Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:23 am Post subject: Marijuana & Anxiety
Im a daily smoker suffering from scattered episodes of panic attack. they seem to occur more infrequent than not. anyways, i am just curious about the effects of marijuana smoking related to anxiety/panic attacks. i have heard that marijuana has the propensity to increase, and lower anxiety. lately, if I feel that i will be in a situation that could produce an attack, i don't smoke or stop smoking several hours before. just wondering if anyone has some advice about marijuana and panic attacks.
a guy I once worked with was a regular smoker of marijuana. He developed panic attacks as well. After he stopped smoking marijuana the panic attacks disappeared.
I dont know much about weed but I have often heard that smoking weed does increase the tendency to develop panic attacks.
My suggestion is to simply cut out the weed unless you are using it for medicinal purposes.
a guy I once worked with was a regular smoker of marijuana. He developed panic attacks as well. After he stopped smoking marijuana the panic attacks disappeared.
I dont know much about weed but I have often heard that smoking weed does increase the tendency to develop panic attacks.
My suggestion is to simply cut out the weed unless you are using it for medicinal purposes.
thanks for the info. duely noted. the thing is, i have been smoking for about 6 yrs now and the panic attack episodes have begun within the last year or so.
Please keep in mind, the panic attacks only occur in social situations or in anticipation of such situations. at these times i am not high. also, i do not experience attacks when i am smoking @ home alone.
I smoke weed regularly, and i defo feel that it increases inhibitions even though i never had a panic attack, simple things like going to the shop for ciggarettes will become harder to do. I think people say too much that marijuana causes mental problems, i think that more people with mental problems already, smoke weed( a bit off point but there you go)
I used to smoke week pretty regularly and I never had any major problems. I did notice that if I was in a bad mood and then smoked-out, I felt even more depressed. Alcohol was better for making me happy, weed was better at relaxing me if I was already in a good mood (or at least content).
I'm actually beginning to think drinking with SA is a bad idea. I brought a 1L bottle of 'Canadian Club' whiskey back from the states(because its dirt cheap over there) and I've been home two nights and more then half of it is gone, I'm also craving alcohol more now then I ever have before.......sorry to go off topic.....but based on personal experience weed makes anxiety a lot worse.
I'm actually beginning to think drinking with SA is a bad idea. I brought a 1L bottle of 'Canadian Club' whiskey back from the states(because its dirt cheap over there) and I've been home two nights and more then half of it is gone, I'm also craving alcohol more now then I ever have before.......sorry to go off topic.....but based on personal experience weed makes anxiety a lot worse.
How have you felt in the morning? If you haven't felt hungover or anything then i wouldn't worry just yet.
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:14 am Post subject: Weed and Panic attacks
Marijuana never fails in peaking my anxiety and throwing me into a psychotic fit of panic. This happened though after years of drug and alcohol abuse, seemingly after my mental capacities were diminished by all of the chemicals taking their toll on me. If youre having panic attacks from marijuana, I propose that it isn't right for you. I figured that out myself, only after having panic attacks every time I would smoke with friends and such, and after trying to force them to stop because I wanted to be able to smoke with my friends. The severity of the constant panic attacks made me move to a new location, and to sever all ties with those people, because every time I would see them thereafter, I would be reminded of those episodes. Its a shitty thing for me to have done, but I can't really help it. I just say that weed brought me to a point at which I had to drop my life, quit my job, leave my home, my friends, and to move away to escape my fear. I'd hate to see that happen to someone else, and I wouldn't even wish it upon my worst enemy (dont have one, though ).
Basically, I dont think that people ever stop having panic attacks from weed. Mild anxiety is one thing, like fear of the cops or something trite and mundane. The panic attacks, I found in my experience, never stop, and are awful for you to have and they take an awful toll on your nmind and body, and I reccomend that if you can keep yourself from having them, then do so!
_________________ Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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