Is it normal to feel like this whilst smoking pot?

Everytime I smoke pot/hash my heart hurts, and my body aches really bad. I also get really bad anxiety and hear voices. Kind of ruins everyones night, but I stopped taking cones and joints for a while, a month or so to get myself in order. But I started slowly moving back into it but I still can't cope with it. My councellor said it's drug induced psychosis, but this is bullshit. Anyone else out there experienced this at least once? I get it everytime.

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  • I smoke fuck-loads of weed and usually I recommend it to people...
    However, YOU should not do it anymore, if you are unable to have a normal high.
    Your experience is not normal.

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  • cherrybomb21

    It happens to me everytime too. Weed induces dangerous panic attacks for me... absolutely everything scares me: the computer, the tv, mashed potatoes, you name it. Just stop doing it, I did, its not worth it anyway.

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  • zenji

    As a hedonist, I believe in recreational drug use. Only do drugs that enhance your experience, don't torture yourself trying to have a typical reaction to weed. Weed makes me morbid and too thoughtful, depressed. But I loooooved Acid. I watched too many old Dragnet episodes in the '70s, Joe Friday made me scared of LSD. In my case, he was so wrong.

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  • deepthought33

    Some people just react worse than others. Some can even be allergic.

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    • blueraejay

      my brother is allergic. It actually makes him sick.

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      • Nurvuhs

        Wow. So Sorry For Him. I Can Imagine Being Allergic To Weed. Damn That Sucks

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  • woodoggy

    Maybe you should try to find a way to relax while you smoke weed, or smoke less weed. Hash is too intense for some people because it is super concentrated.

    For a while when I was smoking weed, I started to get panic attacks. I was getting them because I was unhappy with my life, and it was affecting my smoking sessions. I quit the weed for a little while, but then started smoking again when I thought that I could handle it. Now, I'm fine but it still takes me by surprise at times.

    I never heard voices, but I experienced body aches akin to aches experienced during panic attacks while distressed on weed. It could be possible that you were having a panic attack, and that coupled with smoking weed could have made you perceive voices. If you were hyper-ventilating, had a racing pulse, and had extreme feelings of fear or anxiety, then it's possible that you were having a panic attack. Having a panic attack while under the influence of weed is very intense, but not life threatening.

    If you start to feel paranoid, then just remember that life is consistent, and that nothing has changed from when you smoked marijuana except for your state of mind. Remind yourself that you're on drugs and that everything will be fine in a short while. If you put your head between your knees, it makes it easier to tell if you're breathing correctly if you're unable to tell from having a panic attack.

    To experiment, I would try quitting for a while then smoking a bowl or a few hits from a bowl. If you can manage to get your symptoms of fear under control and the voices disappear, then it's not drug induced psychosis. If you hear voices regardless, then you probably shouldn't be smoking weed.

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  • Ribbit.

    Yeah don't do drugs.

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  • luicyyou

    really that ish is laced(mixed with something else)

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  • awwwiciah

    i get like that too.
    i used to be a complete stoner, i loved weed, then i stopped blazing, started doing e and coke and drinking a lot, then i stopped coke, then i stopped e, and i tried going back to blazing but i have the exact same experience you have. i feel all weird and my muscles and my joints ache so fucking bad.
    idk what it is but i dont think i'm smoking bud anymore.

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  • ladybeagle

    maybe you're smoking shitty weed.

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  • melly666

    A small percentage of people get psychosis,I've seen this before,people react differently to it.You need to lay off it if it makes you like this. I've known people to end up in mental institutions cos it has a bad effect on them or one person threw herself off the top of a cliff after freaking out.

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  • oxenstierna

    You really shouldn't be smoking pot if you experience this repeatedly, cannabis has a way of intensifying underlying anxiety and/or other psychological problems. Not saying c. is what causes these feelings but some people are just sensitive to any psychoactive drugs and it may trigger long-term problems with anxiety, depression or even worse psychosis.

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  • StrangestEnigma

    Eh idk. I once had a panic attack and passed out just from smoking medical blue dreamer. I think the reason was because I never built up a tolerance because it was only like my 6th time smoking.
    Maybe just try smoking less???

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  • ALLoftheabove

    Why don't you just stop
    And conculer was right drugs do increase psychosis I mean if your messing up the chemical balance in your brain what do you expect

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  • MissCrazy

    Maybe you just shouldn't do drugs. Just saying.

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  • Sounds like your a homosexual, stop ruining everyone's time. If I was your friend I would of stopped hanging out with you. But there is something else you can smoke... POLE!!! Oh wait, you already do that.

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  • unmarkedbeauty

    I used to enjoy it and I guess I am just trying to chase after it again, and nobody wants to get like this from smoking up.

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  • taubooles

    Stop. Once you get sensitized to a feeling it is hard to shake it, especially when high. Thinks like dehydration can make things worse. And bad weed. Not to turn you onto another drug, BUT, if I was going to try it again I would be sure to have some Xanax 1 or 2 mg tabs ready to go. It takes about 20 minutes for the effects to take place but that med will help you back to normalcy. This is serious stuff you went through. I know, went through it in the very early 70's. Had to stop the pot.

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  • neurotic29

    My uncle developed schizophrenia from smoking pot.

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  • Dreamboat

    I hate it when people call weed a drug-_-

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  • berrytree

    What!!!!! your full of shit or hear voices all the time

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  • peelover

    i used to love it but now it messes me up the same way you described so i stopped. consider it a blessing and get on with your life

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  • Vyzr

    Why are you smoking pot to begin with? You use pots to cook! No wounder youre not feeling normal!

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  • ladyday

    Weed is a mild psychedelic. Don't EVER do acid if you can't even handle a plant. hahaaa

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  • ladyday

    It's not the weed, it's you. You just don't get along well with altered perceptions. Just don't smoke it anymore, it's quite simple.

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  • scheinwelt

    I had similar experiences but not as intense. The first time i just felt totally stupid- like a hick from the ozarks. Other times I would hallucinate especially with hash but I usually always felt like total shit as the high went on. My whole life would flash before my eyes and it would seemed my life was totally worthless. I could see nothing positive. i remember seriously contemplating suicide under some bridge in New York City when I was high. The only time its good is when i combined it with alcohol but i wouldn't suggest that for you- your case seems severe. GIVE IT UP! it's not making you happy so what the hell do you need it for?!

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    • @awwwiciah (58247)
      Yeah, when I was into harder substances like speed, E and shrooms. I couldn't go back to pot but I have stopped drugs altogether for 3 months now, and I don't hallucinate and hear voices now. :D So I am happy I didn't continue smoking weed, it really became beneficial and I even just recently got released from Chandler House (mental health services)after being in their care for 6 years.

      @scheinwelt (58171)
      Yeah I thought I was forever crazy and contemplated suicide so much while tripping or high. I didn't want to be on medication and develop such problems I lost all that I had in my life. My Aunty has drug induced Schizophrenia and Bi Polar, so when I look at her I strive to be nothing like her, she is in a padded room as we speak. So I thought my value of life was far more important than the length, and had no problems thinking about suicide but luckily my friends are always there to get me through the worse.

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  • unmarkedbeauty

    This bad weed problem began after many months of abusing shrooms. Do you think it's related? Because even alcohol, I get anxiety. I think it's related to the feeling of losing control, and my body doesn't want that, because on shrooms... there is no control, and the bad trips I have, I feel traumatised because I haven't gotten over them. Is this trauma feeling ever going to pass?

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    • ithinki'mnormal

      our minds are capable of recovering just about from anything: used to smoke too before started getting bad anxiety, took me awhile to get back to normal me

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    • deepthought33

      It may if you cut all drugs and alcohol out of your life for awhile...stop making your body relive the trauma for awhile.

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  • violentsonata

    My body doesn't ache but I do get really bad anxiety and hear voices sometimes, although it sounds like a radio. But most of the time I just chill and sink into my profound thoughts...

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  • idontreallyknowanymore

    I have this same problem every single time. Its a bummer when everyone else is having fun but i guess the herb is just not for us.

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  • Brittany666

    I use to smoke alot back in the day when I first started. Then slowly, I would get anxiety. So, I would say its normal. Because I've heard alot of people having dealt with getting anxiety after smoking. Now, I do it occasionally.

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  • iin

    thats not normal, that just might be youre bodys way of telling you that bud aint for you dude :/

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    • iin

      or you just might be gettin some fd up weed

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  • drcheesy

    dude, if you get that shit dont do it maaan, it aint normal, not cool.. you can get serioulsy fcked man
    jst dont do it, if you dont enjoy, and you do it, it means you getting hooked, which aint cool man..

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  • bleach_baby

    I smoke weed heavily and I have never once experienced anything like you do, nor do I know anybody who does. If it makes you feel like this stop before you do yourself long term damage. Some people are simply more susceptible to mental disorders and paranoia than most are.

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  • 343Boy

    Sounds like weed and you don't mix, why would you want to do it anymore?

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  • AREYOUBLINDTHEGAME

    this is evidence pot can have negative effects on people

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  • Echoes

    Pot messes you up and yet you insist on doing it and even sound sad cuz you can't do it. So you don't smoke to enjoy, you rather do it just to belong or show off. And drug-induced psychosis is a fact(google it). Please don't smoke anymore, it simply doesn't suite your mind.

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    • oDaZzYi

      Shut your mouth. Once your hooked your hooked. Don't bullshit over the internet commenting on how people do drugs to show off. Fucking smoke abit of weed, get addicted, then try to get off it. I've tried for 2 years and still am not able to too. Come back and state your opinion once you know what your talking about asshole.

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      • technicallyhuman

        your hooked to weed? haha just dont smoke for a couple days and you wont even think about it pansy. your not addicted you just dont have much self control. ill admit it isnt always easy to quit, but dude your not hooked youve never seen a crackhead.

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