Marijuana Induced Hell (PLEASE READ/HELP)

I didn't understand as I have never done drugs. We were really scared. I saw him having anxiety attacks and becoming depressed. His personality was changing. I noticed it was worse on days that he was tired. I took him to a phychiatrist. He was diagnosed with Marijuana induced anxiety disorder. It can last a long or short time. He has had it for 3 months but it is getting better. He needs exercise, lots of healthy food, regular routine and avoid all drugs, caffeine and too much sugar. He is slowly getting better however now he has a problem with his dreams. They are so real he can not tell the difference between what is real and what is dream. Many sleepless nights are now the problem but we will get through this too. Hang in there! I hope you have somone to help you. I am so glad my son finally confessed the truth to me about this drug use even though it took him over a month to do so! It will eventually go away. Be strong!

I came across this post as I was actually googling and searching for help with a problem in my eyes I happened to see a halo a lot when I drink caffeine. However, when I saw the subject matter of this blog it made me click. It's funny but I don't think people realize how common this is. When I was a lot younger and in high school I had an episode just like this. What you're describing makes me really think about that time and go back to every second I lived through. I also was on my third time experimenting with weed. I also discovered something interesting about myself and about weed as I read more about it and as I talk to more people with the years that followed. When I had smoked on the first previous occasions my friend who supplied the drug had given me dirt weed. I at the time didn't know much about the different kinds of weed and the fact that there are the sativas (uppers) and indicas (downer). I had smoked an indica kind then which explained why I felt so relaxed and calm or sleepy the first times. Also when you mix those two, that's when you get a hybrid sort. At any rate, The third time I smoked it was a hybrid form and the depersonalization and feeling of being not myself was terrible. At first I couldn't describe the feeling other than I felt like I was going to die and it felt as though time warped, I felt as though I was the only one stuck in this twilight zone. Something else I remember is the exact moment it happened, instantly feeling it take over me like a bolt going through my spine and body. I had such a bad experience I remember praying, crying and having anxiety attacks over and over again. Something that helped me which I practiced on my own without the advice of a professional because I could not afford it was Self Reassurance. My symptoms did fade for the most part after it happened but the psychological part was still there, so sometimes I felt like I almost couldn't tell if it was real symptoms or just me replaying things in my head. By that I mean anxiety attacks, the feeling of being paranoid and weird feeling of not being myself or being able to think on my own. I felt like sharing this with you because I read your post and I see how much this incident has truly affected you. Many times in my own life I thought who else could've gone through something like this and I have found myself to be the butt of a joke many times or ridiculed by people in my own life who think that it's so silly, overdramatic or just plain symptoms of being high. I know firsthand that drugs are drugs and they affect people differently. I think you should be commended for putting your situation out there and for taking the steps you have to feel better and ultimately normal. Personally, it took me about a year to get out of my funk. One the people who commented above struck a chord with me too, they said you cannot change the past. Maybe that's true and I don't think the memory of being in that type of hell can go away hence some of the hallucinatory or paranoid feelings will always be there if you recollect them but I don't think by any means this means you will never have your life back or will have to live with these feelings for the rest of your life. I suffered anxiety attacks for many years, I actually had began to suffer them before I experimented with weed, mine were brought on by stress at a very young age. I had a little PTSD from an earthquake I had experienced as well, I was left homless and was really too young to process it . Experimenting with the wrong drugs however totally exasperated my attacks at the time but after everything was said and done one of the things that helped me as I said previous was to meditate and I mean deep meditation. I also exercised a lot and at some point I decided to push myself to my best physical ability because I was still very young then and physical appearance mattered to me but so was the feeling of releasing or pushing toxins out of my body. I noticed a huge improvement in myself and in my capacity to think and in my resilience towards my panic attacks the following year. Don't let the symptoms or feelings and the thoughts get you down just remember that your mind is powerful and you can exercise power over it as well. I really liked the other comments as well which explained how to eat, sleep better and incorporate vitamins. It's crazy what just changing your diet can do for you. The incident I'm talking about happened to me when I was 16 years old, I am now 33. I am in good health for the most part, I juice often, still exercise and have have three kids now. There is a life ahead for you, you're not the first person to go through this and with the will to live, your mind is a lot more powerful than you think, you will pull through. it's the best advice I could give :-) , oh and FYI, when I was 19 my stupid ass tried it again, however I was smart enough to only give it a puff, I will report that I don't think it has anything to do with just one bad trip or one incident, I immediately felt the same jolt going through my body, thankfully for me I didn't smoke enough so my heart began to race little but then subsided. It didn't last. My conclusion? Never touched the crap again....lol I hope you feel better now since I notice it's been 10 months since you wrote this post. I hope since then you have gotten more control over life. I hope the anxiety and the feelings of not being yourself are subsiding more, I just wanted to offer you some reassurance and hope hope that through my experience as well, you feel more comfort going forward. Best wishes to you.

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