Yup, it's 100% possible to overcome weed panic attacks and the panic attacks that follow in your sober life! Just gotta understand that it's not the weed, but your own thoughts and way of thinking that's causing the attacks.

Anyone having panic attacks, my best advice is to stay calm. Nobody has died from a panic attack. Focus on deep breathing from your belly and not your chest. In for 4 seconds, hold for 4 secs, release for 4. Tell yourself that you're fine and this is only temporary. This will soon pass. Get yourself moving or occupy your mind with something (TV, games, reading etc). Sip on some water. You're going to be just fine!

I had a panick attack from weed even though I used to smoke a lot. I broke my 6 month tolerance break and I hit my cart too many times I guess and I ended up having panic attack after panic attack for a whole night. Like whenever I was about to slip into dream state my heart would start jolting and boom panicking. I turned pale and I had another panic attack after that and haven’t had one since. But when ever I try weed again I always get very anxious unless I occupy myself with a video game or a task. I don’t understand honestly. I want to enjoy weed like I used to but now it’s like I have to fight my anxiety to have a good time.

THC in high doses stimulates the amygdala which causes anxiety, panic, and paranoia. I had to stop because I hate being afraid. When I'm straight I fear nothing.

My best advice is to forget about it, it happened for a reason, stop questioning it, hit the gym, meet new people, go out with friends you enjoy spending time with, get rich, and most importantly DO NOT smoke anything, you don’t need any of these things inside you, maybe god made this happen so you wouldn’t get any serious illness in the future(maybe lung cancer). it’s just another thing we can forget about. life is more than a blunt. live second by second. tomorrow is never important. no one would ever want to die scared. be brave. You are still alive for a reason.

Do NOT SMOKE weed if you suffer from anxiety and panic disorder because it will make it so worst to the point of a nervous breakdown opening doors to other future mental illnesses. Say no to THC and say yes to CBD !

Just wanted to leave a comment to say thank you for tackling this issue. I find myself having panic attacks daily. A lot of stoners won’t admit that weed can be damaging. Never underestimate how powerful your ten minute video can be

Perfect explanation. Heavy user for a couple years quit cold turkey due to a panic attack. Very randomly 5 months later developed into a full blown panic disorder and GAD. Took me 2 years to get over it through meditation and therapy. Happy I went through it all, learned a lot. Shocking to me how many people have a similar story.

Hit the nail on the head with this one! I experienced every single thing you’ve just said. The derealization hit me hard especially not knowing what it was. Thank you so much you truly have spoken with help and wisdom!

Thank you so much for this, I desperately needed the closure. Had a panic attack from smoking weed, people around me thought I've been possessed or run mad,it was the worst and most traumatic experience of my life, it completely changed my life😢😢.This video has given me some closure,I legitimately thought something was wrong with my brain. Thank you, I really needed to hear this.

Thank you for talking about this. I only dabbled in weed a few times after high school. Once was two years ago and I had the worst experience of my left I could’ve swore I wasn’t real and that I was going to be like that forever, I felt awful all night, restless, agitated, crazy feeling. I’ve had gad and anxiety and the DRDP off and on , finally got a handle of it now. Decided to try smoking again a week ago. Only had one hit and it triggered a lot in me. I was able to take a walk and ground myself. But I’ve come to find this just isn’t for me. I’m grateful people are explaining these symptoms rather than acting like weed is a cure all and no bad side effects.

Going on 3 years sober from weed. Quiting marijuana was the best thing I ever did a long with getting sober from oxy/heroin and fentanyl but weed was horrible and my mental health is so much better now being clean and sober off everything!

I experience anxiety fairly often when I smoke weed. I get way too in my head about things that don’t matter and almost become consumed by certain negative thoughts. afterwards I always am anxious that somehow my brain is messed up from that experience and I get into my head about that too. Obviously these are just my thoughts and I don’t have to agree with them or give them power to hold me down. Sounds like a lot of you guys experience something similar so it’s good to know we’re in this together

Thank you so much i'm 16 years old and i've been dealing with derealization for a year now. You don't even know how this saved me thank you a million times you saved many people with this video!

I was a avid weed smoker for 2 years. During those 2 years I was in a constant state of addiction where I was getting high but not enjoying it. After several panic attacks and anxiety i decided to quit. For about 1-2years I was in a state of consistent anxiety and nervousness. I decided to consistently exercise and focus on my well being and after about a year sober I’ve been able to feel normal / good again. It hasn’t been easy but with time it’s definitely been worth the effort. I suggest everyone find something that will lead to a positive way of thinking and well being. for me it was exercise.

I haven't smoked weed in 3 or 4 months, after smoking non-stop every day for decades. I was just going through my yt watchlist and saw this on there; I'd saved it after having yet another intense panic episode while stoned. Seeing it again in my watchlist made me realise that I've not had any overwhelming panic episodes since stopping, still have regular anxiety but nothing as intense as it used to be. I didn't enjoy smoking weed, but I felt that it was the only thing stopping me from falling into depression, as everytime I'd quit in the past, I immediately fell into depression. Smoking weed also made me feel borderline psychotic at times, I'd get paranoid that neighbours were in my attic watching me or some mad shit like that. All these people selling the idea that weed doesn't cause any mental health issues are complete liars; in my case, weed was exasperating all my pre-existing mental health issues. Feel better without it, hopefully I don't fall back into it.

Thank you for an amazing video. I’m at work right now trying to stave off a panic attack and this really helped me :)

Hey Shaan ! Dude .I know u won't see this but Thank you.. thank you so much I've been struggling with this for years I just finished your book and I already know what I have to do it isn't goin to be easy but I appreciate everything and every word of it ! You are a godsend I would love to speak personally on this Matter but for now I will allow these techniques of yours take control and I know that I will be set free one day thanks again man!!!!!!

Thank you so much. You really calmed me down hearing that im gonna be okay just me nervous system being wacky right now. Thank you so much

I’ve experienced two panic attacks after consuming some sort of marijuana substance. My first time I was very confused because I was a heavy smoker, as I was driving home I began to feel like what I believe was an outter body experience. My body would not stop shaking as I was driving home and every word in the music that was playing made me paranoid. I began to see things and I felt extremely scared. My second time I took an edible before going into a casino. Worst decision ever. All of the loud noises had my heart beating out of my chest to the point I couldn’t breathe, the sirens & alarms gave me this feeling of death. It was very hard for me to relax & trying to stay calm in front of hundreds of people. I had that same shaking feeling as before but this time was worst. After that I never touched any drug every again. I even became to feel uncomfortable in my own home. As time passed, I started to feel more comfortable but I’m scared to enjoy smoking like I used to

I've recently gotten back into smoking weed again after abstaining because of derealization/depersonalization. Educated myself on what was happening over the years, and missed the positive of weed so much that I tried again. I had a panic attack about 2 weeks ago, but I FINALLY learned that's what the feeling was, and all doubt was gone. Now when it happens, it still sucks, but I feel like I have power over it now that I know what it is. It's the ambiguity that always freaked me out. Honestly what I find works, is getting pissed off at it. Starting to feel creeping paranoia when you're high? Tell it to literally fuck off. Talk to yourself; reassure yourself to not follow the rabbit holes of pardoxes and thought loops. Breathe, remember you're high, and this has happened before, and you're going to be okay. Also music, I cannot express how much music and dancing spits in the face of a panic attack. Dealing with it is essentially playing the "don't think about polar bears" game. The only way to win, is not to play. Ignore that panic and anxiety, and force yourself to have a good time. Eventually you will find you actually ARE. Seriously though, music is like magic.

Smoked for 13 years never once had anxiety or paranoia from it, then had a rude awakening after smoking for some reason. Had a massive panic attack that lasted forever I assume cause i didn't know what was going on and was scared into oblivion. I then had generalized anxiety and dpdr for 3-4 months afterwards, with OCD thinking I was falling into psychosis ( developing schizoprenia or some crazy disorder ) and that scared me even more. I fell into the cycle of retrying it after those 4 months and right back to square one, major anxiety and dpdr again. My run with cannabis is over. I've also had health anxiety/hypochondria for years as well so that probably didn't help.

I had two back to back full-fledged fight or flight panic attacks at my job a few months ago. Induced by exhaust fumes/Carbon Monoxide poisoning exacerbated by the 98% Sativa cartridge I was vaping on. Heart rate was at 210!! I play drums, I’m super aware of how hard I can push myself cardiovascularly and those panic attacks were no joke, scariest thing that’s ever happened to me. Thankfully I did a ton of cleansing, exercise and took a 70 day break from weed. World of difference!!

Yes this is absolutely awful growing up through my teenage years I experimented with a lot of different drugs. I smoked weed from 13 all the way up until 26 now I've stopped consuming weed or any other substance I just can't handle it anymore it went from being one of the best feeling substances to a nightmare because of how my brain operates. I have plenty of vivid memories of getting high with friends and having one of the best times of my life now I'm stuck in my head everytime I smoke trying to pretend that I'm good on the outside but freaking the hell out on the inside and it's just not enjoyable anymore

Read your book , absolutely bloody brilliant, thank you so much for such a beautifully worded , informative, helpful read.

I needed to hear this I'm struggling so much with this

You’re so right on everything!!!

This video and the book I read in this video really helped a lot, I’m a teen and like 6 weeks ago I took edibles that was 1500 MG and i went to my parents and they called paramedics and they said my heart rate was good and that I was just high then I was feeling chest pain these past day and then I started getting panics attacks and I was shaking a lot and a lot of fear thoughts was on my mind and I couldn’t sleep and so this just keep happening and I went to a doctor and they blood tested me and they said I had nothing and that I was okay and so I was so confused about this feeling and then the chest pain kept happening and panics attacks and then I started getting dizzy and felt like nothing is real and I keep feeling dizzy and then I started watching this video and I read the book and it helped a lot I learn so much from it and it really helped, Thank you so much!!

Once you have a really bad panic attack you’ll never smoke again (8 years without getting high ) it took me 2 years to overcome anxiety and panic disorder

I've been burning for 20+ years and I didn't get panic attacks until I tried vaping, within a week of my first vape I had an incident where I couldn't stand without passing out for an entire day, my brain felt like it reset and lost everything it was saving and I felt like I had to relearn a ton of things in my life the next day turned directly into incredible panic attacks every single day from that point on and have been dealing with 5-6 of them a day for the last 4-5 years and the only thing that at least takes the edge off right now is straight flour. I don't know if it was the vape thing but just thinking about vaping gives me anxiety.

1000th like here. This cycle has happened to me now for 5 years straight every day. I am now highly medicated and have been to multiple therapists, I understand what is happening but it still happens. I’m not sure how to get out of this cycle.

Your videos change peoples lives. I just wanted you to know that

Great video, very positive and informative. People really need to hear this stuff. To anybody listening... DON'T GIVE UP! You really got this

I am having a panic attacks while writing this. It’s a scary feeling I tell you that ! Watching this video calm me down because I thought it losing my head. Weed is not fun when you are stressed, when ever you crave it go out for a run! From this day on I won’t smoke ! This feeling is hell

i was heavy fentanyl, heroin, user in my late teens until i decided to get clean and go into methadone treatment about 3yrs ago. i’m 2yrs and 7 months sober now. i was a heavy smoker before i touched dope, i started smoking at 13-17 no issues. not ever once had panic attack. after all the dope and methadone I tried smoking again and i felt like i was going to die. haven’t smoked since. I’m scared that the heavy drugs affected my brain chemistry and no doctors can tell me anything about it because there’s not enough research.

I quit 1 year ago because of a really bad experience like this but you explained every thing that i went through after the fact perfectly. I’ve been looking for an explanation as to what happened. Thank you, I might give it another go soon.

Yep this weed for me is way too over “sensitizing” for someone already overly sensitive. I smoked for years with no issue then all of a sudden nope can’t do it not enjoyable at all. Even if it’s just triggering not worth it. Sober for almost a year I feel great and nearly fully “recovered” from severe panic disorder…actually I’d say I Am recovered because now it’s just meh here’s the sensations again whatever it’ll pass.

Thank you for answering the questions I needed

Love you for this dawg

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The only reason I get panic attacks when high is because my heart starts racing whenever I put thc into my body

Im happy to know that im not alone, man its a scary feeling but i remeber it would never happend

This guy totally gets it!! He understands.

Thank you, i wish i found this video sooner, but thank you. Been high on edibles before back in January and February and had anxiety attacks and felt like i was dying. But i feel like im overcoming it and stopping my anxiety of it happening again for good. Been sober since February and i feel better

I'm 43, smoked off and on since I was 15 with no real issues other then some little paranoia sometimes or anti social behavior. Last month I got high after an afternoon shift at work and I went into a full panic attack mode where I felt like I was literally about to die, called 911 and went to ER and everything. Ever since I haven't felt the same and for about 3 weeks after that incident I've been feeling really 'off'.. feeling like that attack will come back, had a milder one 2 weeks after that one without weed. Scary stuff.. I smoked off and on my entire life without much of a hitch than BAM! one time, perhaps a bad strain and here I am. Anxiety is barreling down on me everyday, panic attacks feel like they will come back, I've been getting chest X-rays, cardiogram and blood count done because the feeling of that panic attack was so real and scary and I'm a 43yr old man. Not a pretty sight. Appreciate the awareness

nice vid you mostly described what i was going thru. im 16 and yesterday i smoked a really fat blunt with a friend. i took way too many hits and after i while i was kind of losing my grip on reality. normally when i feel that things are not going right i try to ground myself in reality, which i was unable to, so i just kept on trying to ground myself in reality and assess the situation which indeed made me go into an endless cycle and i had a panic attack. my legs started shaking heavily and my heartrate increases dramatically. we went back to my friends house and i layed on the couch for a while, trying to not lose that last little grip on reality i had left. i was convinced that i was going to die or that i was gonna go crazy and everytime i tried to disprove this by making an excuse i immediately realized what i was doing. like i just went "oh but now youre just making excuses". so for a good 2 hours i was just thinking thought after thought, disproving each previous thought. i was running circles in my mind trying to escape my own thoughts. i felt like all i needed at that point was closure and confidence that nothing bad was going to happen to me. so i just asked my friends if i was gonna be okay over and over again. and eventually when 1 friend said that you cant die from marijuana, i felt better and kind of escaped the cycle, after which i was just very exhausted. It was a bad experience and i doubt ill ever do weed again. i didnt even gain anything from it since i still have the same bad thoughts about myself as i had before the trip.

I needed to hear this - thank you

I disassociated months after a bad first experience with an edible, I will try not to go too In depth, But I experienced one of the worst trips of my life after consuming an edible, I'd ever tried one before, I'd smoked joints in the past, albeit rarely, but this seemed like a good opportunity to try it for the first time, It took a while for the edible to kick in, Initially I had a nice high and was in a relatively good mood, I sat with family who had also decided to indulge and we were all happy to sit and chat, however things took a turn when I started to hear conversations in reverse, over and over again, I began to panic as I started to feel out of touch with reality, I decided to go up the stairs to my room and lie down and go for a snooze to try and sleep it off, while lying down, my heart began to palpitate, I felt as if my muscles were twitching, I had no control of my body, and the more I tried to concentrate on stopping myself from twitching, The more I could 'feel' my muscles spasming, I feared that I was having a bad reaction and may be experiencing a fit/seizure, I tried to get help, I attempted to go back down the stairs because I didn't want to be alone, I wanted to reassure myself that I was okay? but I couldn't get down the staircase, it was an endless loop, stair after stair, it felt like hours, when I finally got to the bottom of the stairs, I thought I had broken the loop cycle, but the trip proceeded to get worse, I was extremely paranoid that something wasn't right, and the I thought the affects were beginning to wear off, they would hit me again, I spiralled into some pretty dark thoughts, My sense of time was warped, I felt as if I was trapped in an eternal time loop and was going to relieve the same night over and over, towards the end of my trip, I truly believed that I had never actually made it down the stairs and that I had died in my sleep and was in purgatory for the rest of eternity. I was emotionally numb for a couple of months following this experience, nothing seemed real anymore, gradually that feeling subsided, That was over a year ago, I hadn't touched THC again until very recently, I had a joint with my BF, we were chatting, the vibe was nice, But I began to feel a sense of deja vu, I could feel my reality beginning to warp, and the shaking started, I panicked because I thought I was going to relive that horrible experience again, so I turned off the lights, wrapped myself in a blanket, My BF held me tight, which helped me ground myself. I used positive self talk to ease myself into a calm state " I am safe, I am protected, nothing bad is happening to me, this feeling will end soon" and repeated that in my head while concentrating on my breathing, I did have contradictory thoughts, but the repetition of those affirmations helped and I managed to fall asleep after what felt like a long time, safe to say weed just isn't for me, I'll likely never touch it again. But to those of you wanting to try it, my advice to you would be, Do your research, go into it with a positive mindset and be safe, make sure you have a trusted friend or parter there. I believe your environment and subconscious beliefs play a big part on how you respond, I had no idea what to expect and that is likely one of the main factors that led to me having such a horrible high, if you suffer from anxiety, look for other outlets to calm you, this would not be my first recommendation.

This only started happening to me after the pandemic started, I think it thru me into a panic in general because I didn’t know what was going to happen to the world. My body started rejecting me smoking weed and my heart would just pump like crazy, I’d shake and tremble. After I stopped smoking I would have them too, my chest would squeeze and it was just an all around bad experience. After not smoking for almost a year I started to toke a little lately or take a shotgun hit from my bf. Unfortunately last night I was so uncomfortably high that it made me panic. I had to have someone stay with me because I was too scared to sleep alone.

So glad I’m not alone… none of us are ❤

Thank you so so much! This is our problem, without a doubt! Thank you!!!

Thank you bro for this video I'm regaining myself a little bit better

Hey . There are so many videos of food restrictions or to avoid certain food with health anxiety or anxiety in general. Dose Anxiety really have changes with the food that's going in? (Keeping all the caffeine and stimulants apart) dose one actually need to avoid or eat certain food for Anxiety? Can u make a video on it?

I think what happens is people try to fight the feeling. Instead, try to embrace it and tell yourself you love the feelings and hope it never goes away. You become hyper aware and it think this causes panic attacks. I'm not a psychologist though.

in the end it's just one of an endless amount of thoughts and having that thought is an experience, which can teach you many things in life. it depends how you take it

thank u bro this helped me out. i been smoking for 2 years and i took like a bunch of rips from my cart i my heart rate got faster and faster and faster till the point where i was walking back and forth in my bed room like u said i just wanted that feeling to end this has never happend to me before i’m so glad there’s ppl out there that can relate u me i thot i was crazy ❤

im 15 going on to 16, i smoked weed for the first time in forever and it was at a party wich made it even more stressful, i wasnt sure what the feelings were or how i was meant to deal if it was aniexty and u have just been right on the money, since it wasn't happening to anyone else there i thought it was a personal thing. thank you for this info i fr needed this

Wish they had videos like this back in the early 2000s. Now I’m on Paxil from a weed induced panic attack - it straight up gave me PTSD so had to go on an SSRI. Sucks.

I’ve had two panic attacks where I had taken ER visits. Once in high school and a month ago in my early 30s. Both times i left with clean results from EKG/Xray/blood tests, but I still felt many physical symptoms such as scalp tingling, wet feeling on top of head and other parts of body, headaches, stomach nausea, depression, etc. Since my most recent happened a month ago before the ER visit I would say I’ve had two mini panic attacks since that I was able to control. What I did realize is one was caused by taking drowsy medication and most likely not being in a normal state of mind with the other happening after a lot of salty foods that day. Now I feel like I have more control but get nervous jumping into workouts and raising my heart rate because I feel the scalp tingling/wet. I think I’ll power through this like I did when I was in high school because eventually back then it got better and I started to smoke a year until now (should have never touched it again). We got this but if anyone can relate or have advice please comment!

I had my first panic attack from hitting a disposable for the first time at work. And that was the worst thing I ever did. And felt like I was outside my body, dizziness and nausea. Then at night I felt like if I went to sleep I would never wake up. I thought I messed up my life from just hitting the disposable one time. I get symptoms sometimes in my left arm like tingling. I just hope I get over this stump.

I'm here to share my story on this situation, I hope at least a few people read the entire thing. Around 3 weeks ago I first tried a dispo that my brother had given me, I had already told him that I wanted to know what feeling high felt like. I've never been the type of person that enjoys smoking or vaping or anything that can harm my health in general but I had seen my friend high in class the previous week and it really made me wonder what feeling high would feel like. When my brother handed his dispo to me I took a few hits but I suppose I didn't hit it the right way because I felt sleepy and the only thing strange about me was that I was talking much more than I normally would. After that day, a few days later, I told my cousin who also smokes that I had tried being high and she told me that getting high with friends or family was much more fun than doing it alone. We planned a date where we both would get high with eachother. When the day had finally came I arrived at her house and we jumped straight at it. I hit it around 5-6 times but I took big hits and I actually did it the correct way this time because my cousin showed me how to do it properly. It took no longer than 10 minutes until it hit. I remember I was normally talking to my cousin but I don't remember what I was saying until she asked "what are you talking about?" And that's when it hit me, I knew I was starting to feel high. I told her "I felt like I just woke up from a dream!" And we both laughed at it, I laughed and hit the bed but it wasn't my intention to. I felt like my hands were moving by itself..it was such a weird feeling, I felt like every move my arms made were someone else making them for me and I completely freaked out, I told my cousin to give me something that could calm me down and she simply laughed because she thought I was joking and I told her "no, seriously, get me something to make the feeling go away, please!" And the feeling just kept getting worse and I rushed to the kitchen. I asked her to get me the milk and a cup because my friend told me that milk "helps" the feeling go away. At that moment my vision was very like dark and it looked like I was in a dream, a lucid dream, or if it was a VR game, everything seemed fake, like a fishbowl view. When she gave me the cup and milk I poured the milk on the cup but I didn't feel my hands, I saw them moving but I couldn't feel me moving them and that caused me to freak out even more because I thought I was getting possessed and I threw the milk and the cup and I yelled "I lost touch!" Over and over again and my cousin kept laughing thinking it was a joke. I fell on the ground and I begged my cousin to help me, at this point I felt like I had actually lost control over my body, everything I said was not meant to be said I me and everything I did was not meant to be done either. While I was on the ground I hit the ground over and over again begging my cousin to "wake me up" because I was convinced that I was in a dream and that I was in danger. I yelled at her and that's when her smile faded, she looked worried and quickly lift me up the ground. "Whats wrong?! Are you okay?!" She kept asking me, and I was so scared. I kept saying "no, no, theres something inside of me. Something is controlling me, it's not me." And the only thing she kept saying was "you're okay, it's your imagination. You're hallucinating." BUT I was so convinced that it wasn't, that it was actually real and so I told her "no, it's not. Something is happening to me, I feel like something is controlling me." She grabbed my arm and wrapped it around her neck and she grabbed my waist helping me get to her room but I refused to get in because I felt that something was pulling me out of her room, this force, maybe it really was my mind tricking me and I'm sure it as well was but my anxiety grew worse and the feeling felt more horrible. She asked me to sleep and I shook my head "no I don't want to sleep, I feel like something bad will happen to me if I do" she tried to re assure me and she told me that she would get me water as long as I stayed inside her room. I told her I needed to go with her because something was there with me and I was terrified of being left alone and it getting worse, I pulled her arm and begged her to let me go with her to the kitchen. She refused and told me to stay in her room, she left for a few minutes and I was trying to calm down, I realized it was real life and my vision wasn't so fish eye like, but I still felt like I was completely detached from my body. I felt that I was floating and my hands did the movements by themselves, my cousin handed me the water and I drank a good 6 cups o lf water and took deep breathes and tried convincing myself that it was all in my mind. I suddenly felt cold and I couldn't stop shivering but after a while I felt better, my mind kept trying to trick me into thinking that everything was a dream and trying to send me back into "alert mode" but making it believe it was my imagination helped me feel better. I went home wanting to sleep, sure that if I slept it off it would go away, because with my brothers dispo it went away the next day. I slept and woke up the next morning, I felt perfect, I was 100% that I was back to my normal self. 2 hours passed by and it's when it all hit again, I was cooking breakfast and when I grabbed the oil I felt like my hands were moving by themselves again. I tried ignoring the feeling and when I walked I felt like I'd gall asleep for a couple seconds until realization would hit again and I'd realize I was awake and not dreaming. That kept going on for the whole day and I was in school too which made it harder. It never went away no matter how much I tried sleeping it off, I started researching about it to find an answer to my situation, because even if my cousin told me it was a normal feeling when getting high, I was convinced that it wasn't because it wouldn't last weeks. Some weeks later, I told her that I still felt weird and she told me I was just crazy and paranoid. On Wednesday of this week, it felt worse than ever, I felt like the feeling of the attack when I got it would appear again, I felt it and I was sure I'd get it. I was also in school, I tried talking to my mother about the feeling, I didn't tell her I had smoked because she's always had a clean image of me and this would make her lose trust in me. I tried talking about the feeling, I told her I felt detached from myself, lost, I felt like when I was in a place I was physically there but not mentally, everything seemed like it was a dream and I felt like at some points something was controlling my moves, she completely ignored me. I tried bringing up the topic at least 3 more times that day and she told me I was going insane. I've been wanting to talk to someone about this but I'm scared that they'd think I need mental help which is exactly why I'm putting this here because I learned from these past videos that I am not alone in this situation and I'm more relieved that other people have and are experiencing this too because it makes me feel not alone. Sometimes I feel like giving up, I feel hopeless and I feel like I've completely ruined my life, I feel like I won't feel normal again but I know it's going to be okay at the end, if there's something I've learned is that it's a temporary thing and it won't last forever once you learn how to manage it which is something I'm working on. Stay safe everyone, you got this!

Man needed to see this and the reading comments to see I’m not the only one I’ve been a regular heavy weed smoker for 10+ years and a few days ago I smoked a joint nothing out the ordinary and after I started to feel some weird feeling (not pain but a super discomfort feeling in my chest) I started to feel anxiety like crazy! A feeling that i thought I was going to get a heart attack or something my heartbeat went abnormal or something and ever since that joint whenever I smoke again I start getting that feeling in my chest again. Not sure if it’s really there or now I’m just panicked off of it! I haven’t smoked in 2 days now I have yet to get that feeling. I’ve been super tempted to smoke again but the feeling I get now is just scary!

you are a very knowledgeable person.

Litteraly had a 30 second panic attack when I was high and just literally laughed at my self and told my self I was just high and there was a instant relief mind stopped racing heart stopped beating fast and went back to a comfortable high

I think what I'm experiencing is this 💯 I get the worst sinking feeling in my stomach and short of breath walls are closing in and I feel like I'm fainting or going to loose consciousness. I sometimes poor sweat and get super thirsty for some reason even though I drink tons of water every day religiously

I’ve actually quit about a year ago so I’m happy about that, but my anxiety and panic attacks have been terrible I can’t even function in regular life. I also started drinking more after I stopped smoking so I’m sure that didn’t help me heal and reprogram my brain. I’m going to stop drinking and I hope I get over this. It’s extremely exhausting and I forgot what happy feels like

I went out with a girl once and we smoked at her place and I started having these panic attacks and paranoya for the first time and I thought she gave me some unknown drug for soken bad intention and I was constantly watching her hands cause I thought she was going to stabe me and I was so fearful yet dangerous.. she was so scared but treated me well and she calmed me down, I stay with her the whole night. thought I was gonna die and stay like that forever.

I have borderline PTSD from my experience with marijuana induced panic attacks. I haven't smoked in 4 years and today I got a strong scent of weed and it threw me into a hyper focused and jittery state

This happen to me at age 15 and I haven’t been the same since . Age 33 now . Anxiety ocd derealization panic disorder . Never had these issues before then . It comes and goes and gets bad here and there . When it’s bad it’s bad

I figured this out on my own, and wish this information was available 15 years ago

This happened to me after eating marijuana at 16. It led to me suffering acute panic disorder and generalised anxiety that has never gone away. I am 50 now.

This is a good man right here.

You describe it all!

I had all of this when I was 14 and it felt like a dream. The next day the filling never went away. I'm 38 and I've been on meds for it for a long time now. It sucks

Iv been smoking for 15 years, one day I finished my blunt and had the worst feeling of dread and doom like I was going to die.i compare it to ego death with shrooms.quit smoking and the whole week after every day i had multiple panic attacks now im 3 weeks sober and my dreams are all nightmares and i have constant anxiety.long story short this weed induced panic is ruining my life so i take medication now and go to bed early hoping the next day this will all be gone. Take my advise if you smoke daily like i did SLOW IT DOWN before you end up fucked up in the head like I am

I love this video because I can always comeback and read the comments and they make feel well not crazy

I miss when I used to be able to handle weed. Everything was so fun, but one day I just let my thoughts get the best of me which led to a bad trip. I also had a narcissistic friend who played with my mind while I was high knowing I was vulnerable so that helped. Now I struggle with anxiety and depression. I really think that experience altered my brain chemistry for good. Before weed I had no social anxiety but now I struggle with simple conversation and eye contact. Like I’m literally not the same person it sucks.

I’ve been smoking since I was 13 I’m 21, and I quit for a year. I smoked one night two months ago and it’s never been the same I had a bad reaction to smoking and I felt like I was dying. I haven’t stopped feeling that way 2 months later.

i thought it was the canabis but 20m after my panic i began to relax... all in my head. Now i can train myself to ignore it and breath and you know get on and distract if need be, but remembering that it will end if i in the moment want to it is good enough. Although i've had a few blips where i stop cold turkey as it went horribly wrong, i just need to be consistent and learn to drop off and melt away and not get bogged down in my own thoughts.

Hey it’s absolutely right! I have experienced it still going through this shit. It makes you suspicious all the time on almost everything. kills your confidence, decision making skills and your presence of mind. I HATEEEEE IT. AND I WILL KILL THIS FEELING SOON. it’s decided

I was a regular weed smoker, i would be blazin all day on weed ! one fine day, wen i was on a vacation with my friends and we were chillin with pot i got my first ever panic attack ! tht shit was legit scary, increased heart rate, nauseousness af, unable to swallow water or food, paranoia, overthinkin and extreme restlessness tht i couldn't sit at one place ! my friends said, its just a bad trip and its common, once yo high goes off and yo get som good rest you ll be fine ! after i got up frm sleep, i rolled a joint and took a couple of drags and agn i could feel my heart rate increasin ! i got disappointed ! this cycle never ended, wen ever i took a drag, shot etc, i wud end up with a panic attack ! after a month of all this, i finally quit smokin ! its been four years now and in these four years my lyf has been badly effected ! concentration problem, mild anxiety, less appetite etc has been thr since a long tym ! is thr any solution for all of these ?

Only now have I figured that I been getting panic attacks when it comes to hitting the gas Looks like it hits back in self defence.

i’m just gonna say i have met a lot of people at the psych ward that wound up there because of weed induced psychosis so please be careful.

I smoked a bowl this morning as I always have for a few years, then started having bad thoughts that made me feel bad then physical symptoms started coming on and then the panic kicked in and I started to feel scared I tried to calm myself down and then I lost it felt dizzy,confused,shaking , literally thought I might be dying It lasted for about an hour and Ive felt tired all day after that. I dont want to smoke anymore because of it I have been wanting to stop and felt guilty because I haven’t idk If this just a sign to prove I need to quit.

I’m so glad I found this video. I took an edible the other day for the first time, but I took too much and it sent me into a panic. I thought I was dying and being pulled between 2 worlds, life and death. The last 2 days, I’m still asking myself, “am I alive or is this a dream?” 😔😔

Just happened to me last night. I stopped smoking and decided let me try it again because it helps me eat better. I never felt like this in my life and been smoking for a while before i decided to stop. I smoked, and ate and start feeling like something was stuck in my throat. I forced myself to throw up food from the restaurant because I thought they’ve poisoned me. I was tweaking and start running around n shit. I had my girl take me to the hospital and on way there, I had her running lights n all. My lips was going so dry and body went numb. I really felt like I was dying and hopped out the moving car and ran into hospital. I couldn’t breathe and something was stuck in my throat. I went to one ER, it was packed they just treated me like I was a junkie and ignored me. Remind you I never felt like this in my life , nor do I have anxiety, but I can truly say, Ik what anxiety felt like that day. I couldn’t stay still so I left and was tooken to another ER where I was seen right away and they kind of relaxed me. When I get to back, was given a muscle relaxer and next thing you know I stopped shaking uncontrollably and went to sleep. Woke up I was fine. Now I can laugh a bit because I swear my life was over it felt like. They help me to stop smoking for good and thought I been laced. I have the flu by the way but was starting to feel better, but had bad cough. This the weirdest time in my life and will not pick up weed again. I was the biggest weed head before n can’t believe I’m actually giving up on weed

I had my first panic attack the other night after smoking 2 bowl packs and I’ve smoked for a few years. Definitely thought I was about to die. Hands and legs were falling asleep and it happened about 10 times before I finally went to lay down and force myself to sleep

I’ve been using for around three years, however just yesterday I felt as if when I was breathing that no air was coming into my lungs even when it was, my chest began to tighten, and my breathing got messed up. I felt really scared and I started having a panic attack in the car for no reason. I wasn’t high at all, however I had just smoked that morning. Today I don’t feel the same as I did the day before yesterday. I can’t stop thinking about what happened and It feels as if there’s something really wrong with my body that it is not just a panic attack. Any advice? How can I stop feeling like no oxygen is entering my lungs? And I was using a cake she hits different, did that factor influence what happened?

Hahaha I thought for like a year I had ruined my brain with spice, and weed. I only smoked spice once and it was trippy, but first time trying actual bud was insane and even trippier. Had constant derealization for nearly a year. I kept trying weed and having panic attacks, but eventually realized I wasn't actually altering, and ruining my brain.

I was smoking regularly sense the age of 13 im now 16 years old and recently started having extisential dread and a sense of impending doom I feel as though the impending doom is way worse cause it follows u even after the high has gone away it’s enough to make me quit I only smoke once a day but yesterday I had an extreme panic attack so I’m definitely gonna quit I really hope I can re wire my brain I will also say my grandmother has died a few months ago and I experienced trauma from my mothers relashionship

Bro saved my life I was about to tell my parents I smoke weed and fuck up my mental health.

Thank you for this video, wish I would've stumbled across a video like it in 2018, would've saved me a lot of unnecessary suffering. I leaned what a panic attack was in early 2021. I smoked weed for six months in 2017. After a few months almost every high turned into a panic attack (nothing severe, or I would have quit right away). After a few weeks or months like that I stopped smoking. I picked up an interest in microdosing or threshold-dosing shrooms. Shrooms were nice (One time gave me one of the nicest experiences of my adult life) and I never got a panic attack or any other kind of severe anxiety while on them. Panic attacks started coming 'out of nowhere' in 2018. I always thought it was the shrooms messing with my brain until recently when I connected the "bad highs" of weed to the panic attacks I was experiencing. Was it the god damn weed all along?! It's weird how some drugs are seen as "dangerous" and others not. Seems it varies from person to person, a lot.

I thought I was the only one. I've been smoking marijuana for 23 years and just started having panic attacks last year. It always feel like I can't breathe I have to actually sit up and walk around. These panic attacks last as long as the marijuana high

One time after taking a hit from my bong, i had a sense of impending doom like 15 minutes later. My color was ghost white and my heart-rate was over 140bpm. I could barely feel my limbs and time stood still. This weed-induced panic attack messed me up for like 6 months straight, which made me stop. THC is definitely not for me, at least anymore

I’m gonna be very honest here. If you have gone into a panic/anxiety attack from smoking weed then those days are over. it does damage your mind permanently. Your brain is essentially cooked. You go into a panic attack because your brain literally cannot handle it anymore so your mind gives you the panic attacks as a last resort to make you stop. So even if you somehow overcome the panic attack you will only be damaging your brain more. It sucks it really does. It’s not your guys fault that they altered and strengthened the thc so much that it’s just not a normal drug anymore. THC a decade ago was a lot safer and more manageable. Back then the only thing you had to fear was getting nonsense and it turning out to be spice. But anyways. There is no “cure” there is no way to ever get that same experience you did.

my anxiety started with this over 2 years ago. at first i did very fine smoking, but over time i all of sudden got DPDR and bad health anxiety. now, slowly recovering.

Thank you for the info

Hey I smoked weed like 2 months ago and the attacks after like an hour and it made me have this hallucination about some kids singing and it was a very triggering and it would make me feel like just running to a colder place ,felt thirsty and felt like going for both short and long calls and head aches and dizzinessjust continues to date.so it's been 2 months and sometimes I just feel like am not even living in a realistic moment .is all of these am going through come to an end and will I have my normal life back and is it necessary I visit a doc??

Thanks for the video, I had a weed induced panic attack on November of last year and I am still not the same . I lost control . I wake up high as hell and was terrified and went on for 3 months were I would randomly feel high or drunk in the middle of the day . Until today I don't feel myself and I have physical symptoms, my eyes hurt mostly from light, I have burning sensation in my forehead and eyes and I am light sensitive. Been living my life though , but still struggling with the symptoms. I even thought about smoking again , cause I feel like the pain is from the stress I put my body through for months , not knowing what was wrong with me

After i got covid i didnt smoke for 3 weeks straight. Then i tooka hit of my bong and had the worst panick attack of my life. XD