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Juicious Maximus III
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Scabb Island
Posts: 6,525
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Originally Posted by anticipation
what fucking idiot watches a horror movie when they're on a mystery drug?
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An ignorant stupid ****er, of course.
Wayfarer, it seems to me your unbacked claim that there's no more chance of experiencing anxiety, paranoia and panic attacks on the drug than off it is just denial. It's normal, I've seen it before .. people who smoke a lot glorify pot and don't want to think there's anything wrong with it.
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Marijuana is known to induce anxiety in some individuals. While most users of the herb do not experience significant anxiety issues, it is not an unheard-of phenomenon. For this reason, it is often advisable that people with GAD or a predisposition towards anxiety attacks avoid the use of marijuana.
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I'm a 21 yr. old male who has been suffering from (though, never diagnosed) what I believe is anxiety and panic disorder. I first experienced these very intense feelings after smoking THC (the chemical in marijuana resin) in a pipe of an old friend of mine. Ever since then, I've been afraid of taking any medications that can alter my personality (social drugs, antidepressants, tranquillisers, etc.); therefore, I've been living with this disorder for almost 5 years now, with no medication, but it's getting worse. I feel like I'm living in a nightmare or dream all day long... afraid of everything, and anything that can happen. It's like I'm there, but I'm not. Things that should seem familiar, seem odd and frightening. My mind never rests, I am in a state where my mind seems to play tricks on me (almost a paranoid, terror feeling). Though I do get attacks of sudden panic or anxiety, the symptoms of these are lingering in my life ALL the time, everyday and night.
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After a 4 month hiatus, I decided to lift heavy weights. I did this for about 20 minutes, then i stopped with my heart racing and breathing fast as it naturally would be after a hard work out. I then did something completely idiotic,.. I took 3 hits of a marijuana joint. Within 2 minutes, my heart rate (which was already fast) SKYROCKETED and went SO fast and then after 2 minutes of that, I was left gasping for air. This went on for 16 hours!
I havent been the same since, I have daily bouts of anxiety , stress and panic attacks. DAILY.
my symptoms include:
racing heart
chest pains
throbbing in neck (pulse)
plugged ears
shortness of breath / hyperventalation
sweaty palms
diarreah
muscle tension in back neck chest stomach
headaches
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The answer is absoluty yes when i was in my teens and early 20s i smoked alot of weed the last few times i smoked i had very bad panic attacks. My Dr told me that all the weed i smoked trigger the panic attacks which i get all the time now so i had to go on meds to keep them in check. Which i will probably have to take for the rest of my life. Weed changes your brain chemisty over time so my advice to you would be to stop smoking now its not worth it belive me
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Originally Posted by http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/substance_anxiety_disorder.htm
Marijuana-induced anxiety usually occurs at high doses.
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Originally Posted by http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/evidence99/marijuana/Health_1.html
It has been suggested that marijuana is at the root of many mental disorders, including acute toxic psychosis, panic attacks (one of the very conditions it is being used experimentally to treat), flashbacks, delusions, depersonalization, hallucinations, paranoia, depression, and uncontrollable aggressiveness. Marijuana has long been known to trigger attacks of mental illness, such as bipolar (manic-depressive) psychosis and schizophrenia. This connection with mental illness should make health care providers for terminally ill patients and the patients themselves, who may already be suffering from some form of clinical depression, weigh very carefully the pros and cons of adopting a therapeutic course of marijuana.
In the short term, marijuana use impairs perception, judgment, thinking, memory, and learning; memory defects may persist six weeks after last use. Mental disorders connected with marijuana use merit their own category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV, published by the American Psychiatric Association. These include Cannabis Intoxication (consisting of impaired motor coordination, anxiety, impaired judgment, sensation of slowed time, social withdrawal, and often includes perceptual disturbances; Cannabis Intoxication Delirium (memory deficit, disorientation); Cannabis Induced Psychotic Disorder, Delusions; Cannabis Induced Psychotic Disorder, Hallucinations; and Cannabis Induced Anxiety Disorder.
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I'm not saying "I hate weed, don't do it, it's bad for you, you'll get sick". I'm just saying excercise caution. 
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