Weed Smokers: How Do You Cope With The Anxiety??

[Capitol]

i dont think i could smoke with alot of yall. a nikka just trying to chill after i smoke, i aint got shyt to be paranoid about. unless them boys are trying to kick in my door.

All you gotta do is smoke then push the couch in front of the door and hide under the bed. All this paranoia and anxiety isn't THAT bad.

 

[Turbulent]

like others have said, i think it magnifies aspects of your personality/temperment. Most people lean more towards type B personality and i think that's why it makes a lot of people lazy. if you tend to think a lot about what people think of you then smoking will probably accentuate this and make you even more paranoid. samething if you're slightly OCD or if you're introverted, etc, etc.

but overall weed is considered a downer. it should calm you down in most cases.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

like others have said, i think it magnifies aspects of your personality/temperment. Most people lean more towards type B personality and i think that's why it makes a lot of people lazy. if you tend to think a lot about what people think of you then smoking will probably accentuate this and make you even more paranoid. samething if you're slightly OCD or if you're introverted, etc, etc.

but overall weed is considered a downer. it should calm you down in most cases.

While most drugs fall under stimulant, depressant or hallucinogen Marijuana is one of the only drugs to exhibit a mix of all three of those properties, leaning more heavily towards hallucinogenic than the others.

Alcohol is a depressant, it's a depressant because it effects GABA receptors in the brain which causes less things to "fire" off in the brain, calming you down.

 

[Tom]

my anxiety levels going through the roof is 99.9 percent of the reason why I haven't smoked weed since 2005


Sh1t got to a point where I was so shook after smoking that I'd just be sitting in my crib looking out the window with a shotgun

 

[bogey_j]

Anxiety is a result of too much intake of the herb. People forget that this herb really is a medicine with side effects if you go past your dosage. I take 2-3 hits and im good no anxiety or cottonmouth high for hours. Everyones threshold is different though, thats a personal matter.

2 or 3 hits?

 

[GetInTheTruck]

What Paranoia?

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Never been high

tried it twice and nothing happened

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

This. I don't understand the western world's perception of anxiety. People get it and then don't want to analyze why it's there in the first place and request a pill that basically snuffs out that voice in you that is actually trying to tell you something. More often than not, seemingly random anxiety attacks kick in because your psyche is trying to tell you that your deep inner thoughts and the actions of your real life, are not in congruence with one another.

I had a couple really bad anxiety attacks in college. First one I was super high but the second one I was sober and in Bio. But both were being brought to the forefront of my thoughts because I was burying a ton of woman problems / family shyt and refusing to deal with it.

Hence, the anxiety was the alarm going off in my body telling me I needed to man up and deal with shyt. I keep a very open line with that inner voice now and the second I catch it saying anything I listen, consider it, and make the adjustment.

I still smoke and I haven't had anxiety since those college days when I wasn't handling my business.

Excellent post...


I spoke on this in the prescription med thread... Basically don't take meds to mask problems but rather confront the root cause. For me it's always family or financial stress.

 

[SubLyminalz]

Never been high

tried it twice and nothing happened

did you forget to inhale it?

 

[Saka]

long time smoker and iv always been interested on marijuana induced anxiety and paranoia... basically when your high your brain is over active thats why we have such creative thoughts.. but when your always gettin high your brain starts using neural pathways that it doesnt normally use ones that have to do with anxiety and paranoia..constant use will strengthen these pathways.. basically meditation acceptance all that shyt comes into play... im no scientist but just some shyt i learnt

 

[wtfyomom]

That's the point... The anxiety doesn't come from the weed but weed triggers a panic attack if your already heavy minded like that. It forces your anxieties to the surface.

def on point my niggga. Ive only gotten anxious with weed when something was already on my mind. Shiit one time a close friend died, I was upset sober but didnt cry, I smoked the next day by myself and that shiit came to the surface and made me shed a few no joke.

 

[wtfyomom]

Excellent post...


I spoke on this in the prescription med thread... Basically don't take meds to mask problems but rather confront the root cause. For me it's always family or financial stress.

it depends though, sometimes people's anxiety or mental problems in general prevent them from living normally so they have to take a pill just to do simple things like go to work. My cousin is biploar so I know a little. People that take something for minor anxiety yeah I agree but some people need medicine they got major issues.

 

[criminology]

I look at the paranoia like a painful massage. Just relax and let it do it's thing. Get it out and you'll feel refreshed afterwards.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

did you forget to inhale it?

I have/had no idea what Im doing

 

[usopp]

Lets be real. Anxiety I'd part and parcel of marijuana. The paranoia is something even the most hardened weed head deals with. How do you cope? After your heart starts racing and those thoughts come to head, what do you do to deal with the onset of anxiety that loud brings?

stay calm and relaxed and put your mind somewhere else so you don't trip.
the most important part is to stay CALM