recovery

[Garret]

Hi
It has been just over a year and still fell weird from using legal smokes and smoking weed. I still have the eye floaters, and maybe mild static. I have anxiety all the time. I am hopeing this will left one day. The worry about not returning back to the healthy Garret I once was is driving me nuts. I am finding life more difficult. Has anyone recovered from this stuff? Please help!
Thanks.

Garret

 

[bagochina]

I am going on getting close to a year off benzo/opiates and I still feel off quite often. Anxiety sometimes it has gotten much better recently though. It would be over 2.5 years off the benzos if I didnt start taking them for a few months. Year off adderall too. Still drink and pot occasionally and as stupid as it sounds my life gets boring when I completely cut that out of my life. It could just be that time of year.

peace.
seedless

 

[Garret]

looking for help

Hi
I am still hopeing to find someone who has recoverd from the same experience I have had with legal highs. It would would take away my depression and worry about this never lifting.
It has been over a year since I used anything.
I still have very prominent cob-web tpe eye floaters, anxiety, depression, and a feeling that my concentration and IQ have been affected.
Will I get better?

 

[nervousone]

Synthetic cannibinoids haven't been on the market long enough to find many people who abused them and quit. They have only been on the US scene for around 2 years. With that being said, you will almost certainly recover.

 

[Legerity]

How did you feel before ever smoking weed or using legal highs? If you felt anxious/depressed before ever starting then the fact that you stopped will not necessarily change that.

There is no happy baseline that we automatically return to after stopping drug use. Stopping will help whatever side-effects the drugs may have been causing, but this is still not dealing with the actual issue.

Start by looking at what the drugs provided you with, what your reasons were for using. If you can start working on those then you will maybe see a difference in your state of mind.

 

[sekio]

Keep yourself entertained and busy. Eat a healthy diet and get excercise on a regular basis. The anxiety from cannabis overuse is mostly if not entirely psychological and stress-induced in many cases.

Good luck on your recovery

 

[n3ophy7e]

Hi
I am still hopeing to find someone who has recoverd from the same experience I have had with legal highs. It would would take away my depression and worry about this never lifting.
It has been over a year since I used anything.
I still have very prominent cob-web tpe eye floaters, anxiety, depression, and a feeling that my concentration and IQ have been affected.
Will I get better?

Hi Garret, I remember your posts from a year ago when you first posted about your issues with synthetic cannabinoids and I'm really sorry to hear you're still struggling now.

In the last 12 months, have you undergone any therapy to try and tackle this problem?

How did you feel before ever smoking weed or using legal highs? If you felt anxious/depressed before ever starting then the fact that you stopped will not necessarily change that.

There is no happy baseline that we automatically return to after stopping drug use. Stopping will help whatever side-effects the drugs may have been causing, but this is still not dealing with the actual issue.

Start by looking at what the drugs provided you with, what your reasons were for using. If you can start working on those then you will maybe see a difference in your state of mind.

Excellent post Legerity, thank you

 

[anton789]

I felt weird for ages after Od' ing on JWH18, but can confirm that I eventually returned to 'normal'. I still use all sorts of drugs, but have definetly returned to my pre-18 state of mind. Smoked it daily for about a year, then stopped for about six months and feel fine. Still indulge occasionally, with no side effects. It is quite an interesting drug taken irregularly and in small doses.

Hope this helps

 

[Jabberwocky]

About eye floaters; the older you get the more floaters you have and they are not particularly associated with drug abuse afaik.

Under normal circumstances, eye floaters are absolutely nothing to worry about. Everyone experiences them from time to time and they cause no ill effects.

http://www.aboutfloaters.com/ reading this page might lessen your anxiety about that aspect of things, but I realize you may be talking about something else.

Sometimes people talk themselves into feeling broken beyond repair, but in my experience it is a feeling much more than a reality. Exercise, a good diet, perhaps getting screened for major depression or like problems and seeking treatment if needed seems like a good plan to me. If like is constantly feeling heavy maybe some lighter more fun activities. Momentary lapses in concentration or problems with memory are normal for not only people who overdid drugs but for just about everyone. If you let every mental lapse become an occasion for regret it actually increases the number of lapses rather than decreasing them ime.

Be kind to your self. I think if you can get your focus on some fun or fulfilling things you will likely suddenly realize the problems decreased a lot without your even having noticed.

 

[Lord]

I got those things from smoking weed alone, forget the other drugs. At first it faded quickly, but the longer I smoked the longer it would stay once I slowed down or stopped, so... that's the advice, the better you want to get, the less weed you should smoke. Worked for me, anyway.