Is it normal after smoking weed to still have distorted thoughts, etc?

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After smoking weed with my buddies for about a year (I was 17 at the time), I started having a really bad response to it. I know about the whole paranoia thing and understand that but... 4 years later? I still feel the same thing I felt when I had my first bad experience. I had this friend playing mind games with me, and that's when this all started. I felt/still feel and see as if I'm in slow motion. Like things move frame by frame (both feeling ans seeing)and that's when I the panic attack rolls in. If I don't think about it I feel fine, but when I think about it it come right back. I feel stupid telling this story but it really sucks and I feel as if I'm the only one in the world that has this problem. Hopefully I am... wouldn't want anyone else to have this problem.

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  • taimoorghani101
    3 years ago

    i am also fighting the same situation for 4 years now are u ok? or share ur experience how to end it up

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  • boogie592
    12 years ago

    What you are experiencing is the body going into what's called "Fight or Flight" mode. Basically your brain is registering that the body is in danger, even if there is no known threat of danger. You sweat, your heart races, time feels like it's in slow motion. . .You basically feel how u felt when u first got "stoned". I'm dealing with this as well so it is known to happen to quite a few individuals. If it has been 4 years & you still have signs of that panic attack, it might be time to arrange a one on one with a therapist. Hopefully they'll get a better understanding of what you're experiencing & be able to prescribe something to take the edge off. God Bless & hope u get better soon!

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  • yellowchalk
    13 years ago

    I can't find the actual quote but I watched a BBC documentary called "Cannabis: The Evil Weed?"
    They were talking about both sides of weed, the positive and negative.

    They said something like this (but smarter): When you smoke weed it actually triggers the part of your brain that becomes paranoid. It doesnt matter whether youre a veteran smoker or not because the weed will always trigger that part of the brain.

    Not to mention it doesnt help that the police are hunting stoners down (at least in my town, nothing seriously criminal goes down except people getting hiiigh)

    I've pretty much gotten over the "OHMYGOSH I JUST SMOKED WEED AND NOW THE COPS ARE GONNA FIND ME" phase, but I still get paranoid about other things. I have my tongue pierced and more than once I've been paranoid, feeling like the piercing was going down my throat, or digging into my jaw, when it was really just sitting there, chillin.

    Like what everyone else has said, it's all in your mind!

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  • littlebeebop
    13 years ago

    This happened to me, but I only had it happen once when I wasn't high. It's a form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Yes, it takes a lot of time to deal with, obviously it's taken years for you. Mine happened in January and ever since then I've had problems, but like you said, if you just don't think about it it won't happen. It's all in your head.

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  • Savmagic
    13 years ago

    I got like that every single time guess it's just not made for some peeps

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  • babaG
    13 years ago

    It's all in your head.

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  • thread
    13 years ago

    I'll get that feeling every once in a great while. But if that happens to you everytime maybe your alergic.

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  • t7796
    13 years ago

    lol

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