Guide to Dealing with Anxiety/Panic Attacks, and Paranoia

I am not a doctor, just sharing my personal experience as I have had depressions and anxiety for sometime. The best way to get over anxiety and depression is to take a break from your regular schedule, go out, and take good sleep. This helps in clearing the mind and try consulting a specialist who can suggest you as how you can get over your problem. Rather than going on drugs, one should look for the reason behind there problem . Keeping your self busy and changing the schedule also helps sometimes to get over stress and depression.

 

+rep for sure!!!!

 

Thirty years ago I was beaten near to death by a big man with a hammer. The depression, anxiety and panic attacks plague me to this day.

Open prescriptions for Demerol and Valium were my gateway drugs to hell on earth.

They lead me to the doors of suicide.

All the crap they've been feeding me for years has caused nothing but grief.

I'd smoked pot since I was a kid but it wasn't until a decade ago that I got off all the pharmaceuticals, self medicated with booze alone,(not good), then got back into weed.

Holy crap! I stopped waking up at three AM in a cold sweat swinging my baseball bat at the non-existent shadow man at the foot of my bed.

I still don't sleep much but wake refreshed when I do get a few Z's.

Years of research has me living better with two strains of pot.

The KaliX picks me up in the morning and fends off the clouds of depression and the purple Kush lays me down to sleep.

The cookies I bake with either save what's left of my lungs for bong hits or Camels. lol

I haven't taken a pill that isn't a vitamin for nine years.

I'm hoping for nine more years of drug free life while I use herb for sanity. Who knows, I'm 55 in October and may get hit by a bus tomorrow.

At least it won't be because I stepped off the curb in a drug induced haze.

Peace.

 

good guide rep+, also if you can get your hands on some xanax or Valium that shit works wonders.

 

Dude. I had an insane panic attack recently. Long story, hoping for some input. SO I bought a quarter ounce of pretty good looking weed from this guy I didn't know too well. Never bought from him before, but he seemed legit. Like there were all these people around him and I smoked a joint with this french hippy and this hot woman cop came by and just waved and said hi. So yeah. I'd never bought from the guy before but he seemed legit.
I was at my country house and smoked a few bowls under the stars. When I was coming back in I started feeling really awesome like I was just super cool, then I got scared. I lied down and started reading and I started to shiver at first, then I tried to sleep and I started shaking uncontrollably, like to the point that I was exhausted and having trouble breathing and cold. It went away after a while. I felt like it was laced and I have some left, but I don't know if I should smoke it.
I read here that that could just be a very bad trip on weed. Is this possible? I smoked it once before, but mixed with the last of my previous bag and it was fine, but the thing is that it had a pretty strong sort of lemony chemical smell. I read that there are some citrus-smelling strains, particularly qc gold and I'm in quebec. But if it was sort of soapy lemon smelling and I bad tripped like that, could it have been laced? scared a bit. Old dealer is back though What do you think about my weed

 

You seem to be missing the point or maybe I'm out of whack.

The herb is supposed to free us from prescription drugs.

I guess that's a pretty lame argument when medicinal pot is legal and prescribed in 14? states and all of Canada. :0)

It's still better for us than pharmaceuticals, right?

A person can get anything they want on-line now-a-days no matter where they live.

It's like being a kid in a candy store compared to the '60s when I was a kid.

Aspirin in Coca-Cola, smoking banana peels or nutmeg. Nutmeg gets you messed up when you eat enough but makes you puke if you smoke it. The best dope was in your buddy's mother's medicine cabinet!

Magic mushrooms were free and plentiful on the Wet Coast. I might rain a lot in Vandsterdam but 'shrooms don't grow in the desert!

A dozen varieties were all over from Lulu Island up the valley to Hope. My faves were found in the mountains around Cultis lake. Amanita muscaria. They looked like a regular mushroom you'd buy at the super market with a coat of red paint over the cap and small crusty looking white bumps scattered all over.

Hiking around up there with a few friends and trippin' our way back down the mountain in the dark all messed up on 'shrooms was big time fun if nobody died! Just joking, it wasn't that dangerous. We had to make runs into Chilliwack General more than a few times tho. It's amazing the stupid things a person can do to f**k themselves up when they get out in the big open and get way more messed up than they would at home.

Sometimes "common sense" isn't as common as you'd think.

99.9% of the time the injured party was a dude. The females seemed to have better survival skills.

Trying to jump over a bonfire got lots, passing out and falling in the fire got lots more. Hacking off a digit or three was popular as well. Eating the wrong 'shroom could f**k you up but it never happened on my watch. Falling out of boats or diving in shallow water took out a few. Driving that windy road too fast after too many intoxicants finished off the rest.

Good times!

Now it's a tourist town and a great place to see beautiful young girls in next-to-nothing-bikinis.

But a grandpa with a boner is just gross! ;0)

 

Sounds more like a bad acid trip. Sativas can mess you up good. My heart skips beats after a good hit. I'm used to it and I'm old so I don't worry much.

It's maybe possible that you caught a flu bug or something and got sick as you got stoned.

I doubt it's laced with anything except maybe pesticides. This urban myth promoted by LEOs and other government shills has been floating around since pot came in dime bags and lids with a big helping of stems and seeds ...

...ain't got the buzz this old head needs.

If it's not a lot chuck it out. Don't give it to a friend unless you tell him your concerns. As an adult he pays his dollar and he takes his chances.

The lemony smell might be caused by the vender adding orange peels to the stash to moisten it up and add a little weight. Then again some dumb ass might have sprayed Mr. Clean all over in a vain attempt to wipe out spider mites.

Take care.

 

Great thread. I've only had it happen to me once, it was December of last year, it was some really terrible stress, god awful shit. smoked with the homies, everything was koo then I was on the computer n felt my heart beating faster, I started panicking and moving alot, woke up my mom, thought I was having a heart attack, it started slowing down on the way but then I thought of it again and when I got to the hospital started slowing down again then out of nowhere everything started up again my heart rate at one point was in the range of 210-240 bpm. The nurse was a cutie and she knew her shit, she started making me think and I caught on fast that she was tryin to take my mind off my physical state n I went along with it n everything was normal again. I left a couple hours later, stopped smoking for about a month then started again with some dank, I noticed my heart rate goin up, I started talkin to myself sayin shit like calm down, its all in your head, just breathe, I took a shower, layed down and cleared my mind and then everything settled. So since then whenever I feel that weird feeling I just take a couple deep breaths, observe my surroundings n jus remind myself how wonderful life is and everything settles in an instant. I smoked for about 6 years before my first 'bad trip'. What I learned from it was it's all in your mind, my heart was racing but I could still think logically, I could still answer questions that required thinking. It's all about manipulating yourself lol.

 

Thanks for this that first bit was really helpful.
My friend who I've only smoked with twice has gotten really screwed up for like the first half an hour after smoking. sweats, shivers, keeps saying crap like "im having a heart attack".
The first time he threw up loads as well which scared the shit out of me tbh. Some good tips on helping him calm down if he wants to try it again

 

And this thread just helped me figure out why I've had some bad sessions before.

I'll eat around 5:30 and hit the gym around 10PM when I also take REDLINE(Caffeine,Stimulants for energy and increase my metabolism). Get back home around midnight, take a shower , spark up and eat about 45 min later.


Never had the shivers or cold sweat, more of negative thoughts.

 

im turning 18 26th october (end of month) ive been smoking on since like 11 and about 2 years ago i started worrying and sketching out and thinking people and things r watching me all the time and that if i see a car it has an easy chance of jacking me up for my stuff and kidnapping me lol.

within the last year i havent really left the house only for a few paartys and to chilaxe in the woods with my m8s nd that.

i constantly think people r watching me and they r looking throught the gaps in the curtains so i gotta make it lightight (weed talk much) =), and we dont have a net in our kitched window so when my mum nd dad go sleep like 11-12ish i go downstairs stick on family guy and skin up.
after a j or 2 ill get da munchies nd go into the kitchen.....now this is a mission itself,i normally crawl on the floor till i get to the kitchen then wrap my whole body in quilts so people cant see me in the window or kno wat i look like.

its like really bad i cant go out anywhere without sketching out hard and i can hear people calling me lol.

THIS HAPPENS WHEN IM NOT SMOKING WEED ASWELL BUT IM GONNA KEEP SMOKING ON UNTIL MY PARENTS CALL THE PEOPLE OUT IN WHITE COATS TO CHUCK ME IN THE DIVI HOME.

THAT IS HOW I TRIP And sketch out hard m8.

 

Either you have no life making this, or you are a pro copy/paster. Either way, sticky, and +rep.

 

Hehe. . . That was a funny read tbh!

 

One of the reasons I wrote the section in the OP on 'blood sugar and anxiety' in C+M was that I too had started to experience quite deep periods of anxiety every time I smoked, after being a daily user for many years with no problems at all. I was already a regular meditator and could keep a lid on most negative states, but these were all-consuming, with a real drop in core temperature and strong mental effects where, at one point, I was talking to myself in a quite odd way. I have no concerns at all about being caught smoking, so my paranoia was nothig to do with 'toker tension'.

After trying all kinds of remedies I realised that it had all started because I had moved my first smoke of the day backwards by about an hour, so that it was a little while before my evening meal,and not afterwards. As I say in the OP, the very worst time to smoke is when you're hungry, especially in that space before a meal where most of us have low blood sugar. All I did was move my first of the day to after my meal and three months worth of anxiety attacks stopped instantly.

EAT!

MelT

 

Worth a sticky, I wish I had access to this back when I first started smoking. I had two or three panic attacks which I hated with a passion. I thought something was wrong, and nobody talked mee through it.

My GP told me it's all in your head, so that helped me calm down. That and the fact that he looks like a stoner version of Becker

 

LOL!

It's a shame, but not surprising, that very few doctors will let a worried stoner know that most of what he feels is just down to low blood sugar.

MelT

 

Same here, bitch friends.

 

I've been smoking a long time but nowadays I've stopped eating at lunch.. and I used to get baked all the time at lunch but I wouldn't eat breakfast or lunch and I started having attacks, like it'd only be certain classes too.. I'd feel like everybody was conspiring against me, and I thought everybody knew that I was "high", and the room would start to spin and I'd usually just go home sick and I'd have random body spasms while trying to sit still..

so I've decided to go on a 2-week tolerance break, will this solve anything.. or is it my recent eating habits that are making my highs go bad ?

 

Nice guide... Now to only show my brother. He gets mad paranoid when we blaze. It's so annoying sometimes. The worst was on Halloween, I ate and smoked on and off like that about 3 times then I puked all over the parking lot outside the pizza place me and my gf were eating at. Needless to say never again did I eat that much when I was stoned

 

I love this thread, thank you.