How long does anxiety last after smoking a joint of marijuana?
Hi Im Leo, i've just started smoking weed about 3 weeks ago. I was getting hogh with my friends and did not have any anxiety or negarive experience. I've smoked a joint last night on my own and gave me anxiety and its been now 24hrs and i still experience anxiety every now and then. Im thinking of speaking to a Dr but I've also been reading articles too. From what I've read only long term users have this experience. And I'm not a long term user, I just wanna get rid of this feeling. I hope i'll get an answer. I anxious that i might be going crazy.
Has anyone found that a day after smoking Marijuana, your anxiety and OCD flares?
Perhaps people who take prescription drugs for their anxiety or OCD or whatever also become dependent on these drugs. When they stop, perhaps they also have brains that are not as able to deal with stress and anxiety of life compared with those who never took those prescription drugs. The fact of the matter is, if you use a drug to control a disorder, legal or not, you will become dependent on that drug. If, like most people who use marijuana, you smoke occasionally at a party or with friends and have no underlying disease, there's really not a problem. Beside that, it is a fact that after 30 days of not smoking weed, people's bodies and brains are returned to the state they were in before they ever took a toke. Can antidepressant or antianxiety manufacturers make the same claim? (Of course, weed is bad for your lungs too, but you didn't bring that up, so I won't try to defend that aspect of the drug.)
Get severe anxiety when smoking marijuana.?
About two years ago i use to smoke marijuana every day. at least 5-8 blunts a day. iloved it. well for like 6 years now i have been taking prozac for depression. but 2 years ago i thought i didnt need it ne more so i just quit taking it, w/o tallkin to my doctor and weening myself off the drug. well everything was cool for about a month and then i started to have panic attacks and severe anxiety. the panic attacks would come randomly, i would start feeling scared, my heart would start racing as if i have been running for like 5 minutes. and i would start to think im gonna die and have a heart attack. and whenever i smoked marijuana i would get these paranoid thoughts, and get on the edge of having a panic attack. which is a real drag, because i really love getting high and relaxing my mind and chilling. so i quit smoking weed. i started taking the prozac again and my doctor gave me klonazepam. the panic attacks went away but the anxiety stayed. i still have anxiety alot. and whenever i smoke weed i get paranoid, and start to notice my heart beating really fast and i get scared. i really want to start smoking again, but i dont want to get anxiety attacks when i do. what should i do? dont even bother answering if you're just going to say 'dont smoke weed then' cuz that will be stupid..help me out here
Smoked marijuana 5 days ago... Brain fog? Anxiety?
So I've probably only smoked weed 6 times in my life and I did again 5 days ago. I had way to much, and I think it was a really good strain, my friends called it Sour Diesel. I think I have a low tolerance to weed because every time I smoke I have a weird high. I was zooming in and out the whole time and I panicked slightly about going home. Then sometime the day after I started to feel weird again, kind of like I was in a movie. Since then my brain has been really foggy and I haven't been able to concentrate on anything. I researched a little and the symptoms fit what some call "brain fog". Overall I feel like a different person and I haven't been able to enjoy anything these past 5 days. I feel distant from everyone and even from myself. I went to my doctor but I only described it as anxiety because I hadn't even told my parents I had smoked weed yet. I did yesterday and they called my doctor and he said he's has a few similar cases and it could just be residual effects of smoking way to much weed, or from panicking. I just want to get my head back to normal so I can enjoy things again and stop worrying. Has this ever happened to anyone before? Anything I can do to stop it and how long will it last? Sorry if things don't make much sense I can't think very clearly right now. Please help and thank you!
Will social anxiety go away if I quit smoking marijuana?
A number of studies have shown an association between chronic marijuana use and increased rates of anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Some of these studies have shown age at first use to be an important risk factor, where early use is a marker of increased vulnerability to later problems. However, at this time, it is not clear whether marijuana use causes mental problems, exacerbates them, or reflects an attempt to self-medicate symptoms already in existence. Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person's existing problems worse. In one study, heavy marijuana abusers reported that the drug impaired several important measures of life achievement, including physical and mental health, cognitive abilities, social life, and career status. Behavioral interventions, including cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational incentives (i.e., providing vouchers for goods or services to patients who remain abstinent) have shown efficacy in treating marijuana dependence. Although no medications are currently available, recent discoveries about the workings of the cannabinoid system offer promise for the development of medications to ease withdrawal, block the intoxicating effects of marijuana, and prevent relapse. The latest treatment data indicate that in 2008 marijuana accounted for 17 percent of admissions (322,000) to treatment facilities in the United States, second only to opiates among illicit substances. Marijuana admissions were primarily male (74 percent), White (49 percent), and young (30 percent were in the 12-17 age range). Those in treatment for primary marijuana abuse had begun use at an early age: 56 percent by age 14.
How can I stop getting paranoid after smoking marijuana?
If you are irresponsibly using marijuana, it is not paranoia. It is genuine concern for a real risk.If you are being responsible, legal, not risking your family over a weed, etc…Write down what you are paranoid about. While sober, read it, and write a note to your high self. Remind your high self to trust sober you more than high you. Tell yourself that no one cares what you’re doing, no one is outside, whatever you get paranoid about…Try smoking in a different environment entirely. Get outside in nature or at least get your room bright and sunny. The environment has a huge impact on the effects of marijuana.Some people wont be able to overcome the paranoia, and for most people it’s not worth the effort. But if you need marijuana for treatment this side effect can be easier to overcome than respiratory arrest and death from opiates.Most people agree that marijuana brings out the personality traits and emotions that are already there. If you are already upset or worried about things, you should work on those issues while sober. While mj is good for generalized anxiety, if there is something specific you are worrying about, it doesn’t work so well and can cause those worries to overwhelm you.Finally, and most hopeful for you, there is some evidence that the way THC and CBD work together significantly effect paranoia. There’s plenty of research and videos about this, but the bottom line is, find marijuana with very high cbd. I don’t mean get the stuff that is ONLY CBD, get high thc weed, but find high thc weed with high CBD content. I’d say get something that's like 18% THC or lower, and with the highest CBD content you can find.This advice is based on the studies done that showed pure thc was a miserable experience, frightening and a sense a impending doom. CBD is believed to somehow affect this in a positive way.Good luck
Marijuana After Effects?
Let me start off by saying I rarely smoke, maybe once every two months before this point, so i have a pretty low tolerance. Usually when i smoke i get pretty high and stupid, but everything returns to normal the next day. Now a little over a month ago I smoked with a friend of mine and got feelings of anxiety and fear (something that has never happened before), and since then have decided to renounce smoking alltogether. Now the problem is, for a few days after smoking with him I felt totally stupid and could barely focus on anything. It got better after that and less noticable, but now after a month i still feel like my mental state hasn't fully recovered. Ive talked to a few of my friends who smoke far more often than me and they all say this has never happened to them. So I'm here to ask has anyone here ever experienced this before? And if you have how long did it take to fully wear off? I don't mind waiting a bit at this point, as long as i didnt do anything permanent.
How long does it take to fully recover from long term marijuana use?
Long term heavy cannabis use selectively downregulates CB1 receptors within the brain. The result is reduced CB1 receptor density within the brain structures in which they are expressed. The primary symptom of this downregulation is an increased tolerance to the effects of THC, the principal psychoactive molecule produced by drug cannabis cultivars.Within 28 days after ceasing cannabis use, the receptor density throughout most of the brain returns to normal, except in the hippocampal region associated with learning and memory, which recovers but takes longer.At least one cannabis researcher has expressed his belief that cannabis tolerance disappears much more quickly, after as little as three days of abstinence. This rapid reduction in tolerance makes sense, simply because that would reflect the homeostatic nature of the endocannabinoid system and its ability to adjust quickly to inputs.Recent studies indicate that CBD protects the brain from some of the adverse effects of THC, including changes in hippocampal volume. CBD also appears to protect the function of the salience network, a group of brain structures that assign value to incoming stimuli. Impairment of the salience network caused by THC is responsible for cannabis-induced anxiety, paranoia, and the very rare psychotic episode.As for changes in lung function caused by heavy cannabis smoking, the lungs can take several years to recover.