MY stoner days are bout over. i FINALLY saw a doctor. read

Prescription medications mask the root problem of your anxiety attacks. Yes, you may have temporary relief of your symptoms but your anxiety attacks started for a reason. You need to discover the root problem in order to find the solution as to why your body is reacting with an anxiety attack instead of covering it up with medication.

Prescription medications are addictive, which can mean a long, agonizing withdrawal period when you want to get off them. You have to wean yourself off gradually and this process can cause your anxiety attack symptoms to worsen or other side affects to occur before you are completely off the prescription medication.

After long-term use of the prescription medication, you may find that you need higher doses in order to keep the medication functioning. You may end up returning to your doctor repeatedly, only to have him increase your dosage, or worse, prescribe a stronger medication for you.

The remarkable part about these drug prescription commercials is the disclaimer they ramble off quickly near the end listing the side affects that some of these prescription drugs can produce. Are you truly prepared to risk your long-term health by taking these prescription medications?

The commercials make the "cure" sound so wonderful: take a pill and all your anxiety attack symptoms will be gone. It's very tempting to be seduced into a quick-fix. However, you should take a pro-active approach and do further research before you buy into these so-called "cures". There is massive information available on the internet about anxiety disorders as well as on specific prescription drugs and their side-effects.

You should know that natural remedies do exist such as Chamomile tea or St. John's Wort for relief of some anxiety attack symptoms. Moreover, you may find that an appointment with a Naturopathic doctor or a Hypno-Therapist to be a more natural solution than a visit to your family physician and his trusty prescription pad.

Be an informed anxiety attack patient. Do your research and find the natural cure that will work for you over the long term without the harmful side-effects. Anxiety attacks are 100% curable; you only need to find the natural solution that is right for you.

Hi

Great for ya mate getting your life back on track!

I would like to ask a question now that the subject is brought up.

I'm 21 this year and for the last few years of my life I dont know why I just have no good feeling. When im with my mate's I get really paranoid, never really find joke's funny well I do but you know the way yourself and your mate's could be slagging each other I sometime's can get the joke's but can never come back with anything, so I just like staying in home where I wont get paranoid. I always start sweating sometime's for no reason what so ever and just always kinding keep my mouth shut because im afraid to say something that is stupid. Kinda hard to explain but I think you know what I mean im in the very same boat as you.

I never smoked during school did my final exam's and always wanted to do something good in life. But know im coming up to 21 I think I should try get abit of help, year's are flying by really without feeling it, always think I had good life before pot.

Anyway's I have been thinking of going to doctor's but I just feel the doc will say just give up smoking and you will be grand. If I go to doctor's do you think they will give real advice other than just give up smoking.

Thanks

I'm very serious about what I said in my last post so please if anyone could help I would be most greatful

You made the choice to smoke during school, etc...You sound like you need to learn to use marijuana a little bit more responsibly. And it isn't the 'dope' that made you do all these unresponsible things, it's you that made the descision to let your life go where ever it went, just as it's your descision to go to the doctor and get these medications that will help you out. You shouldn't have been smoking marijuana in that state of mind, and you can't say that it was the 'dope' that did it to you. Everyone says that, but it's really their fault. Marijuana is the easiest substance to use responsibly because it's not addicting, nor is it highly intoxicating as compared to alcohol and most other things out there...It's just a feeling, and it's not worth throwing any bit of your life away just to get stoned.

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Originally Posted by joebhoy

I'm very serious about what I said in my last post so please if anyone could help I would be most greatful

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If you're not feeling anything from smoking, and you're not feeling like the same person while you're high, maybe you should quit smoking. Sounds like a tolerance, and due to tolerance you're not happy with how smoking is making you feel. This has happened to me several times..Just quit smoking for a month or two and smoking should be what it used to.

yea what he said ^

Stoned,

First,that is great that you went to a Dr. to get some professional help.I had a friend who was severly bi-polar and he refused to seek any professional help or take meds;we are no longer friends because his behavior just got out of control.His bi-polar was so bad that the only meds that would work on him was Lithium and that made him a walking zombie,so he decided to self-medicate.
He would mix copius amounts of weed with alcohol [during manic phases] with speed or coke [during the depressive states].Naturally,the combination of drugs made his condition more severe.Sad thing was,this was an EXTREMELY intelligent man in his 40's who knew better,but his personal demons got the best of him.
I have always been prone to bouts of depression and if I was going through a very heavy-use period,pot would exacerbate the depression in the long-term.Short-term,of course,it would lift me out of the state of depression and I would feel "normal".That's how you get caught up in fooling yourself that pot "helps".Humans love to fool themselves...:)
I quit recently for a pre-employment test,and will eventually smoke again,but at this moment,I'm doing fine without it;don't even crave it [unlike damn cigarettes!].I'm sure I will enjoy it much more since my tolerance will be much lower than before.
Kudos again to you for recognizing that you needed help..many people don't and their lives are shattered because of it.

unfortunately ive been smokin it heavily for 5-6 years now and i do feel i need help, ive lost all confidence in myself and paranoia is getting the best of me, i just dont see more drugs as a safe way out, good luck tho man, i got my fingers crossed for you, - peace peeps