Posted by AAA88 on July 26, 2006, at 4:43:26
In reply to My experience of self-medicating with pot, posted by Dunder on July 13, 2006, at 5:56:41
i guess i should throw in my 2 cents. ive smoked weed for about 3 years. it had some great effects for me. i enjoyed my time but some times got too paranoid, while high, to have fun with it. at times it was all i had to look forward to in the day. getting high at the end of the day. but i always figured that i was more prone to the paranoia compared to my friends who could smoke much more in a sitting and seem basically normal. i never knew about the speculation that it could trigger dormant mental illnesses. growing up i think i had plenty of signs of anxiety. about 4 weeks ago i was high, i smoke by myself and dont have more than one or two bowls (2 to 5 good hits either through pipe or bong), and had what i think was a panick attack. it happened a few times before in the few months before this, but it wasnt as bad, i could calm myself down in a few mins eventually to the point where i could put it off almost imediately. but this last one went all night till i finally fell asleep 1 or 2 hours later. the next two weeks i went through some hard and weak symptoms of anxiety (with depression mixed in) and 3rd week it was starting to taper off to only weak effects. this week has been ok except last night was pretty bad so it seems like i might not get back to where i was before and need to do something about it. my depression gets worse than it was because of this new anxiety i have. but before all this happened, taking a couple hits would rid any depression i had and made me feel so happy cuz i would enjoy anything so much so easily.
i just wish i knew i was prone to this before. i think if youre prone to anxiety compared to average people, you should definately be careful with mind altering substances. dont take anything you have or can have for granted, especially your mind.
we're probably still early in research of drugs and experimenting, but because i felt that happiness with weed, im thinking there could definately be some great things to extract from certain drugs if we can get rid of the negative parts. i havent read deep into those topics yet so i dont know whats been observed.
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