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Anyone ever freak out on weed?

One time in my freshman year of college I ditched my morning classes to go donate plasma (the poor student I was at the time) then smoked a fat blunt with friends before going to take my sexual health midterm.

I hadn't eaten all day so donating plasma and all that THC really took me for a spin and I ended up blacking out in the test - scary. My vision went all blurry and I got all sweaty and tingly and I think I scared the TA when I went up and asked to leave.

Learned that lesson pretty quickly.
 
lol
school + drugfuckups creates interesting results, to say the least
lucky the 60s psychos have done most of the pioneering in THAT department four us ;)
 
I had a panic attack and blacked out on weed once. I haven't smoked without the aid of benzos many times since then. Most of the time just knowing I have benzos on hand if needed is enough to suppress any anxieties I may get from a doobage smoking session.
 
I was a pretty hardcore blazer for 3 years and then earlier this year sometimes I'd smoke it and get reaaalllllllyyyy high... like abnormally high, but I just chalked it up to it being good shit. One night I blazed a pretty meager joint with some buds and a few minutes later I felt like I couldn't breathe and my vision kept going all weird, it felt like I couldn't look at anything, everything just felt wrong... then shit started to go very frame-by-frame and I felt extremely nauseous, I had no idea what the fuck was going on so I asked my friends to drive my home so I could just chill out and hopefully go to bed. I couldn't calm myself down and the feeling wasn't going away, so I called my Mom (I had no idea what the fuck else to do at this point). My parents are extremely chill (potheads as well) and she informed me I was having a panic attack and that she was sorry because she used to get them all the time and it's hereditary.

That was in late July, I smoked pot until about the end of August, but I found that every time I did it would just make me freak out or make me super anxious. The shitty thing was when I started getting panic attacks, heavy anxiety and overwhelming depersonalization and derealization without even smoking pot. I eventually went into therapy and had to go through Cognitive Behavior Therapy for it... they gave me benzo's for when I have a bad attack but I haven't taken one yet, I'm trying to conquer this shit on my own.

The last time I smoked pot, I was home alone (my girlfriend was away for the weekend visiting her mom) and I had a huge panic attack that lasted about 3 hours, even though I knew what it was and that I'd be find, the panic wouldn't subside... it was the worst I've ever felt in my life. Since then, I haven't blazed... which makes me deeply sad because up until it started mindfucking me, it was my favorite passtime... to get baked and play music or have sex is overwhelmingly amazing.

I've been doing really well lately though, managing the anxiety and I've got a shipment of Kava headed my way so I'll see how that helps it. Soon I'm going to try blazing again, starting off small and going into it with a bit of caution.. but now that I have the benzos, I'm not really too worried. I'm just upset that it looks like I'll never be able to reclaim the relationship I once had with pot... it was a marvelous one.
 
man the amount of times i've seen people freak out on weed, or read a thread similar to this.
I know more people who have been sectioned and/or diagnosed schizophrenic after a weed habit than from any other substance. like, a substantial amount of people, my own sister included.
now i'm not hating on the weed. far from it. but it can be a powerfully psychoactive substance and can often be treated too lightly in my opinion.
it's a mind altering substance and ALL should be treated with respect.
it's amazing how many people are unaware that prolonged (or even sometimes brief) exposure to THC can induce neurosis/schizophrenia IF you are genetically pre-disposed to psychosis. This could be a random undiagnosed disorder that mildly occurred in one of your grandparents.

i wrote this somewhere before a few times

"Is there a history/tendency towards psychosis, schizophrenia, neurosis, obsessive compulsive, anxiety etc in your family?

if so or even if not it could be the thc's nature of directly affecting dopamine balance (exactly where schizophrenia visibly affects the brain when analyzed) and over prolonged usage and/or genetic predisposition it can bring to the surface or aggravate aforementioned conditions."

I am just speaking from a multitude of experiences, and from a small amount of scientific research. i don't claim to be a psychologist/psychoanalyst even if i do have a BA in psychology.
 
^it wasn't the weed. your friends and acquaintances probably had pre-existing conditions or conditions that developed independently from weed.

stop attributing negative effects and diagnoses to weed smoking. it wasn't the freakin' weed.

in all reality, the genetic predisposition acted independently from weed in aggravating psychosis, schizo, etc. maybe these folks would have these issues had they never smoked weed at all. there's no way to tell, but there's also no way to say that pot was the cause.

maybe there's a simpson's paradox here if there are stats to back it up. I'd like to see those
 
chairmanma084 said:
^it wasn't the weed. your friends and acquaintances probably had pre-existing conditions or conditions that developed independently from weed.

stop attributing negative effects and diagnoses to weed smoking. it wasn't the freakin' weed.

in all reality, the genetic predisposition acted independently from weed in aggravating psychosis, schizo, etc. maybe these folks would have these issues had they never smoked weed at all. there's no way to tell, but there's also no way to say that pot was the cause.

just be more logical about it and you'll be illuminated...
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bollocks.
read my thread and do some fucking research.
it's fact. weed is the catalyst not the cause!
And ive witnessed it countless times.
predisposition yes, aggravated and brought on by weed.
fuck i've even been medically treated for it.

just to repeat myself "now i'm not hating on the weed. far from it."

this is a harm reduction site.
not an idiot forum.

I'll be illuminated? pah!
patronize me when you grow some hair on yer chest sunshine.
 
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dude i smoked weed for like 10 years then suddenly started getting some nasty panic attacks that even made me pass out at times, but i just learned to realise i was working my self up and calm down, then it passes easily. chances are though itsa more down to stress etc you just overthink these things when stoned and it can make you freak out a bit
 
im a pretty panic-prone person when it comes to drugs but i think thats a lot to do with me.

First few times i smoked i was fine, super calm, no fear then a close mate of mine died and everything changed.

EVERy time i got high i would panic, it would be like i would sit there feeling that warm vibrating kind of buzz you get off weed, then this kind of sense that its gonna go wrong, then i focus on that fact that the warm feeling is gonna end soon then my body hits a cold sweat that feels chilling and i can feel my insides and stuff, then i get that selective feeling where i feel the blood vessels in my eyes and my heart beat and all that shite.

heres what i do now:

I really enjoy weed, just dont like freaking out.

so i smoke to get used to it, have a small amount one night, slightly more the next and build up you anti-freakout-defense

when i sit down for a sesh, i usually pace it out, take a few tokes, wait for it to hit, then toke again.

get as high as im comfortable with at the time, i usually start to get the "im hardly high, i should smoke more" one i feel all good.

after a while of building up you get used to the high, you notice the triggers of the negative side that spirals into a bad buzz and dismiss them, you build your mental strength up and get used to it haha

wall of text advise =D
 
I have on occasion had the beginning signs of panic...but I just eat something really quick and that calms me down. I think it is some people's natural reaction to the feeling of losing control of their normal rhythm. Most everyone I have know that freaks out only do so in the first half hour of being stoned, and that is usually because they got much higher than they anticipated. It usually wanes out after a bit of sobering up, though.
 
^ i think there's a little more science to it there.
Neurochemistry - you should check it out.
especially psychosis, its relationship to dopamine, and the affect THC has on the relative parts of the human brain.

ever seen anyone panic or "freak out" on smack?
or benzodiazapienes?
nope.

There's a reason for that.
and its nothing to do with "losing control of your normal rhythm"
 
Yeah, I have.

In one of the first couple times I smoked, on of my friends girlfriends started talking about existential nihilism, and I started overthinking and freaking out.

Lol.
 
i have very extreme emetophobia (look it up if you want) that causes a lot of anxiety problems, and the few times i've tried marijuana, it tripped me out so bad i wanted to die.
it's not the weed that's the problem, some people just can't do it.
believe me, if i could enjoy it, i totally would. it's so much easier for me to come by than the stuff i actually enjoy doing. haha.
 
I freaked out twice. The first time I ever hit a bong, we hit some very high quality bud and I couldn't stop shaking and time just seemed to crawl on. I thought at the time I was going to be the first person to ever overdose hahaha. The second time, I got so high that I thought the cops were after us. So we ran through the woods, and called our friends to pick us up and let us spend the night. haha.
 
Ive never freaked out on weed before but ive had panic attacks after smoking. It was nothing my prescribed benzos couldnt solve : D
 
ive freaked out a few times on weed, but i eventually figured out why. i wasnt doing so well at the time and was donating plasma regularly to survive and everytime i would smoke after donating, i would black out and feel like i was dying and sweat a whole lot. then when i would come too, my vision would be real blurry and i would feel real weak. anyways...these days im doing better in case your wondering. and still smoking weed regularly. have a job now so no more needing to donate plasma. which means no more blacking out.
 
I've seen some horrible meltdowns and high mistakes, but I've never had a bad experience with weed other than wishing I was sober at a time I was not. For instance, my friend's phone goes off and he thinks his pants are on fire because of the LED in his pocket.

Once, though, my friend thought it'd be funny to slam on my glass window at night to scare me, but he smashed through it, half falling into my room, which scared the shit outta me as I almost stabbed him in the face by reaction alone.
 
I was just posting something about this in a different thread... I LOVE psychedelics such as LSD, psilocin, 2c-e, etc. and never have had problems "freaking out" on any of the above, but weed is a different story. Psychs are wonderful and even if I experience anxiety, it feels "natural" and a part of life; I embrace any feeling I come across. But I somehow find that weed generally exacerbates my anxiety in a pretty bad way. I've experienced panic attacks with weed on several occasions. I get a lot of psychosomatic problems, such as I'll feel like I'm having trouble breathing or that my throat is closing up, or some other strange health issue. I can tell myself that it's not true, but my mind still focuses on these things against my will and it makes the high a lot less enjoyable.
 
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