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[Mega] Anxiety and Paranoia Help / Discussion Thread

I have heard of this happening to many people before, yes even in well seasoned and cured stoners. Its hard to say why it happens, but the usual MO is someone who has smoked alot and for a long time suddenly has a panic attack while smoking weed. Panic attacks are very common, but usually you either are or you arent the kind of person who gets them. What i have also witnessed with panic attacks is the impact they can leave on someone long after they are over. If it was indeed the pot that caused a panic attack then getting high after can bring back those feelings of panic. Also i noticed that you start to worry ahead of time. You might start to feel panicked before you ever smoked before your anticipating the panic.

It really could be your bodies way of saying slow down...or maybe that your just burnt out on it. Try some edibles and get to where your comfortable with the high again. Try not to think about if you might panic before you do smoke, just chill. Its easier said than done I know, but you have to be comfortable with you drugs.

Im merging this with the paranoia and panic attack mega thread. Good luck.
 
what I did, because I was too stoned :| all the time (in my case, there is a little fear only, rooted in weeds illegality, I have family..) I switched weed to dried lavender, and I rolled it into my cigs with tobacco, as I did with weed. I am not pretty much into the pipes,and bongs, I love joints.. and as I allways smoked it with some tobacco, it made harder to cut down,or even to stop smoking weed.. So dried lavender was a very big help for me, I got the advice from one of my friends, whom working with natural medicines, teas, and all that stuff. Lavender had an awful taste for me at the first time, but later on I decided by myself to switch it over to lavender, I got enough stoning, and I felt I have to open up myself to my life again. Lavender is very easy to get, its a cheap but helpful thing, you can grow it in your window in a small pot. Opinions welcomed, but I think its good.
 
deltanyne said:
When you start again eat a fresh Orange and do it alone the night before you have nothing to do. Expectations ruin a high
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I'm really glad this thread revived, I forgot all about this. Greatest highs I've ever had came from eating oranges a little before smoking. Bananas are great too, although I'm pretty sure they don't contain myrcene (don't quote me on that!).
 
Thanks for the tips and I still don't know what causes it. Nothing traumatic has happened to me but I am Bipolar so that might have something to do with it. I started when I was 14 so damaging a growing brain makes sense. It's just a little weird after so long my brains like yea fuck you dude this shit ain't cool anymore haha. I smoke occasionally now in small amounts when I'm alone and it isn't is bad. It's def a different high now but I'm ok with it. Yea just wondering if it's happened to anybody else and thanks for the helpful insight
 
You know about the talk regarding weed and mental disorders? Who wants to bet most of this is warned by your brain in the form of paranoia/anxiety?
 
i don't smoke that much but when i do i pop a couple k-pins or have some drinks. if you're a daily smoker this won't work as you'll get physically addicted to these.
 
If you think smoking weed makes you paranoid, try growing it. And I'm not even talking about getting caught, the police is the least of my worries. They'll probably just take away my plants and that will be the end of that. No I'm talking about not being able to leave the house without the fear of it burning down due to some kind of faulty wiring or exploding lamp/melting ventilator whatever. Damn I can just never relax when I leave the house. In the house I can never relax either because of the loud ventilation system. It's driving me crazy. Growing indoor in your own house is a pain really. Although it has it's good moments :)
 
Panic attacks from weed..... used to smoke every day to cant even smoke?

Hey bluelight i am currently in a situation where, well i used to love to smoke weed. used to be all i did, weed over everything. i left for a month up to a camp and didn't smoke or do any drugs for that reason for the whole month. now when i came back, when i first smoked i got baked as fuck. smoking continuned fine for probably another month, when one day i had just smoked some dank ganj, when i realized my ears start ringing. weird. my heart starts to race and i get this feeling where everything i see starts to speed up infront of me, a very real and scary experience thought i was dying. that was my first true full blown panic attack. ive been prescribed .5mg K-pin, but am currently out when i need them most. damn my abusive behavior. have had some social anxiety issues, but never an attack like this. now, ive been smoking weed recently and have gotten to the point where 50% of the time i smoke i get the terriable panic attacks or at least symptoms of it being their just kind of haunting me. is it time to give my favorite herb? and what could be the reason for this? latent anxiety issues brought out by psychedelics / THC? maybe the tolerance being low? any advice is appraicited
TL:DR
Used to smoke no problem, recently had a full blown panic attack. not sure where these attacks are coming from, no rookies to benzo's ussally have a k pin script at all times but i got a few weeks until my next doc appoint. it feels like most of the attacks come from when i smoke. any help is appreciated.
 
I get anxiety off weed too sometimes if I smoke too much of a really dank strain....Benzos help A LOT but most people wouldn't wanna take a benzo just to smoke weed. 5-HTP seems to help a bit for me. And also, are you prescribed any other medicine besides klonopin that you take when you smoke weed?
 
Hey people, reviving this for a little self-indulgence...I've looked through a lot of the thread but it got to the tl;dr point, did find some helpful things though.
It's mostly reassuring to know that this isn't just some freak occurrence and I'm not totally losing my shit, though. I don't know anyone else personally who has had issues with weed triggering anxiety, but that's what the internet is for, right? I'm going to vent a little and share my own story, even if I don't get a huge response.

What I don't understand is where this came from, in my case. I'm 19 now, and didn't even smoke for my first time until midway through my junior year of high school. I didn't begin smoking regularly till the last half of my senior year - I've been a straight A student and got a full scholarship to college. At that point it was a little personal bowl, not quite every night, maybe 4 or 5 hits. I didn't do any other drugs until I got to college, a little over a year ago. Then I tried ecstasy maybe 3 times, and acid once during my first semester...and that's when my social anxiety started developing. My new friends were all awesome stoner kids, but for some reason I felt myself becoming really self-conscious and paranoid that I was talking too much or saying stupid things, so I became afraid to interact when I got high with them. Then I started getting panic attacks, where my heart was racing and I would get tingling or pain in my arms, one time during a car ride coming back to campus from a smoke trip I convinced myself that I was dying but I was totally frozen and couldn't say anything so I just rode it out.

My second semester at school, I wound up getting really heavily into e for about 3 or 4 months, until that no longer got me high anymore, and messed around with coke occasionally for a couple months over the summer. Out of my 3 acid trips, 2 were really stressful/unnerving but not full-blown bad trips...and one was an incredibly beautiful experience. I always thought that maybe my anxiety issues started after the first acid trip, because that's the only thing I could think to correlate that happened around the same time as the anxiety started, but it was honestly a pretty unremarkable trip that didn't freak me out or anything so in the end I doubt it was the catalyst. A couple of months ago I was a victim of domestic abuse, was hospitalized, had major surgery, and now I've got 5 titanium plates in my face to fix the broken bones (thankfully people say they would never guess from looking at me)...now I'm dealing with mild PTSD and coming out of a couple months of depression. So none of that has exactly helped.

I never had a huge problem when smoking alone, so as soon as I start my job and have some extra cash I might give that a shot. The last time I smoked with a couple old friends about a month ago, I sat there clammed up in her living room having a panic attack.So it hasn't gone away yet. Has anyone experienced these anxiety issues being completely resolved, or been able to work through them over time so that smoking becomes normal and enjoyable again? I guess I just want to know if I have any chance of "fixing" myself. I was on vicodin for a good 2 months after surgery but now I'm off that and all the harder drugs as well. Planning to lay off the coke for good, maybe try acid or shrooms a couple times yearly if that, and bring the ecstasy use down to that level as well (if it even works after I give myself this 6 month break).

Well that's my saga I guess .__. sorry I write so much but it would be really nice if someone actually reads this. Also...hi bluelight c: first post!
 
thehoneybean I didn't read your whole post

I can tell you right off from what you've bolded that the answer is a yes, people have been able to work through their issues with paranoia/anxiety regarding cannabis, but its not easy and will never be like the pick-up-and-smoke-like-its-nothing phase that so beautifully (may have) rocked your world.

well after reading the last paragraph I guess I'll read the whole thing, hang on a sec

Quite a few people will experience anxiety/paranoia from weed if they continue smoking indefinitely. I'd go as far as to say that its normal. Hell, most people stop smoking because of such negative effects.

Its good that you waited as long as you did to smoke.

You say that this started happening when you took psychedelics? I for one would not mess with them again.

So you have a clinical mental illness, were the subject of physical abuse, took too much E, and had some bad trips on psychedelics, all in the same general time frame? If I were you sir I'd seriously think about recouping yourself before taking an hallucinogen, or drug for that matter. People have had less trauma than you and experienced psychosis from weed, as in full-blown.

So you know that smoking with other people can still make you paranoid/anxious. Try to find out more about yourself and what makes you comfortable in the weed mind-state. Probably the best way to do this is, after writing down the aforementioned facts, taking a very long break then starting slowly in your comfort zone. Again, I would not take any psychedelics ever again. And Cocaine exacerbates psychotic issues; don't do it.

This is assuming that you will smoke again. I'm not advocating that you do.

One thing I would not recommend is taking GABAergic drugs while smoking to "drown out" the negative feelings. That is really damaging. We must learn to deal with what our brain gives us.
 
honeybean-
When I started smoking I had very similar anxiety, socially and with my heart beating incredibly fast. The first time I did a grav bong I got so high i just walked out of my buddies house without saying anything because my heart was pounding, I thought about calling an ambulance worried I was having a heart attack. Long story short I didn't and was fine after an hour or so. For some time after I had a similar reaction every time I smoked, my heart beating so fast i thought I was going to die. Longer story short with time and a gratuitous amount of smoking I've been able to eliminate those symptoms almost entirely. It will still bother me occasionally if I haven't smoked for a bit and get really high but I am easily able to calm down by just realizing I'm really high and knowing it will pass.

My advice for anyone suffering from anxiety/panic when smoking, take fewer hits/pack smaller bowls, you can always smoke more if you end up not feeling high enough.
 
How to prevent DP/DR when high

I've smoked about 30 times in my life and eaten edibles a couple times. EVERYTIME I got strong Derealization that pretty much ruined the high. ONCE did I actually get euphoria and no DP/DR! What to do?
 
try smoking less, like one small hit. Since you haven't smoked much you may just need to get a base tolerance then you'll be fine. If you experience dp/dr regularly though i'd just say cannabis isn't the right drug for you. It would also help if you only smoke indica dom strains but that's hard to do unless you smoke medicinally or grow yourself.
 
i usually smoke half to a whole gram at once. last time i smoked i was determined to get SOME pleasure so ii smoked 2.5 blunts and i was sitting down but my vision went BLACK i could barely see, got nauseous and felt like i was falling down LOL
 
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