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I smoke a little too much of a joint and best case scenario I start thinking every person on the street is a CIA agent tailing me. Worst case scenario I start reliving all of my most personal existential fears.

How do people do this for their anxiety

As you do it more the anxiety you get from it will probably go away.

Because that's not what happens to them when they smoke?

pinky0926 posted...

I smoke a little too much of a joint and best case scenario I start thinking every person on the street is a CIA agent tailing me. Worst case scenario I start reliving all of my most personal existential fears.

How do people do this for their anxiety

Haha, same with me. And the funny thing is I did it for years with no problem, then one day it's like a light switch flipped and I'm locking up my doors and peeking out the window. I just gave it up at that point.

Llaeto7 posted...

Because that's not what happens to them when they smoke?

I understand logically that that must be the case, I'm just sharing my personal experience of weed, lol

I used to get really paranoid about the police in college, now I just get weird socially. I walked to a pizza place to order after smoking yesterday and the dude behind the counter probably thought I was a fucking moron.

Llaeto7 posted...

Because that's not what happens to them when they smoke?

This. Different reactions for different people.

Another possibility is that you're smoking the wrong type or strain. Those can have different effects as well. But, experiment only if comfortable.

I've not found strain to have any noticeable or trackeable difference. I've tried. Indica, sativa, whatever. The line between giddy happiness, comfortable sleepiness and horrible life crisis paranoia seems mostly to do with my mood prior to getting stoned x however much I have, so i try to use that as the gauge generally.

Drinking also, I'll be up for two days worrying about everything and feeling sick to my stomach. Used to do both frequently since middle school then when I was 17 it just became really unpleasant every time and I dropped it altogether. Been stone cold clean sober since.

Weed only gives me anxiety if Im around a ton of people(like 200+), other than that it relaxes me

people with real anxiety will typically become less anxious when they smoke weed, people who generally don't experience anxiety will become anxious. always outliers though

pinky0926 posted...

I've not found strain to have any noticeable or trackeable difference

Same. And I know more people who say the same than not.

But people also react differently.

pinky0926 posted...

I understand logically that that must be the case, I'm just sharing my personal experience of weed, lol

Not trying to generalize, but I had similar experiences to yours before I did therapy. I'm a very introspective person and weed accentuates that, and smoking in a social environment made me think "Holy shit how long has it been since I last talked" every few minutes. After getting over some stuff these thoughts dissipated and I enjoy weed a lot more, although I rarely smoke.