Paranoia Even After 2 Years of Smoking?

When possible stick to indicas..if your prescribed benzos for your anxiety those should help.

 

Either buy something that's not as strong and build up a tolerance to thc or just smoke a bit from a joint or something, no one says you have to do bong rips because other and bf are doing so, they have probably been smoking for months/years and know how to handle their highs better, but it's just imo, smoke...

 

Everyone reacts differently to weed. Sounds like you probably enjoy it most after smoking only a moderate amount.

You probably have some issues with yourself. Almost everybody does of course, and we all respond to our own problems differently. Weed might exacerbate your issues.

I used to smoke and get crazy hyper. After awhile I chilled out and started smoking heavily. Then I stopped and now I only smoke a bit here and there for entertainment and I don't need a lot at all to get a fun high.

Back in the day, when I smoked a lot with friends, I know I'd rather someone smoke less and have a good time, than just smoke to try and keep up with the others. Trying to impress people is just a waste of energy imo. Enjoy it or don't do it.

 

Smoke less. Instead of taking a few small hits, just take one. You KNOW you won't die from weed, so I don't understand how once you're high, you think you'll die.

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Weed can have that affect on some people. Maybe try smoking less weed less often.

 

If it makes you feel any better, I still tend to get paranoid after 20 years of smoking. People who aren't prone to anxiety/paranoia/panic can't relate, so they give advice like "smoke Indicas" or "...think your way out of it." For most smokers, that advice is not helpful. But you've already gotten some good advice, like:
1) Smoke less--a lot less. Take half a baby hit and see how you feel after ~10 minutes. Real friends will respect the fact that weed tends to make you anxious, as opposed to pressuring you into an uncomfortable mind-state.
or
2) If you have access to medical, seek out strains rich in CBD. CBD-rich strains vs. THC-rich strains are night and day. Personally, CBD strains with a little THC get me "high" and comfortable. THC strains get me "baked" and typically uncomfortable.
or
3) Stop smoking, or smoke less frequently. I have friends who can smoke all day every day and still function and be happy and relaxed. I'm just not one of those people... something that becomes clearest when I take a break.

 

Good someone answered the heavy part. honestly, have you ever thought when you get high, as a creature of habit always go to the same thing? Anxiety and paranoia? You might have to come to terms to accept your anxiety and paranoia. Tbh this might be long but hopefully it will help you.
I get high everyday and 5/7 of the days being high im all good. Those 2/7 are anxiety/paranoid thoughts or just bad highs. My sober self has anxiety already. Im telling you now, if you smoke weed and have panic attacks or anxiety, it can make it worse. Have you ever tried to find exactly why you have anxiety or paranoia? Everytime i get high when alone i sit in a room, play music, and stare at the wall thinking why do i have anxiety.... marijuana can be a great teacher if the student is willing to listen and try. But its however you want your high to be. I learned to control when i want to just have an all nice relaxing high.

I too, am extremly creative with a vivid and wild imagination and i do too spend my days daydreaming and going on mental tangents. Shit i have adhd + anxiety + add. (im sometimes hyper and sometimes im not) and that makes it so hard to control my own baseline thoughts. my emotions play so much with how i feel and how i play situations. I have realized my mind races fast and over thinks way too much. I worry about fucking worrying!!!! I recently learned i dont allow myself to do good or happy things. Part of my anxiety is that having a good time, acknowledging that i have a good time, i feel like it will destroy it and make it a bad time. Thats so hard for me to accept. My physical anxiety goes up so bad when i try to fix it. Its a mental game. It sucks but its fun at the same time because it proves i can truly figure out whats wrong. I dont know when or how but I will. I will not stop till i do. Looking forward to tripping of psychedelics in a month, and im afraid of ruining it thinking how great it will because i know it will be fun and great but i feel like because i say that im cocky and will flip and ruin the experience. Just typing that, easies my anxiety. I havent been able to put that in words till right now. See im always trying to solve my anxiety. I want you to try too! (i feel content rn haha anxiety wise.) Feels nice.

Yes sometimes marijuana cures and hurts my anxiety. Its a double edged sword. But when my anxiety goes up, when high, you best bet i try to be alone at home with music, going into my little head and finding out why im feeling insecure. At the end of the day my mind with second think everything. Acknowledging that, makes me calmer and that with time, as i learn to ignore these anxiety thoughts, it will go away. Im taming my tiger . And i hope you try to too. Because anxiety is a bitch and we can always find a reason to destroy it. My family has had it for generations... that doesnt help me out either. Fuck anxiety. Fuck it. Its a bitch. But hey dont get me wrong im trying to come to terms with it and such. Not Trying to say fuck it and ignore it. I have no reason to be anxious. I live in a nice area, almost off to college finally, i love my life. Financially im ok and will be able to some day level out to where i have my own money to support myself. I have no need for anxiety. But its here. It weights me down but fuck it im not gonna let it bring me down. We all go through life and Im going to be one of those people who will gladly say I made it.

To deal with your anxiety in the moment. What makes it go away for me when high is this. I want you to try this and let me know!!

Say this to yourself, Ok, i have anxiety (or paranoia or whatever ur feeling) and Im high right now. Im going to stop this negative train of thought. (Then you have to physically do something else. Change your environment, doing so will change your train of thought because your doing something else. If you stay where you are at, those thoughts will just sit there and pile up.) Because I am high, and I will have this great feeling (the actual high) and I will enjoy it for the time being. Once its gone, if i have to, whatever im putting off, even negative thoughts, ill deal with it when im not high.

When it comes to that "dealing" part it will either seem, dumb, stupid, or even pointless ! thats even how i enjoy getting high when i have a lot of work to do. Ok enjoy high, chill for an hour, once sober bam, do work. When you are high enjoy it! Its suppose to be fun! It should be special when your high. Thats how i deal with it.

oh and im paranoid just cuz its illegal. Lol. I realize i will always be somewhat paranoid high if i chose to be. I just dont think about, go about my day and the paranoia is gone. Paranoia is literally the dumbest thing you can do to yourself. Thats how i look at it and get past paranoia.


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No offence to you but every person has some sort of substance they don't do well with some people its meth, some people its booze, some people its acid, for me its cheap wine I used to have full black outs and be drunk for days with my friends when I was a young teen.

For you and for my cousin its weed he just gets full angry and can't control himself same with rum. You just gotta find my drug or booze of choice as by the sounds of it you might give yourself a bad mental health problem or you might get over it weed was fucking with my head when I was between working and being kicked out of school at 17 i didnt stop smoking either but I got over it once I got a job.

Before anyone judges I am now 27 still smoking everyday and I've been working in a government office as a manager for over 4 years now getting paid very nicely by the way and didn't finish highschool so yeah all it means is I had more fun then other people and still am

Note: don't even smoke any of the synthetic shit either if you can't smoke natural bud I had this one called witchy woman and was like a reverse anxiety attack after 2 big puffs on a jount my brain couldn't process shit and could only comprehend shit if I said it outloud then all 4 people started freaking out even though had been smoking for at least 5+ years and didn't get the giggles or shit like that anymore

the effects were fucked, don't ever try it i could see why people are suicidal when they smoke that shit... Just another reason to legalise weed I guess though

 

its just because you feel those side effects you dont feel when you're sober. its easy to think something is wrong when all the paranoia, heightened senses, fast heartbeat, etc. are happening all at once


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Already posted this in a thread about fruit, but you might want to try fresh squeezed lemon juice with a peel in it. I'm just regurgitating High Times if I explain, so here's the article What to Do if You Get Too High

Still haven't tried it myself so no clue if it'll work. I tend to avoid lemons while high since reading this, but it might be of some help to you, and I hope it is. Good luck.

 

Work on your metacognition


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