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Postby mikefed » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:03 am

Hey whats up, my name is mike and i got a few questions and im looking for anyone with similar problems.

I started smoking weed pretty young, around 13. Yeah i know its #######5 but it just happened.
I absolutely loved it, id smoke with my friends and meet new people and smoke with random people all the time and feel completely comfortable with it.
from like 8th grade to 11th grade i smoked and had a great time.

But like after awhile I started to just get paranoid when i would smoke. I would smoke with best freinds and get nervous, and like not know what to say or talk about.
its weird i would just feel uncomfortable. i would keep thinking like.. should i say this.. should i say that. and it was totally stupid because ive known these people forever.
i felt like a weirdo. so i would keep smoking, and occasionally id feel fine, but after awhile everytime i would smoke would be horrible. exactly like that.
just completely uncomfortable with my surroundings, thoughts and everyone around me.

So i stopped. i would take breaks alot then smoke again and more then likely feel the same #######5 way.
right now im on a good 3 month break.



But after all this i began to realize that stuff like this would happen to me without being high. Sometimes when im with even my bestfreinds ill get uncomfortable occasionally.
But it wasent like weed. When i was high it was permanent, i could not redeem myself. When im sober it would happen occasionally but i could redeem myself.

It happens alot with aquintances(excuse my spelling). i wont even by high and ill be hanging out with people that ive been around alot but not much, and ill just feel like nervous, or i wont know what to talk about.

it will happen chilling 1 on 1 with better freinds too.
with really close freinds, sometimes ill feel weird at pointless times and it sucks

i can always tell because ill do nervous habits like ask completely useless questions or ill start to Yawk. or maybe even fake cough.

what im trying to find out is

is this just straight up Social anxiety?
Is that what its labeled as for some of you?
does this type of thing happen?

Whatever it is, is their anyway to get rid of the feeling?

Are their any medications i can take without taking over my body to get this to go away..?

Thats what im afraid of sometimes, my sister was clinically depressed and she took meds and she just doesent seem the same as she did before still.


Like i want this weirdness to go away, but i want to be the same person.
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Postby mikefed » Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:46 am

anyone know how to reply dammit
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Postby nameless » Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:29 am

Hey Mike, I'm almost literally in the exact same postion as you are. When I started smoking around 16 I really enjoyed it and had no problems doing it with my friends or with people I didn't know. But as I got older arournd 17-18 I would feel really uncomfortable and not know what to say, just like you.

I eventually only smoked rarely with my one really good friend or alone. But then I completely stopped because almost everytime I would smoke it would make me paranoid or give me panic attacks. And even now (I'm 21) when I'm sober I am nervous in social situations and will not know what I should say. So I'm pretty sure marijuana had a lot to do with my social anxiety disorder.

The only medication that has helped me is Xanax. Have you heard of it? It's one of many anti-anxiety drugs. It takes like an hour or so to kick in and lasts about 5 or 6 hours for me, maybe more, not sure. And it takes away the nervous feelings I have and lets me actually talk to people with ease. It doesn't change who you are either, it will just make you relaxed and not worry so much about pointless things. The only bad thing about it is I heard they can be really addictive. So perhaps you should talk to your doctor about it.
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Postby mikefed » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:55 am

nameless wrote:Hey Mike, I'm almost literally in the exact same postion as you are. When I started smoking around 16 I really enjoyed it and had no problems doing it with my friends or with people I didn't know. But as I got older arournd 17-18 I would feel really uncomfortable and not know what to say, just like you.

I eventually only smoked rarely with my one really good friend or alone. But then I completely stopped because almost everytime I would smoke it would make me paranoid or give me panic attacks. And even now (I'm 21) when I'm sober I am nervous in social situations and will not know what I should say. So I'm pretty sure marijuana had a lot to do with my social anxiety disorder.

The only medication that has helped me is Xanax. Have you heard of it? It's one of many anti-anxiety drugs. It takes like an hour or so to kick in and lasts about 5 or 6 hours for me, maybe more, not sure. And it takes away the nervous feelings I have and lets me actually talk to people with ease. It doesn't change who you are either, it will just make you relaxed and not worry so much about pointless things. The only bad thing about it is I heard they can be really addictive. So perhaps you should talk to your doctor about it.



yeah man, i heard about that $#%^. see i did it once when i dident know what it was to get ###$ up. because im sketch, but i passed out for like 12 hours haha. it may have been zanex. idk but yeah man its only like once in a blue moon where i can toke up and feel good. ill get sketched out even when im alone sometimes. weak. but yeah thanks bro. if $#%^ worsens then ill think about getting a scrip. im feeling pretty good recently though
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Postby nameless » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:14 pm

you should check out this post about Marijuana in the AvPD forum http://www.psychforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=17788 there's a lot of other people who describe similar experiences with it as well.
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Postby Gsf-600 » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:02 pm

nameless wrote:The only medication that has helped me is Xanax. Have you heard of it? It's one of many anti-anxiety drugs. It takes like an hour or so to kick in and lasts about 5 or 6 hours for me, maybe more, not sure. And it takes away the nervous feelings I have and lets me actually talk to people with ease. It doesn't change who you are either, it will just make you relaxed and not worry so much about pointless things. The only bad thing about it is I heard they can be really addictive. So perhaps you should talk to your doctor about it.

Someone gave me some clonazepam(Rivotril,Klonopin) pills, same family as Xanax, last week to recover from a panic attack. I pretty much had the same kind of effects. It just helps you to become yourself without looking or feeling drunk or stoned. It puts messy thoughts in their rightful places too. The most spectacular effect was the control I had on my stuttering(I have that since I was 6) and my speech(clear, ordered and assertive). But with the tolerance and addiction risk I won't take them anymore until I see my doc... It gave me real hopes though. :)

PS: I've never took weed or any homemade crap and y'all made a good point to convince me not to try... :?
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt. " -Lisa Simpson
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Postby DeepThinker » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:59 pm

Mike, you almost perfectly described my situation. Well, no answers for ya, but you're not alone, if you have msn hit me up with a PM.
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Postby FriedPiper » Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:10 am

Alot of people seem to have this kind of problem. I get paranoid when i smoke too, but I try to smoke alone because i dont get so paranoid when im alone. Also I play guitar, cause it makes me concentrate on playing, rather than thinking my friends are gonna steal my stuff or use me.

The obvious question is, "well why dont you just quit?"
And I think we all know the answer all to well....
Up and strummin guitarist.
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Postby DeepThinker » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:21 am

FriedPiper wrote:Alot of people seem to have this kind of problem. I get paranoid when i smoke too, but I try to smoke alone because i dont get so paranoid when im alone. Also I play guitar, cause it makes me concentrate on playing, rather than thinking my friends are gonna steal my stuff or use me.

The obvious question is, "well why dont you just quit?"
And I think we all know the answer all to well....


I don't think I understand that answer at all actually... elaborate please
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Postby FriedPiper » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:10 am

Same reason I started, Life just sucked too much. The need to be at a different level of conciousness, kept the suckiness at bay, for a while...
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