i went crazy...i woke my mom telling her that i want somebody to talk with...
For one week i could not sleep alone...i needed my mom...(that time i was 17-18 years old)..so..while i was talking to my mom about what i feel and why i feel it i told my mom'' mom it is something i would like to tell you..1-2 years ago...sometimes....i was smoking a bit of cannabis and sometimes i had that feeling''.. that talk with my mom helped me a lot.. then i asked to go to a psycotherapist.. the psycotherapist told me that i was anxious.. that also helped me a lot.. talking to somebody about how i feel... this always helps.
So now after two years i do not really have panic attacks but some times i have some small ones...
I just wanted to say them to somebody who is in similar condition.The only thing i can say to help is to talk to someone and choose some psycotherapist, not to take medicational drugs but just to talk.And also when you feel like you are getting a panic attack, put your clothes on, wear your shoes, and go out for a walk to take some clean air.

I have had many of these same issues. My question would be, have any of you had swollen lymph nodes after quitting weed that was caused by this anxiety for a prolonged period of time? I am always nauseous, I can't sleep, I get raging headaches, I get this crazy anxiety which was brought on after 5 years of smoking all day every day. I just feel like sh*t literally all the time. My throat also gets sore from talking a lot or even mild singing.

I felt none of this until after that first panic attack which prompted me to quit smoking weed permanently. Since then I had a sore throat which I had been prescribed syrup for, one use caused a tremendous panic attack. I also was prescribed some Trazodone for sleep and the only two times I took it I woke up in the middle of the night with the worst headache I have ever experienced, could have also been a panic attack.

 

I have been to the doctor limitedly but he kinda just felt around my neck, looked in my mouth, and told me to take anxiety pills. I just can't believe it, I have never had any history of anxiety or anything other than "probable" ADHD. I went from weighing 150 lbs to 142 lbs over 2 months and lost all of the muscle I spent the last year working out to achieve. 

Hey guys, I want you to know my story, I was never really a smoker. Maybe once in awhile with friends but nothing serious. However one day I had a little to much fun and I forced myself into a panic attack, my friend calmed me down and I feel asleep. The next day I didn't feel the same. I felt hopeless, scared, worried, like I couldn't control me emotions. It's been four days now and though it wasn't as intense as the panic attack I still feel a lot of anxiety. I want to thank you guys for telling me your story because I was really scared. I want you guys to know that though I am still scared, I will get better and I know you guys will get better too!!!! We must believe that we are ok and that we are strong enough to get over this. I promise you guys I will get out of this. I am currently 20 years old, have a 3.7 in college and I refuse to let these feelings take over my mind and soul. I will not let these feelings take what is so important to me away. I hope you guys get through It and live strong!

I smoked weed heavily for 4 years from about 18-21 all day everyday 365 days a year. I had one bad anxiety attack while high and I stopped and tried smoking again about a week later and the same thing happened. I'm 25 now and have been on meds for anxiety and depression for 3 years now. It is rough getting over the hump and trust me I'm not over it completely I have come to grips with the fact that I will prolly have to live with this so I just deal with it. Just remember your not alone that people are dealing with the same things you are!