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Why does cannabis cause social anxiety/shyness?

Hi

Funny i think it depends what kind of type you are, me i ave this shyness and anxiety, when im not smoking, when im smoking, i mostly open my self, laugh an dtalk much. A good friend of mine he is normaly very open and likes to talk, but with cannabis he gets silent, and he likes to smoke alone.

So maybe it depends what you psychological outset is??

bye Salviasca
 
I'll tell you why it causes that...because you allow it too...take three shots and it will all go away.
 
I dont think that cannabis effects are directly to blame for social anxiety and shyness...

Lemme explain

I've been working with the public for about 7 years now, I know a huge load of faces in town and alot of people know me. I just dont feel like I want them to see me stoned, them to know i'm using drugs.

I have no problems seeing my pothead friends while i'm totaly baked, but I wouldnt want to come across one of my customers.
 
i think sumtimez it decreases social anxiety like makes u feel like waving high 2 strangerz and stuff lol.
 
r4nd0mj0k3r said:
so My buddy brodie calls me in the morning almost every day to smoke some schwag, but when i smoke it, it's like it brings out the shy me and social anxiety part of me or somethin i get silent and feel awkward around people.
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I would say it gets must people like that, i done a lot of it and come to the words of,, fuck them i enjoy it, this may sound crazy, i have a 125cc bike, and on a sunday it was two j's and a burn down the coast, your ears tune into the engine and its as if you are a part of the bike, never crashed, there's a place called the [zone].. even playing driving games on playstation, gt3... the zone kicks in,, i no big kid, but really why do people get shy on smoke, really whats going to happen%)
 
I used to be a big tetrahydrocannibol user, from 14 to 23, i started off with chronic, When i moved to the south from socal, i was glad to hook up with opioids which i pretty much saved my life from smoking chron all day and not lifting a finger

I don;t even care about WD, the WD helped me cope with some things like trying to always stay loaded with weed or other stuff..

thanks god for these pills..

I do agree though, that i will be in a messy situation , if i quit..

who knows... i see that hydroponics cauzes anxiety big time, and sometimes
retardation ...lol
 
Like a previous poster said, I think it has more to do with the fact that your over analyzing your own thoughts, than any real anxiety producing psychoactive effects. I notice that If I'm with a group of close friends, and were all totally stoned and laughing and having a good time, my own behavior never even crosses my mind. But something small like a stranger walking into the room who I don't really get along with or something, will totally shatter my good mood and turn me into a spastic introvert. Cannabis is such a malleable, unpredictable substance if you really think about it, set and setting totally dictate how your experience will be I think. It's just weird to talk about weed in these terms because it's such a mild substance in many ways.

But in the end....
 
Idk if this has been said yet, sorry I don't feel like scrolling through all 6 pages of this topic. But I think smoking frequently is what can cause anxiousness for a lot of people. If i take a break from smoking, when I smoke again it's like the first time I smoked. I feel incredibly happy and sociable and I can't stop laughing. But then I start to smoke on a regular basis again and I end up getting bad highs where I end up paranoid and depressed.
 
I think it had more to do with your situation in life. If you're depressed, feeling down, etc, pot just makes you think about it tenfold. As I've gotten older, I just feel guilty for smoking everytime I do. Whereas booze or opiates, for example, just make all your problems seem to disappear for a few hours.

Weed makes you think about every possible problem in your life, and think about it, and keep thinking about it...and not in a postive, optimistic way. But rather in a hopeless, shitty way for sure.

LIke all drugs however, everyone is different and responds differently. I've never been a big fan of herb, and it has just become increasingly non-enjoyable for me as I grow older.
 
I have really bad anxiety and smoking weed really effects me negatively when I'm not just with a small group of friends. I feel that no one can take me seriously at all because they're much more high than I am and its annoying.

But anyway, build your tolerance dude! Shwag is a nice light high for me, just gives me a nasty weed-over afterwards. Ew.
 
syyth007 said:
If I was to smoke again, it would definately be in a solitary situation. As is, maybe one night, if Im bored and sober, just light up a small joint/bowl and watch a movie. Weed has never been much of a "social" drug for me.
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my plan also.
 
I've gotten anxiety problems that were triggered by smoking weed and spilled into sobriety. I reckon weed just acts like other psychedelics in that it can trigger latent mental illness, but it also is pretty much the worst drug for anxious people, i'm pretty sure i'm less anxious on LSD. Doesn't stop me smoking it though, in the right circumstances.
 
It is just part of the drug.. over time you get used to the effects, including the introspection.. you become more aware of yourself and your reactions.. and others reactions.

Paranoia or a hightened awareness? The sooner you realise that it is just the drug causing these thoughts, the sooner you can get over and deal with them.

I also find lower grade pot causes these feelings - imo its because of the lower THC to cannaboid ratio.. stronger strains get you so stoned you can't concentrate on how you actually feel, whereas mids you are more aware of the drug doing its thing.
 
I've been a somewhat heavy smoker for a few years now, and I still get social anxiety from herb. It's the same kind of extreme self-consciousness that I used to get as a little kid. I just can't enjoy mj socially unless it's with close friends, because when I'm interacting with people I have a conception of myself in the back of my mind as appearing/acting much more awkwardly than I probably am. It doesn't help that I just can't think of much to say when I'm really stoned.

MJ is simply a drug that's best enjoyed alone, and I think most people find this to be the case eventually.
 
Herb has made my anxiety twice as bad as it was when i was younger & now im hooked on benzos.
i think im gonna take a break. i cant even remember the last time i went a day without smoking.
See , weed really does turn you ( me ) into a drug addict.

hooray
 
Transcendence said:
I've been a somewhat heavy smoker for a few years now, and I still get social anxiety from herb. It's the same kind of extreme self-consciousness that I used to get as a little kid. I just can't enjoy mj socially unless it's with close friends, because when I'm interacting with people I have a conception of myself in the back of my mind as appearing/acting much more awkwardly than I probably am. It doesn't help that I just can't think of much to say when I'm really stoned.

MJ is simply a drug that's best enjoyed alone, and I think most people find this to be the case eventually.
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Well said. Pretty much word for word how I feel
 
Hmm this is interesting. I never get social anxiety or anything when i'm stoned, in fact it's the complete opposite. i'm pretty quiet and whatnot when i'm sober, but if i get stoned i'll easily start up a conversation and be more outgoing. pretty much any drug works that way on me, weed included.
 
I think people just react different to it. It never made me paranoid then when I was 17 I all of a sudden got real paranoid when high
 
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