Is it normal to have extreme paranoia and depression after smoking weed?

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Im 19, a guy, and in first year of college. I used to smoke daily in my junior and senior high school years. About mid way through my high school i started having extreme paranoia and depression while I was high, during which I would more or less obsess about everything that was even slightly wrong in my life. It got to a point where I decided to quit( about a year ago) and haven't smoked ever since. I love drinking, but the problem is, being in college all my friends smoke everyday to chill, and we dont drink unless we're going out clubbing. It gets very annoying for me to be the only one who isn't high. I am absolutely terrified of even trying to smoke again because the last few times I had it I had terrible experiences, like ones which seriously messed with my head. Weird thing is, nothing that traumatic has happened to me to. Just general everyday stuff freaks me out, like a rejection from a girl who I had a crush on for like a week and forget about the second week.
Any advice on how I can start smoking again, without the paranoia and depression?

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  • Prince_of_Crows
    11 years ago

    That's normal. You might want to try a different strain, certain varieties have less of that than others.

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    • standbyme555
      11 years ago

      Yeah. Some pot makes me SUPER paranoid. Like I'm about to have a panic attack.

      I do feel depressed most of the time, but I always think too much. I also hate drinking.

      You should only smoke before bed or somewhere safe with people you feel very comfy around. Start from there.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        11 years ago

        Had it in three different continents (no jokes). Still had the same effect. Also, did all that - safe space and everything, didn't work.

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  • Hippie
    11 years ago

    Weed doesn't make you paranoid.
    Weed being illegal makes you paranoid.
    In theory.

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  • Dot123
    11 years ago

    Yeah, that can happen the THC opens your mind to the real world.

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    Well do you have trouble with depression and anxiety without the weed? Because that could be the problem, the exacerbation of a preexisting condition, but I don't know you well enough to determine something like that. If that is the case I would recommend seeing a therapist though I don't like to recommend medication, simply because I've always refused it myself.

    I've gotten like that before from smoking weed when I get too stoned, I always just tell myself it's the drugs and that it'll pass soon and go find something fun to distract myself until my heart rate slows to normal.

    I know 2 people who said that when they had this problem they just kept smoking, rode out the anxiety because they knew it was just the drugs and overcame it after a while, but I felt like that's a pretty dangerous thing to do. :/

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Nope, happy as a clam. No severe depression. Just usual stress, which at the time when it started was college admissions I guess, still nothing everyone else wasn't going through. Tbh, life was going as i'd hoped. Its the weed that made me ponder over even the tiniest negative things in extreme depth, making tiny issues seem horrifying.

      Ultimately, I've decided to just quit. Keep a bottle of JD around, for when friends are getting high. Luckily, I've found someone who quit for the same reason I did, so I have company.

      Sad really, I'm quitting weed just as its actually being legalised in several states.

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  • dude_Jones
    11 years ago

    Schizophrenia awaits; you'll have to stop. Start looking for friends that only drink.

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  • ALCOHOLPOISONING
    11 years ago

    Thats that mexicna weeds

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  • himynameis
    11 years ago

    I've smoked a bunch of times and this exact same thing has happened to me twice. Both times it happened we were smoking really potent, high quality weed. The first time it stopped after I went to sleep and woke up, but the second time my brain was freaking out for like two days straight! I don't really smoke anymore. Only the occasional drunk hits lol.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Well it does that to everyone a little. If it's REALLY bad stop, it can be an early sign of schizophrenia.

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