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 Noctem
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 Anxiety and weed... 
#731741 - 05/16/14 08:01 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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This may be a long read, but please... read it?
I know this has been discussed MANY times. I wanted to share my own stories with you and get your feedback. I'm 24 right now and started smoking at around 15-16 in Junior year of high-school. My friend and I would adventure from Irvine to Los Angeles and smoke under the big buildings in downtown LA and listen to some amazing electronic music. A time a greatly miss and wish I could relive, as it was a life changing time. I would smoke at home soon after and we'd continue these amazing trips to LA.
After a year or two I started feeling some odd rush of adrenaline, either just going to restaurants or to LA. One night I beat Gears of War 2 from star to finish and as the credits were rolling my heart started to go fast, and I knew another "hearth racing event" was coming. I told a girl I was talking to that it was happening again and I had to close the laptop and look at the credits rolling. This time was different and I actually had to yell to my parents sleeping upstairs. Just yelling for my mom made my heart race faster because it was "actually happening" and worse than before.
That night I had a full blown panic attack and couldn't leave the couch to even go to the bathroom. My mom gave me a xanax (0.5 mg) which helped a lot. I was actually "couch" ridden for a full week and could barely get off it without my heart racing and thinking I would have a heart attack.
after 4-6 months I recovered, after dropping out of the nearby community college due to it. I moved to Santa Monica and started community college there and I was eventually able to start smoking again. Before I had these panic attacks I was smoked a lot. Eighths every week or so, and when I started back up I was smoking at least an eighth of high quality weed every few days from a large bong. I loved it. I absolutely enjoyed music and it.
I eventually got engaged and was having an amazing time, until it hit again and I started feeling the heart racing again from the weed. I have since stopped (engaged for 3 years now, so about 5 years stopped from smoking a lot of weed).
I'm on effexor (for anxiety) and metoprolol (beta-blocker to stop the heart beating ard). If I miss a dose of metoprolol I feel my heart beating way harder than usualy.
I miss marijuana very much, I actually have had a few nights crying because I miss the times I've had with my friends and even fiancee smoking it and just relaxing to music looking at the city. I hate anxiety with a passion and I wish I could smoke.
I take a hit of weed and it seems my body is trained to be anxious from it. My heart races a bit and I can't smoke more. I'l take a Xanax when I feel like I may panic, and stop smoking. I fear the day that Xanax may stop working.
If anyone has advice please help. And thank you for reading through all of this, Seriously.
~Andrew
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 bEelzeBosS
Are my eyes red?
Registered: 11/15/13
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Re: Anxiety and weed... [Re: Noctem]
#731743 - 05/16/14 08:16 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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My advice...don't smoke weed.
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Data
That Guy
Registered: 08/12/08
Posts: 4,035
Loc: Southwestern US 
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Re: Anxiety and weed... [Re: bEelzeBosS]
#731759 - 05/16/14 12:43 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
bEelzeBosS said:
My advice...don't smoke weed.
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P-O
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Re: Anxiety and weed... [Re: Data] 1
#731822 - 05/16/14 06:14 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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get off those shitty pharmy drugs.... they are bad for your body and mind in long term use.
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poor boy
Village Idiot
Registered: 06/07/13
Posts: 16,230
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Re: Anxiety and weed... [Re: P-O]
#731835 - 05/16/14 08:20 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I can't smoke anymore because of anxitey. I use to go through an oz a week of some fine canadian chronic back in the day and be fine. Now, I take 1 hit of dirt shit weed and I get stuck in a paranoid loop and start focusing on all of my insecurities.
I decuided that I needed to quit and I did.
I dsuggest that if yo really want thc, eat it. For me its all body and no head sshiyt.
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Learning to love life by living through loss and mistakes
Lessons learned then gradually surfacing, Letting go, stripping naked to scream
I am not perfect nor do I strive to be, I am alive in this world of face first falls and public breakdowns
I'm a retarded, disfigured clown
Dying to be heard through the simple art of letting this heavy wall finally fall
I'm an equal being of no race, or color, a hallucination if you will
Sneaking into the lives of strangers, and letting them fall apart to a new rhythm just to feel better
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Ben18
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Registered: 04/22/08
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Re: Anxiety and weed... [Re: Noctem]
#731839 - 05/16/14 08:48 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Had the same problem after years of smoking so I quit, completely.
Just in the last year I have started smoking small amounts again and the anxiety has seemed to disappear. I will also add that Green Dragon (alcohol infused with weed) really has been my preferred and most enjoyable method of taking marijuana now.
Take a break, drink beer for awhile then try some green dragon.
I promise good results.
 
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iStoner
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Registered: 06/09/10
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Re: Anxiety and weed... [Re: Ben18]
#731961 - 05/17/14 10:26 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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i used to have that problem, you just need to smoke when you are in a better
mindstate. and dont think about the fact you might get anxious. let go and
enjoymaybe use a small benzo dose when you smoke it'll mellow it out
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scrapske
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Re: Anxiety and weed... [Re: iStoner]
#731971 - 05/18/14 12:06 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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harden the fuck up 
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