Is this DP DR? What to do?

[Awr88x]

I’m 19 yrs old and was going through a very stressful time and smoked a lot of marijuana one night about a month ago which was normal for me. But felt a lot of pressure in my head and my legs went weak so I started freaking out and had a panic attack I am guessing. My heart starting beating very fast and hard and I had woke my mom up and she got me to calm down and I went to bed, I woke up the next morning with shakes and a dazed feeling like with no concentration or focus and my head still had pressure, and I just felt different. After a day or so I started looking up symptoms and found dp dr which then freaked me out more. The dream like feeling with head pressure is what was bothering me the most. I started to sweat a lot when I would sleep and I noticed my heart felt like it was always beating fast. I started being very emotional and crying because I didn’t feel like myself at all and thought it will never go away. I went to the ER for a ct scan and it came back normal. I started drinking a lot of water and eating better and taking vitamins. But for about 2 weeks everyday I was looking up symptoms and how to get better with no improvements. I see many ppl say stop worrying about it so I stopped and about where I’m at now I don’t think about it 24/7 like I was. But I still have a constant brain fog, I feel tired, my eyes have a pain in them, the back of my head has the most pressure everyday, when I run a dizzy feeling gets worse, my ears have started ringing loud enough where I notice it a lot and something weird is that my dreams are very vivid and I wake up with a fast heart beat and I feel terrible. What’s going on?? Do I keep ignoring this and hope it just goes away?

[Ashleyn9119]

I agree. My first panic attack happened after I smoked weed at 15. I felt like the world was going on around me and I was looking in like you the next day I felt disoriented. That was only the beginning of this vicious panic attacks. I'm now 26 and my panic attacks are back. As they have been on and off since that day. Currently they came bc of a serve sinus infection. Which has caused me to have health anxiety.. I would suggest getting on an anxiety medication iv never been able to control them on my own which I know some ppl can. Also if ur having pressure anywhere else maybe it's sinus issue.

[Paxiled]

Who knows?  Many of us on this site got our first panic attacks while stoned on pot.  For most people it's just a bad day and they move on.  For those of us who had an unknown proclivity to an anxiety problem, the high brought it out, and then our brains do the rest and have a hard time not focusing on the bad feelings.  For some this then becomes a chronic anxiety problem.  This sounds like what's happening to you.  It's really easy to say stop worrying, and those people are of course right, but if we were able to do that easily nobody would ever develop a chronic anxiety problem.  I would suggest that if this goes on much longer that you see a psychologist who specializes in anxiety treatment, because what you have now is an anxiety problem.  The CT scan was useless -- just what were they going to find, really?  You had no before pictures to compare it to.  Keep staying healthy, get your exercise, and talk it out with a professional who can teach you some relaxation techniques.  Now, will it go away if you do nothing?  It might.  Only time will tell, and the more you can relax about it, the more likely it is it will go away.  But as I said, that's easier to say than to do.  Good luck with it and know this has happened to a lot of people who are still having a life, if not the one they were having before, especially in the sense that you're probably done with pot for the rest of your life.

[Paxiled]

Forgot to say, stop Googling.  DP and DR aren't illnesses, they are descriptions of how we feel sometimes when we're feeling really anxious.  Don't label yourself, you might just convince yourself the label is who you are and it isn't.  Google can be death if you're just googling symptoms.