Marijuana and Anxiety

[SnSstealth]

definitely has to do with sativas, i have anxiety disorder, and am hypo-manic...and i get panic attacks alot...there are VERY few sativa dominant strains i can smoke anymore, but there are also alot of great strains for anxiety...think i posted them in this thread a while back...I also have had the dumb-after feeling...but it only lasted a day or 2, and was after 4/20....lol
basically its a weed hangover, thats all:thumbsup:
whiskeytango

[Fnatic]

Thanks for the link, SnSstealth. I had actually wondered for a while if the THC/CBD ratio in cannabis had anything to do with helping or causing anxiety.

Around here, most mids are indica, dank is sativa. Works for me.

[SnSstealth]

:thumbsup:

[ojitos1985]

well, for those who think indica wont make you anxious, 2 weeks ago i got one panic attack from my afgani lol,

[tomm01]

Sorry this is so massive, just wanted to post my story as it is the main reason I joined this forum, (anxiety and weed issues), and maybe some other people can get help from this info.

Cool, some other people that have the same problems as me!
Not cool for you, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but it's good to know.
I always got bagged out for getting panic attacks until one of my friends brothers got the same thing so my friend realised how bad it was.

I have OCD and have for a VERY long time, since I can remember, like 3-4 years old. I started smoking weed sometime between ages of 14-16. I used to get so high and it was just AWESOME, laughing for hours! Laughing at feeling like I was being sucked into the chair etc.

Then one day I smoked WAY to much red haired, sticky skunk and I flipped out, but looking back it wasn't THAT bad. But then a few months later I started smoking again every day and one day all of a sudden I thought, fuck what if someone laced this with acid or something. And I thought I would totally flip out and go crazy and shit. All normal things during a panic attack. Anyway I couldn't leave the house for weeks and when I did I just felt sick and anxious. Took me months to get back to normal, finally got some anti-depressants and Xanax on prescription and I am relatively back to normal, or how I used to be before smoking. That's if I take my meds anyway.

However, my OCD is still progressing as it always has been, this also leads to more anxiety. So I'm looking into errrr.... how do i put this.... overcoming my fear of dealers lacing my weed by uhhh, cutting out the middle man.

So this will help with some of my problems hopefully and not just while I am smoking but afterwards aswell. Just as people have mentioned bad effects lasting afterwards, I am hoping the good effects can last afterwards also. Like does anyone else get the feeling for a long time after smoking where you lie down and feel your body spinning like when you're high? It's very similar to the meditation feeling of being very relaxed.

[Revanche21]

I also get anxiety, even when I'm not high anymore...

I've tried Prozac, lexapro, xanax

for both depression and anxiety

none have worked for the depression except marijuana

the anxiety, the xanax works for perfectly but I cannot get Xanax prescribed to me, they just want to try SSRI's on me so I said F it and looked into some natural remedies and got myself some valerian root capsules they work pretty good. It's no xanax, but it works pretty good! :thumbsup:

[SnSstealth]

I too have been on prozac,ativa,xanax,buspar,trazadone..blah blah...but like revanche, pot helped better than all the others in any cocktail...you just gotta find the strains that suit your needs...MOST of anxiety from pot is sativa related...try afghani's, diesels, kush's...any of your "heavy" indica/indica crosses...thats whats helped for me and many i have suggested to...hope it helps
WT

[silkyblue]

Hypervigilance: being on guard all the time.
* Intrusive imagery such as flashbacks.
* Extreme sensitivity to light and sound.
* Hyperactivity, restlessness.
* Exaggerated emotional and startled reaction to noise, quick movements, etc.
* Nightmares and night terrors.
* Abrupt mood swings such as rage reaction, temper tantrums, shame.
* Reduced ability to deal with stress (easily stressed out).
* Difficulty sleeping
* Fear of going crazy
* Other symptoms include: panic attacks, phobias, anxiety
* Mental blankness, or spaciness
* Avoiding circumstances which remind one of the previous experience
* Attraction to dangerous situations
* Frequent anger or crying
* Mood swings
* Exaggerated or diminished sexual activity
* Amnesia and forgetfulness
* Inability to love, nurture or bond with other individuals
* Fear of dying or having a shortened life

sounds like my relatives! they all partake in herby

:thumbsup:

[tomm01]

none have worked for the depression except marijuana

the anxiety, the xanax works for perfectly but I cannot get Xanax prescribed to me, they just want to try SSRI's on me so I said F it and looked into some natural remedies and got myself some valerian root capsules they work pretty good. It's no xanax, but it works pretty good! :thumbsup:

SAME! God it's annoying, the doctor still giving me it but only one script at a time and i'm meant to be weaning myself off it. So my natural remedy is hopefully going to be weed, these forums have been great so far for seeing what causes anxiety from smoking etc.

[LeVeL420]

I found myself caught in a panic attack after smoking sativa strains as well.I don't like to talk to my friends about my health issues,
so when im smoking with them(they like smoking sativa) sometimes I smoke the wrong strain and my anxiety starts to kick in,I usually try and keep calm but sometimes it gets really bad, I mean it gets to a point where i get tremors and it gets hard for me to stand still.
so when that happens i have to rap it up and get out as soon as I'm done smoking, and I realized that it pisses my friends of when i do that.I wish i could tell them what my problem is but its hard for me to do that. not to mention I am a social phobic and i also suffer from OCD so i hate to even think of what my friends might think of me. I'm on Prozac but I don't really like it sometimes it helps at other times I feel like it makes me more anxious and I feel restless.I'm thinkin about telling my doctor i wanna stop taking them but idk

I can always count on some good ol'indica to take care of all that plus my insomnia and depression. Since i dont have my MMJ card its a lil hard for me to find what im looking for.