any derealisation experiences?

justsomeguy619

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Hello darkside, i have been having derealisation for the past six months, not completly sure what triggered it, i was a daily weed smoker who also had severe health anxiety and panic , after a few panic attacks derealisation came, it is nowhere as bad as it used to be but the visual effects are still lingering, anyone who got through it? And did it go all at once or gradually?
 
Mine went away gradually and it was triggered from using ecstasy , but weed made it worse. As i was smoking weed daily and could not stop, and i also rolled once a month so i'm sure it was just getting worse each time.

Can you explain your visual effects? I didn't really have many visual effects other than my perception of things and reality was completely fucked, so hard to explain.. but i didn't get tracers or any of that HPPD stuff....
 
Well i dont see trails or tracers, only have mild visual snow and light sensitivity and my vision is out of focus , in the beginning i heard about hppd and was really scared but it seems that the distortions in that are more severe like seeing tracers and trails, colored snow, halos around objects etc. And i have a hard time believing weed would cause that by itself, havent touched psychedelics in years.
 
Yes, what you describe is exactly how I felt abusing pot a long time ago, especially when the weed started being made really strong. I had a friend who's dad had a bunch of plants, he thought we didn't know but we would just pick the leaves and a joint would get us nice and happy for a half hour.
By the early 90's there was stuff so strong that you might be high hours, and that's when it becomes a problem. That and a few strong trips made me psychologicaly scattered and shattered and the panic attacks would come more often.
It took only a few weeks of quitting to feel better but I had the attacks until one day after having been thoroughly checked and blood tested by the dr. I had one and decided that I was going to go jog it off, and if I had a heart attack then so be it. I was fine, and the only thing that gives them to me now is when I overuse meds or otherwise do things to precipitate them. Live clean and you will be fine in a few weeks, indulge infrequently or not at all and you will stay fine. Get bloodwork done to put your m7nd at ease. And don't let the dr. talk you into ANY benzos or antidepressants, they will only make the problem worse. Talk to a trained psychologist if things don't change in a month after stopping but again do your best to steer clear of drugs.
 
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