Will my attacks ever go away? It started last month when I was smoking weed, I went into a panic attack. It stopped for a month and now it started again about two weeks ago? I don’t feel normal anymore. How do I get my life back? :-(. Did the weed alter my brain cells and made me have these attacks now. I had to cancel my vacation to Miami on Friday because I was scared that I may have had a panic attack mid air :-( Please help me!
Unfortunately, anxiety & panic can be perpetual. It's like a viscous cycle. We tell ourselves tho he & believe it. Mine is from my thyroid was overmedicated.
I do breathing exercises. Breathe in with sticking belly out & exhale & bring it in. I do 6 inhalation, stop breath, 6 exhalation. Then repeat 5,4,3,2,1. I pray & ask God to help me cope. He never promised we wouldn't have hard times in our life,but if your his child(salvation) he will never leave or forsake you. I pray & in affect it's like meditation,cuz after I pray about my circumstances, I pray for everyone in my life that needs it. It may sound contrite unless you re a Christian. I wouldn't be here without my Lord & Savior. God Bless you. What you are experiencing is just awful.
Yes of course they will more than likely go away providing you keep off this stuff as you don't know what rubbish is in it really.
I would suggest seeking an addiction counsellor in order to talk through the reasons/triggers leading you to smoking this stuff. In the meantime try not to worry. There are Organisations such as Narcotics Annonymous to help you.
Take care.
LOL! Weed is NOT an addictive substance. It’s used for cancer, glaucoma, Parkinson’s disease and so on. I can’t get over the last person who commented suggesting to go to meeting.
I smoked weed for years, BUT it did trigger my anxiety to the point I would have panic attacks so I quit. Having a panic attack while high is the worst. THC can trigger your “fight or flight” reaction.
I would stop smoking. Panic attacks go away. It’s also not a command performance. When you take the panic out of the panic attacks, that is where it ends.
Kind of in the same boat so you are not alone! Except what I thought was weed ended up being spice and I’m terrified it messed with me. My panic attacks are awful so you are not alone
It not a drug I’m on lol. It’s something I have done occasionally in the past. I was actually at a party when this happened. I smoked and had a few edibles and then I had a panic attack and now they won’t go away. So no I don’t need any counseling for smoking weed occassionally.
I don’t normally smoke weed. It’s something I do every once in awhile. I had a few edibles when I was smoking it and I guess it was too much for me to handle because I had my first panic attack while I was high but the thing is they won’t go away now. Hopefully they stop because the attacks are controlling me vs me controlling them :-(
Oh wow. That’s messed up. Yes, I’m terrified now too. I will never smoke or eat another edible again. I hope you get through this 🙏🏾.
Thank you for you comment. Yes, I pray and also try breathing exercises as well. I just want it to be over. I have never experienced anything like this until now :-(
Counselling is the recommended therapy to identify why you smoked this stuff in the first place.
There are usually reasons why people turn to substance abuse. Meeting others can help to support you if you feel tempted to smoke again.
I was simply trying to be of help.
Take care.
Hi capri and Katie
I found the link to weed/cannabis on NHS Choices. It ids classified as being addictive and illegal . It causes hallucinations, panic attacks ., leads to addiction to other drugs such as heroin and cocaine,
Thanks
https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/drugs/Pages/cannabis-facts.aspx
This is the link to NHS Choices and weed/cannabis. NHS Choices confirms cannabis/weed is addictive, illegal and makes people suffer from a range of adverse reactions such as paranoia, hallucinations, panic attacks etc, etc and leads to addiction of substances such as cocaine, heroin etc.
Thanks.
I hope you do as well stay strong!!
Hi again For the sake of clarification for you et al I researched glaucoma and cannabis/weed.
The gist is that cannabis is NOT recommended for treating glaucoma. The reason being it can damage the optic nerve making the condition of glaucoma much worse. Cannabis also damages lung tissue.
Take care.
You can't die from legal mmj. I totally disagree.
Yeah I smoked for 10 years... never touched anything else. It doesn’t “treat” only helps. Not everyone graduates to crack from weed.lol.
Yeah it can damage lungs if smoked. Baking & edibles are best. "Sativa" can cause anxiety,but "Indica calms & makes you tired.
Vaping
This is a discussion about weed and cannabis Janine which are illegal in this country. Medical Marujiana has not been mentioned. Smoking weed and cannabis damages the lung tissue as well .
Thanks.
sorry do not understand why you wrote vaping. Hope you are ok.