weed and panic attacks

I've had it twice happen to me after already coming down from the high, that sorta groggy after feeling. The first time was at work and I had smoked about two hours before so I was cool just a little tired and I went to the bathroom and started losing consciousness. I made it out of there and to my supervisors office and just lost it. They called the ambulance and everything because I was sooo close to losing it I couldn't stand or respond to anyone.

I was diagnosed with fainting. Well it happened again a couple of weeks ago because I came home and my mom wasn't yelling or anything just kinda mad that I had been driving messed up and it gave me a REALLY bad trip. I couldn't stand straight, I was holding a bed post and I couldn't see ANYTHING but somehow crawled onto the bed and my mom started freaking the whole time saying that I was huffing gasoline (OMG LOL) or doing crack or something. It took about 30 minutes for me to get ok again.

 

i wouldn't wish a true panic attack on the worst person in the world.

i've had them... it's like being shifted to a plain of fear.

you look around and try to calm yourself down... telling yourself there's no reason to feel this way... but it keeps going... there's no way out... you're in this insane dimension that feels really clear and cold... you turn pale and cold and clammy... it sucks so bad... beyond words.

i've even tried thinking about the chemistry of it, like Bill talks about, but it gets worse... i start thinking about how i'm just a chemical machine and i have no idea why i'm here and i'm lost and i'm not even "i" or "me" ...just a biological machine, programmed to respond in "complex" ways.

lol but yea... you can work on it to help yourself... you're still going to have the racing heart rate and the fleeting feeling but you won't shift into the panic dimension. ciggaretts help too... if it's not to far along and you can get youself to do more than sit and wring your hands.

 

I've only had one full blown panic attack, but I usually get some amount of paranoia with smoking. I tend to be an anxious, paranoid person sober. I think that has alot to do with it. Also, my propensity toward panic/paranoia seems to depend on the type of weed I'm smoking. More sativa heavy weeds tend to make me think too much and get drawn into those scary delusional thought processes, but indica heavy buds make me very mellow even while peaking. After I was arrested my tendency towards paranoia skyrocketed, and for good reason. I think it's like a built in safety system for smokers, if you're paranoid then there's probably something to be afraid of.

 

i smoked some weed yesterday just a bit not too mutch and was chillin just watchin the birds fly around outside and suddenly got really scared that my parents would come and see me and think im crazy because i was really amused by watching birds fly. does anyone else like to just chill and watch birds when your stoned? i got really panicy thinking i was crazy or sumat and was goin out of my mind

 

rofl

but that sounds like a really good time. i can't wait till summer... i'm gunna get baked and watch the birds and look at bugs every day.

 

try smiling when you're panicing... i've tried to pull myself out of trips going downhill by smiling and trying to "let go" or just be. it works only a little for me but it might work really well for someone else.