Please some advice and Tips.

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Hello my name is Mel, I really wanted some advice on smoking and being able to enjoy it. I want to first post my experiences with other
drugs. I use to do Ecstasy did it for about a year and stopped. I did acid once which was a very bad kind of traumatic experience 2 hits of
acid first time tripping and was on 5 rolls. Got left alone in a city I didn't know and just very bad that experience causes me kind of anxiety,
don't roll anymore because of it. I did shrooms one time after that experience and it was an ok experience, didn't know the people well just
haven't had any real support or good people in any of those tripping experiences. So I don't roll anymore, I might consider it again if I buy all 3 testing kits so I know exactly what inside, and I won't dare trip again. I have a lot of friends that smoke weed, and I've tried weed in the past and never got high for some reason maybe I wasn't actually inhaling, but after the first few times of rolling, I went and smoked with 2 friends, and one time for the first time at the time got high from smoking weed wasn't on anything, but while smoking my friend told me to sip on a
4 Loko, while sipping and smoking he wanted me to take big hits to make sure I high, I smoked before but this time I was so surprised How I
felt I think i started having a panic attack, it just felt like my heart was beating so hard it was going to pop out of my chest, like I had a
hard time breathing, and that I felt waves of like sensations or nerves going up and down and threw my body I was pretty scared but kept
telling
myself it's only weed relax, we went to a friends house and I hated it, I would've preferred to relax instead of a bunch of people high driving to a friends. When we got there I just felt scared being around people I was afraid that maybe I sound stupid, or make no sense because
I'm high and maybe kind of got paranoid, but I ended up telling my friends I had to go home because my mom needed me which was a lie butI felt better once I got home, my heart was still beating fast it felt like but it went away. I told my friend after about what happened he told me I should've told him what I was experiencing at the time, and told me that only happens once, the first time you really get high.

I've smoked a couple times after and didn't experience my heart racing or anything like that, but also didn't find smoking anything special. I
Feel confused when smoking weed, it seems like my friends are having a great time but I feel like i can't understand weed. I want to know
what I'm supposed to feel? I have a girlfriend now that smokes on occasion, and wants me to smoke, she knows my experiences and
troubles, but she's also really good at calming me down. Smoking is supposed to make you relax? find stupid shit funny? I've had very few
occasions where I have enjoyed, but I think to much, and get confused, and I think I have a big fear of losing control, because that acid
night was the first time i did anything stupid with drugs and lost control. So really if any of you guys have any tips on what to do when
smoking? maybe smoking isn't for me? I feel like I really want to try to understand this herb and be able to relax... I barely smoke at all
so it doesn't take much to get me high. Sometimes when smoking i find myself wondering if I'm really high or is it just me making me think
I'm high.... Another fear i have is getting stuck... The time I did acid I got that stuck in time feeling which scared the crap out of me,
I know weed won't do that but when peaking to the high i get scared because of the peak.. I question constantly how long is the high going
to last, when will I get normal just can't seem to relax? Sometimes I feel like I don't know what to do with myself lol.....anything that gets
me high and kind of moves me to the realm of tripping kind of scares me not out of control scare but it does. So thank you guys for taking
the time to read this long ass post, and please advise is there hope for me? or should I tell my girl no not going to smoke? take small hits
and just enjoy the buzz? thanks in advance!

 

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Only other worry looking at this form, I keep seeing smokers posting it's been 2 to 4 years of smoking or whatever the case maybe and that start to get
paranoia, and panic attacks or anxiety.. is that something to be concerned about?

 

[Snarky91]

Yes, your experiences are rather common. The first five or six times I smoked weed, I didn't even get high because I was not inhaling properly. The next half dozen times I got high and thought I was having a bad reaction, so I got a little anxious. The next 10-20 times I realized that in order to get high on weed you have to learn how to get high on weed by looking for subtle changes in perception that wouldn't occur to you otherwise -- subtle changes that are apparent to objective observers much more easily.

I recommend you smoke in private, increasing the number of hits you take gradually, with each smoking session. That way you'll become more acclimated with the effects. Before long you'll know what to expect and be comfortable getting high by yourself. At that point, you can start smoking with friends and so on.

As far as anxiety setting in after 2-4 years of smoking, it hasn't happened to me or anyone I know. Yes, you can probably bug out on occasion when you're smoking in public or doing something sketchy, but otherwise, you'll know to smoke through it until you're high. Experienced smokers don't really get paranoid as often as infrequent smokers, if at all.

 

[Chainer]

[Mega] Anxiety and Paranoia Thread

^ This is where your thread belongs. The OP here is a bit long and more like a blog-roll post... The more you read the more you will find you are far from alone, in fact anxiety and this worry is something I hear about a few times a week. check out our mega thread, you'll find stories and solutions to these types of problems.

 

[Chainer]

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