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[Mega] Anxiety and Paranoia Help / Discussion Thread

^ This is an example of what i thought about anxiety, panic attacks and cannabis.

You may well have a very bad and disturbing experience from too much cannabis, however when it wears off and you haven't died you will realise that the anxiety was unnecessary.

I agree with you on the 'Lifted' anxiety after a bad experience.
 
Thank you mr. Ecstasy lol finally someone who understands! :D


I feel this experence will help in ordinary anxiety as well as marijuana anxiety. I learned to just say " if it's gunna happen come at me" basically to the anxiety then it goes away in minuetes. I believe this will also work helping me quit cigarettes etc. :)
 
^ Good luck on quitting cigarettes, Btw smoking pure joints , vaping or bonging weed is the only way ill get high. I wont toke baccy,
 
Thanks and yeah, I don't know why I started just a stupid decision I guess. Keep it like that tobacco is way too addictive and there's no use for it, there's no high to it after your addicted.
 
Can I ever smoke grass again? Advice needed.

Hey, I used to smoke pot all day every day for about 3years. I loved it, was not a problem at all. Until I discovered synthetic Cannabis. I had a bad time on it, so I chose not to smoke it anymore, but then after that whenever I smoked weed, I would get so pannicy and anxious. So then I stopped smoking green. It's now been 3 months and I want to smoke it again, I tried it once, just a little bit, and I got all pannicy again.
To sum up, My question is; Can I smoke grass again like I used to? I miss it :(
 
Sorry to hear how synthetic cannabis screwed up your weed high. That is unfortunate.

Are you smoking weed that's high Sativa? At least for me, those are the kind of strains that can get me a bit panicky at times. Also remember, if you haven't smoked for 3 months, your tolerance is probably nothing right now so even the smallest amounts of some good weed can get you really high and feeling anxious, panicked, etc...

I say, at least try to smoke again if that's what you really want, just take it slow.

Also check out the [Mega] Anxiety and Paranoia Help / Discussion Thread
 
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That's awful to hear... My personal opinion is that those legal high cannabis analogues are pretty scary and can be dangerous. It's so ridiculous that people can get their hands on something that will mess their heads up like this, and the"real thing" is really pretty safe, but illegal. Certainly no more harmful than booze or cigs anyway. I don't smoke anymore, no reason in particular, just don't ... But like the other poster who answered said, be careful with strain - you may be better off for awhile with plain old commercial grade stuff. In small amounts, in a safe and positive setting. And honestly, I'd give it a little more time. Good luck, I hope this passes.
 
That is unfortunate. A way to regain tolerance and perhaps re-indulge in the better effects of cannabis would be to do it alone. Turn on some music, sit back, and smoke slowly, there's no rush - just try to relax and enjoy it. ;)

And you're probably thinking it will get you to pannick before you smoke it. Just thinking about it can get you into a bad mind-set and set the whole experience on fire, try to control that if you can. :)
 
Yes you probably can smoke again. Just give herb and all drugs a rest for awhile, and get over your anxiety/panic that the synthetic herb brought out.

When you start smoking again just smoke a single hit from a one hitter, joint, or small pipe, or a single vapor hit from a vaporizer and see how you are from that. You can always smoke more later or at another time if you want to get higher. Some people will drink a beer if they get anxious on herb, or others will keep benzos around and just take a small dose of them.

I've never used synthetic herb and I'm sorry to hear that this happened to you from it. Friends of mine have smoked different types of synthetic herb from JWH, spice, k2, etc. and they said how some blends that they had no idea what they were smoking were very intense and almost too much at times. I never used any of them since when they first came out I thought they were fake herb like they used to sell in the back of high times magazine and I prefer the real thing.

Good luck!
 
Has anyone ever heard of a experence linked to permant anxiety I don't mean like for the rest of your life panic attacks here an there I mean like while your high an have the panic attack, the fear literally NEVER goes away. I doubt this is possible unless you have skitz.
 
I'd give it a break and when you feel ready, dose very small. Think a one-hitter, but make it last 3 hits. I'd aim for an indica dom strain.

i'll merge this into our mega, this is a common problem
 
AphexSwim said:
Hey, I used to smoke pot all day every day for about 3years. I loved it, was not a problem at all. Until I discovered synthetic Cannabis. I had a bad time on it, so I chose not to smoke it anymore, but then after that whenever I smoked weed, I would get so pannicy and anxious. So then I stopped smoking green. It's now been 3 months and I want to smoke it again, I tried it once, just a little bit, and I got all pannicy again.
To sum up, My question is; Can I smoke grass again like I used to? I miss it :(
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Here's my story of pot and anxiety:

I'm 40, and hadn't smoked pot regularly for 5 years and hadn't smoked at ALL in about 2 years. From age 25-35, I smoked on a daily basis, multiple times a day- then seemingly out of the blue- around 2005 I start getting panic attacks. Every time I smoked, I'd get panicky. It sucked. It's worth it to note that at that time the panic started, my mom was dying of cancer and just that whole situation was probably bugging me out in a bad way and when I got high it really came out. However, even as time went on the panic never went away.

I would quit for like a month, then start smoking again and be ok for a few days but then the panic would just come back. The bad outweighed the good and I quit smoking weed for the time frame i indicated above.

Recently two thing have happened: I moved to California and got on Klonapin (2 mg/day). I got myself one of those medical marijuana cards and have been smoking happily for like 2 months now with no problems, even with the really strong strains of weed.

I have indeed still had panic attacks on weed, but realized that those panic attacks were caused by a reason. I have been in therapy recently and learned to apply techniques to dig out what is bothering me. So weed can be a good way of thinking about anxiety in some ways.

Still, when you come down to it, when you smoke weed will offset some dopaminergic activity. Some people will respond more or less extremely to such disruption. In certain cases- just addressing the anxiety will not be enough and either taking a weed break/quitting is the only viable option.

If you feel you have no choice but to quit weed, it's really not that big a deal- (try coming off opiates,lol). I didn't have any problem but a few sleepless nights and some depression....but then again i started hitting the bottle pretty hard. Fun times, but not recommended
 
Will I ever

get back to that normal where I can smoke weed again. I havn't done it really in 6 yr's just here and there and it made me fill like I was in a bad trip. I'm a backkslidding christian that if utlra sensitive to things like that so I want to smoke until it doesn't bother me anymore. Does anybody have any advice on this?
 
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I think a lot of people here mistake anxiety with bad thoughts.

I know a lot of people who just simply cannot smoke pot, yet they can drink way more than me.

Bad thoughts or generally depression seems to manifest itself in "anxiety". Focusing too much on your heart rate isn't anxiety, it's basically a normal reaction to cannabis. Most people do not grow up in a culture which is suitable to cannabis consumption, thus initially and very ignorantly compare it to alcohol. This is done either conciously, or subconciously.

I'm quite bothered by the "just stop" attitude here. Of course, if you do not like cannabis and think that you are not suitable to cannabis consumption, stopping is the best idea. But when anxiety comes in the picture, I think people should just stand back a minute and think about WHY they react so badly to cannabis.

When you "trip out" you basically overreact to your heightened senses. Feeling your heartbeat, or thinking about it for the first time can force you to ask yourself, "am I ok?". Yes, you are ok, but isn't it just a little bit odd that you are realizing your heartbeat now? Or do you really, truly give two fucks about how you come across to other people?

I mean, you do know just who you are... don't you? Well... do you?

Adressing the problem is important. Letting go is the answer.

Remembering can be hard. Forgetting sometimes harder.

I always forget to remember.

And remember to forget.

Switching strains is just a practical way out. Cheap way outs, shouldn't be a part of cannabis culture. It works for many, but I'm opposed to it in principle.
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This is ****** true. I'm a severe social phobic (and anxiety) who smokes pot. I better not be stoned if I have to meet someone tho.
 
It seems to me that there's a big difference in effects between different 'noids. For example i found that just a few tiny specks of an AM2201 blend could send my mind spinning out of control, paranoid thoughts racing through my mind. I have recently tried UR-144 (having herad about the less negative reactions users are experiencing)and that certainly has far nicer effects for me personally. I now get no fear or anxiety whatsover from smoking this, though i am still pre-loading on etizolam. Im going to try gradually reducing the etizolam and will see if the nicely stoned mind state can still be achieved without needing to rsort to preloading on etizolam
 
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Great buzz turned into paranoid hell

I've smoked pot for 8 years straight and was the definition of a stoner and fucking loved it. One day out of the blue I was facing a blunt of nothing special and started bugging out bad. I started having a massive panic and got so paranoid it was ridiculous. I was thinking the whole time wtf is wrong with me because I was shivering but wasn't cold and my body kept twitching on top of the mental shit. I had to leave the room and didn't even want to be around my girlfriend or my friends. I eventually got something to eat and went to sleep but ever since then every time I tried to smoke I bugged out. I figured out that if I was on zans then i would be normal after I smoke. But you really can't feel it if your zanned out so it's pointless and pretty much a waste. It sucks pretty bad because I never would have started taking pain pills if all I had to do was pack a bowl and be good. I've smoked everything since then trying to figure out if it was just that strain of grass. From brown dirt to the prettiest Kush you've ever seen and it all ended up the same. Has this happened to any of you? I feel pretty alone on this.
 
Anything changed in your life recently?
A bad event?

Your diet?
Any health conditions?
Any mental health conditions?
Have you been using different drugs recently?

Lastly, how much caffeine did you consume that day ?
 
Yeah, that happened to me. I smoked HEAVILY for 6 years, and when I say heavy I mean 5 grams+ every single day of good OG or Bubba kush. 1 gram blunts all day long, and I LOVED pot. I couldn't do anything without getting high, and one day I started getting so high that I would twitch shake uncontrollably and feel as if my body was cold.. Even when it was hot outside. I thought the world was ending, I even smoked wax one time and thought I was going to be the first one to die off pot. Have you experimented with other drugs? What is your background? I had such a bad experience I quit smoking for 8 months. I recently just picked it back up, and I smoke maybe a couple hits off a pipe at night time 2 times a week and enjoy it thoroughly. Take a break dude, I guess it yours bodies way. I was at a point where I was coughing up black (didn't smoke cigarettes) and I had just smoked entirely too much pot. lol
 
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