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Intense feelings of anxiety/panic while high?

Discussion in 'Marijuana Consumption Q&A' started by Simonblaze23, Mar 26, 2015.

  1. #1 Simonblaze23, Mar 26, 2015
    So Im in 12th grade and when I first smoked weed I was in 7th grade, probably would say I started smoking like a true stoner around 9th or 10th grade. When I say a true stoner I mean I probably hit anywhere from 5 to 20 snaps a day. Just recently(past 6 months) started hitting moles (weed and tobacco in the bowl) instead of just green bowls and let me tell you theres no going back... 
     
    Well anyways sometimes when I'm really high I'll start to get these bad thoughts like im sinking and theres an anchor on my foot or something and it starts to get completely overwhelming. My head will get really lightheaded and dizzy and I'll start focusing WAY too much on my breathing (almost feeling like i have to MAKE SURE that i take every breath and if I don't I'm gonna die or something.) Sometimes it can get really intense and my forearms and hands will get really bad shakiness almost a fuzzy feeling and my whole body is pretty much telling me I'm about to pass out. (keep in mind my hearts going a million miles an hour.)
     
    This has only happened around 5 times in REALLY bad cases, but I guess I can say I always get a little bit of a bad/anxious/nervous feeling in the back of my head when I'm high. I usually will just try not to think about it and drink a lot of water because I've read that this could be attributed to being dehydrated while high. (I've also read that it could be because I dont have enough sugar in my blood, but I almost feel like its a mental thing like im psyching myself out everytime I think about it when I'm high and if I think about it once then I cant stop and I'll have to keep trying to push the thoughts away.
     
    Now, this being said I'll give you guys 2 examples of times when this happened, starting with the first time ever and ending with the one that happened today.
     
    Probably 8th grade, im 12 or 13 at the time and me and my stepbrother sneak out late at night for a bowl. He had just gotten his first glass bong (a little 1 foot king straight shot) and we each hit a few bowls, keep in mind this was my first time getting high out of a bong so I was really lit. It came about time for us to mob back to our house, probably a 3 or 4 minute walk from where we were but I all of a sudden felt really overwhelmed by the high and felt like I wasnt gonna be able to make it home. I had to sit down on a fence for a couple minutes but after that It went away pretty quick and we made it home fine.
     
    Okay now today, I wake up and take a shower like usual, then its around 7:20 I hit a baby mole, literally was maybe .1 or .2 of weed with a tiny bit of tobacco on top, I hit it, brush my teeth, and drive to school. I get to my 2nd period class (it was a block day today so we had only 2-4-6 for 2 hours each) and sit down and instantly just get a shitty fucking feeling brewing deep in my belly, turns out we were doing a 2 hour long sit there and write performance task. So literally before my teacher even starts giving directions I'm sitting in my chair trying to look as normal as possible while my head is telling me I'm about to pass out in class, I start writing trying to take my mind off of it but my hands were really shaky, they almost felt like when they fall asleep but with some intense vibration.
     
    Anyway I ended up finishing the thing with little bursts of anxiety here and there but even when I would just sit there and try to be cool and calm in my mind I kept almost bringing the bad feelings back by still thinking about them, keep in mind I hit ONE FUCKING SNAP AT 7:20 AND ITS ALMOST 9:20 AT THIS POINT. The bad thoughts and feelings really didn't go away even after going to the nurse and even going to my 4th period so I just left school sick. But you can bet the instant I got in the car and started driving no bad feelings at all and not even a thought of them(I wonder if this is because my mind is subliminally focusing too hard on the driving to focus on any bad thought I'm having) 
     
    Well I'm back home now in my room typing this and as I am I'm contemplating hitting a mole or not, I know that these bad anxiety attacks dont usually happen when I'm at my own house where I feel comfortable but I feel like I was so recently having them that I'm almost absolutely gonna have one if I smoke right now.
     
    I guess I'm just putting this out there to see if anyone has the same experiences as me, If anyone had these and figured out a way to stop them (other than stopping smoking) , or just what peoples opinions are on this.
     
    Also sorry for it being so long but i'm a worrier and I wanted to get all the details in there
     

     
  2. #2 TheAnswer121, Mar 26, 2015
    tldr
     
    stop smoking weed
     
  3. #3 Mid man, Mar 26, 2015
    tl;dr use google and you would find out that anxiety/panic is common.. 
     
  4. #4 Simonblaze23, Mar 26, 2015
    Oh one more thing this is probably really bad but I get really embarrassed when this happens and I never really let anyone know how im feeling, like I know when its happening in class I cant tell anyone because Im not trying to get fucked over but even when I'm chilling at my house with some homies and even the people i feel closest too i cant really say like "yo guys im way too high and now I feel like I'm gonna die" and this probably adds to the problem because then its just me alone with my mind. 
     
  5. #5 bhbest, Mar 26, 2015
    Op, first off you started way too young and consume way too much and at this point anxiety/panic has taken hold. My advise would be to quit for a while and if you start back up use way less and get rid of the tobacco for crying out loud. Basically the same thing happened to me when I was young and I too quit because of the panic/anxiety. Fast foward 30 years I use 1 to 2 hits per day (nigtime only) max and still get as high as I did when I started back up over a year ago.
     
  6. #6 Grizzly Tracks, Mar 26, 2015
    This may not be the drug for you.
     
  7. #7 HannahKseven10, Mar 27, 2015
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    Why would smoking weed be enjoyable for you if this happens to you...? If that shit happened to me I would stopp
     
  8. #8 SlightlyStonedSD, Mar 27, 2015
    Tldr

    Smoke more weed!
     
  9. #9 Exhazer, Mar 27, 2015
    tldr,
     
    key word was anxiety for me...So my advice is there are strains that help it...other then that [​IMG]
     
  10. #10 Umbrella Corperation, Mar 27, 2015
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    Do u always smoke the same kind of bud? I get like that but not that bad when I smoke a stativa strain. It kinda comes and goes during the high for me but if I smoke a Indica I'm feeling good relaxed and very happy. Maybe try that if you haven't yet.


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  11. #11 Simonblaze23, Mar 28, 2015
     
    I know what your saying about how it happens to you but not bad, I always was able to know when I was feeling it when I was high and sort of just take deep breaths and shit and drink some water and usually would be fine after that but aware that I was too high.
     
    Yeah I had honestly just picked up an ounce of some super fire sativa and that made it happen a lot and bad, I don't think it would ever happen to me when I was smoking indica just like you said.
     
    Anyways, I'm on my 2nd day of quitting bud altogether, I actually had a little fit of anxiety yesterday while I was at the beach with a couple buddies, I have NEVER had anxiety before while I wasn't high and now its actually scaring me because I just cant get anxiety off my mind because its been such a big issue for me these past few days.
     
    I think once I stop dwelling over it it will be all good but I'm probably gonna go talk to a doctor anyway and see whats up
     
  12. #12 Charrua, Mar 28, 2015
    Not trying to scare you or anything, but it wouldn't be the first time anxiety issues finally make an appearance for a person your age. You're 17-19 I'm guessing? I was always a bit on the introverted side, but it wasn't until I was 19 that my anxiety issues really started to affect me. My understanding is that some psychological issues don't fully arise until this age.  I actually started smoking a lot when I was 18, and for that first year, everything was great. Then around 19/20, smoking gave me very uncomfortable anxiety, even around close friends. This lead to me becoming a solo smoker.
     
    I'm actually waiting until I can get some pure indica, hopefully from a dispensary in the future, and experiment to see if I can get back to enjoying mj. I'm pretty sure I've been smoking sativas/sativa dominant strains all these years.
     
  13. #13 Simonblaze23, Mar 28, 2015
     
    Yeah that thought had crossed my mind, and I am 17 turning 18 in july, Ive been keeping my mind pretty occupied today and havent had a thought of anxiousness, but I feel the more I stay on these websites talking about it the more rooted in my mind it could get.
     
    I'm pretty close to leaving for college and just up and moving 11 hours away to live by myself and I feel this could attribute to some of my non-high anxiety because thats a big step for a kid and my minds probably a little skeptical about it. I told my dad about it and he said when he was my age he had the same thing when he was about to move here to san diego from fullerton, but they eventually went away so this gives me a lot of hope.
     
    I would agree that around close friends when smoking could make the anxiety/panic worse, as I felt like when I used to get high alone I wouldnt have as many adverse effects going on in my head. I think part of this is not wanting people to know that we're having an uncomfortable time, and the fact that we try to hide it brings it out even more and makes us more paranoid about it.
     
     
    The pure indica thing would help me so much, but I really just dont think weed is the drug for me, I was talking to my friends yesterday and I asked them what happened to them when they get "too high" and they honestly didnt know and had never been too high before. As for myself, probably everytime I smoked a dank sativa I would get debatably "too high" and have these panicky effects, so it honestly just depends on the person I guess
     
  14. #14 Charrua, Mar 28, 2015
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    I would give an indica strain a try if you can. But yea, I can definitely relate. Even what you said about your dad and him saying he use to be the same. My parents and several other adults (over 40) have told me that their anxiety issues got better as they got older. So yea, I always use that info to make myself feel better.
     
  15. #15 MikeHoncho33, Mar 28, 2015
    Lol quit being a timid little pussy, no ones ever died from a "weed overdose" and I HIGHLY doubt you're going to be the first exception to that. Next time you're having a panic attack, just look in the nearest mirror, look yourself right in the eyes and say "I'm a mothafuckin boss".
     
  16. #16 unitz, Mar 29, 2015
    weed and tobacco is a chop, not a mole. haha wtf moles
     
  17. #17 Simonblaze23, Mar 30, 2015
     
    I live in America, not Europe or Australia, so over here we just call em moles :) 
     
    Actually we do use the term chop but only when we actually physically "chop" the weed and tobacco together for a finely ground, nice burning bowl.
     
    Other than that we just put the amount of weed we like and then roll a cig in our fingers over the bowl until its a nice mix to give that nice dome-check we all know and love
     

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