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Whats up everyone? got a few questions. but first a little backround. i started smoking in middle school at age fifteen. by ninth grade it was a weekend thing and by tenth grade till 12th it was an everyday thing.

i know smoking too much will cause anxiety but would it cause permanent anxiety? ive been very shy and would avoid social situations, girlfriends family, asking random people questions, and especially with females. iv'e just realized that this could possibly be social anxiety instead of just being really shy. Do you think this could have been caused by the weed from smoking at such a young age?

Ive quit smoking for a year now doing it maybe once in a while but still have this social anxiety. the whole reason i quit in the first place is because i couldnt even enjoy the high anymore because i would just get filled up with negative thoughts and feel down. i dont feel the regular anxiety no more but seem to still have this social anxiety. it could just be me, i just want to know if other people have any of the same experiences as me.
 
If you started smoking in middle/high school, I'm guessing you smoked up with your friends which would be a social situation.

If you're smoking by yourself in a non-social situation, your mind might have forgot what its like to be in a public area when you're high.

It happens to me too when I'm high and out by myself. Try smoking with some friends and do something outside and see how that works.
 
LSDMDMA&8762471 said:
who is 15 in middle school?
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Some middle schools have 9th grade...you can either stay or move on to highschool, I know it's a common overlap in NYC schools (or at least it was when I was involved with them).

I've also been smoking pot from age 14, daily from 16 and I'm 23 now...I often wonder what my life would have been like without it, and wish it wasn't such a big part of it. However, I don't really have any desire to take a break, so at this point I just look at it as a decision I made and have to deal with.
 
purple_cloud said:
I've also been smoking pot from age 14, daily from 16 and I'm 23 now...I often wonder what my life would have been like without it, and wish it wasn't such a big part of it. However, I don't really have any desire to take a break, so at this point I just look at it as a decision I made and have to deal with.
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Quoted for motherfucking truth! I'm the same except i'm coming up to 20 years.
 
I'm 17 now And started when I was 15 .

I don't get anxiety or anything .

But I find at this age you can smoke weed but make it something special that you only do once every so often .
This age is the prime age where you build life/social skills, etc. And if your smoking weed all the time you can feel a bit alienated and stuff and I feel you don't learn these skills as well as you would sober.

Of course some people can but a lot cant
 
Some people get really bad anxiety, I don't know why. I've been smoking since I was 15. Weed actually takes away my social anxiety and no ones ever questions if im high or not.

I'ts basically you get over it. Or stop smoking.
 
While starting earlier can often increase your potential risk of anxiety issues associated with pot down the line, in large part it just depends on how the individual reacts to smoking.

For me, I've been smoking regularly since I was 15ish (so going on 5+years now) and I haven't had any issues with anxiety associated with pot nor do I regret starting so young.. However I wouldn't necessarily consider my situation the norm, and definitely wouldn't recommend pot to the average 14 year old :\
 
I first toked on a bus going to school, i was 15 and the lads were fucking around and told me they'd rolled a joint with just Tobacco. I toked away and pretended i'd done it before then i quickly passed back to him. Then when i was 15 i got 6 blow backs and on both of those occasions i didn't get stoned
 
I had to get rid of some posts in here, please keep this clean, it's a good thread on a topic I can personally relate to and don't want to have to close this nor hand out warnings. No name calling, we're all adults here.
 
lostsoul.On.E said:
Whats up everyone? got a few questions. but first a little backround. i started smoking in middle school at age fifteen. by ninth grade it was a weekend thing and by tenth grade till 12th it was an everyday thing.

i know smoking too much will cause anxiety but would it cause permanent anxiety? ive been very shy and would avoid social situations, girlfriends family, asking random people questions, and especially with females. iv'e just realized that this could possibly be social anxiety instead of just being really shy. Do you think this could have been caused by the weed from smoking at such a young age?

Ive quit smoking for a year now doing it maybe once in a while but still have this social anxiety. the whole reason i quit in the first place is because i couldnt even enjoy the high anymore because i would just get filled up with negative thoughts and feel down. i dont feel the regular anxiety no more but seem to still have this social anxiety. it could just be me, i just want to know if other people have any of the same experiences as me.
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I cannot truely answer this question because I was outgoing way back at like 5 ever since I have been very shy and an introvert and started smoking at about 14, it actually helped me feel more comfortable with myself and beable to share my opinions although I knew they were very different than the opinions of the kids that were my age at the time. At this time however I was still shy and not very social. To this day I am not very outgoing, however I share common relationships (not many close friends, though) hm...:\ but I don't mind one bit
 
I started smoking at a younger age too, 13 to be exact and now I have a great deal of difficulty smoking pot although I've been trying to push myself to develop a better relationship with it. I also made the mistake of starting to smoke heavily because a guy I liked smoked pot and it was the social "thing to do"...

it helps to remember that it is a psychedelic and as such should be approached with care.
 
started at 15 and the last 3-4 years have been a constant stream of smoke and let me tell you... i dont get high anymore. but i still smoke all day. when you start that young it can sort of dominate your life.
 
started in 10th grade. i guess i progressively started blazing more and more, like in 10th grade it was once a week at most, summer between 10th and 11th it was maybe a few times a week on average, then starting in the beginning of 11th grade ive been a daily smoker (now in 12th grade). i dont know, i feel like weed does effect my personality, i really dont know if its for better or worse though. watever i really dont care because i like being high.
 
lostsoul.On.E said:
Whats up everyone? got a few questions. but first a little backround. i started smoking in middle school at age fifteen. by ninth grade it was a weekend thing and by tenth grade till 12th it was an everyday thing.

i know smoking too much will cause anxiety but would it cause permanent anxiety? ive been very shy and would avoid social situations, girlfriends family, asking random people questions, and especially with females. iv'e just realized that this could possibly be social anxiety instead of just being really shy. Do you think this could have been caused by the weed from smoking at such a young age?

Ive quit smoking for a year now doing it maybe once in a while but still have this social anxiety. the whole reason i quit in the first place is because i couldnt even enjoy the high anymore because i would just get filled up with negative thoughts and feel down. i dont feel the regular anxiety no more but seem to still have this social anxiety. it could just be me, i just want to know if other people have any of the same experiences as me.
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I personally dont believe u can smoke daily as a teen and not expect any of the side effects to last over a medium to long term (many years). But at the same time, alot of people your age will reflect on the same social anxiety you are describing. Its defaintly not uncommon for someone who has never smoked up to say exactly what you have said - hell alot of those words still resonate with me to this day at 27... Ever heard of The Game? Its a book on the art of picking up women, but its also a book based in phsycology and social dynamics, and can help get your mind straight in dealing with these issues...

That said, im going to chalk you up as another teen who smoked themselves into a despression. It doesnt sound like u have recurring bad experiences still with weed (ie 'totally ruined weed'). I know a few people with similiar storys, quitting the haze and then finding themselves in situation they dont know how to deal with while sobar (social interaction) and had to learn things from scratch. Some are prescribed xanax to help with the ongoing symptoms if they flare up, but mostly they have overcome these using similiar methods as mentioned in The Game. Now u wouldnt pick them as someone who used to be socially awkwark, quite the opposite, the life of the party.
 
I used to be very outgoing in middle school. I starting smoking weed when I was 12, and by high school I got social anxiety and I couldn't talk to females or anything without turning bright red and getting hot. I could talk to them fine outside of school, but in school I was a mess.. I still lost my virginity at 15, but I never could get continued relationships. I am now being diagnosed with anxiety and depression, even though I don't feel sad.

But, though I used to be more outgoing, I wasn't really shy until I quit smoking weed, freshman year highschool. I started again 10th grade and continued then on. Was expelled that year, and my junior year on the 3rd day of school, because I had the bright idea to smoke in the basement. They smelled it and saw me on camera going to that area, searched me, got charged with drug paraphenalia, and possesion of marijuana. I got drug tested monthly after that to stay in school. I was always a little shy and I always turned red.. So I can't completely blame it on weed.
 
As with most things, I think it really depends on the person. I started around 16, smoked mostly on weekends through high school and near daily in the summers. I've had no anxiety problems or anything like that, but if I had been smoking alone it could have stunted my social development or if I had a tendency toward anxiety it could have triggered a disorder.

In my case, weed has always been a sort of social catalyst. I've made dozens of friends that I probably never would have just because we had pot smoking in common. In fact, I was going through a rough patch before I started smoking weed where I didn't really have any close friends anymore, no one I could really talk with about my problems and my thoughts and goings on. Then I started hanging out with a kid who smoked pot, tried it, and started meeting all sorts of new people and came out of that shell I had built up around myself. But everyone's different, we're all snowflakes.
 
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