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Anyone else feel like this?

A little background. I’m an 19yr old male and I admit I had a lot of stress, my family was moving didn’t have nowhere to go and I was stressing major over that. My parents were fighting everyday and **** was just bad and I was very emotional, but we found a place in time and everything was okay so o wasn’t stressed anymore, but one night about 2 or 3 weeks after that I smoked alotttttttt with my friend and gf and We got in an argument which made me very upset, I went home, I was okay, I laid down and all of a sudden I had head pressure no matter how I laid, so I got up and got a drink and On my way back to my room My legs started to feel weak, my heart started racing and I thought I was gonna pass out like someone was pushing down on me. I freaked out I woke my mom up and thought I was dying cuz I have like a soft spot on my head I guess that never formed right so I thought that my head was f**ked up. I finally was able to sleep but when I woke up my head still had pressure and I felt weird. With my vision just not seeming right. After a day or two I started looking up symptoms and saw DPDR. And saw ppl had it for years and all that so of course freaked out again. But not a panic attack. The first week or maybe month I was constantly thinking of nothing but DpDr. I’ve seen ppl say stop worrying about it and live your normal life. This is what gets me, they also say change your diet, stop caffeine stop smoking weed and excercise meditate and stuff. But that isn’t my normal life?? That’s a constant reminder or belief that something is wrong with me so how would I forget about it? But I tried it and after I changed my diet, stopped smoking, taking vitamins and drinking plenty of water nothing really changed for about 3 weeks of doing it. I had constant headache/pressure, my eyes would hurt, I was very emotional I cried a lot, I had a terrible brain fog I was in a daze, i didn’t feel like ME at alll. And I could barely handle going to work on the road is what I do. My ears started ringing, my vision was just so different. Like I felt I was in a different reality. Nothing really helped, I made myself go to the gym, hang with friends, I distracted myself. That helped a little but the whole time I was with friends I felt terrible and could barely focus on conversations or anything. I gave up on the diet change and I smoked again. It felt bad to smoke the first couple times but I kept doing it. As I figured that’s what I liked to do. It’s now been 2 months and the brain fog is pretty much gone, almost. Not completely. Ears stopped ringing, I stopped thinking about it constantly everyday kind of. The head pressure is gone. BUT what I STILL have is I feel tired, my emotions are just off and so is my vision and I don’t really know, I just feel off?... I can’t even explain it.. so what I’m wondering does this sound like dpdr or there something else mentally wrong with me. Like do I feel normal but I’m making myself think it’s not normal? I’m just confused and I think I’m feeling better but I really don’t know it’s weird. Anyone else feel like this? I know I’m not talking to drs or Psychiatrist on here but I like to hear other ppl experiences. Thank you!!
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We can't really tell you what's going on.  A doctor might.  We're not doctors.  DPDR isn't a thing -- it's a symptom of other things.  Some anxiety sufferers get it.  You can get it from drugs, including prescription medication.  A lot of people get anxiety attacks for the first time while stoned, but you say you weren't feeling anxious, just weird.  That sounds more like what we used to call a weedover when I was a lot younger than I am now.  Here's the thing -- what you're smoking now isn't marijuana, it's a highly bred version of the natural thing that's a whole lot stronger that what nature created.  THC levels vary a lot, but it can be really really high now and it's not like that in nature, so know that you're using an engineered drug, not something evolution created.  Which is fine with me, I really don't care personally.  But most people do stop smoking as they age because it becomes no fun anymore.  The only thing I would say is, if you're fine now, that's great.  Don't worry so much.  You had a drug that was really strong and it had a really strong effect on you and you didn't like it that day.  It happens.  But if you find that you can't enjoy your life without getting stoned, that can be a problem.  It stops being fun and becomes medicine you use just so you don't feel lousy.  Some people do great getting high on something all the time.  Most of us don't.  Just something to consider.
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Maybe you are just over examining your body and noticing or over-estimating little things that everyone gets. It seems unlikely that all the issues you list, including vision problems happened at once. Also the cures like taking some vitamins are not likely to be necessary or make any difference anyway.
I had a sinus cold for the last  weeks and every time my wife asks me to clean up it feels like I am groggy and need to sleep, but when my partner asks me to go wall climbing I get miracle energy - it is in the imagination.
Perhaps after you got a shock then you started over analyzing your body, so see if you can forget about it for a few days and perhaps you will find it is not a problem.
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