Ever be alone with your thoughts too long you thought you were crazy ?

What a coincidence...I just finished watching a documentary an hour ago on marijuana use & schizophrenia, other issues etc. The met & val alleuls on a particular gene....if you have val & val, you are more likely to develop schizophrenia with heavy use.

I have never smoked pot. But above poster, yeah, probably a good idea to never do it again.
all the best.

Hi, i am suffering from this at the moment. However stupidly mine was drug induced. I used to smoke marijuana pretty much everyday. Obviously at the time i thought it was harmless fun, however over the course of the year it has caused me to have anxiety. For example i went on holiday with a friend a few months ago and had sex with a girl, i used protection obviously, but afterwards for some reason i got it in my head that i had caught some horrible disease. i came home got tests done came back negative and again a few months later went for tests as i wasnt convinced and the came back negative. i got myself so worked up over this for no reason and i put it down to my heavy cannabis use. Anyway that was just an example of how it was screwing with my head.

A couple of weeks ago i was smoking cannabis with a few friends and i had a massive panic attack. It was so bad i had to go to A+E as i was convinced i was dying, anyway i checked out fine but for the next week i felt so strange (derealisation) as if i was in some sort of dream world. i didnt realise what it was at the time so i thought "oh god" it must be something bad i.e a brain tumor (this is how bad my anxiety had got off the cannabis) so i was admitted to hospital got checked out, blood tests, scans etc. All clear. From here i thought right i must be going mad, i thought i've smoked too much cannabis and its sent me over the edge. Anyway with a little research i've finally figured out what's wrong with me, it is infact derealisation. I've read many stories exactly the same as what happened to me - having a panic attack from marijuana and then having these feelings of derealisation. Well i've been feeling like this for about a week and a half and i know some people suffer from it for years but from people who have made a full recovery i've read that the best way to get rid of it is just to accept it and not fear it and it will eventually subside on its own. since i've discovered what it is i've already started feeling better not perfect and definitely not my old self yet but i see signs of improvement.

I just thought i'd share this story as it might comfort people that they're not going mad as the worry only makes it worse. I'm also not knocking cannabis because i did love smoking it was great but people do need to be aware of the consequences if you don't believe me just search the net for cannabis related derealisation, there's a tonne of stories out there. i know it won't happen to everyone but, hey i never in my wildest dreams thought this would happen to me. And i definitely put my growing anxiety down to my heavy smoking over the past year because i never used to worry about anything. Anyway i'm going to lay off the weed, infact i don't think i'm ever going to smoked again as it obviously no longer agrees with me and i'm going to try and get on with my life as i've been cooked up in my bedroom for over a week thinking i was dying...hope this helps anyone out there.

That depersonalization thing you described sounds a lot like what I have. I tend to worry about my own problems a lot when I'm alone, and then I feel like I'm not even a part of this world. Like I'll be lying in bed or taking a shower or whatever, just completely focused on delving into the deep sea of my issues, and just nothing else really seems real, and I kind of go numb. And then the people around me just seem to be on some other planet.

I know this is your storyboard or whatever, but this kind of happened to me last night. I was at a party when I found out this guy I've liked for months is planning on asking out this girl I totally hate. I immediately felt totally numb and detached, like I was all alone and in a completely different world than all the other people at the party.

So yes, I suppose if you go through it too, it's probably not just us two.

well, it may be breakup related. However, I remember feeling out of sorts about 10 years ago. I was living on my alone; and extremely isolated; also under a lot of anxiety and stress. And I just had to go visit my parents home a lot because I was exhausted of being "stuck in my own head".
I know its different; but back then, it felt like an out of body experience.

You just broke up with someone, it's normal to feel cut up and everything else you described.

Just meet up with friends, family or go for a walk. Take up a hobby, you'll feel better eventually, I promise. :)

Good luck.