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will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby alicepractise » Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:48 am

Okay so I'm 16 and female,
I've been smoking marijuana for about a year, only once or twice a month and I was fine every time, until about 2 months ago when I had a bad trip. It wasn't really horrible, but I felt like I was fading away and I got pretty freaked out and just wanted it to stop. The next time I smoked it happened again but I told myself to to freak out and just watched tv so I was okay, but then the next day I was out shopping and I suddenly felt like I was high again, but without the happy, emotional kinda of thing, just physically detached, like I wasn't really in my body. It lasted for an hour or so before it completely faded away, but then it came back the next day, and the next and the next. I would have usually two episodes of it a day and mostly when I was out somewhere. It was really scaring me, I would be anxious all the time that I'd get another episode, I avoided going outside or even moving around my house because it made it feel worse. I read about a lot of things online and I'm almost 100% it is depersonalization disorder. After a week of this I got sick with the flu and stayed home for a week, sleeping an layingin bed almost the entire time, and after that it was completely gone.
It's been more than a month now and I haven't smoked weed since, I want to smoke again but I'm scared it will start again.
Has anyone else had DPD go away and come back? because of marijuana?
Will marijuana definitely trigger it?
What should I do if it does come back?
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby alicepractise » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:53 am

Please, any input here would help
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby elizabish » Sun Aug 12, 2012 3:52 am

i have DPD and the more i smoke marijuana the better my DPD gets. it really depends on how your body will react to it. if you're worried about having it come back then you shouldn't smoke weed.
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby GanjDroid » Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:43 pm

If this helps I found eating healthy, taking meds & vitamins daily help alot..I am better at taking my meds & vitamins than eating healthy :)

Smoking sativas normally do not sit well & cause the anxiety etc. Indicas let my mind wander somewhat into a dpd phase but its happy. Being outside moving with constant visual stimulation sets the weed in heavier or makes me feel higher.

Try a different strain. I found mixing strains works to blend effects..If I'm going out I may add some sativa with the indica to balance it.
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby waldosia » Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:07 am

The same scenario happened to me a few years ago.
In my experience, if you were to smoke marijuana again, it's possible that you could relapse, but it could be a simple as changing the kind of pot you smoke. I find that when I smoke the stronger, "danker" pot, I relapse. It just depends on your body.
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby Kaay_Fly » Tue Jul 16, 2013 4:11 pm

I find that when I smoke high grade, I feel seperated from everything, even the floor i'm sitting on. Not I know that's not the weed, as before I went into hospital half dead from blood loss, that never happened.

I smoke mainly homie these days. It's more mellow and relaxed.
I think it should be a personal choice, if you feel yourself, that it would be better if you just stopped completely, then go for it :)
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby Yugen » Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:49 pm

None can say for sure. Mine is due to drug use. So you have to assume the following: You will get dissociated again, maybe not now but eventually. It will again be episodic at first but eventually it will grow chronic. Are you able to accept and live with the chronic feeling of barely existing? Justso you could get high a few hours? If so. Go for it.
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby l33ves » Tue Dec 17, 2013 1:10 am

I would not personally recommend it. For some people smoking weed triggers some kind of anxiety response that starts dissociation. Some people recover from it, for some they stay like that for years. Your judgment.
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby abovetheclouds » Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:07 am

I would not recommend smoking again because not only could it come back, it could become permanent. You could become stuck in that state for years like me. I got it the first time I smoked weed when I was 16 and I'm 20 now and since then, I've had maybe 10 minutes total in which I didn't feel depersonalized. I vow never to smoke it again once/if I get cured. It's just stupid and not worth this hell. Be careful.
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Re: will smoking marijuana again cause a DPD relapse?

Postby Rosenblumtv » Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:37 pm

I actually had a very intense depersonalization experience after smoking a good deal of weed. I had been a heavy smoker before then and had never experienced anything except euphoria, but the DPD was overwhelming and terrifying. I was sure I was losing my mind. It quickly transited to a massive anxiety attack. I had several repeat episodes for some time after that, but ultimately, over time, all traces of it, (except the memory) fade away. Yours will too. It is indeed terrifying beyond words, but, fortunately, it's all in your head. And will soon pass.
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