Hi, So, in July I took weed for the first time (it was quite strong) and the high lasted 24 hours. During this experience, I felt tingles across my body, felt like I was coming out of my body and I hated this feeling. I was able to keep myself calm and I have gotten over the experience. But 3 weeks ago I took a high dosage of an iron supplement which caused me to experience tingles across my body (very similar to when I took weed). This made me feel very uncomfortable and made me feel like I was high again and was coming out of my body. Since then, I've been overthinking that I had a hallucination. A few weeks have past now and the tingles have gone but now I'm overthinking that I'm experiencing visual hallucinations. For example, in my peripheral vision I think I see something but when I turn my head to look in that direction it's an object such as, a shoe or a bag. I also have begun to notice my eye floaters and flashes more and I'm overthinking that I'm becoming schizophrenic. My anxiety has got really bad and I constantly feel on edge and when I overthink I feel really panicky. I've spoken to my GP and they've told me its very unlikely I have schizophrenia. But I cannot stop overthinking I have it. Has anyone experienced this? or does anyone have any suggestions/advice of what I could do? Thanks :)
I have to agree with your doctor. What you are doing is overthinking and ruminating about all of this. Your anxiety is in high gear and it’s taking over your thinking. The overthinking combined with anxiety can lead to panic. Panic will make you think you have all sorts of horrible conditions when actually all of this boils down to fear. But it’s irrational fear not fear based on fact. I would suggest that you speak with a counselor who can help you manage all of this. It’s difficult to do alone. The counselor can help you learn how to react when this happens. The mind is a powerful thing and it can trick you if you let it. what you are sharing does not sound like schizophrenia at all. So you can let that go. don’t do this to yourself because you’ll just feel miserable. Get some support. You’re going to be just fine.