Anxiety Disorder?

[miguel101]

Ok,

I have been recently depressed about various things in my life for the last year or more. Not suicidal or anything but not satisfied with my life. Anyways I recently decided to try a pot brownie and totally flipped out. I had full on panic attack for probably an hour and thought I was going to die. I had been thinking about the last year or so and was wondering what I was doing in my life and all of a sudden my heart rate skyrocketed and I was in a panic. I was only thinking negatively when I was high and about all the things I should have done better in the past year. Now this is where my question comes into play. Every since then about 4 days ago I have had a funny feeling in my head. I feel a little disoriented, sleepy, and out of energy. I almost feel as if I have vertigo at times so this has been worrying me now because it hasnt gone away. so today i was surfing the net and found that i could have induced some sort of underlying anxiety disorder through the "bad trip" that I had on the brownie. I read things about depersonalization and derealization. My symptons dont seem to fit exactly but could be a possibility. I am just wondering if anyone knows anything about this or has had this happen to them. Please help. Any advice is wanted. i just want to feel normal again.

thanks

[nursegirl6572]

If you search our forum, you will find weeks worth of reading about these exact situations...marijuana induced anxiety.  I encourage you to read some of the experiences and replies.

Bottom line, you WILL feel better and the pot did not harm you in any way...you had an anxious reaction to the weed and the feelings of anxiety have stuck around (which is common).

The very best thing you can do is try very hard NOT to keep thinking about it and keep yourself very busy with distractions...hobbies, exercise, work, etc.  The less time you have to sit and worry about it, the quicker you'll feel like yourself again and be able to put it behind you.

Good luck!

[greenpc]

I started feeling back to normal again about 1 week ago, and it feels great. i have never enjoyed life so much :) ya sounds like a very similar experience thankfully because I feel like i can give you a lot of advice of how i recovered. Memory loss is pretty typical of depression/anxiety, nothing to be worried about :)

[miguel101]

thanks man i really appreciate your input. how long did you feel "normal" again? i feel like my memory is a little fuzzy as well like you mentioned. seems to be a similar experience.. im hoping.

[greenpc]

Heya dude literally exact same thing happened to me about 4 months ago and im totally back to normal. Firstly go and see your doctor just to make sure you are fine, but if you are like me then you are 100% ok :) After that I recommend you go and speak to a professional about the issue because that's the first real big step to recovery. Just believe you are ok because it sounds like you have health anxiety from the drugs, which is what it gave me too. I honestly believed that they had done something terrible to me like destroyed my ability to memorize things etc. but at the end of the day its just not true ... all in your mind! For many people their body just does not react very well to cannabis because we are all wired differently. but jsut remember its something that's been around for many years and isn't life threatening :)