Drugs fucked up my life.

At age of 15 I started smoking weed, then from 16 to 19 I smoked everyday, even at school, I never felt like it was fucking me up, I was doing well at school even if I was high all the time, I did coke a few times, ecstasy and speed as well, but one night I took 5 pills of ecstasy and started to see stars.. you know like when you get hit hard in the face. The next morning I was depressed and even today (im 21) I still have the feeling that im depressed, like if joy of being sober never came back entirely. Another night I took one speed that I tought it was ecstasy, and I felt really bad, my neck was numb again I felt depressed for like a month, since then I never done any ecstasy or speed. 1 year later (when I was 19) I took a lot of shrooms and totally psyched out, I did the worst bad trip of my life (I could tell the story but it would take a entire page) I said fuck it, no more hard drugs, since then I never done any hard drugs but kept smoking weed until one day, I had a bad trip on weed, I felt like I was becoming retarded, I had a strange feeling on the top of my head, I felt like there was blood between my brain and the top of my skull and half of my face and my head was numb, I went to the hospital and did a scan, nothing. Doctors tell me its stress and anxiety, I tried to smoke weed after and it does the same thing every single time and even get worst, I get the feeling I cant breath normally.

its been 2 years im sober and didnt do any drugs but every morning I still have this numb in my head and sometimes come back sometimes go away and have extreme anxiety wich I never had before these badtrips. when I stopped weed I started drinking a lot of beers and im almost alchoholic. Now I decreased my alcohol consomation and feel better but im still haunted by these bad trips memories, and the fact that I gotta separate myself from all my friends that do drugs and smoke weed all day long make me even more depressed, stressed and anxious. I cant do any more drugs or ill bad trip, I cant even drink a fucking energy drink or ill bad trip. I do drugs all the time in my dreams and I become retarded until I wake up, its killing me, I wish I never have done any drugs.

Seeing everyone on internet and stars that do drugs and smoke weed everyday and never heard a story like mine, someone that bad trip on weed every single time, what the fuck ? do I have brain cancer or something ? Now im alone, got no friends because I dont know what to do with them and seeing them smoking weed all the time piss me off, my anxiety prevent me from finding a girlfriend or new friends all I do is work and play video games and drink beer. Everyday I see people living their lives doing drugs or not and be happy, I just cant and it piss me off.

Dont think that im giving up on life, I still have fun, I laugh, I still have 2-3 real friends, I guess im recovering.

Thats how drugs fucked up my life.

well thanks for reading all this, sorry for my english

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  • shade_ilmaendu

    Ok, well weed can't do long term damage, it sounds like the harder shit you did is what hurt you, now any drug you do you're reacting negatively to. And bad trips off weed do happen, it all depends on the person. My one friend doesn't smoke cus last time he did he walked down his driveway and got lost xD

    It also sounds like the reason this is happening now is you took really big doses... I'd probably die if I took 5 e pills in a night. o.o ecstasy floods your brain with the chemical seratonin, but doin it frequently or in high doses depletes your natural seratonin, leading to depression.

    I would talk to your doctor, tell them the truth of what happened and see if there's treatment to help you recover. I'm sure they can do something to help :)

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  • nowhereboy

    I took drugs with no problems for years, then just like you suddenly developed anxiety. Thats all it is, no more no less. Anxiety really fucks with your mind, ironicly its not actualy damaging you in anyway tho and the real you is still their under all this stress.

    Its hard quiting the partying lifestyle, but it has to be done. All my freinds are users aswell, ive went from being the life of the party to practicaly a loner. Your not alone man, just people dont like to talk about this kind of shit. Non of my pals have a clue theirs anything goin on with me....

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  • Truth_teller

    Damn that shit hit you hard. It messed up your face every time you smoked pot? You should have never done any of the other drugs over pot because now you may have brain damage and thats what causes for your face to get numb when you smoke pot.

    Just stay sober fo a while and try to find a girl and some real friends that dont sit around and dose up on weed

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  • cannatoke

    Dude try to detox your body and get all the un natural chemicals out. Then take a break from alchohal for a little. Then try smoking pot again. It might help

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  • peterr

    Done everything but suck a cock, maybe its time...

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  • dancegirl123

    Hi guy (and all other experienced users)
    I can definitely relate. This whole BS about your life choices, you chose now deal with it is completely uncalled for. And I am not whining, poor me the drugs fucked me up, but I never signed up for this crazy shit.
    My story in a nutshell:
    Late bloomer on weed (around 20) loved it, smoked it socially, I was quite social. Great times laughs, wittiness, dancing, musical euphoria. Then around 23 went to raves and met ecstacy and speed, and had the best nights of my life. My thing was dancing. Until one night, my body was already exhausted and I started feeling slight paranoia on weed, but manageable (in hindsight I should have stopped) then I took two pills, and danced my heart out, until the DJ was mixing for me and I felt like everyone around me was watching me and the music was too much to keep up with until I couldnt feel my legs. I was so ashamed cause I felt everyone was thinking I was a bad dancer. Then I tried to go to another rave to erase this bad experience but instead it was worse and I couldnt feel the music, I HATED the music, and my boyfriend who at the time was my dancing love, got pissed at me for badtripping (he was also high and a jerk in hindsight) and I felt like I couldn't explain myself and couldn't find the words and then I started feeling like my brain was erasing itself and people could see me as a fucked up chick on drugs (BTW, I never did coke, never did more than 3 pills in one night, so very light user, also had my shit together, job, school, place of my own) and then I felt like I was back in the schoolyard when I was 5 years old and had to go pee cause I was sooo nervous). Went home and felt like dying, went online (to diagnose myself and concluded I had multiple personality disorder) felt like a prostitute (for no reason other that I felt like I was crazy/ and was treated like crap by my then bf)
    It's been almost 2 years!!!! I still don't feel like myself, I still have trouble talking, I still feel like people can look right through me. I lost my job cause I was having panic attacks, went to therapy (dug out so much childhood bullshit, without addressing the main issue, is that when you badtrip you can think your nightmare is a reality, and you lose control over your mind. I feel like I have a bug in there that is eating away my cells. I'm slower, dumber, and do not laugh unless I pretend to!! I kept smoking weed for a while after that bad trip cause I thought it would work itself out with a better high, but NO!! it gets worst just like you said.
    I too had to drop all my friends, even if they stopped smoking and partying I didnt know how to socialize without the party. And it effin sucks, I met so many interesting people that smoke, but I can't hang out with them for now, cause I am always tempted to smoke and feel extremely paranoid around them when I do. I feel shallow, and often scared shitless and feel mostly like a moron for everything I did and wish I had never pushed so far. But it does get better, I have a job, a better apartment, it's just that I'm still socially awkward but I'm hopeful this is the last phase of my recovery. My only recommendation is when you're not feeling right in your mind, DO NOT TAKE DRUGS, it will only make it worse in the end. And when you have a badtrip, get off it for a while. I just reliving my demons tenfold. If any of you have some positive stories of feeling better after feeling horrible please share, it really helps for those of us still going through it. In the end some of us can't handle drugs all their life, and maybe that's okay, I think after a while there's no where else to go but down or around in circles. Best of luck with your detox

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    • johnnybrav0

      Dancegirl123 I feel exactly the same way. I really hope you get this. I started raving when I was 19 and absolutely fell in love with it. I already had some social anxiety but raved with my then best friend and eventually with my girlfriend. She absolutely loved it, and my social anxiety was almost gone, but then everything went downhill. We went to EDC and my friend, who was on acid/experimental stuff, thought we were going to tell someone about their drugs. Him and 2 others threatened me on the balcony of circus circus with a boxcutter. I ended up getting out of it and talking to my friend, grabbing my girlfriend and running away to tell a security guard. I haven't seen any of them since. That whole day I was tripping. I think they put something in the weed they gave me but I cried in the police department all day because I thought I ruined my gf's life, who just got a new job. They had SO MANY drugs in the room but by the grace of God we got charged with nothing. That night was horrible, and I felt like there was a sniper on the roof of the hotel/my friend died and came into my body.

      My gf wanted to continue raving when deep down I wanted to stop. This was my mistake, because the drugs were part of the experience. The next few times were ok, but I have horrible panic attacks on a few occasions where I felt all self conscious and she was acting all weird to me :/. When we got back to the room, I would get ptsd and have panic attacks where I felt like if I thought about dying enough, I would die. At the last rave I went to, last EDC, I rolled one day and felt like everyone could sense my energy. Some person on the bus made fun of me talking about how "boring" I was and that made me feel self conscious. So yeah, in a nutshell, I should have stopped going to massives a long time ago, but I wanted to make my gf happy. Now we're broken up, and I know deep down, these panic atacks were part of the reason. She always talks about how the drugs screwed up my brain. It hurts.

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  • Pwnfacertwn

    This is normal.

    Similar thing happened to me except I took too much LSD for a while. Every time I smoked pot after this one bad trip, I had trouble dealing with it for a few months.

    There's a biological explanation. In short, nerve damage. Far more likely than not, it will heal. Took about a year for me to feel normal. Now it's like it never happened. Won't get fooled again though. Benzos help.

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  • Hoodoo

    Actually it's not so much the drugs as it is the choices. You made the choices, you have to make the right choices. You are responsible for your life...of course everyone makes mistakes AND PAYS FOR THEM, sometimes for the rest of their lives. Of course not everyone emotes over them, they move on. No criticism intended, but don't blame things, look at it realistically. Now get out there and live a good life, if there is damage, accept it. Also some drugs might help you if you have anxiety problems. I'm 58, never took anything for my anxiety problems I had even has a boy until I was about 55 and was suffering physical pain symptoms due to anxiety attacks. Simple medication Wellbutrin has made my life livable...I kick myself for not recognizing the problem thirty years ago...but all I can do is get on with the rest of my life and not worry about the past. I was permanently damaged by my anxiety problems but I still have a productive life to live.

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  • seemae

    I'm experiencing basically everything you are after a bad trip. Anxiety or PTSD, I don't know but you're not going crazy. You just need some therapy. Be totally honest with them.

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  • guitarmaster

    drugs arnt cool man. we chase rainbows for so long eventually when your sober and do see a rainbow its as if it doesnt exsist

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  • guitarmaster

    yeah man drugs can really fuck you up. I took mushrooms, salvia, blew percs and vics, smoked pot since 16 and a closet alcoholic since fifteen. i went to college and 2010 was the worst summer of my life. i lost a girl and my alcohol use got me to the point i was drinking from sunrise to sunrise. at 19. id mix presecription pills with boos and pot, and even had an intense salvia trip one night that i still hallucinate from. i see colors all the time that arnt there and have spatial hallucinations. i stayed sober for two years and went from a part animal to a loner crying ut for help. as for the face thing and the odd thoughts. those are symptoms of thought disorder. i have bi polar now and struggled with ocd my whole life. I hallucinate, severely depressed, suicidal, and my life and perception of life will never be the same. its a sad thing. but you should stay away from pot. i still smoke, but take small hits. my thoughts get heavily distorted. its as if the trips and altered mindsets dont go away. maybe your thoughts high and sober are similiar to the charecteristics of the trip, stay strong, and when all else fails, listen to alice in chains 'down in a hole' 'check my brain' and 'nutshell.' youll see you arnt alone

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  • Treez

    I've also felt like blood was slowly going thru my brain like bugs going thru my brain now that was scary I stayed calm thru it tho I also felt like a feeling that was heart was getting twisted also like a hole going thru my heart I just want a brain scan cuz I've worried abbot cancer just like you I've felt like my brain got fried to less than normal

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  • Treez

    That happened to me to I felt like a was going to lose my senses. I used to smoke everyday ten I started having bad trips and it took 3 trips to the psych ward for me to learn my lesson to stay away from drugs.. It's pretty scary my heart was going try shot and I felt like I was going to die but I wasn't scaredbi just don't want it to happen again cuz I feel it would be worse than what I had before

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  • S.w.e.d

    Looks like the speed pill fucked you up big time bro.
    Looks like it did some irreversible damage. Maybe.
    From your explaination about how xtc and speed affected you, amphetamines is NOT for you. From what you explained, you get hit big time by their crashes, even as a newcomer. And that is bad news, cause If you keep doing them, the crashes and depressions just get worse and worse from here. So no more amphetamines (meth, speed, ice, xtc , mdma, ritalin) for you buddy kay.

    Whereas the anxiety, and the fear of having a bad trip? It has to be from the one killer shrooms trip. I had a bad trip on shrooms, so bad, that even killing myself wasn't the answer. I was reallyreally scared of taking psychedelics ever again, because that is some tuff shit you know, it's not for everybody.Mindfucker drugs. Until I tried lsd that is. my fear went away. chances are, if you don't like shrooms, you'll like lsd, and vice versa. Maybe you should try it, but make sure you are in nature, and with someone close, someone who has the power to distract you If you do encounter a bad trip. You know, it's worth a shot. I plucked up the courage to do it, you know why? Because I decided that I should respect each individual drug for what it is, no matter how horrifying my shrooms trip was, lsd is not shrooms. So I let that sugarcube melt without any expectations for what might could come. - but prepared for the worst obs, considering how shrooms fucked me up big time too.

    I smoke a lot of weed everyday, and sometimes I encounter periods where I go down into a spirial and get depressed and my anxiety skyrockets, yet keep on smoking. But after 3 weeks I am usually back on track again and blissfully happy with each toke. The trick is to get yourself out of that spirial. It's all in the mind, and you can reverse it, just like how you got into that hole, climb back up, and out. If you love weed that much, like how I love it, you'll get yourself through it. I distracted myself and instead concentrated on the better aspects of it - the music, the beautiful sights, and pushed myself out of that spirial with a consciencous effort and force. But I got through it :)

    I hope you get through this, and manage to rekindle your love and spirit for the peace herb.

    SWED: smoke weed everyday dude

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  • redeyes

    I love weed have smoked it for ten years bAsically everyday. Jus recently everytime I smoke I feel like shit strait away panick attack anxiety attack start finkin I'm dying etc. Then it wears off when I'm havin a panick attack I fink I'm never smokin n e more and have even thrown my stash away plenTy of times. Then hour later I wanna smoke again and it happens all over again. Pointless I no

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  • bob360

    I didnt do that much drugs in my life, less than my friends that are well now. I took 5 pills of e in a night only one time in my life, took e or speed like 10 times on 3 years, coke like 5 times, shrooms 3 times and weed everyday for like 3 years as well

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  • Yandaman

    you have no idea of what you talking about dude, I have been doing class A drugs for the better part of 11yrs and whilst i cant say that at one stage it did fuck up my life.. i can also say that i accepted what choices i made and lived with them. i have never been to rehab, never will, i am in a very successfull job and live with my fiance in a nice house and my life is going swimmingly.

    do not blame things that you know are personally yours to handle!!! that my friend will be a lesson that you will very soon learn... well at least i hope for your sake you do!

    Good luck man!

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