I still don't feel the same after smoking weed for the first time. NEED SUPPORT PLEASE

I've been through the same thing. It gave me a panic attack that lasted for hours. My body was shaking, I could hear my heart beating, I could see my body pulsing fast..then eventually I was able to sleep it off but woke up with a sick, anxious feeling that lasted weeks to months. I'm doing a little better, but every time I wake up i'm a little anxious, especially at night. I think I developed paranoia. I'm scared to get medication.

hi, the same thing happened to me about a year ago and its really freaked me out. i just cant stop thinking about life at least once a day and asking myself if its real or not. this is actually the scariest thing ever. can we please make a group chat?

Hey Leah,

You are experiencing what is known as depersonalization/derealisation.

It's very common especially if you have just had a panic attack.

It's NOT dangerous and you are NOT going mad I promise you. Its part of anxiety so you need to tackle the anxiety and then the dp will go. I have had it three times now all after panic attacks and it went.

You will be okay I promise.

I have lots of information and links that can help you so let me know if you want me to send them.

Sean

hi guys.

sorry to post here but just looking for some help.

can any1 point me in the right direction of how to start my own thread please?

i seem to be able to comment but cant find how to start my own xxx

me 2 is been 1 year now am scared that i will be crazy please help me help me what must i do i miss my old self any anyone help me what must i do to get better??😭😭😭🤕

i am 14 and i have done some dumb decisions i have smoked weed about 8 times and i have been sober for over 3 months and i am quiting because i have a whole life ahead of me. yet i cry every night because i dont feel the same before the high. the first time i did smoke weed i had this feeling but i didnt think much of it to be honest. and every thing this person said ive been having the same issues. i dont know if i need therpy or not and i just need help.

i am 14 and i have done some dumb decisions i have smoked weed about 8 times and i have been sober for over 3 months and i am quiting because i have a whole life ahead of me. yet i cry every night because i dont feel the same before the high. the first time i did smoke weed i had this feeling but i didnt think much of it to be honest. and every thing this person said ive been having the same issues. i dont know if i need therpy or not and i just need help.

i experienced this about two years ago(under aged).. i feel as though things haven't been the same since. I cant focus as long, i have trouble following conversations, i zone out way too often. something that differed from my expeirence was that during the high, i didnt have a panic attack(i had highs previously that resulted in panic attacks). It was actually probably the best high id had, everything was funny and i was happy. the day that followed i felt like i woke up high still, i thought maybe it was like a weed hangover.. but it had been too many hours for it to still be affecting me. it does feel like its gotten better but my constant zoning out hasnt gone away, my ability to think about problems seems to have been getting worse and the symptoms are fainter but still present. i worry that it woke up a disorder i may have had but didnt know? either way, i hope that it goes away soon... i wish good luck to anyone who is expeirencing this aswell. and a tip thats been working is taking time away feom reality to focus on myself..

I had this exact issue while at University. It's a safety mechanism (one of the many horrible flight or fight symptoms) in which, IF you are in a horrible situation (being mauled by a lion) it's quite useful to almost be disassociated with reality. It makes it less intense. I can sympathise though - it was not nice.

What I suggest to snap you out of it; GO AND LIVE! When I say this, I mean go and do something daring. Something exciting. For example If you're single (which is what I did), tell your crush you like them. Something that makes you nervous but in a good way. It snapped me out of it. It stopped me being so internal. Because the person is external, is real, is communicating with you, is bonding with you. Obviously don't try this whilst married or in a long-term relationship (might actually get mauled by someone haha). But, to keep it blunt - do something that thrills you!

Hi, Thank God I found your post i have had this since January moments of what i thought were going into a panic attack and on googling found it to be derealisation though hardly anything helpful online and Ive just told my doctor's its panic attacks

i had a really bad trip the first time I smoked weed (in 20 plus years) and have not recovered since.

When it happens I feel like I cant trust the loved ones I am with, i feel like I have to be on my own to be safe and I feel like I might be imagining whats happening and thinking Im saying things that Im not.

I really empathise

Hey I feel sort of the same way as you do.

I smoked pot for the first time with some of my close friends nearly every day.

It was fun at times but it also gave me bad anxiety so after a few weeks i decided to quit.

Ever since then I felt heavy and not the same like I am not me any longer.

I don't feel the same way any longer and i have been trying to get myself back there.

Its been 2 or 3 weeks since i quit but i just cannot get rid of the feeling.

Hello, I want to share with you my story.

I've been smoking weed for more than 10 years.

A year ago I was experimenting with LSD.

I lost respect for the substance and it kicked me in the balls.

I was in trance for a month.

I felt like I was trapped inside my mind.

I felt like my energy was stuck in the past and that I was physically moving but not my soul/energy.

I felt like I was dead or in a comma.

Actually, I felt exactly as you describe it.

I had the same visual effects, the noise(borders of everything seem to move), the "visual snow"(like some sort of greyish invisible vains), the light sensitivity (I kept seeing 4 lights in my vision for a week)

I had constant anxiety attacks, I couldn't sleep because my mind wouldn't stop thinking massively about everything.

Every time I smoked weed I felt weird, almost like the LSD took over my brain all over again.

I won't lie to you, I was about to go crazy.

I was about to lose it and go insane.

but something kept holding me back.

I had to learn how to reprogram my brain, how to forget, and let go.

I took this experience as an opportunity to change a lot of things in my life and myself.

As of today, I still have that "visual snow" in my eyes but it is not as bad as before and it just doesn't bother me at this point, I learned to focus my vision on what's important.

No need to worry, all this side effects would vanish with time.

I also worried myself to madness about being normal again.

But look, here I am.

Alive, normal and with a good mental health.

You may want to research: HPPD (Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder) and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)

It could be a little bit of both.

Also, TALK WITH SOMEONE WHO YOU TRUST.

hi i tried smoking weed about 2 years ago and also didnt feel the same. I didnt stop smoking till i realized i havent felt the same to this day whenever i go outside i feel like im focoused on one thing and i daydream alot and feel nautiouse and sometimes cant really remember what had just happened and now I never leave the house to this day because of the trauma and halusinations i get. I haven't smoked weed since but whenever i hangout with my friends and smell the slightest amount of weed in the air i start to get bad reaction. Whenever i get in contact with marajuana i blackout and start having a panic attack if you have any solutions in your expierince please reach out to me.