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anxiety, hearing voices, visual patterns

hey,

a few months ago i had a  weird anxciety thing when i smoked weed last. with out wanting to i kept repeatign anysound or voice i heard. untill i went to my mum and she calmed me down. since this experience i have stopped every single drug except the occassional drink.

i think it then went away for a few weeks or so. but when i was bored at work it kept happening again. the more i thought about it the worse it got. i kept thinking to myself that im going crazy which of course was just putting me into a vicious circle again. again i spoke to my mum and calmed me down again. but i kept letting it creep back in and really got me quiet down for a good month.

i feel now that i have got through this first problem but since then i have had feelings of depression. problems with my eyes (after researching, best description i got was 'visual snow') i have also become aware of having tinitus.
i seem to have learned to ignore both the visual snow and tinitus and almost seem as if not there now. i got my eyes checked out the other day and my prescriptions havnt changed. i can see clearly just have some kind of disturbances inbetween. i see very clearly and crisp when outside. notice the most when driving.

but now onto my most recent problem.

throughtout all this and continueing now. i have been having problems sleeping properly. i feel as cant just let go of my mind and relax. i tried almost every sleeping technigue and deffinatly getting better at it. but i was having some sort of clossed eye hallucinations (again the more i dwell or concentrate on them the worse they get).

from time to time (the worst was last night) i hear voises from people i know. last night was all the people i was out with during the evening. its really quiet scary when concentrate on it. but i feel as cant just let it go and fall asleep.

almost every night i have also been having fairl intense lucid dream. at one point during the peak of my anxiety they were extremly intense but i have learnt to just ignore them. but is very hard as feel like there actually memories from my normal day life.

im only 18 and just started uni, i just hate how im going through this and really gets me down some times. i worry about things a lot more and any time i think or see something a little bit of the norm i always relate it back to my problmes and get myself down again.

i proberly should note that i took LSD for the first time in august this year, it was extreamly intense. and proberly why i keep saying to my self that im going crazy because there MAYBE a reason to it. i spoke to my gp about most of this and she said most of the symtoms are becuase  im worrying about the lsd trip too much. but i finding it so hard to let go of all this and just live my life.

sorry for the stupid amount of writing but is so hard to put into words what i have been going through.
any help will be greatly helpful.
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It sounds like you're dealing with anxiety. I have a very similar story....I had a panic attack one night when I did ecstasy, then I had another attack about a week later. Since then I've had several attacks and went through about 2 months of non stop doctor visits and fears that I was losing my mind. I now have an anxiety disorder, and it's party because I got a little PTSD from my bad x trip. Now I worry all the time about my health and my sanity, and I have a really hard time falling asleep. My thoughts race and it's hard to calm down. I was put on antidepressants and I've being seeing a therapist, which has been imensely helpful. I also have an anti-anxiety med that I only use if I'm having an attack I can't control.

I'm sorry you're feeling this way, I know how horrible it is. You just have to try and move on from the LSD trip and if you think you need it, talk to your doctor about medication or seeing someone who you can talk to that knows about anxiety. Hang in there and let me know how things go!
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cheers for support, and to you to. i have stopped all drugs since my anxiety attack. i do feel like im coping better and feeling more 'normal' but do get some down days when let it all start again. i find it best to stay with people u like and distract yourself from it all. (without illegal drugs of course :)

hope you do pull threw it all and im sure you will!

hopefully we will both be able to relax soon :)
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